DONALD CLARKE'Sweekly movie quiz

1 Oscar Hammerstein II is the only Oscar to win which award? (The clue is in the question.)

2 Heath Ledger and Peter Finch are the only two actors to achieve which feat at the Oscars?

3 Which of this week’s Oscars nominees is seen wearing red at the Screen Actors Guild Awards (pictured)?

4 What is both the longest film to win the best picture Oscar and the first in colour to take that honour?

5 What is, this year, happening in the best picture race for the first time since 1943?

6 Who notoriously managed to include mention of “Zionist hoodlums” in her Oscar acceptance speech?

7 Two married couples have won acting Oscars. Name them.

8 Which is the odd one out, and why: The Silence of the Lambs, Mrs Miniver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, It Happened One Night?

9 Which country is missing: Israel, Argentina, Peru and Germany?

10 Three men have directed themselves to an acting Oscar. Charlie Chaplin and Laurence Olivier are two. Who is the third?

ANSWERS

1 An Oscar
2 Winning posthumously
3 Carey Mulligan
4 Gone With The Wind
5 There are 10 nominees for Best Picture
6 Vanessa Redgrave at the 1978 ceremony
7 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Paul Newman and Janne Woodward.
8. Mrs. Miniver. The rest all won the big five awards at the Oscars: best film, best director, best actor, best actress and best screenplay. Mrs Miniver won all except best actor.
9. France. These are the countries nominated for best foreign language picture this year.
10 Roberto Benigni (for Life is Beautiful)