Edith Head
Salvadore Dali
Cedric Gibbons

2. The Oscar statuette depicts a man standing on a_?

Can of gold
Reel of film
A crown of maple leaves

3. Before the Oscars were known as the Oscars, Weekly Variety, an entertainment trade paper, tried to coin a particular name for the 13 & 1/2 inches statuette made in 24 carat gold. What was that name, which incidentally never became popular?

The Iron man
The Excalibur
The Brahmin

4. Grapevine has it that the name was coined by Academy librarian who was eventually executive director, Margaret Herrick, as she thought:

The statuette resembled Oscar Wilde
The statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar
The statuette resembled Oscar De Souza, baseball player

5. What was special about the Oscars between 1942 and 1944?

They were not instituted
They were made of plaster
They were held outside the US

6. In the context of Oscars, what is the claim to fame of the Chicago based company R.S. Owens?

They are the official caterers for the Oscar dinner
They are the manufacturers of the statuette
They are the sponsors of the Lifetime Achievement Award

7. Why was a gentleman named Willie Fulgear, who was not linked to the film fraternity in any way, honoured by the Academy in March, 2000?

He retrieved the Oscars which were lost en route to Los Angeles
He was a doctor who saved the life of the chief guest who had a near fatal accident, a day prior to the prize giving ceremony
He televised the 1999 Oscars on the internet

8. Who was the first President of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organisation which gives the Oscar awards?

Frank Pierson
Bette Davis
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

9. Oscar recipients are made to sign a release before officially accepting the Oscars. What does it contain?

They will not use the Oscar to gain publicity from the press
They will not sell the Oscar.
The Oscar will be returned to the Academy Library after their death

10. What is the missing name - YCM Laboratories, Richard J. Stumpf, Joseph Westheimer & _?

Satyajit Ray
Billy Wilder
The Red Cross Society

11. Who was the first Indian to win an Oscar?

Satyajit Ray
Ashok Amritraj
Bhanu Athaiya

12. Who has received the most number of Oscar nominations in history?

Walt Disney
John Williams
Alfred Hitchcock

13. What could be the claim to fame of a person named Sidney Skolsky?

He first used the term Oscar in 1934
He was the first actor to have received the Best Actor award
He was the first foreign director to have won the Best Director Award

14. Only three movies have won all the five major Oscars - Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress. Two are - It Happened One Night and Silence of the Lambs. Which is the third one?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest
Saving Private Ryan
Ben Hur

15. Who is the only person to have received the Best Actor Oscar posthumously?

Peter Finch for Network
Art Carney in Harry and Tonto
Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies

16. Who received the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1947 for the movie The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer

Harold Robbins
Sidney Sheldon
Agatha Christie

17. The Oscar winning screenplay of Breaking Away by Steve Tesich in 1979 was the inspiration for which Indian movie?

Toote Khilone
Fire
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander

18. Who, after exceeding his allotted speech-time, was being played off by the orchestra? The person in question did not stop, but kept on yelling over the top of the orchestra, expressing his love and thanks to everyone he wanted to, igniting riotous applause from the audience.

Martin Landau , in his acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor for Ed Wood
Cuba Gooding Jr. while accepting his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Jerry Maguire
Katherine Hepburn, while accepting her 4th Best Actress Oscar for On Golden Pond

19. Who presented the lifetime Oscar to Japanese director Akira Kurasawa in 1989?

Audrey Hepburn & Sophia Loren
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas
Robert di Niro and Mira Nair

20. Which movie won the Oscar for the best foreign film in 1956, surpassing India`s first ever Oscar nomination, Mother India?

La Strada
Rashomon
Seven Samurai

21. Who surprised Sylvester Stallone during the presentation ceremony in 1976 when Rocky was adjudged the Best Film of the year?

The real Apollo Creed
The real Rocky Marciano
Muhammed Ali

22. What was unique about Louise Fletcher`s acceptance speech when she won Best Actress for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in 1975?

She could not speak - she was dumb
Part of her speech was in sign language
She spoke in Morse Code, which was directly translated by a P&T staff

23. Which auditorium has hosted the highest number of Oscar ceremonies?

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The Shrine Auditorium
The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

24. Who is associated with the comment I did not know it was so heavy?

Charlie Chaplin, after receiving a special Oscar for Circus
Gregory Peck, after receiving the Best Actor Oscar for To Kill a Mocking Bird
Satyajit Ray, after receiving the Honorary Oscar

25. This producer/director received an Oscar for a movie based on another movie of the same name, with Audrey Hepburn and Burt Lancaster in the original. Which producer/director movie combination are we talking about?

Mel Gibson, Braveheart
Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
Warren Beatty, Reds

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