Oscars 2019
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50 free Oscars 2019 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 2019 Oscars were the ones that went ahead without a host. The 91st Academy Awards honoured the films of 2018, spread the big prizes across several pictures and produced a Best Picture result that people still argue about. 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 firsts and near-misses that made headlines. A few questions go behind the scenes to the rows over the telecast itself. 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 film beat Roma to Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars even though its director was not nominated?
Green Book
Green Book took its name from a travel guide listing the motels and restaurants that would serve Black motorists in the segregated South.
Q 02Which actor won Best Actor at the 2019 Oscars for playing Freddie Mercury, false teeth and all?
Rami Malek
Rami Malek became the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win Best Actor; his parents had emigrated from Egypt to California.
Q 03Which British actress won Best Actress at the 2019 Oscars as an ailing, rabbit-keeping Queen Anne?
Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman went straight on to another royal role, taking over as Elizabeth II in The Crown later the same year.
Q 04Which comedian quit as host of the 2019 Oscars over old tweets, leaving the show without an emcee?
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart stepped down two days after taking the job, and the Oscars ran without a host for the first time since 1989.
Q 05Which pop star was nominated at the 2019 Oscars for both Best Actress and Best Original Song?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga won for the song and lost for the acting, only the second person ever nominated for both on a single film. Mary J. Blige had done it a year earlier.
Q 06Black Panther, the first superhero Best Picture nominee, is set in which fictional African nation?
Wakanda
Wakanda's costumes, sets and score each won an Oscar in 2019, three wins from seven nominations and the first ever for Marvel Studios.
Q 07Which American Idol runner-up fronted Queen when the band opened the host-free 2019 Oscars ceremony?
Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert and Queen played We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions, and the audience of film stars gave them a standing ovation.
Q 08Christian Bale earned a 2019 Best Actor Oscar nomination for playing which vice president in Vice?
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney was played by a shaven-headed Christian Bale who put on 40 pounds, and the makeup team won the film's only Oscar.
Q 09Which director, once nominated for writing Do the Right Thing, won his first competitive Oscar in 2019?
Spike Lee
Spike Lee won for co-writing BlacKkKlansman, having already been handed an honorary award by the Academy in 2015.
Q 10Roma, joint leader in nominations at the 2019 Oscars, was released by which streaming company?
Netflix
Netflix gave Roma a limited cinema run three weeks before streaming it, and the film won three Oscars on the night.
Q 11Which film won the most Oscars at the 2019 ceremony, four in all, yet missed out on Best Picture?
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody won for its lead actor, its editing and both sound categories, though its director had been fired two weeks before filming ended.
Q 12Which film tied with Roma on ten nominations at the 2019 Oscars but went home with only one award?
The Favourite
The Favourite turned its ten nominations into a single win, for its lead actress, while two of her co-stars competed against each other.
Q 13Which actor won a second Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2019 for playing pianist Don Shirley?
Mahershala Ali
Q 21Roma gave which country its first win for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 Oscars?
Mexico
Mexico finally won with a black-and-white film named after Colonia Roma, the neighbourhood of the capital where its director grew up.
Q 22Roma's Best Director winner made Oscar history in 2019 by also winning which craft award for the film?
Cinematography
Cinematography had never before gone to a film's own Best Director winner; he shot Roma in colour and converted it to black and white afterwards.
Q 23Free Solo, the documentary winner at the 2019 Oscars, follows a ropeless climb of which rock face?
El Capitan
El Capitan is a 3,000-foot rock wall in Yosemite National Park, and Alex Honnold climbed it alone in June 2017 with no ropes or protection.
Mahershala Ali had won the same award two years earlier for Moonlight, becoming the first Black actor to win twice in one category.
Q 14Which actress won Best Supporting Actress at the 2019 Oscars for If Beale Street Could Talk?
Regina King
Regina King had already won three Emmys for television, and she added a fourth for Watchmen the year after her Oscar.
Q 15Which filmmaker won Best Director at the 2019 Oscars for Roma, a drama drawn from his own childhood?
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón based the story on Liboria Rodríguez, the maid who had worked for his family for years, and it brought him a second directing Oscar.
Q 16Which song won Best Original Song at the 2019 Oscars after its two stars sang it at a shared piano?
Shallow
Shallow had already won two Grammys a fortnight earlier, and the ceremony performance sent it back up the charts.
Q 17Which star of The Wife lost Best Actress at the 2019 Oscars, her seventh nomination without a win?
Glenn Close
Glenn Close had won the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild award for the role, and left as the most-nominated actress never to win.
Q 18Which first-time director of A Star Is Born missed a Best Director nomination at the 2019 Oscars?
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper still left with three nominations for the film, as its lead actor, co-writer and producer.
Q 19Willem Dafoe's 2019 Best Actor Oscar nomination came for playing which painter in At Eternity's Gate?
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh's final years are the film's subject, and it dramatizes the theory that his death was manslaughter rather than self-inflicted.
Q 20Which Supreme Court justice was profiled in a Best Documentary Feature nominee at the 2019 Oscars?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's film, titled simply with her initials, was also nominated for Best Original Song for a Diane Warren ballad.
Q 24Which teenager is the hero of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a winner at the 2019 Oscars?
Miles Morales
Miles Morales carried the film to the first Best Animated Feature win from outside Disney and Pixar since Rango seven years earlier.
Q 25Which Pixar short, the studio's first directed by a woman, won an Oscar at the 2019 ceremony?
Bao
Bao follows a lonely Chinese-Canadian mother whose steamed bun comes to life, giving her a second chance at motherhood.
Q 26Which film beat Avengers: Infinity War to win Best Visual Effects at the 2019 Oscars?
First Man
First Man recreated the Apollo 11 Moon landing for director Damien Chazelle, and visual effects was the only one of its four nominations it won.
Q 27Which Black Panther costume designer became her category's first Black winner at the 2019 Oscars?
Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter had first been nominated for Malcolm X in the early 1990s, and she later won the same award again for the Black Panther sequel.
Q 28Which rapper was nominated for Best Original Song at the 2019 Oscars for a Black Panther track?
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar never got to perform it on the night: of the five nominated songs, his was the only one left out of the ceremony.
Q 29Which trainee teacher with no acting experience earned a 2019 Best Actress Oscar nomination for Roma?
Yalitza Aparicio
Yalitza Aparicio won the role of Cleo just before qualifying as a teacher, and became the first Indigenous American woman nominated for Best Actress.
Q 30Which director of Dumb and Dumber made the Best Picture winner at the 2019 Oscars?
Peter Farrelly
Peter Farrelly took home two Oscars that night, as a producer and a co-writer, without even being nominated for directing the film.