The Oscars Study Guide

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Forrest Gump 7x $443 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $200 2023 Tom Hanks+ a featherx history

DJ $1,200 2003 1994:Eric Roth for this story of a shrimp boat captain, among other things

J $200 2000 After winning for "Philadelphia", Tom Hanks followed it up the next year with a win for this role

Woody Allen 6x $250 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:4

J $100 1991 "Annie Hall" is the only film directed by him to have won an Oscar for Best Picture

FJ 2012 One of his first Oscar nominations was for Best Actor; none of his 22 other Oscar nominations was for acting

FJ 2008 He holds the record for total acting, directing & writing Oscar nominations--1 acting, 6 directing, 14 writing

The French Connection 6x 16.7% stumper $1,633 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $600 2006 "Roman Holiday","American Graffiti","The French Connection"

DJ $1,200 2008 Alain Charnier,"Popeye" Doyle

DJ $2,000 2025 1971:A murder in Marseilles & some heroin central to the action

Slumdog Millionaire 6x 20.0% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 2016 Mumbai's the word; (& much more importantly) going on a game show can make all your dreams come true!

J $800 2018 2008:They didn't have to put it in the form of a question to win

DJ $1,600 2021 Who wants to get rich on a game show in India? Dev Patel, in this Best Picture winner

Michael Douglas 6x $417 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $200 2019 After his win for "Wall Street", he thanked dad Kirk for helping him step out of Dad's shadow

J $600 2009 1987:As Gordon Gekko

J $200 2013 1987:Getting greedy as Gordon Gekko

Meryl Streep 6x $617 avg J:3 DJ:3

DJ $400 2004 After winning Best Supporting Actress for "Kramer vs. Kramer", she left her statuette in the ladies' room

J $500 DD 1997 Sophie Zawistowska

J $600 2013 1982:Her as refugee Sophie

Emma Thompson 6x $760 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 1996 She had the "Sense and Sensibility" to win an Oscar for her screenplay adapted from Jane Austen's novel

J $500 1999 In 1985 this future "Howards End" star was starring onstage in London in the musical "Me and My Girl"

DJ $1,200 2023 In the '90s she won for her lead role in "Howards End" & also for Adapted Screenplay for "Sense and Sensibility"

Rocky 6x 40.0% stumper $680 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2020 John Avildsen may have been an underdog, but he won a directing Oscar for this 1976 Sylvester Stallone movie

DJ $1,200 2007 1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain"

FJ 1987 It was the first sports film to win Best Picture

Midnight Cowboy 5x $820 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $500 1984 Only X-rated film to win a Best Picture Oscar

J $1,000 2026 (Conan O'Brien presents the clue.) Some amazing films aside, the only so far to have an X rating & win Best Picture isthis1969 movie that gave us the immortal Dustin Hoffman line "I'm walkin' here. I'm walkin' here!"

DJ $800 2019 Starring Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight, it's the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture

It Happened One Night 5x $960 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $600 2010 This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus"

J $1,000 2023 Claudette Colbert+ Clark Gable- an undershirt

J $800 2012 Clark Gable &Claudette Colbert(1934)

Gone with the Wind 5x 20.0% stumper $520 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 2000 Producer David O. Selznick won 2 straight Best Picture Oscars: "Rebecca" for 1940 & this film the previous year

DJ $800 2012 Olivia de Havilland lost out on supporting actress to Hattie McDaniel, both nominated for roles in this film

DJ $1,000 1997 It was the first color film to win a Best Picture Oscar

Clint Eastwood 5x $833 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $100 2001 He won his first Oscar for directing “Unforgiven”

DJ $800 2020 Best Director: "Mystic River" (2004) & Best Actor: "Million Dollar Baby" (2005)

DJ $1,600 2015 1992:"Unforgiven" won him a statue with no apologies

Amadeus 5x $1,040 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2013 1984:F. Murray Abraham as composer Antonio Salieri

DJ $800 2013 1984:This period drama about an 18th century composer

DJ $1,200 2016 The court of Emperor Josef II

The Silence of the Lambs 5x $400 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2016 We'll never enjoy fava beans & a nice Chianti the same way ever again

J $800 2006 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof","The Silence of the Lambs","Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

DJ $400 2008 Clarice Starling,"Buffalo Bill"

Whoopi Goldberg 4x $525 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1996 This Oscar host, a winner for "Ghost" called herself "The Might Afro Deity"

DJ $800 2008 In 2002 she won an Emmy for a special about Hattie McDaniel, but it's her acting Oscar for "Ghost" you might remember

J $300 1991 Her Oscar for playing a medium in "Ghost" was the 1st won by a Black actress since 1939

Vivien Leigh 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $400 2007 "Gone with the Wind":Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland

DJ $800 2002 This actress won her second Oscar for her role in the 1951 film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire"

