Q 01/05

Which film, shot a few weeks a year for 12 years, was a Best Picture nominee at the 2015 Oscars?

A) Unbroken

B) Boyhood

C) Whiplash

D) Wild

Answer · why

B) Boyhood

Boyhood was nearly called 12 Years, until 12 Years a Slave came out a year earlier and forced director Richard Linklater to rename it.

Q 02/05

Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor at the 2015 Oscars for playing which physicist in The Theory of Everything?

A) Richard Feynman

B) Albert Einstein

C) Stephen Hawking

D) Niels Bohr

Answer · why

C) Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking liked the finished film enough to let its makers use his own synthesised voice, after their attempts to recreate it fell short.

Q 03/05

Which animated hit was left out of Best Animated Feature at the 2015 Oscars, though one of its songs was nominated?

A) The Lego Movie

B) The Book of Life

C) Mr. Peabody & Sherman

D) Penguins of Madagascar

Answer · why

A) The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie's absence was widely called a snub, and the ceremony's host joked about it on air just before the animation award was handed out.

Q 04/05

Which Broadway star presented an award at the 2015 Oscars with John Travolta, a year after he mangled her name on air?

A) Kristin Chenoweth

B) Sutton Foster

C) Lea Michele

D) Idina Menzel

Answer · why

D) Idina Menzel

Idina Menzel got her own back by introducing him under a nonsense name, and later called his slip one of the best things to happen to her career.

Q 05/05

Which dark comedy about a faded superhero actor staging a Broadway play won Best Picture at the 2015 Oscars?

A) Birdman

B) Foxcatcher

C) Nightcrawler

D) Inherent Vice

Answer · why

A) Birdman

Birdman is staged to look like one continuous take, an idea its director had from the start because, as he saw it, people live their lives with no edi...