Test Your Oscars Knowledge with this 2024 Quiz
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The 96th Academy Awards were a really good ceremony, with tons of deserving winners and nominees gathering to honor the best movies of 2023. This was one of the tightest Oscars races ever, in every category, and anyone could have a different favorite Best Picture nominee depending on their preferred genre. Well, the many Academy voters have finally spoken, and we can quiz you about the results. If you tuned in live to the show's broadcast or watched some highlights after the fact here are some trivia questions to test your knowledge about the crop of winners and other facts about the show.
If you want to earn your Awards Show Nerd card, you better have been paying attention to be able to get all these questions right. Or, if you want, you can look up all the answers and cheat. There's no way for us to know.
Q: Who presented Da'Vine Joy Randolph's Best Supporting Actress award?
Nominated for her role as Mary Lamb in Alexander Payne's dramedy The Holdovers, Randolph was a frontrunner going into the ceremony and ended up winning the trophy, which was both her first Oscar nomination and win.
A: Jamie Lee Curtis, Mary Steenburgen, Lupita Nyon'go, Rita Moreno, Regina King
2023 winner Jamie Lee Curtis announced Randolph as the winner and she was also joined by other prestigious previous winners to praise all the Supporting Actress nominees in an incredibly strong category.
Who won this Oscar John Cena Presented?
In a nod to the timeless Oscars streaker gag, Jimmy Kimmel and John Cena did a bit about him being reluctant to strip down to present, and he came out to present Best Costume Design in... well, just Birkenstocks.
A: Holly Waddington, for Poor Things
A deserving win, Holly Waddington's intricate custom-made designs for Emma Stone's character Bella Baxter elevated the world and tone of this surreal dramedy even further. Emma Stone also won Best Actress and Poor Things took home the trophies for Best Makeup & Hairstyling, and Best Production Design.
Q: What's the maximum capacity of the Dolby Theatre?
Known as the Kodak Theatre previously, this beautiful venue has hosted most Oscars ceremonies since 2002.
A: 3,300!
If you have aspirations to get invited one day, here's a rough sense of how many attendees they can handle.
Q: Who started their acceptance speech with, "I'd like to thank my terrible childhood"?
One of the funniest speeches of the night started with this quippy line. Here's an extra hint if you're super lost... it was an acting nominee.
A: Robert Downey Jr.
For his stirring and layered supporting performance as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer, Downey was a favorite all awards season and ended up winning his first Oscar. He has been nominated twice previously—for Chaplin and Tropic Thunder.
Q: How many times has Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Oscars?
The 96th ceremony called on Jimmy Kimmel to host this year, and he altogether did a decent, though not particularly memorable, job.
A: Four times!
Kimmel has hosted in 2017, 2018, and 2023 as well. The late comedian Bob Hope currently has the most Oscars hosted to his name with an impressive 19 ceremonies.
Q: Which film had the most wins of the night?
Oppenheimer, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon were some of the most nominated films going into the ceremony, and the nominated films certainly set a high bar of quality.
A: Oppenheimer, with seven wins!
Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas' films have taken home lots of trophies for the technical categories in the past, but the Best Director and Best Picture honors had eluded them until the 2024 show.
Q: Which Barbie number won Best Original Song?
This year had some amazing Best Original Song nominees, from the two Barbie tracks to "It Never Went Away" by Jon Batiste to the powerful "Wazhazhazhe (A Song for My People)" from Killers of the Flower Moon.
A: "What What I Made For?" by Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell
This brother-sister duo took home their second Oscar in this category after also winning for the James Bond theme "No Time to Die" for the movie of the same name.
Q: How many first-time Best Director nominees were there?
Steven Spielberg presented the Oscar for Best Directing, an award which he has won twice out of nine nominations.
A: Two, Justine Triet & Jonathan Glazer
While the award went to Christopher Nolan, it was a tight race with veterans like Martin Scorsese and Yorgos Lanthimos in the running, and first-time nominees like Triet and Glazer with their amazing films Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest, respectively. While neither of these filmmakers won the Directing award, Triet walked away with a win for Original Screenplay, while Glazer's film won Best International Feature and Best Sound.
Q: What movie did presenter John Mulaney ramble about?
One of the funniest awards presentations of the night was when stand-up comedian John Mulaney took the stage to present Best Sound and had a bit that came out of left field (that's a hint!).
A: Field of Dreams!
Nope, it wasn't a current nominee, but Mulaney took time to give us a quick rundown of some of the plot of Field of Dreams, only doubling down and going further when you think he's going to open the envelope.
Q: What film did this young star appear in?
Porché Brinker took the stage when her film won an Oscar, and she was one of the highlights of the red carpet by bringing a violin along.
A: The Last Repair Shop
Winner of Best Documentary Short, this excellent documentary shines a light on the craftspeople who repair broken musical instruments to give to kids in Los Angeles public schools, with L.A. being one of the last school districts in the country to do so. Brinker was one of the many subjects of the heartwarming doc.
Q: Which famous director won Best Live Action Short Film?
You know this director for their films with intricate visual stylings and funny characters.
A: Wes Anderson
For his short film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, a Roald Dahl adaptation released on Netflix, Wes Anderson finally won his first Oscar. He also directed the excellent Asteroid City which was released in 2023 and didn't get any nominations.
Q: What film did Ludwig Göransson win his first Oscar for?
His win at the 96th ceremony, for the scoring of Oppenheimer, was this producer and composer's second trophy.
A: Black Panther
Göransson has worked with director Ryan Coogler since they were both students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, scoring his first feature Fruitvale Station, and winning an Oscar for the excellent soundtrack of Black Panther.
Q: What was the highest-grossing Oscar nominee?
According to CNBC, the ten Best Picture nominees grossed over $1 billion, and one movie took up about half of those earnings.
A: Barbie
Barbie was the highest-grossing Oscar-nominated movie of 2023, and it wasn't particularly close. The "Barbenheimer" phenomenon meant long tails at the box office for both films, though Oppenheimer won more Oscars last night.
Q: What franchise did Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito both appear in?
While they weren't in the same movie, both of these iconic actors had big roles in a huge franchise that was the basis of their banter when presenting the Oscars for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
A: Batman
They both played Batman villains, of course! DeVito played the Penguin in Batman Returns, while Arnie appeared as Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin. They also once starred in the comedy Twins together, which Oppenheimer editor Jennifer Lame shouted out at the beginning of her speech after they presented her the trophy.
Q: How Many Oscars Has Hayao Miyazaki Won?
The Boy and the Heron won Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, earning director Hayao Miyazaki and his producer Toshio Suzuki a well-deserved trophy, though neither of them accepted the award in person.
A: Two!
Along with this win, Miyazaki has only won an Oscar a single other time—for Spirited Away at the 2003 Oscars over 20 years ago. This is a photo of Studio Ghibli staff celebrating in Japan after their hard-earned victory for The Boy and the Heron was announced.
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