Friday, February 18, 2011

Today's Oscar Trivia #18

Oscar ♥ New York While Hollywood's on the other coast, it seems that New York is the setting for more Oscar-nominated films than any other city. What 1949 musical about sailors on the loose in the Big Apple won the award for Best Scoring?

The Most Writing Wins Four people share the record for writing Oscars, with three each. Three of the writers are Francis Ford Coppola, Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett; who is the fourth? (Hint: He wrote the 1955 Marty.)

The Most Best Actor Nominations Jack Nicholson has the most acting nominations for a male (12), including both lead and supporting roles. But another actor holds the record for most Best Actor nominations (nine, winning twice). Name him.

4 comments:

Uncle Tom said...

the answer to number one is "On the Town" -

or perhanps its King Kong - after all, he was just a sailor in NYC on leave looking for a good time.

Erik Beck said...

Number two is Paddy Chayefsky, who won for Marty, The Hospital and Network.

Will someone let TCM know that that the answer to number three is obviously Spencer Tracy, but that Laurence Olivier was also nominated as a lead nine times?

Mythical Monkey said...

or perhaps its King Kong - after all, he was just a sailor in NYC on leave looking for a good time.

And judging from this pic, it looks like he found it, too!

Mythical Monkey said...

Laurence Olivier was also nominated as a lead nine times

TCM's quiz is a bit sloppy at times.

Still, we love them.