60 free Oscars 2024 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The 96th Academy Awards, on March 10, 2024, closed out the year of Barbenheimer. Oppenheimer won seven Oscars including Best Picture, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. took both male acting prizes, Emma Stone won her second Best Actress statuette, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph completed a season-long sweep. Ryan Gosling sang 'I'm Just Ken' with 62 Kens, John Cena presented Costume Design apparently naked, and Al Pacino announced the winner without reading the nominees. This quiz covers the whole night: every major winner, the records and firsts (Lily Gladstone, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Billie Eilish), the international and documentary winners from Britain, Japan and Ukraine, the presenters and performances, the honorary awards, the ratings, and the new inclusion rules that took effect that year. 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 96th Academy Awards ceremony held?
March 10, 2024
The show started an hour earlier than usual, at 4 p.m. Pacific, so the big awards would land before East Coast viewers went to bed.
Q 02Which film won Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars?
Oppenheimer
Nolan's atomic-bomb biopic converted more than half of its nominations and became the highest-grossing Best Picture winner in two decades.
Q 03How many Oscars did the 2024 Best Picture winner take home?
Seven
It won Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Film Editing and Original Score.
Q 04How many nominations did the 2024 Best Picture winner receive, the most of any film that year?
13
Poor Things was second with eleven and Killers of the Flower Moon third with ten. Killers went home with nothing.
Q 05Which comedian hosted the 2024 Oscars for the fourth time?
Jimmy Kimmel
His wife Molly McNearney co-produced the show. He joked in a press release that he had 'always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times'.
Q 06Who won Best Actor at the 2024 Oscars for playing the physicist behind the atomic bomb?
Cillian Murphy
It was his first nomination after six films with Nolan, including the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception.
Q 07Who won Best Actress at the 2024 Oscars for playing the reanimated Bella Baxter in Poor Things?
Emma Stone
It was her second Best Actress win after La La Land, and she was also nominated as a producer of the film.
Q 08Which 2016 musical earned the 2024 Best Actress winner her first Oscar?
La La Land
She had also been nominated for Birdman and The Favourite, her first film with Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Q 09Who won Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Oscars for playing Lewis Strauss?
Robert Downey Jr.
It was his third nomination and first win, 31 years after his first nod for playing Charlie Chaplin.
Q 10The 2024 Best Supporting Actor winner was earlier nominated for Chaplin and which 2008 comedy?
Tropic Thunder
He played an Australian method actor who undergoes surgery to play a Black soldier, a role that earned a supporting nomination.
Q 11Who won Best Supporting Actress at the 2024 Oscars for playing grieving school cook Mary Lamb?
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Her role in The Holdovers swept the season, taking the Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG award before the Oscar.
Q 12The Holdovers is set at a New England boarding school in which year?
1970
Alexander Payne shot it to look like a film of that era, and Paul Giamatti's grumpy classics teacher earned a Best Actor nomination.
Q 13The 2024 Best Picture winner was the first to also win both male acting awards since which 1959 film?
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur's Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith did it in 1960. Both of the 2024 winners had never won before.
Q 21How many actors dressed as Ken backed Ryan Gosling's 2024 Oscars performance?
62
Guitarists Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen also appeared. Choreographer Mandy Moore, of La La Land, staged it.
Q 22Which 2024 Oscar winner was the first non-English-language British film to win Best International Feature?
The Zone of Interest
Glazer's Auschwitz drama, filmed in German, Polish and Yiddish, also won Best Sound.
Q 23The 2024 Best International Feature winner follows the family of which real Auschwitz commandant?
Rudolf Höss
It was loosely based on Martin Amis's 2014 novel; Sandra Hüller played his wife Hedwig, tending a garden beside the camp wall.
Q 14Who won Best Director at the 2024 Oscars, after earlier nominations for Memento and Inception?
Christopher Nolan
Steven Spielberg presented the award. Nolan also shared the Best Picture prize with his wife and producing partner Emma Thomas.
Q 15At 81, who became the oldest Best Director nominee in Oscar history in 2024?
Martin Scorsese
His Killers of the Flower Moon earned ten nominations, including Robert De Niro's first in 32 years, and won none.
Q 16Which 2024 nominee became the first US-born Native American person nominated for Best Actress?
Lily Gladstone
She played Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose family is murdered for oil money, in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Q 17De Niro's 2024 nomination set the record gap between a first and latest Oscar nomination. How many years?
49
His first was for The Godfather Part II in 1975. He was nominated for playing cattleman William King Hale.
Q 18Which song won Best Original Song at the 2024 Oscars?
What Was I Made For?
The Billie Eilish ballad beat the film's own 'I'm Just Ken', which Ryan Gosling performed on the night with 62 Kens.
Q 19Billie Eilish became the youngest person to win two Oscars in 2024. Her first was for which film's theme?
No Time to Die
She was 22. Both wins were shared with her brother and co-writer Finneas O'Connell.
Q 20Ryan Gosling's 2024 performance of 'I'm Just Ken' paid homage to a number from which classic film?
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The staging echoed 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend', with cameos from Slash, Wolfgang Van Halen and his fellow Kens Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa.
Q 24Which two 2024 winners were the first non-English films to win Best Sound and Best Visual Effects?
The Zone of Interest and Godzilla Minus One
The Japanese kaiju film's effects team, led by director Takashi Yamazaki, worked on a reported budget of about $10M.
Q 25Which Japanese film won Best Visual Effects at the 2024 Oscars, reputedly made for around $10M?
Godzilla Minus One
Its director Takashi Yamazaki also supervised the effects; between a quarter and a third of the budget went on VFX.
Q 26Which film won Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Oscars?
The Boy and the Heron
Hayao Miyazaki's first film since coming out of retirement took about seven years to make. He did not attend the ceremony.
Q 27Which French courtroom drama won Best Original Screenplay in 2024 after taking the Palme d'Or at Cannes?
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari's script also won the Palm Dog for Messi the border collie, who attended the Oscars.
Q 28Cord Jefferson won Best Adapted Screenplay in 2024 for American Fiction, based on which Percival Everett novel?
Erasure
Jeffrey Wright's frustrated novelist writes a deliberately stereotyped book as a joke and watches it become a hit.
Q 29Which Ukrainian film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2024 Oscars?
20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov's footage was shot with a news-agency team during the first weeks of the Russian invasion. Ukraine had originally submitted it for International Feature.
Q 30Which US news organisation's journalists filmed the 2024 Best Documentary Feature winner?
Associated Press
The footage was compiled with PBS's Frontline. Chernov said in his speech he wished he had never had to make the film.