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1. This Oscar winning actress disclosed to Michael Strahan that her favorite part of the Oscars was....."The hamburgers....the hamburgers back there. I really like the hamburgers here."
Julianne Moore
Hilary Swank
Charlize Theron
Julia Roberts
 
2. If you are like this person, your panties merited a mention during Chris Rock's monologue:
Kerry Washington
Sofia Vergara
Uzo Aduba
Rihanna
 
3. An interpreter was in hot demand, as the acceptance speech for this category was delivered in a language other than English:
Animated Short
Original Score
Foreign Language film
Hair & Makeup
 
4. We all think that writers are extremely hot.....especially the writers that wrote this film, the winner of the Original Screenplay Academy Award:
Inside Out
Ex Machina
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton
 
5. "Let's not fight....we have two Academy Awards between us! This is beneath us!" So quipped this zero-time Oscar winner, to his presenting partner (who actually has one):
Ryan Reynolds
Chris Pine
Ryan Gosling
Hugh Jackman
 
6. The Oscar-winning Adapted Screenplay Oscar was adapted from a:
Non-Fiction Book
Magazine article
Play
Earlier film
 
7. The entertaining clip showing how hard it is to be a black actor featured each of the following, except:
Whoopi Goldberg
Viola Davis
Tracy Morgan
Chris Rock
 
8. Who was the first to sing one of the Original Song nominees on stage during the evening?
Sam Smith
The Weeknd
Lady Gaga
Chris Martin
 
9. An actor known for portraying this superhero introduced the first clip for a Best Picture nominated film:
Batman
Iron Man
Captain America
Superman
 
10. Think back. No, back further. Keep goi....no, that's too far back. The first film to win an acting Oscar was:
Spotlight
The Danish Girl
Bridge of Spies
The Revenant
 
11. "What another lovely day!" The winner for Costume Design designed costumes for:
An update of a Disney classic
A Frontier tale of survival
An apocalyptic thriller
Carol
 
12. The first to two wins! The first film to win multiple Oscars during the evening was:
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Spotlight
 
13. Google searches for "The occasional merkin" spiked as the award for this category were being presented
Makeup & Hairstyling
Cinematography
Costume Design
Film Editing
 
14. The Revenant won its first Oscar of the night for:
Film Editing
Cinematography
Visual Effects
Original Score
 
15. The "Black History Month Minute," honoring the many, many many courageous cinematic contributions of Jack Black was presented by:
Lupita Nyong'o
Angela Bassett
Octavia Spencer
Stacey Dash
 
16. He was one of the presenters who assumed that by this point, if you don't know the difference between sound mixing and sound editing, you never will, and just presented the damn awards straightaway:
Michael B. Jordan
David Oyelowo
Mark Rylance
Chadwick Boseman
 
17. People often complain....The Oscars are too short - you simply don't give out enough awards! he said, while mentioning the Academy's Scientific & Technical Awards:
Mark Wahlberg
Jason Segel
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Rogen
 
18. C3PO, R2D2 and BB8, who all appeared to be rather drunk, somehow wandered onstage and mentioned this person associated with the Star Wars movies:
John Williams
George Lucas
Carrie Fisher
Harrison Ford
 
19. This foodstuff was peddled during the award presentation:
Cronuts
Pizzas
Girl Scout cookies
Cracker Jacks
 
20. The Minions introduced Animated Short, while one of them, of course, was holding:
A stick of dynamite
A shovel
A rat
A banana
 
21. Meanwhile, a duo from this Pixar film presented Animated Feature.....
Toy Story
Finding Nemo
Cars
Monsters Inc
 
22. ....and the Oscar went to a feature from this animation studio:
Sony
Pixar
Dreamworks
Aardman
 
23. The Best Supporting Actor statue went to a man who played:
An American
A Soviet
A German
A Brit
 
24. Louis CK noted that the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject was going home in:
A Toyota Tercel
A Honda Civic
An El Camino
A Ford Festiva
 
25. If you were one of the recipients of the Governor's Awards, please step forward. Whoa, not so fast there.....
Spike Lee
Denzel Washington
Gena Rowlands
Debbie Reynods
 
26. His was the first face shown in the In Memoriam segment:
Christopher Lee
Robert Loggia
Omar Sharif
Wes Craven
 
27. The rather short co-star of which....oh wait, I just got that - he's *short*! - of which Oscar nominated film helped present Live Action Short?
Room
Spotlight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
 
28. The Foreign Language film winner hails from this foreign country, which you may have heard of:
Colombia
Hungary
France
Denmark
 
29. So, in one regard, Mad Max: Fury Road can be seen as the night's big winner, as it walked away with the most awards - that number being:
9
8
6
7
 
30. In another, probably much more accurate sense, Spotlight was the big winner of the night. Aside from Best Picture, which of the other following awards did Spotlight take home?
Original Screenplay
Original Screenplay and Original Score
Supporting Actress and Original Score
Film Editing and Supporting Actress
 




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