Akim Tamiroff was born in 1899 in what was once the Russian Empire. It is unconfirmed as to which city he was born in. According to Wikipedia, he was either born in what is now Tbilisi (capital of Georgia) or Baku (capital of Azerbaijan). Because of this, I decided to have both countries automatically filled in, having one count each for the same person.
A few actors were born in overseas territories that belong to other countries. This includes Jocelyn LaGarde, born in Tahiti (which is an overseas collectivity of France), and four people who were born in Puerto Rico, which belongs to the United States. Those four actors are Benicio del Toro, Jose Ferrer, Rita Moreno, and Joaquin Phoenix.
Update 2026: Two new countries added! Nigeria: Wunmi Mosaku, and Norway: Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (although her Wikipedia page doesn't actually say where she was born so I made an educated guess, though I'll be happy to update it if it's wrong).
For anyone wondering how I made this, I manually checked the Wikipedia pages of every Oscar nominee to see where they were born, and then I wrote down all the data in a Word document. If anyone wants to check it out, I turned it into a Google Doc and made it available to the public. The link to the Google Doc is here. Let me know if there are any viewing issues and hopefully I'll be able to fix them.
Youn Yuh-jung, who won Best Supporting Actress for Minari, was born in Kaesong in 1947. Today Kaesong is part of North Korea. The quiz is asking for the modern-day country that these actors were born in.
Akim Tamiroff was born in 1899 in what was once the Russian Empire. It is unconfirmed as to which city he was born in. According to Wikipedia, he was either born in what is now Tbilisi (capital of Georgia) or Baku (capital of Azerbaijan). Because of this, I decided to have both countries automatically filled in, having one count each for the same person.
A few actors were born in overseas territories that belong to other countries. This includes Jocelyn LaGarde, born in Tahiti (which is an overseas collectivity of France), and four people who were born in Puerto Rico, which belongs to the United States. Those four actors are Benicio del Toro, Jose Ferrer, Rita Moreno, and Joaquin Phoenix.