QUIZ: Can You Name These Academy Award-Winning Films From One Screenshot?

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Who doesn’t love a good movie? It’s an opportunity to kick back and escape into a different world for a couple of hours. And if you love film, the chances are that you watch the Oscars too. Take this quiz to see if you really know as much about movies as you think you do! All of these films are Academy Award-winning motion pictures so this should be a piece of cake for anyone with more than a passing knowledge about great movies. Share your results with your friends to find out which of you deserves an Academy Award for movie trivia!

This incredibly sad scene is from which movie?

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Retry Correct Incorrect Million Dollar Baby won Best Picture in 2004 as well as Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor.

The Help
Interstellar
Million Dollar Baby
Ex Machina

This scene is from the film…

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011, The Social Network won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing.

The Social Network
The Fighter
Midnight in Paris
Beginners

This scene starring Brad Pitt & Ryan from “The Office” is from what movie?

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Retry Correct Incorrect In 2010, Inglourious Basterds was nominated for eight Academy Awards and Christoph Waltz won for Best Actor.

Schindler’s List
The Reader
Inglourious Basterds
There Will Be Blood

This bizarre couple is from what film?

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Retry Correct Incorrect In 2007, Sweeney Todd won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction, and for good reason.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Finding Neverland
The Danis Poet

These two writers are from…

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Retry Correct Incorrect In 2006, Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor in Capote.

Pollock
Capote
Sideways
Hustle and Flow

This scene is from what movie?

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 73rd Academy Awards Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won for theBest Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography.

The Last of the Mohicans
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Vanilla Sky
The Last Samurai

This scene is from the iconic war movie…

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 51st Academy Awards, The Deer Hunter won for the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Sound.

Tender Mercies
The Deer Hunter
Saving Private Ryan
Missing

This depiction of the horror of war is from which movie?

18%

Retry Correct Incorrect At the 1984 Academy Awards, The Killing Fields won for Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing.

Rescue Dawn
Children of a Lesser God
The Killing Fields
Rambo

The crazed knife-wielding fan is from what movie?

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Retry Correct Incorrect In 1991, Kathy Bates won Best Actress in a Leading Role for her character in Misery.

Psycho
Misery
Ghosts
Death Becomes Her

These two goons are from…

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Retry Correct Incorrect In 1996, Fargo won two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Writing Original Screenplay. It was also nominated for seven other awards.

Fargo
King Gimp
Affliction
The Usual Suspects

This dysfunctional couple is from what film?

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Retry Correct Incorrect Nicholas cage won the award for Best Actor as the audience gets to watch him drink himself to death for 112 minutes in Leaving Las Vegas.

The Last Days
Casino
Leaving Las Vegas
Gen’s Game

This group of excited friends is from the movie…

28%

Retry Correct Incorrect In 2003, Eminem won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Lose Yourself” in 8 Mile.

8 Mile
L.A. Confidential
Training Day
Boy’s Don’t Cry

This gut-wrenching scene is from what film?

30%

Retry Correct Incorrect Cold Mountain was nominated for more than 70 awards, including seven Academy Award nominations, yet Renée Zellweger ended up winning Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Cold Mountain
The Pianist
Atonement
There Will Be Blood

These two teenagers are talking in class in what movie?

33%

Retry Correct Incorrect At the 80th Academy Awards, Juno won for the Best Original Screenplay.

Rango
Superbad
Precious
Juno

In what film is Owen Wilson drinking with a famous writer?

35%

Retry Correct Incorrect Although it was nominated for four awards at the 84th Academy Awards, Midnight in Paris won for Best Original Screenplay.

The Theory of Everything
Midnight In Paris
Amour
The Secret In Their Eyes

This scene is from which epic fantasy film?

38%

Retry Correct Incorrect At the 76th Academy Awards in 2004,The Lord of the Rings won all of the categories it was nominated for which included Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing.

The Lord of the Rings Return of the King
Brave
The Revenant
The Hobbit

What scene is this mind-blowing space movie from?

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 87th Academy Awards, Interstellar won for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for numerous others.

Warner Bros.

What scene is this mind-blowing space movie from?

Interstellar
Apollo 13
The Martian
2001: A Space Odyssey

This scene is from what film about survival?

43%

Retry Correct Incorrect At the 88th Academy Awards, The Revenant won for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Leonardo DiCaprio finally got his Oscar for Best Actor.

The Revenant
The Wolfman
Peter and The Wolf
The Hateful Eight

This scene of these two lovers performing a forbidden kiss is from…

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 2005 Academy Awards, Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress for Walk the Line.

