Oscar Love

It's almost time for the Oscars, one of our favorite events of the year. We're pulling for Kate Winslet, who commented at the recent Academy Awards Nominees' Luncheon that she was prepared to lose for the sixth time. But if you've seen her in "The Reader", we think you'll agree with us that she need not worry this year. She's got it.


Take our Oscar Quiz below to test your knowledge of Oscar trivia. The Answers are at the bottom of this post.

1. Name these Oscar winners from 1948.

2. Elizabeth Taylor won two Oscars, one in 1960 for "BUtterfield 8", pictured here with Burt Lancaster who won Best Actor that year for "Elmer Gantry". Name the other movie for which Miss Taylor won an Oscar.


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3. Alice Brady, pictured here with Andy Devine, Don Ameche and Tyrone Power, is the only Oscar-winning actor never to see or touch her Oscar. It was stolen by an imposter who accepted the award for her at the 1938 Oscar ceremony, and Miss Brady died before she could be given a replacement statuette. Name this 1937 movie for which Alice Brady won her Oscar.

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4. And speaking of Don Ameche, (pictured here at the 1986 Oscars with Cher), 49 years after co-starring with Alice Brady in her Oscar winning film, he won his own Oscar in 1986 for what film?












5. Name these Oscar winners from 1962.







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ANSWERS:
1. Darryl F. Zanuck, producer of Best Picture, "Gentlemen's Agreement";
Loretta Young, Best Actress for "A Farmer's Daughter";
Edmund Gwenn, Best Supporting Actor for "Miracle on 34th Street";
Celeste Holm, Best Supporting Actress for "Gentlemen's Agreement";
Ronald Colman, Best Actor for "A Double Life".

2. Elizabeth Taylor won her second Best Actress Oscar for "Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1967.

3. Alice Brady won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "In Old Chicago".

4. Don Ameche won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Cocoon".

5. Rita Moreno, Best Supporting Actress for "West Side Story";
George Chakiris, Best Supporting Actor for "West Side Story";
Greer Garson accepted the Best Actress Oscar for an absent Sophia Loren, who won for "La Ciociara" (Two Women);
Maximilian Schell, Best Actor for "Judgment at Nuremberg".