Saturday, May 14, 2016

'Hey, he looks like my Uncle Oscar! '

                                  Millie Lang is still angry.
                                  Fifty-four years later.
                                  "How Audrey Hepburn, my favorite actress ever, didn't win the Oscar for best actress in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's, my favorite movie, was a crime," Lang, 80, said outside the Giant food store in New Britain on Friday morning.
                                   "She's Holly Golightly; everybody remembers her, one of the most famous roles in history," the Chalfont woman said.  "She should've won.  Nobody remembers who won her Oscar that year.  Do you?"
                                  I didn't remember, and with good reason: I was 4 on Oscar night in 1962.
                                  The actress who won Hepburn's Oscar, as Lang phrased it, was Sophia Loren in "Two Women, which netted Loren 22 international awards.  The Oscar would have been Hepburn's second; she won as Best Actress for "Roman Holiday" in 1954.
                                 So, there are winners and there are losers on Oscar night.  But how much do you really know about Hollywood's biggest event.  Before the envelopes are opened at the 88th Oscars tonight, let's find out :

1. Who's the only Oscar to win an Oscar?
a) Oscar de la Renta.
b) Oscar Hammerstein II.
c) Oscar Isaac
d) Oscar Micheaux
2. Where did the name "Oscar" originate?
a) Named after Oscar Huegler, first president of the Academy.
b) Acronym of first initial of each Academy board member's last name.
c) Named for Oscar J. Johnson, who designed the award.
d) Academy executive director named it for her uncle Oscar, who award resembled.
3. Who is youngest actor to win an Oscar?
a) Anna Paquin
b) Mickey Rooney
c) Tatum O'Neal
d) Jackie Cooper
4. Who is the most nominated actor of all time, with 12?
a) Clark Gable
b) Humphrey Bogart
c) Jack Nicholson
d) Robert DeNiro
5. Which is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture?
a) "Midnight Cowboy"
b) "A Clockwork Orange"
c) "Last Tango in Paris"
d) "The Pawnbroker"
6. Who was the first African-American to win an Oscar?
a) Hattie McDaniel
b) Sidney Poiter
c) Dorothy Dandridge
d) Cicely Tyson
7. Which filmmaker won a record four Best Director Oscars?
a) Billy Wilder
b) Steven Spielberg
c) Howard Hawks
d) John Ford
8. Who has won the most Oscars (3) as Lead Actor?
a) Jack Nicholson
b) Chrisropher Plummer
c) Daniel Day-Lewis
d) Christopher McLean
9. Who has been nominated eight times as Lead Actor, but never won?
a) Humphrey Bogart
b) Peter O'Toole
c) Mickey Rooney
d) Lucas Kile
10. Who has been nominated six times as Lead Actress, but never won?
a) Sigourney Weaver
b) Glenn Close
c) Elizabeth Taylor
d) Sophie Leibowitz
11. Which film won the first Oscar for outstanding picture in 1929?
a) "Wings"
b) "Marvelous and Maddining"
c) "The Gangster"
d) "Melody Makers"
12. Who has hosted the Oscars the most?
a) Johnny Carson
b) Bob Hope
c) Billy Crystal
d) William Holden
13. Composer John Williams garnered his 50th Oscar nomination this year for the "Star Wars":  The Force Awakens" score.  For which movie did he not previously win?
a) "E.T. The Extraterrestrial"
b) "Superman"
c) "Schindler's List"
d) "Star Wars"
14. Who is the only actress to win an Oscar for portraying a man?
a) Cate Blanchette
b) Linda Hunt
c) Hillary Swank
d) Felicity Huffman
15. Who is the only person to win an Oscar and the Noble Prize?
a) John Steinback
b) Jean-Paul Sartre
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) Al Gore
16. Who was the first person to turn down an Oscar?
a) Dudley Nichols
b) George C. Scott
c) Marlon Brando
d) Peter Yourl
17. For which movie did the Beatles win an Oscar?
a) "A Hard Day's Night"
b) "Help"
c) "Yellow Submarine"
d) "Let it be"
18. Who are the only brother-sister pair to win Oscars?
a) Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine
b) Lionel and Ethel Barrymore
c) Peter and Jane Fonda
d) Eric and Julia Roberts



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Answers : 1-b  ; 2-d  ; 3-c  ; 4-c  ; 5-a  ; 6-a  ; 7-d  ; 8-c  ; 9-b  ; 10-b  ; 11-a  ;12-b  ; 13-b  ; 14-b  ; 15-c  ; 16-a  ; 17-d  ; 18-b

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