DJ $1,200 2007 1951:Blanche DuBois

Tatum O'Neal 4x $625 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1986 Youngest person to win a regular Oscar was this 10-year-old for Best Supporting Actress in "Paper Moon"

DJ $600 2000 She was 10 when she won Best Supporting Actress for "Paper Moon", the youngest acting winner ever

J $1,000 2002 She was in almost every frame of "Paper Moon", but was nominated & won for Best Supporting Actress

Spencer Tracy 4x 50.0% stumper $450 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

DJ $400 2004 Edward Joseph Flanagan

J $500 1995 Tom Hanks became the first actor since this man in 1937-38 to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars

FJ 1987 Tied with Olivier for most "Best Actor" nominations at 9, he won 2 years in a row as a sailor & a priest

Sally Field 4x $300 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1998 She accepted her Oscar for "Places In The Heart" by exclaiming "You like me....You like me!"

J $300 1997 Norma Rae

DJ $400 2007 We liked her, we really liked her when this actress won for "Places in the Heart" in 1985

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 4x $850 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $600 2002 Michael Douglas won for producing this 1975 film that swept all 5 major Oscar categories

J $1,000 2012 Jack Nicholson &Louise Fletcher(1975)

DJ $800 2016 A mental hospital in Oregon

On the Waterfront 4x $850 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2012 Marlon Brando &Eva Marie Saint(1954)

J $600 2016 Johnny's not so friendly; what's up, dockworkers? more than a contender for Best Picture

J $1,000 2020 Punchy pug Marlon Brando brawled his way to a Best Actor Oscar in this 1954 classic

Kramer vs. Kramer 4x $1,400 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2015 In Hoffman vs. Streep, this film came out on top

J $600 2023 Dustin Hoffman+ Meryl Streep÷ divorce

DJ $2,000 2009 Youngest Supporting Actor nominee:Justin Henry for this 1979 tale of a custody battle

Jessica Lange 4x 25.0% stumper $925 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1995 She could hired a "Blue Sky" writer to announce her Best Actress win

DJ $800 1998 Jodie Foster, for "Nell"; Jessica Lange, for "Blue Sky"; Winona Ryder, for "Little Women"

J $1,000 2015 She received 2 1982 acting Oscar nominations, both for playing actresses--a soap star & a '40s film star

Jack Palance 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $300 1992 He's the only actor we know who ever accepted an Oscar by doing 1-handed push-ups

DJ $800 2007 In 1992, proving he could keep up with the younger crowd, he did one-armed pushups accepting his "City Slickers" Oscar

DJ $1,600 2006 "City Slickers"(Oscar)&"Requiem for a Heavyweight"(Emmy)

Daniel Day-Lewis 4x $567 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2025 No score & 12 years ago, he won the election as "Lincoln"

J $500 1991 The son of a British Poet Laureate, he won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "My Left Foot"

FJ 2017 He's the only actor to win 3 Best Actor Oscars, the most recent for his portrayal of a U.S. president

Dances with Wolves 4x 25.0% stumper $650 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1992 Kevin Costner will "never forget" that this film led the pack with 7 Oscars, & neither will we

DJ $800 2017 The title character hangs out with Kicking Bird & Stands with a Fist

DJ $1,600 2025 1990:A name given to Lieutenant John Dunbar

Cyrano de Bergerac 4x 25.0% stumper $850 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1996 Jose Ferrer & Gerard Depardieu were nominated for this title role 40 years apart; Ferrer won

DJ $800 1997 In 1951 "Harvey"'s Jimmy Stewart lost by a nose to best actor Jose Ferrer in this title role

DJ $2,000 2024 Jose Ferrer got the inaugural Best Actor Tony in 1947 & an Oscar in 1951 for playing this swashbuckling character

Crash 4x $800 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2006 This film broke the back of expectations by taking the award for Best Picture

J $600 2008 Collision

DJ $1,600 2006 2005:Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco for this tale of racism in L.A.

Casablanca 4x 25.0% stumper $900 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2016 A Moroccan bar

DJ $800 2008 Major Strasser, Victor Lazslo

DJ $1,200 2018 Dooley Wilson, Claude Rains & Peter Lorre

both 4x 25.0% stumper $825 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 2000 Cher

DJ $1,200 2002 Henry Mancini

J $400 2000 Rita Moreno

Anthony Hopkins 4x 33.3% stumper $767 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 1993 The Academy showed good "taste" in giving him a "Best Actor" Oscar for "The Silence of the Lambs"

DJ $2,000 2003 We've lionized him ever since he played the young Richard the Lionhearted on film in "The Lion in Winter"

FJ 2017 This Brit is the only actor to get Oscar nominations for playing 2 real-life U.S. presidents, both for 1990s films

Al Pacino 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $400 1993 This actor received 2 Oscar nominations for playing the same role in 2 "Godfather" films

DJ $600 1999 Blind Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Ret.)

