This is a quiz for you expert readers. Feel free to answer all or any of them.
1. Name the movie: Four Oscar nominations, one win, but not Best Picture.  Hint: Someday Oscar winner in smallish but pivotal role.  Dead giveaway: Critics were meh but the Golden Globes embraced it, forever altering its course in the race.  (Extra credit, name the Oscar winner too).
2. Three Oscar nominations. Theme: God and Man. Helter Skelter meets Lawrence of Arabia.¬† Dead giveaway: God still hasn’t won an Oscar.
3. Twelve Oscar nominations. Won the Best Pic but lost one big one. Dead giveaway: The titular character played by actor in his prime. Hasn’t quite been the same since. This film would rescue the Oscars this year.
4. Name the Oscar year: An epic, a big hit, a weepy, an arty, and an unlikely winner. Dead giveaway: it is brought up again and again and again, every year. Arguably among the most ruminated upon of all Oscar races.
5. Name the Oscar year: Three of the most famous female roles in Oscar history. They don’t make them like they used to but these films are timeless. Dead giveaway: The Best Picture winner features a cameo by a legend.
6. Name the Oscar year: When a certain major critics group canceled, a sweeping epic won. Would it have won anyway?
7. Name the Oscar year: some consider this to be among the best years ever for Best Picture nominees, again with ten. The Best Picture winner was one time out of five chances for what director to have won an Oscar for Directing?
8. Name one film that won all of the Oscars it was nominated for, including Best Picture. Extra credit: name them all.
9. Name the Oscar year: Four out of the five Best Pic winners began with or had “the” in the title. The only one that didn’t won. Dead giveaway: one of the easiest year to predict.
10. Name the Oscar year: Mark Harris wrote the book detailing the culture and change surrounding which five movies?
There you have it. I’m sure you’ll all ace these.
