Screenplays
Jordan Peele became the first black writer to win Best Original Screenplay for this film
What is 'Get Out'?
He holds the record for most Best Actor awards with three wins
Who is Daniel Day-Lewis?
She has been nominated for the most acting Oscars (five more than the next highest actress on the list)
Who is Meryl Streep?
She is the first (and only) female to win Best Director
Who is Kathryn Bigelow?
This film won all eleven Oscars that it was nominated for
What is 'Lord of the Rings: Return of the King'?
Quentin Tarantino has won two writing Oscars for 'Pulp Fiction' and this other film
What is 'Django Unchained'?
He was the first black man to win Best Actor
Who is Sidney Poitier?
She was pregnant when she accepted her 2011 Oscar
Who is Natalie Portman?
This filmmaker was living in exile in Europe when he won Best Director
Who is Roman Polanski?
This was the first Best Picture winner to feature an all-black cast
What is 'Moonlight'?
These two childhood friends won Best Original Screenplay together, becoming the youngest winners in the category
Who are Ben Affleck and Matt Damon?
He made headlines for passionately kissing the presenter on-stage when he won his Oscar
Who is Adrien Brody?
This singer-turned-actress famously said "Hello gorgeous" when she was handed her Oscar
Who is Barbara Streisand?
These were the first three Mexicans to win Best Director - all within four years of one another
Who are Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Innaritu, and Guillermo Del Toro?
This is the highest-grossing film to win Best Picture
What is 'Titanic'?
This writer-director won Best Original Screenplay in 2004 - thirty-three years after their father won the same category
Who is Sofia Coppola?
This actor infamously rejected his Oscar and sent a Native-American spokesperson to the ceremony in his stead
Who is Marlon Brando?
She won her first Oscar for portraying a transgender male
Who is Hilary Swank?
This director won three Oscars out of a record twelve nominations
Who is William Wyler?
Ten of Steven Spielberg's films have been nominated for Best Picture, but only this one has won
What is 'Schindler's List'?
These men are the only siblings to win both Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay
Who are Joel and Ethan Coen?
He won Best Actor in the same year that he also won Best Foreign Language Film
Who is Roberto Benigni?
She was the first actress to win an Oscar for a non-English language role
Who is Sophia Loren?
These two actors-turned-filmmakers won Best Director back-to-back in the 1980s
Who are Robert Redford and Warren Beatty?
This was the first non-black-and-white film to win Best Picture
What is 'Gone with the Wind'?