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1990s Best Picture Oscar Nominees - Multiple Choice

Identify the 90s films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture but lost.

Other decades in this quiz series here.

Wrong answers were nominated in categories other than Best Picture in the same year.
Year given is the year in film being awarded, not the date of the ceremony.
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1. Which 1990 Best Picture nominee lost to Dances with Wolves?
Ghost
Pretty Woman
Reversal of Fortune
2. Which 1991 Best Picture nominee lost to The Silence of the Lambs?
Boyz n the Hood
Barton Fink
Beauty and the Beast
3. Which 1992 Best Picture nominee lost to Unforgiven?
A Few Good Men
The Player
Malcolm X
4. Which 1993 Best Picture nominee lost to Schindler's List?
Short Cuts
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
The Fugitive
5. Which 1994 Best Picture nominee lost to Forrest Gump?
The Madness of King George
Heavenly Creatures
The Shawshank Redemption
6. Which 1995 Best Picture nominee lost to Braveheart?
12 Monkeys
Babe
Leaving Las Vegas
7. Which 1996 Best Picture nominee lost to The English Patient?
Romeo + Juliet
Trainspotting
Fargo
8. Which 1997 Best Picture nominee lost to Titanic?
Good Will Hunting
Amistad
Kundun
9. Which 1998 Best Picture nominee lost to Shakespeare in Love?
American History X
Pleasantville
Saving Private Ryan
10. Which 1999 Best Picture nominee lost to American Beauty?
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Sixth Sense
Being John Malkovich
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2 Comments
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Level 67
Sep 11, 2022
You're telling me Babe was nominated for Best Picture??
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Level 88
Sep 11, 2022
Yep, that's what I'm telling you.