Oscars 2023 Trivia
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60 free Oscars 2023 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The 95th Academy Awards, held on March 12, 2023, were the night the multiverse won. Everything Everywhere All at Once took seven Oscars including Best Picture, Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian Best Actress, Ke Huy Quan completed a comeback four decades after Temple of Doom, and Brendan Fraser wept his way through a Best Actor speech. Naatu Naatu became the first Indian song to win, and the red carpet was, for the first time since 1960, not red. This quiz covers the whole ceremony: every major winner, the records and firsts, the nominees who went home empty-handed, the performances, the honorary awards, the Andrea Riseborough campaign controversy, the ratings, and the small moments Oscar obsessives remember. Questions run from easy warm-ups to details only awards-season diehards will know. Every answer was checked against the Academy's own results as recorded on Wikipedia and the winners' own pages, so you can use it for a movie night, a pub quiz round or a pre-Oscars party without worrying about a wrong answer.
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Q 01On what date was the 95th Academy Awards ceremony held?
March 12, 2023
The 95th Academy Awards took place on March 12, 2023, honoring films released in 2022 and handing out Oscars in 23 categories in a ceremony broadcast on ABC.
Q 02Which Hollywood venue hosted the 2023 Oscars ceremony?
Dolby Theatre
The Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard opened as the Kodak Theatre in November 2001 and has been the Oscars' home since the March 2002 ceremony.
Q 03Which comedian hosted the 2023 Oscars, his third time in the job?
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 95th Academy Awards, returning after two earlier back-to-back ceremonies, one of which ended with the La La Land / Moonlight Best Picture envelope mix-up.
Q 04Before 2023, the host had already presided over the Oscars in which two consecutive years?
2017 and 2018
The host's earlier stints were 2017 and 2018, the 89th and 90th ceremonies; the first of them ended with the La La Land / Moonlight Best Picture envelope mix-up.
Q 05Which film won Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars?
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture at the 95th Academy Awards, the multiverse comedy-drama also taking Best Director for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
Q 06How many Oscars did the Best Picture winner take home in 2023?
Seven
Seven Oscars went to the Best Picture winner: Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay and Film Editing, the most of the night.
Q 07How many nominations did the 2023 Best Picture winner receive, the most of any film that year?
Eleven
Eleven nominations went to the Best Picture winner, the most of the year; its two closest rivals, a Netflix remake and an Irish black comedy, had nine each.
Q 08The 2023 Best Picture winner was the first film of which genre to win the top prize?
Science fiction
Science fiction had never taken Best Picture before the 2023 winner; earlier sci-fi nominees such as Star Wars, E.T. and Arrival all lost the top prize.
Q 09Which of these films also won three acting Oscars, like the 2023 Best Picture winner?
Network
The other was A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Network's three wins in 1977 included a posthumous Best Actor for Peter Finch.
Q 10Who won Best Actor at the 2023 Oscars for playing a reclusive, 600-pound English teacher in The Whale?
Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for The Whale, capping a celebrated comeback; director Darren Aronofsky said he had spent a decade searching for the right actor to play Charlie.
Q 11The 2023 Best Actor winner became the first person from which country to win the category?
Canada
Canada got its first Best Actor winner: born in Indianapolis to Canadian parents, he holds dual citizenship, and Aronofsky cast him after seeing a trailer for an obscure Brazilian film.
Q 12For the first time since 1935, all five 2023 Best Actor nominees shared what distinction?
None had been nominated before
The field was Fraser, Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy, none of whom had been nominated before.
Q 13Which of these actors was NOT nominated for Best Actor at the 2023 Oscars?
Tom Cruise
Q 21Who won Best Supporting Actress at the 2023 Oscars for playing IRS auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdre?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress on her first nomination, at 64, decades after her 1978 Halloween debut made her a scream queen.
Q 22The 2023 Best Supporting Actress winner is the daughter of Janet Leigh and which actor?
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh were both Oscar nominees but neither won; Leigh was nominated for Psycho and Curtis for The Defiant Ones.
Q 23The 2023 Best Director winners were which-numbered pair of directors to win for one film?
Third
Third such pair: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the Daniels, followed Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story and the Coen brothers for No Country for Old Men.
Tom Cruise was passed over even though his fighter-jet sequel earned six nominations; Mescal was recognized for Aftersun and Nighy for Living.
Q 14Who won Best Actress at the 2023 Oscars for playing laundromat owner Evelyn Quan Wang?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh, the Malaysian star, became the first Asian winner of Best Actress at 60 for playing laundromat owner Evelyn in the multiverse comedy-drama.
Q 15Who was the first woman of color to win Best Actress, before the 2023 winner?
Halle Berry
Halle Berry won Best Actress in 2002 for Monster's Ball, the first woman of color to do so, and she was among the presenters of the lead acting awards in 2023.
Q 16Ana de Armas earned a 2023 Best Actress nomination for Blonde, playing which figure?
Marilyn Monroe
Blonde was Netflix's fictionalised take on Marilyn Monroe's life. De Armas was the only nominee from a streaming-first release in the category.
Q 17Whose surprise 2023 Best Actress nod for To Leslie triggered an Academy review of campaigning?
Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Riseborough's nomination for To Leslie followed no conventional campaign; the film's director and his wife rallied celebrities to host screenings and post online, and the Academy reviewed but kept the nomination.
Q 18Who won Best Supporting Actor at the 2023 Oscars for playing Waymond Wang?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor for Waymond Wang, opening his tearful speech with 'Mom, I just won an Oscar!' after roughly two decades away from acting.
Q 19The 2023 Best Supporting Actor winner was the first Oscar winner from which country?
Vietnam
Vietnam-born, he came to the United States as a refugee and became the first Vietnamese-born actor to win an Oscar, only the second Asian winner of the category after Haing S. Ngor.
Q 20The 2023 Best Supporting Actor winner played Short Round as a child in which 1984 film?
Temple of Doom
Temple of Doom, shot in 1983, cast him as Short Round after he tagged along to his brother's audition; he played Data in The Goonies the following year.
Q 24Before their Oscar-winning film, the Daniels were best known for the video to which 2013 hit?
Turn Down for What
Turn Down for What, the DJ Snake and Lil Jon video, earned the Daniels a Grammy nomination; their feature debut was 2016's Swiss Army Man, with Daniel Radcliffe as a flatulent corpse.
Q 25Which studio distributed the 2023 Best Picture winner, then its highest-grossing film?
A24
A24 released the film, which grossed about $143 million worldwide on a budget under $25 million after opening in just ten theaters, then the studio's biggest hit.
Q 26Which film won Best International Feature at the 2023 Oscars?
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front, Netflix's adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel, was also named Best Film at the BAFTAs, Germany's first win in the category since The Lives of Others.
Q 27How many Oscars did the 2023 Best International Feature winner take home in total?
Four
Four Oscars in total: it added Cinematography, Original Score and Production Design to its International Feature win, second only to the Best Picture winner's haul.
Q 28How many Oscars did The Banshees of Inisherin win from its nine 2023 nominations?
None
None: despite acting nominations for Farrell, Gleeson, Condon and Keoghan, it went home empty-handed, though writer-director Martin McDonagh already owned an Oscar for the short Six Shooter.
Q 29Which composer won Best Original Score in 2023 for the German First World War film?
Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann, who also records as Hauschka, won for the German war film's score, beating 90-year-old John Williams, then the oldest competitive nominee in Oscar history.
Q 30John Williams' 2023 Best Original Score nomination, at age 90, was for which film?
The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical drama about his childhood, brought Williams his 53rd nomination and made him, at 90, the oldest competitive nominee in Oscar history to that point.