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40 free Oscars 2018 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 2018 Oscars, the 90th Academy Awards, arrived with a point to prove. A year earlier the wrong film had been read out for Best Picture, and the ceremony that followed leaned into the joke while honouring the films of 2017. This quiz covers the whole night: who won the acting, directing and writing awards, which films led the nominations, the real people behind the year's biopics, the songs and performers, and the record-setting nominees at both ends of the age range. A few questions go behind the scenes, from the presenters to the stunt cooked up to keep speeches short. It is written for film fans, awards-season party hosts and anyone who wants a ready-made Oscar night round. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print it for a group.
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Q 01Which NBA star won an Oscar in 2018 for Dear Basketball, a short based on his farewell letter?
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant wrote the letter in 2015 to announce his retirement, then had veteran Disney animator Glen Keane draw it and John Williams score it.
Q 02Which Cold War fantasy led the 2018 Oscars with 13 nominations and went on to win Best Picture?
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water was only the second fantasy film to win Best Picture, following The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Q 03What prize did the 2018 Oscars host offer to the winner with the shortest acceptance speech?
A jet ski
A jet ski, with a stay at a Lake Havasu resort thrown in, went to costume designer Mark Bridges, who won for Phantom Thread.
Q 04Which actor won Best Actor at the 2018 Oscars for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour?
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman spent more than 200 hours in the makeup chair for the role and smoked over 400 cigars during filming.
Q 05Which late-night comedian hosted the 2018 Oscars, his second in a row after the envelope mix-up?
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel was the first person to host back-to-back ceremonies since Billy Crystal in 1997 and 1998.
Q 06Coco, a double winner at the 2018 Oscars, is set during which Mexican holiday?
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead inspired the whole concept, and Coco became the first film with a nine-figure budget to feature an all-Latino principal cast.
Q 07Which film was wrongly named Best Picture a year before the 2018 Oscars, whose poster joked about it?
La La Land
The La La Land producers were already giving speeches when the mistake was caught: the presenters had the Best Actress envelope, and Moonlight had won.
Q 08Margot Robbie was a Best Actress nominee at the 2018 Oscars as which scandal-hit figure skater?
Tonya Harding
To play Tonya Harding, Margot Robbie trained on the ice for four months and filmed with a herniated disc in her neck.
Q 09Which actress won Best Actress at the 2018 Oscars as a grieving mother who rents roadside billboards?
Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand had first won the award 21 years earlier, as the pregnant police chief in Fargo.
Q 10Which actor earned a 2018 Oscar nomination after replacing Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World?
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer was 88, the oldest acting nominee the Oscars had seen, and reshot the role's 22 scenes about a month before the film opened.
Q 11Which sketch comedian won Best Original Screenplay at the 2018 Oscars for his horror debut, Get Out?
Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele was the first African American winner in the category, for a script whose first draft took him about two months.
Q 12Which filmmaker won Best Director at the 2018 Oscars for the monster romance that took Best Picture?
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro is one of the Three Amigos of Mexican cinema, alongside his close friends Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Q 13The 2018 Oscars moved from late February to early March to avoid clashing with which sporting event?
The Winter Olympics
Q 21Which Lady Bird filmmaker became only the fifth woman nominated for Best Director, at the 2018 Oscars?
Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig was making her solo directorial debut, and it also earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Q 22Which actor appeared in two Best Picture nominees at the 2018 Oscars, Lady Bird and Call Me by Your Name?
Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet, then 22, was also the youngest Best Actor nominee since 19-year-old Mickey Rooney for Babes in Arms.
Q 23Which actor was a Best Actor nominee at the 2018 Oscars as an obsessive dressmaker in 1950s London?
Daniel Day-Lewis
The Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, ran until 25 February, so the ceremony was held on 4 March instead.
Q 14Which actor rejoined Faye Dunaway to present Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars, a year after their mix-up?
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had first been paired as presenters in 2017 to mark 50 years since Bonnie and Clyde.
Q 15Which actor won Best Supporting Actor at the 2018 Oscars as a racist, bullying small-town police officer?
Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell beat his own co-star Woody Harrelson, nominated in the same category as the police chief in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Q 16Which actress won Best Supporting Actress at the 2018 Oscars as a figure skater's fearsome mother?
Allison Janney
Allison Janney had the part of LaVona Golden written for her, and the screenwriter refused to sell his script until she was cast.
Q 17Meryl Streep earned her 21st Oscar nomination at the 2018 ceremony for which newspaper drama?
The Post
The Post cast Streep as publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as editor Ben Bradlee, racing to print the leaked Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Q 18Which Second World War epic won three awards at the 2018 Oscars, all of them for sound or editing?
Dunkirk
Dunkirk tells its evacuation story on three clocks at once: a week ashore, a day at sea and an hour in the air.
Q 19Icarus, a documentary winner at the 2018 Oscars, exposed state-sponsored doping in which country?
Russia
Russia was not the original subject: amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel was doping himself as an experiment when his adviser, the head of Moscow's anti-doping lab, fled and turned whistleblower.
Q 20This Is Me, a Best Original Song nominee at the 2018 Oscars, was written for which big-screen musical?
The Greatest Showman
The Greatest Showman stars Hugh Jackman as circus creator P.T. Barnum; its anthem won the Golden Globe, and Keala Settle sang it live on Oscar night.
Daniel Day-Lewis announced his retirement before Phantom Thread even opened; he had quit once before, in the late 1990s, to train as a shoemaker.
Q 24Which R&B star was the first person nominated for acting and songwriting in one year, at the 2018 Oscars?
Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige earned both for Mudbound: a supporting turn as the mother of the Jackson family and the film's song Mighty River.
Q 25Call Me by Your Name, a four-time nominee at the 2018 Oscars, is set in 1983 in which European country?
Italy
Italy also hosted the shoot, mainly in the Lombardy town of Crema, where part of the script was written at the director's kitchen table.
Q 26Which British actor was a Best Actor nominee at the 2018 Oscars for the horror hit Get Out?
Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya went on to win the supporting-actor award three years later as Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
Q 27Which song from Coco beat This Is Me to win Best Original Song at the 2018 Oscars?
Remember Me
Remember Me made co-writer Robert Lopez the first double EGOT winner, with at least two each of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
Q 28The Disaster Artist, a screenplay nominee at the 2018 Oscars, recounts the making of which cult film?
The Room
The Room is Tommy Wiseau's 2003 melodrama, widely considered one of the worst films ever made; James Franco both directed The Disaster Artist and played Wiseau.
Q 29John Williams earned a Best Original Score nomination at the 2018 Oscars for which blockbuster sequel?
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Last Jedi added to a tally that makes John Williams the second-most-nominated person in Oscar history, behind only Walt Disney.
Q 30Which director of photography won a first Oscar in 2018 for Blade Runner 2049, on his 14th nomination?
Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins had gone home empty-handed for The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, No Country for Old Men and Skyfall, among others.