Oscars at the Oscars by CunninghamJ

With Academy Awards for his contributions to the musicals Lady Be Good (1941) and State Fair (1945), who is the only Oscar winner named Oscar?

Angela Lansbury’s second of three Oscar nominations was for a role in a 1945 adaptation of which Oscar Wilde work? The film was also nominated for its ornate art direction and stylized cinematography.

Although the actors Oskar Homolka, Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Ellen Corby were all nominated for their roles in I Remember Mama (1948), the film was not nominated for Best Picture.

Three other films have earned four acting nominations without a Best Picture nod: a 1936 screwball comedy, a 1965 Shakespeare adaptation, and a 2008 religious drama. Name any of them.

Name the actor and musician who costarred with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the 1951 Best Picture winner An American in Paris, playing the role of struggling pianist Adam Cook.

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Oscar Millard earned a writing nomination for a 1951 film that starred Richard Widmark as the commander of a U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team. The film’s title comes from what amphibious nickname for these and related military personnel?

Edmond O'Brien is the only person to have won an Oscar for playing a character named Oscar. For which 1954 film did his portrayal of Oscar Muldoon (the title character's publicist) win him the gold?

The film is also the namesake of a specialty food store once owned by chef Ina Garten.

Oscar Brodney was nominated for co-writing the screenplay of The Glenn Miller Story (1954). In the film, the title of one of Miller’s biggest hits derives from the telephone number at a house where the bandleader is staying. In real life, the number belonged to a New York hotel where Miller often performed.

What seven digits make up that number (which the hotel continues to use today)?

Neil Simon earned an Academy Award nomination for adapting his play The Odd Couple into a 1968 movie. Who originated the role of Oscar Madison (the slovenly half of the couple) on both stage and screen?

Name the jazz pianist who recorded this 1969 collection of Academy Award-winning songs (image slightly modified).

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Name the actor obscured in this 1986 photo from the Academy Awards, where he was nominated for his role as bank robber Oscar “Manny” Manheim.

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The 1992 Best Original Song nominee "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" (performed on screen by Antonio Banderas) was featured in an adaptation of a novel by Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos. Name the film.

As dramatized in 1993 Best Picture winner Schindler’s List, Oskar Schindler protected Jewish workers at his factories, first in Kraków, Poland, and later in Brněnec (Brünnlitz), in what is now the Czech Republic.

Name either of the products that were manufactured at these two factories.

Complete the chronological list of films for which Australian costume designer Janet Patterson received Academy Award nominations:

The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady, _________________, Bright Star

From this excerpt of the menu for the 2000 Governors Ball (the official Oscars after-party), fill in the blank with two words:

Roasted __________ with Sweet Maine Lobster, Asparagus and Sauce Choron

The dish in question was named not for the occasion but for a Swedish king.

During the Oscars ceremony in February 2015, who tweeted this?

"Playing music to get someone off the stage would work a lot better if it involved pots and pans. That’d make ’em scram."

At the Academy Awards ceremony in March 2018, who rolled out to present Best Animated Short with his human costars Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill, and Kelly Marie Tran?