It’s awards season for the films of 2018. Rotten Tomatoes actually has a calendar for them on its website. I counted over a dozen for February alone, with the grand finale of the Oscars on the 24th. Here are questions having to do with movie awards:
1) The first Oscar broadcast was on radio in 1930, and television in 1953. Who has hosted the most Oscar telecasts?
2) The New York Film Critics Circle has been around almost as long as the Oscars. An award from them is considered very prestigious, and they consider themselves a bit more serious about film. As an example, instead of voting for the movie pushed by Harvey Weinstein in 1998, Shakespeare In Love, which won the Best Picture Oscar, the NYFCC gave their top award to what Spielberg film?
3) Who is the only woman to have won a Golden Globe for directing? It was for a 1983 musical.
4) Her current romantic partner is director Stanley Donen, but she is better known for a different partner, her improv partner, from many years ago. She was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar for Heaven Can Wait. She is 86, and in 2016 she won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Writers Guild of America. Name her.
5) The BAFTA awards are Britain’s equivalent to the Oscars, and they’ve been around for 70 years. What English-Australian actor won five BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, including one posthumously in 1978?
6) The Razzie Awards are given to the WORST films of the year, and they are held the night before the Oscars. What film won a Razzie Award for Worst Picture of the Decade in 2010? Star John Travolta had called the script, “The ‘Schindler’s List’ of science fiction.”
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