1990s Best Picture Oscar Nominees - Multiple Choice

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

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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?
Reversal of Fortune
Ghost
Pretty Woman
2. Which 1991 Best Picture nominee lost to The Silence of the Lambs?
Beauty and the Beast
Boyz n the Hood
Barton Fink
3. Which 1992 Best Picture nominee lost to Unforgiven?
A Few Good Men
Malcolm X
The Player
4. Which 1993 Best Picture nominee lost to Schindler's List?
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Short Cuts
The Fugitive
5. Which 1994 Best Picture nominee lost to Forrest Gump?
The Shawshank Redemption
The Madness of King George
Heavenly Creatures
6. Which 1995 Best Picture nominee lost to Braveheart?
Babe
12 Monkeys
Leaving Las Vegas
7. Which 1996 Best Picture nominee lost to The English Patient?
Trainspotting
Romeo + Juliet
Fargo
8. Which 1997 Best Picture nominee lost to Titanic?
Kundun
Amistad
Good Will Hunting
9. Which 1998 Best Picture nominee lost to Shakespeare in Love?
Saving Private Ryan
American History X
Pleasantville
10. Which 1999 Best Picture nominee lost to American Beauty?
Being John Malkovich
The Sixth Sense
The Talented Mr. Ripley
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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.