As movie stars and filmmakers compete for Oscar gold, Rebellious Magazine challenges your Academy Award knowledge with this silver screen test.
1) If she’s victorious for Anora, 25-year-old Mikey Madison will be Oscar’s third youngest Best Actress recipient. What two ingénues were younger than her when they were named Best Actress?
2) What do Best Actress nominee Fernanda (I’m Still Here) Torres and Best Supporting Actress Isabella (Conclave) Rossellini have in common?
3) Rossellini’s nomination is for a 7-minute and 51-second performance. What two actresses won an Academy Award with less screen time?
4) French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat scored an Original Screenplay nomination as well as the coveted Best Director nomination for The Substance. In 97 years, the Academy has only recognized eight women in this category, and it wasn’t until the 21st century that a mere three received the prize. Who are the only women to win an Oscar for Best Director? Note: each is from a different country. Bonus points for listing their native lands.
5) After the initial Oscars were held off camera in 1929, the ceremony was broadcast on radio in 1930 and first televised in 1953. When will the 97th Academy Awards take place and where can it be seen?
Oscar Trivia: Katharine Hepburn is the only person to win four Best Actress Academy Awards. She picked up the gold for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). These prizes are on display at the Smithsonian.
And the answers are…
1) Jennifer Lawrence was named Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook (2012) when she was 22, while Marlee Matlin was only 21 when she won Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God (1986).
2) Torres and Rossellini both follow in their mothers’ footsteps since the former’s madre Fernanda Montenegro was nominated for Best Actress for Central Station (1998) and the latter’s mor Ingrid Bergman was nominated 7 times — winning Best Actress for Gaslight (1944) and Anastasia (1956), and Best Supporting Actress for her 17-minute performance in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). If Rossellini is triumphant, she and Bergman will be the only mother-daughter duo to each win Academy Awards for acting.
3) The Best Supporting Actress winners with the briefest screen times are Judi Dench for 1999’s Shakespeare in Love (5 minutes, 52 seconds) and Beatrice Straight for 1977’s Network (5 minutes, 2 seconds).
4) The three women who won Best Director are American filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008); Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao for Nomadland (2020); and New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog (2021). Campion was previously nominated for The Piano (1993). To date, she is the only woman to receive two Best Director nominations.
5) Conan O’Brien will host the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2 at 6 pm CDT on ABC at abc.com.
