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Great Moments in Oscar History - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 103 times
- The average score is 21 of 31
Answer Stats
| Year | Event | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1940 | Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Oscar, as Supporting Actress in this film. | Gone With the Wind | 90%
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| 1998 | Upon winning Best Director, he notoriously proclaimed he was "king of the world." | James Cameron | 83%
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| 1982 | She won a record-setting fourth Best Actress award for her role in On Golden Pond. | Katharine Hepburn | 83%
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| 1973 | This actor boycotted the ceremony and sent Susan Littlefeather to explain why he would not be accepting his his Best Actor award. | Marlon Brando | 83%
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| 1981 | The ceremony was postponed a day due to the assassination attempt on this United States President — and former Screen Actors Guild President. | Ronald Reagan | 81%
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| 1954 | William Holden gave the shortest-ever acceptance speech, saying only these two words. | Thank you | 80%
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| 1969 | Stanley Kubrick won his only Oscar for the Visual Effects of this movie. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 79%
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| 1975 | This became the first sequel ever to win Best Picture, its predecessor having won two years prior. | The Godfather Part II | 79%
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| 2003 | This was the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! in 1969. | Chicago | 75%
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| 1964 | This actor became the first African-American to win Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. | Sidney Poitier | 75%
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| 1992 | This Disney movie became the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. | Beauty and the Beast | 74%
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| 2009 | This actor was posthumously awarded Best Supporting Actor, the first Academy Award for a performance as a super-villain. | Heath Ledger | 74%
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| 2010 | Kathryn Bigelow became the first (and as of 2017, only) woman to win this award. | Best Director | 73%
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| 1942 | This film, considered by many the greatest ever made, loses Best Picture to How Green Was My Valley. | Citizen Kane | 70%
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| 2004 | This film won all 11 awards it was nominated for, becoming the first sequel to win Best Picture without any of its predecessors winning the award first. | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 70%
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| 1994 | This film became the first (mostly) black and white movie to win Best Picture since 1961. | Schindler's List | 69%
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| 2012 | This film became the first (mostly) silent film to win Best Picture since 1929. | The Artist | 68%
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| 1978 | This actor hosted (or co-hosted) the ceremony for the 19th and final time, by far more than any other host. | Bob Hope | 67%
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| 1929 | This film won the very first award for Outstanding Picture (later known as Best Picture.) | Wings | 67%
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| 1992 | The Silence of the Lambs | 65%
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| 1974 | The ceremony was interrupted by one of these, leading host David Niven to quip "The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings." | A streaker | 63%
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| 1990 | This actor and comedian hosted the ceremony for the first of (as of 2017) nine times. | Billy Crystal | 63%
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| 2017 | Due to an envelope mix-up, La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner of Best Picture, rather than this movie that actually won. | Moonlight | 62%
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| 1970 | This film became the only X-rated Best Picture winner, though its rating would be changed to "R" the following year. | Midnight Cowboy | 60%
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| 1939 | This film's creator received an Honorary Academy Award — one regular-sized statuette and seven miniature ones. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 58%
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| 2014 | While introducing the song "Let It Go" from Frozen, this actor mispronounced singer Idina Menzel's name as "Adele Dazeem." | John Travolta | 56%
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| 1976 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 56%
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| 1936 | These three movies swept the "big five" awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay.) | It Happened One Night | 48%
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| 2002 | This film became the first to win the brand-new Best Animated Feature award. | Shrek | 37%
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| 1941 | This accounting firm is first hired to count the ballots and keep the results confidential. | Price Waterhouse | 31%
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| 2013 | This host caused controversy during his opening monologue by singing a song about seeing various actresses topless. | Seth MacFarlane | 26%
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