The Hours
The Aviator
Walk the Line
Harvie Krumpet

This eccentric family is from the film…

48%

Retry Correct Incorrect At the 79th Academy Awards, Little Miss Sunshine was awarded Best Original Screenplay, and Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actors.

The Reader
Little Miss Sunshine
Milk
Smile Pinki

Russel Crowe plays an ex-war general in which film?

50%

Retry Correct Incorrect Gladiator cleaned house at the 73rd Academy Awards winning Best Picture, Russel Crowe as Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, and Best Sound Mixing.

The Lord of the Rings Two Towers
The Last King of Scotland
When We Were Kings
Gladiator

These two drinking cowboys are from…

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 78th Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain won Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.

The Motorcycle Diaries
Road to Perdition
Blazing Saddles
Brokeback Mountain

This scene of celebration can be seen in the film…

55%

Retry Correct Incorrect In 2009, Milk won two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Sean Penn for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Music By Prudence
Milk
Undefeated
In a Better World

This is from what war film?

58%

Retry Correct Incorrect In 2014, American Sniper won an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing.

Argo
Hacksaw Ridge
Zero Dark Thirty
American Sniper

This nightmare-inducing scene is from which film?

60%

Retry Correct Incorrect Although nominated for eight, Mad Max: Fury Road won six Academy Awards at the 88th Academy Awards including Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing.

The Book of Eli
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Road
12 Monkeys

This scene is from what movie?

63%

Retry Correct Incorrect In 2015, The Big Short won an Academy Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay.

The Big Short
The Phone Call
The Theory of Everything
The Salesman

The scene of these two lovebirds is from which film?

65%

Retry Correct Incorrect

Whiplash
At the 89th Academy Awards, La La Land won six including Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song and Best Production Design.
Silver Linings Playbook
Blue Jasmine
La La Land

This scene in a bar is from…

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 70th Academy Awards, Good Will Hunting won Best Original Screenplay and Robin Williams won Best Supporting Actor.

The Nutty Professor
The Usual Suspects
The Story of Healing
Good Will Hunting

This scene from the Vietnam War is from what movie?

70%

Retry Correct Incorrect At the 52nd Academy Awards, Apocalypse Now won two awards for Best Sound and Best Cinematography.

Full Metal Jacket
We Were Soldiers
Apocalypse Now
Rescue Dawn

This scene is from what movie?

73%

Retry Correct Incorrect In 1974, Chinatown was nominated for 10 awards but only won for Best Original Screenplay.

Chinatown
A Little Night Music
Save the Tiger
The Sunshine Boys

This is from…

75%

Retry Correct Incorrect At the 1969 Academy Awards, Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay although it was a highly controversial film.

Love Story
Marooned
Midnight Cowboy
Let It Be

A conversation with these two women is from…

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Retry Correct Incorrect Terms of Endearment won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The Stone Carvers
Purple Rain
Terms of Endearment
Anna and Bella

This scene of a programming downloading is from…

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 86th Academy Award’s, Her won for Best Original Screenplay.

The Theory of Everything
The Phone Call
Amour
Her

This sequence of curious looking men is from which film?

83%

Retry Correct Incorrect At the 76th Academy Awards, Master and Commander won Best Cinematography and Best Sound Editing.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Hunt for Red October
Officer and a Gentleman
Crimson Tide

This extravagant queen is featured in the movie…

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 71st Academy Awards, Shakespeare in Love won seven awards including Best Picture, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, and more.

Shakespeare in Love
The Madness of King George
Elizabeth; The Golden Age
Black Swan

These two young men are backpacking in what movie?

88%

Retry Correct Incorrect In 1981, An American Werewolf in London won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

An American Werewolf in London
The Descent
Psycho
Scream

These boys in a cave are from what movie?

90%

Retry Correct Incorrect Although The Dead Poets Society was nominated for numerous awards including Best Picture, it walked away with The Best Original Screenplay.

Scent of a Woman
Philadelphia
Ghost
The Dead Poets Society

This medieval battle scene is from which movie?

93%

Retry Correct Incorrect Henry V won Best Costume design at the 1989 Academy Awards.

Henry V
Robin Hood
Kingdom of Heaven
Braveheart

This film about the Holocaust is…

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Retry Correct Incorrect At the 75th Academy Awards, The Pianist won for Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Schindler’s List
Sophie’s Choice
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Pianist

This scene is from the movie…

98%

Retry Correct Incorrect In 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Boyhood
Toyland
Six Shooter

Congrats, you finished! Here are your results:

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Congrats, you finished! Here are your results:

Retry Ouch. Maybe you should try watching the Academy Awards this year… That’s pretty rough, better luck next time. Wow, that’s pretty impressive! You need a time out from watching movies, you’re a master!

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