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      Who has the most male acting nominations?
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      • Jack Nicholson

      • Paul Newman

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      1. Who has the most male acting nominations?
        1. Laurence Olivier
        2. Spencer Tracy
        3. Jack Nicholson
        4. Paul Newman
        1. Jack Nicholson -has 12 Nominations Laurence Olivier -had 10 Nominations Spencer Tracy -had 9 Nominations Paul Newman -has 9 Nominations
      2. Which of the following performers has not won consecutive Oscars?
        1. Jason Robards
        2. Tom Hanks
        3. Luise Rainer
        4. Hillary Swank
        1. Only Performers to Win Consecutive Oscars Luise Rainer (1936-37) Spencer Tracy (1937-38) Katharine Hepburn (1967-68) Jason Robards (1976-77) Tom Hanks (1993-94)
      3. Which of the following actresses has the most nominations and no wins?
        1. Joan Fontaine
        2. Thelma Ritter
        3. Fay Bainter
        4. Sigourney Weaver
        1. Thelma Ritter is the woman with the most nominations (6) and no wins.
      4. Which of the following performers was nominated for two oscars in the same year?
        1. Jessica Lange
        2. Tom Cruise
        3. Tom Hanks
        4. Marlon Brando
        1. Jessica Lange was nominated in 1982 for Best Actress: Frances Best Supporting Actress: Tootsie [w]
      5. How tall is the Academy Award of Merit "Oscar"?
        1. 14.5"
        2. 13"
        3. 13.5"
        4. 14"
        1. Oscar stands 13.5 inches tall and weighs a robust 81/2 pounds
      6. Who is the only performer to win a posthumous acting academy award?
        1. Audrey Hepburn
        2. Peter Finch
        3. Henry Fonda
        4. Betty Davis

        1. Peter Finch, Won Best Actor for Network 1976 he died Jan 14, 1976 about two months prior to the Academy Awards. His widow Eletha Finch and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky accepted the award on his behalf. In 1993, Audrey Hepburn was posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award a non acting award.

      7. Who had the shortest performance to win an Oscar?
        1. Beatrice Straight
        2. Judi Dench
        3. Katharine Hepburn
        4. Sally Field
        1. Judi Dench won Best Supporting Actress in 1998 for her less than 8 minutes of screen time as Queen Elisabeth in Shakespeare In Love. Beatrice Straight is second place, she won Best Supporting Actress for Network in 1976 for about 10 minutes of screen time.
      8. Which Actor had the longest gap between first being nominated and winning an Oscar?
        1. Jack Palance
        2. Robert Deniro
        3. Al Pacino
        4. Henry Fonda
        1. Henry Fonda was first nominated as an actor for The Grapes Of Wrath (1941), and didn't win an acting award until 41 years later for On Golden Pond (1982). However, was given an honorary award the previous year. Jack Palance was nominated for Sudden Fear (1952), but had to wait 39 years before his victory for City Slickers (1991)
      9. Which of the following actors won an Oscar for their first on-screen performance?
        1. Timothy Hutton
        2. Yul Brynner
        3. Cuba Gooding Jr.
        4. Haley Joel Osment

        1. The King and I 1956-Performers to win Oscars for their first on-screen performance Best Actor: Yul Brynner, Ben Kingsley, Geoffrey Rush.

      10. Which of the following films Did Not Win Both Best Actor & Best Actress Oscars?
        1. It Happened One Night 1934
        2. Coming Home 1978
        3. On Golden Pond 1981
        4. Forrest Gump 1994
      11. Who has NOT been nominated twice, in two separate films, for playing the same role?
        1. Bing Crosby
        2. Peter O'toole
        3. Al Pacino
        4. Marlon Brando
        1. Four performers have been nominated twice, in two separate films, for playing the same role in both films. They are: Bing Crosby received Oscar nominations for portraying Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells Of St. Mary's (1945). Paul Newman was twice nominated as "Fast" Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color Of Money (1986). Peter O'Toole was nominated for playing King Henry II in Beckett (1964) and The Lion In Winter (1968). Al Pacino was nominated twice as Michael Corleone, for The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974). Interestingly, Pacino and O'Toole never won for those roles. Crosby won for the former and Newman won for the latter.
      12. Who is credited with designing the Academy Award of Merit "Oscar"
        1. Jean Hersholt
        2. Irving Thalberg
        3. Cedric Gibbons
        4. Louis B. Mayer
        1. MGM art director Cedric Gibbons designed the statuette and Los Angeles sculptor George Stanley was selected to bring to three-dimensional form the figure of a knight standing on a reel of film, hands gripping a sword. The Academy’s world-renowned statuette was born.
      13. Which of the following three years were the Academy Awards postponed?
        1. 1945,1971,1981
        2. 1938,1968,1981
        3. 1937,1962,1981
        4. 1941,1968,1981
        1. There have been only three circumstances that prevented the Academy Awards presentation from going off as scheduled. The first was in 1938, when destructive floods all but washed out Los Angeles and delayed the ceremony one week. In 1968 the Awards ceremony was postponed from April 8 to April 10 out of respect for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been assassinated a few days earlier, and whose funeral was held on April 9. In 1981 the Awards were postponed for 24 hours because of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
      14. What year were the first supporting actor and actress categories presented?
        1. 1932
        2. 1934
        3. 1940
        4. 1936
        1. In 1936 the first Academy Awards were presented in the Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress categories. The honors went to Walter Brennan for "Come and Get It" and Gale Sondergaard for "Anthony Adverse."

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