Oscar Party Trivia

Crown your own Oscar winner with Academy Awards trivia. Ask your guests these questions during the commercials. Whoever shouts out the answer first gets the point.

If you want to make it personal, choose your favorite winners/ nominees of all time and focus your questsions on that theme!

Give out mini, personalized Oscar trophies to the movie buff with the most points.

1. Q: Which movie won the first Animated Feature Film Award?
A: Shrek (2001).

2. Q: Of the many pictures that have won Oscars in every category in which they were nominated, which picture received the most awards?
A: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) with 11 awards in 11 nominations.

3. Q: Who was the first black performer to win an Academy Award?
A: Hattie McDaniel, for her supporting performance in 1939s Gone with the Wind.

4. Q: Name the only two pairs of performers who received Oscar nominations for playing the same character in the same film.
A: Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Gloria Stuart as Old Rose in Titanic (1997) and Kate Winslet as Young Iris Murdoch and Judi Dench as Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001).

5. Q: Which five performers have won Academy Awards for performances in languages other than English?
A: Sophia Loren (1961, Actress in Two Women); Robert De Niro (1974, Supporting Actor in The Godfather Part II); Roberto Benigni (1998, Actor in Life Is Beautiful); Benicio Del Toro (2000, Supporting Actor in Traffic); Marion Cotillard (2007, Actress in La Vie en Rose,).

6. Q: Name the only director in Oscar history to direct both his father and his daughter in Academy Award-winning performances.
8. A: In 1948 John Huston directed his father, Walter Huston, to a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Thirty-seven years later he directed his daughter Anjelica to a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in Prizzis Honor.

7. Q: What is the longest movie to ever win an Academy Award?
A: War and Peace (1969), winner of Best Foreign Language Film.

8. Q: Which actor has appeared in more movies with fellow Oscar nominees than any other?
A: Anthony Quinn.

9. Q: Which three pictures had the most nominations for a single movie?
A: Ben-Hur, All About Eve and Titanic, with 14 nominations each.

10. Q: Who has had the most nominations for Best Screenplay?
A: Woody Allen.

11. Q: Which two actors had the longest drought between acting nominations?
A: 38 years, shared by both Helen Hayes and Jack Palance.

12. Q: What is the most expensive movie (adjusted for inflation) to be nominated for Best Picture?
A: Cleopatra (1963).

13. Q: Which movies have won the most Academy Awards without also winning Best Picture?
A: Star Wars and The Aviator.

14. Q: Who was the oldest man to win Best Director?
A: Clint Eastwood, who won the award at age 74 for Million Dollar Baby.

15. Q: Name the only song from a documentary film to win an Original Song Oscar.
A: I Need to Wake Up (music and lyric by Melissa Etheridge) from An Inconvenient Truth, in 2006.

16. Q: 2011 was the first Academy Award show to have a female African American Host. Who was she?
A: Whoopi Goldberg.

17. Q: How long is the "red carpet"?
A: 600 Feet Long and 33 Feet Wide.

18. Q: How much does the famous red carpet cost?
A: The carpet costs about $30,000!