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- Multiple Choice
1. Which 1990s Academy Award winner swept the "Top Five" Oscars: Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay?
1991's Best Picture "The Silence of the Lambs" is just the third film (and the last to do so) in Oscars history to sweep the Academy Awards' "Top Five." Stars Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster won Best Actor and Actress, respectively. And director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Ted Tally took home Oscars in their respective categories.
- Multiple Choice
2. Whose surprise 1993 Best Supporting Actress win was wrongly attributed to presenter Jack Palance reading the wrong name?
Thirty years on, some still believe that Vanessa Redgrave was the true winner, for her work in "Howards End" (1992). This theory hinges on the (easily disproven) idea that presenter Jack Palance (the previous year's winner for Best Supporting Actor) simply read the last name on the Teleprompter: Marisa Tomei.
- Multiple Choice
3. Which filmmaker won two Best Director Oscars during the 1990s?
Steven Spielberg won Oscars for directing 1993's "Schindler's List" and 1998's "Saving Private Ryan."
- Multiple Choice
4. What film nabbed composer John Williams his only Oscar of the 1990s out of twelve nominations?
During the 1990s, John Williams received nine Oscar nominations for Best Original Score and shared three nominations for Best Original Song. His only win, however, was for his score for "Schindler's List" (1993).
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5. Which Best Picture winner of the 1990s did NOT also score a statuette for its director?
"Shakespeare in Love" won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1998. However, director John Madden lost the Best Director Oscar to Steven Spielberg for "Saving Private Ryan."
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