Questions:
1) In the past five Oscar races, how many times has Judi Dench (“Iris”) been nominated for an Academy Award?
2) If Russell Crowe wins a best actor Oscar for “A Beautiful Mind,” he will join only two other performers who have won back-to-back Best Actor Oscars. Who are they?
3) Of the three nominated actors for “In the Bedroom” (Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson and Marisa Tomei), which two are previous Oscar winners?
4) A rare tie in Oscar history occurred in 1968 between what two actresses?
5) Maggie Smith, nominated for “Gosford Park,” has the distinction of previously winning an Oscar for playing an actress who loses an Oscar, in what Neil Simon comedy hit?
6) Ben Kingsley, nominated for best supporting actor as a very bad man in “Sexy Beast,” previously won a best actor Oscar as a near-saint in the title role of what 1982 film?
7) A posthumous Oscar was awarded to what English actor for playing a TV anchor man at the end of his tether in the black comedy “Network”?
ANSWERS
1) Four.
2) Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks.
3) Spacek and Tomei.
4) Katharine Hepburn (“The Lion in Winter”) and Barbra Streisand (“Funny Girl”).
5) “California Suite.”
6) “Gandhi.”
7) Peter Finch.
