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 show honored films released in 2022 and handed out Oscars in 23 categories. It aired on ABC in the United States.
Q 02Which Hollywood venue hosted the 2023 Oscars ceremony?
Dolby Theatre
The Dolby Theatre has hosted the Oscars since 2002, when it opened as the Kodak Theatre.
Q 03Which comedian hosted the 2023 Oscars, his third time in the job?
Jimmy Kimmel
He had previously hosted the 89th and 90th ceremonies, including the year of the La La Land / Moonlight envelope mix-up.
Q 04Before 2023, the host had already presided over the Oscars in which two consecutive years?
2017 and 2018
Those were the 89th and 90th ceremonies. In his 2023 press release he joked that being asked back was 'either a great honor or a trap'.
Q 05Which film won Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars?
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The multiverse comedy-drama swept the night, becoming only the third film ever to win three acting Oscars.
Q 06How many Oscars did the Best Picture winner take home in 2023?
Seven
It won Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay and Film Editing, converting well over half of its nominations.
Q 07How many nominations did the 2023 Best Picture winner receive, the most of any film that year?
Eleven
Its two closest rivals, a German war remake and an Irish black comedy, tied for second with nine apiece.
Q 08The 2023 Best Picture winner was the first film of which genre to win the top prize?
Science fiction
The Academy had never before given its top prize to a sci-fi film, despite nominees such as Star Wars, E.T. and Arrival.
Q 09The 2023 Best Picture winner was the third film to win three acting Oscars. Which was one of the other two?
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
It capped a widely celebrated comeback. Director Darren Aronofsky said he had spent a decade searching for the right actor for the role.
Q 11The 2023 Best Actor winner became the first person from which country to win the category?
Canada
He was born in Indianapolis to Canadian parents and holds dual citizenship. 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
It was her first Oscar nomination and win, at 64, decades after her 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
Both parents were Oscar nominees but neither won; Leigh was nominated for Psycho and Curtis for The Defiant Ones.
Q 23The 2023 Best Director winners were only the ___ pair of directors to win for the same film.
Third
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as the Daniels, followed Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story) and the Coen brothers (No Country for Old Men).
Cruise's fighter-jet sequel earned six nominations, but none for its star. 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
The Malaysian star's win made her the first Asian winner of Best Actress. She was 60 at the time.
Q 15The 2023 Best Actress winner was the second woman of color to win it. Who was the first?
Halle Berry
Berry won in 2002 for Monster's Ball, and she was one of 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
The film's distributor ran no conventional campaign; instead its director and his wife rallied celebrities to host screenings and post online. The Academy kept the nomination but rewrote its rules that May.
Q 18Who won Best Supporting Actor at the 2023 Oscars for playing Waymond Wang?
Ke Huy Quan
His tearful speech, which opened with 'Mom, I just won an Oscar!', came after a 19-year break from acting.
Q 19The 2023 Best Supporting Actor winner was the first Oscar winner from which country?
Vietnam
His family came to the United States as refugees. He was only the second Asian winner in the category, after Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields.
Q 20The 2023 Best Supporting Actor winner played Short Round as a child in which 1984 film?
Temple of Doom
He was cast at 13 after auditions at his elementary school, then played Data in The Goonies a year later. His Oscar came on the same night his old co-star from that film handed out Best Picture.
Q 24Before their Oscar-winning film, the Daniels were best known for the video to which 2013 hit?
Turn Down for What
The DJ Snake and Lil Jon video earned them a Grammy nomination. Their feature debut was 2016's Swiss Army Man, starring Daniel Radcliffe as a flatulent corpse.
Q 25Which studio distributed the 2023 Best Picture winner, then its highest-grossing film?
A24
The film grossed about $143M worldwide on a budget under $25M after opening in just ten theaters.
Q 26Which German-language war film won Best International Feature at the 2023 Oscars?
All Quiet on the Western Front
Netflix's adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel also won seven BAFTAs including Best Film. It was 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
It added Cinematography, Original Score and Production Design to its International Feature win, second only to the Best Picture winner's haul.
Q 28The Banshees of Inisherin tied for second with nine nominations in 2023. How many Oscars did it win?
None
Despite four acting nominations, it went home empty-handed. Its 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
Bertelmann also records as Hauschka. He beat 90-year-old John Williams, the oldest competitive nominee in Oscar history.
Q 30At 90, John Williams became the oldest competitive Oscar nominee ever for scoring which film?
The Fabelmans
It was his 53rd nomination, a record for any living person, and came for Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical drama about his childhood.