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question 16 gives two choices that would both be correct. for not winning a best picture: Goodfellas or In the Heat of the Night. either choice would be accurate.
paultoes 4/3/10 11:06 pm

Answers:

1. Best Picture:
Pulp Fiction
Shakespeare in Love
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Ben-Hur
 
2. Best Director:
Martin Scorsese (The Last Temptation of Christ)
Warren Beatty (Reds)
Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)
Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
 
3. Best Actor:
Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)
Spencer Tracy (The Old Man and the Sea)
Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
 
4. Best Actor:
Al Pacino (The Godfather Part II)
Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Paul Newman (The Color of Money)
 
5. Best Actress:
Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
Judi Dench (Iris)
 
6. Best Foreign Language Film:
Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
Fanny and Alexander
The Counterfeiters
Waltz with Bashir
 
7. Best Original Song:
My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
You Must Love Me (Evita)
That Thing You Do! (That Thing You Do!)
Streets of Philadelphia (Philadelphia)
 
8. Best Costume Design:
Gladiator
Chicago
Marie Antoinette
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
 
9. Best Picture:
The Sound of Music
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Raging Bull
Annie Hall
 
10. Best Visual Effects:
King Kong (2005)
The Matrix
Starship Troopers
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
 
11. Best Actor:
Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
Sean Penn (Milk)
Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)
Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
 
12. Best Picture:
Ordinary People
Citizen Kane
Midnight Cowboy
Platoon
 
13. Best Supporting Actress:
Teri Garr (Tootsie)
Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor)
Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist)
Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
 
14. Best Picture:
The Last Emperor
Out of Africa
The Silence of the Lambs
Beauty and the Beast
 
15. Best Actress:
Charlize Theron (Monster)
Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry)
Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking)
Jodie Foster (Nell)
 
16. Best Picture:
Goodfellas
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
In the Heat of the Night
 
17. Best Director:
Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)
William Wyler (Ben Hur)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
 
18. Best Director:
John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
Micahel Curtiz (Casablanca)
John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)
Steven Spielberg (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
 
19. Best Actress:
Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter)
Faye Dunaway (Network)
 
20. Best Director:
David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
Mike Nichols (The Graduate)
Barry Levinson (Rain Man)
Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society)
 
21. Best Supporting Actor:
Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)
Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff)
John Gielgud (Arthur)
Tim Robbins (Mystic River)
 
22. Best Original Song:
Lose Yourself (Eminem)
Into the West (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Things Have Changed (Wonder Boys)
Blame Canada (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)
 
23. Best Supporting Actor:
James Coburn (Affliction)
Benicio del Toro (Traffic)
Chris Cooper (Adaptation.)
Al Pacino (Glengarry Glen Ross)
 
24. Best Original Song:
The Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie)
Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)
(I've Had) The time of My Life (Dirty Dancing)
Up Where We Belong (An Officer and a Gentleman)
 
25. Best Supporting Actress:
Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)
Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny)
Anna Paquin (The Piano)
Joan Allen (Nixon)
 




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