It’s the most wide-open film quiz in years! Here are 30 questions all about the Academy Awards, from past Oscar winners to 2025’s nominees.
It’s been a funny sort of awards season with much controversy about several of the major Oscars contenders using AI. Just goes to show that all the Oscars palaver is mostly useful as a font for new film quiz trivia, because we’ve put together another 30 brand-new questions without resorting to AI at all. Here at Film Stories Towers, we’re powered by hearts of gold, nerves of steel, and an iron Brew… who’s not a robot, however that sounds. He’s not even Scottish.
Anyway, whether you’re doing the quiz on Friday as God intended or saving these questions as a warm-up before ITV shows the telecast for UK audiences on Sunday evening, we’ve got another three rounds on Oscar-worthy films past and present. When you’ve completed all 30 questions, there are no gold blokes as this is all just for fun, but please let us know how you did in the comments (scores out of 30!) and give us any other lovely feedback. And remember, nothing’s certain ’til stupid-o-clock on Monday morning – only AI and Academy voters think that Ralph Fiennes already won…
ROUND ONE – This Year’s Nominees Are…
How much do you know about the films and actors in the running for an Oscar this Sunday? All movies covered have had a cinema or streaming release in the UK at the time of writing.
1. Cardinal Thomas Lawrence is the main character of which Best Picture contender?
2. Which real-life figure does Timothée Chalamet play in A Complete Unknown?
3. In the news! Coralie Fargeat’s Star Wars fan film emerged online last week, following her Best Director nomination for which film?
4. Who plays Galinda, a.k.a. Glinda in Wicked: Cynthia Erivo or Ariana Grande?
5. Born this week in 1983, Lupita Nyong’o voices the title character in which Oscar-nominated animated film?
6. Which Best Picture contender connects acting nominees Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce?
7. Who plays Anora Mikheeva in Anora?
8. Emilia Pérez is the most-nominated non-English-language film to date – which country produced it?
9. Which star of A Real Pain was born earliest: Jesse Eisenberg or Kieran Culkin?
10. What is the name of the penguin antagonist in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl?
ROUND TWO – Famous Firsts
Next, there’s a first time for everything – can you name the movies that achieved each of these Oscar milestones? We’ve included the year the film was released as an extra clue.
11. The first film to win Best Animated Feature. (2001)
12. The first non-English language film to win Best Picture. (2019)
13. The first horror movie to win Best Picture. (1991)
14. The first (and only) film to win the fan-voted Oscars Cheer Moment for “The Flash Enters The Speed Force”. (2021)
15. The first Best Picture winner with a female producer/recipient. (1973)
16. The first colour film to win Best Picture. (1939)
17. The first sports movie to win Best Picture. (1976)
18. The first horror movie (and first movie overall) to win Best Makeup. (1981)
19. The first UK film to win Best International Feature Film. (2023)
20. The first Best Picture winner featuring Robert De Niro (1974)
ROUND THREE – Oscars Pot Luck
Let’s finish with a pot-luck selection of questions about Oscar winners and nominees past, including Best Pictures, Directors, Actors, and Actresses.
21. Which of these Tom Hanks films won more Oscars: Saving Private Ryan or Saving Mr Banks?
22. The late, great Gene Hackman won Best Actor for starring in which 1970 Best Picture winner?
23. Complete the title of the Oscar-winning 2011 Disney song: Man Or… what?
24. Whose first three Oscar-nominated performances were in 2005’s Junebug, 2008’s Doubt, and 2010’s The Fighter?
25. What is the most recent Best Picture winner named after a real-life figure?
26. Julie Andrews won Best Actress for her debut screen role in which film: Mary Poppins or The Sound Of Music?
27. As of 2025, who is the only official James Bond actor to win an Oscar?
28. Whose first three Oscar-nominated performances were in 1982’s The World According To Garp, 1983’s The Big Chill, and 1984’s The Natural?
29. “I think you are another of these desert-loving English.” Which movie features this quote?
30. And finally, who was the first Kevin ever to win an Oscar for acting?
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That’s the end of this week’s film quiz – when you’re ready to check your answers, click here to get them (it’ll take you to another page) and let us know your scores in the comments below. We’ll be back next Friday with another film quiz, but until then, check out Issue 54 of Film Stories Magazine, which features 50 more questions about dogs on film, trilogy toppers, and the movies of 2007!
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