FJ 2017 For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films

Adrien Brody 4x $2,800 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $600 2003 Some guys have all the luck: he not only won for Best Actor, he got to kiss his presenter, Halle Berry

J $1,000 2009 2002:As Wladyslaw Szpilman

DJ $800 2025 We could go on & on about how this actor set a record in 2025 for the longest Oscar acceptance speech--5 minutes & 36 seconds

A Beautiful Mind 4x 50.0% stumper $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2003 Ron Howard grabbed 2 Oscars in quick succession as director & producer of this film

DJ $800 2022 Think about Russell Crowe &Jennifer Connelly

DJ $2,000 DD 2016 A Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm

Sophia Loren 4x $933 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1985 She won as 1 of "Two Women"

DJ $600 1999 Of the 2 women to win acting awards for 1961, she was the Italian

DJ $2,000 2023 She was home in Rome when Cary Grant called to let her know she had won Best Actress for "Two Women"

Walt Disney 4x 33.3% stumper $367 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1988 His Oscar in 1932 wasn't for building a better mousetrap but a better mouse

DJ $800 2016 "Seal Island" & "Bear Country" were 2 Oscar winners from this studio's true-life adventure series

FJ 2021 The first time an individual won 4 awards at a single ceremony was in 1954, when his wins included Best 2-Reel Short Subject

Marlon Brando 4x 25.0% stumper $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2024 Let's just say his work was more well-received for "The Godfather" than "The Island of Dr. Moreau"

DJ $800 1999 Terry Malloy

J $200 2002 "The Godfather":Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Al Pacino

Worth Knowing (131)

wood 3 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3 Warren Beatty 3 Tommy Lee Jones 3 The Picture of Dorian Gray 3 The Lost Weekend 3 The Fighter 3 The English Patient 3 The Departed 3 Shakespeare in Love 3 Schindler's List 3 Rex Harrison 3 Peter O'Toole 3 Ordinary People 3 Oliver Stone 3 Mutiny on the Bounty 3 Moonlight 3 Marisa Tomei 3 Kevin Spacey 3 Juliette Binoche 3 John Wayne 3 John Huston 3 Jessica Tandy 3 James Cameron 3 Jack Lemmon 3 Hilary Swank 3 Gwyneth Paltrow 3 Greer Garson 3 Grammy 3 Gladiator 3 Gene Hackman 3 Gary Cooper 3 From Here to Eternity 3 Chicago 3 Charlie Chaplin 3 Braveheart 3 Bob Hope 3 Billy Crystal 3 Anthony Quinn 3 Annie Hall 3 The Social Network 3 Sir Laurence Olivier 3 Paul Newman 3 Oscar 3 Mel Gibson 3 Liza Minnelli 3 An American in Paris 3 Unforgiven 2 Traffic 2 Tom Hanks 2 Timothy Hutton 2 The Pianist 2 The Killing Fields 2 The Hurt Locker 2 The Greatest Show on Earth 2 The Godfather 2 The Artist 2 The Apartment 2 Terms of Endearment 2 Swank's banks 2 Susan Sarandon 2 Sofia Coppola 2 Sissy Spacek 2 Sean Connery 2 Saving Private Ryan 2 Robert Duvall 2 Richard Dreyfuss 2 Reds 2 Rain Man 2 Philadelphia 2 Oscar the Grouch 2 Oscar de la Renta 2 On Golden Pond 2 Olympia Dukakis 2 Nicolas Cage 2 Mrs. Miniver 2 Michael Keaton 2 Maximilian Schell 2 Makeup 2 Kirk Douglas 2 Kevin Costner 2 Kathy Bates 2 Kate Winslet 2 Julie Andrews 2 Judgment At Nuremberg 2 Jon Stewart 2 John Williams 2 John Houseman 2 John Ford 2 Jodie Foster 2 Jessica Chastain 2 Jack Nicholson 2 Irving Berlin 2 Helen Keller 2 Helen Hayes 2 Heaven Can Wait 2 Hattie McDaniel 2 Hannah and Her Sisters 2 Gregory Peck 2 Goodfellas 2 Gloria Stuart 2 Glenda Jackson 2 Giant 2 Fargo 2 excess 2 Dick Tracy 2 David Niven 2 Cuba Gooding, Jr. 2 Citizen Kane 2 Chris Rock 2 Chevy Chase 2 Cabaret 2 Burt Lancaster 2 Brad Pitt 2 Bjork 2 Billy Wilder 2 Bette Davis 2 Benicio del Toro 2 Ben-Hur 2 Barbra Streisand 2 Ang Lee 2 All About Eve 2 A Man For All Seasons 2 12 Years a Slave 2 "When You Wish Upon A Star" 2 "Chim Chim Cher-ee" 2 the Hustons 2 Steven Spielberg 2 Sir John Gielgud 2 Philip Seymour Hoffman 2 Leaving Las Vegas 2

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