| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $400: Best Actor, 2012, for "Lincoln" Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $800: Best picture, 2019, starring Song Kang Ho & Cho Yeo Jeong Parasite |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $1200: Best Supporting Actor, 2019, for "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Brad Pitt |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $1600: Best Supporting Actress, 1973, for "Paper Moon" Tatum O'Neal |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $2000: Best Director, 2014, for "Birdman" & 2015, for "The Revenant" (González) Iñárritu |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $200: Reese Witherspoon won for her work in "Walk the Line" playing this country music singer & songwriter June Carter Cash |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: 17 Best Actress nominations & 2 wins puts Meryl Streep in a class by herself, with her last win so far for playing this political leader Margaret Thatcher |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $600: The ayes had it for Jessica Chastain in 2022 for her Best Actress-winning role in this movie about TV evangelists The Eyes of Tammy Faye |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1000: In 2002, Halle Berry made history taking the Best Actress award for her role as a grieving mother in this film Monster's Ball |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 1997, picking up her first of 3 Oscars for Best Actress, she thanked her son Pedro & her husband Joel Frances McDormand |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $400: On the small screen, he starred in "Moon Knight"; on the big screen, "The Force Awakens" & "Inside Llewyn Davis", among others Oscar Isaac |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $800: He co-wrote the musicals "Show Boat" & "The King & I" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $1200: This mobster worked with Bugsy Siegel & Lucky Luciano among others Meyer Lansky |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $1600: This industrialist's son Solomon founded a famous New York City museum Meyer Guggenheim |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $2000: Best known for his science of cybernetics, this math professor graduated from college in 1909 at age 14 Norbert Wiener |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $400: 2010:
Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook" The Social Network |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $800: 2008:
Simon Beaufoy, from the novel "Q & A" by Vikas Swarup Slumdog Millionaire |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $1200: 1950:
Joseph Mankiewicz, from the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $2000: 1983:
James L. Brooks, from the novel by Larry McMurtry Terms of Endearment |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $5,400 (Daily Double): 1976:
William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President's Men |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $400: In 1954 "Shane" got the award for Color this; "From Here to Eternity", for Black & White Cinematography |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $800: Best Song of 1964 went to this one about someone "as lucky as lucky can be" "Chim Chim Cher-ee" (from Mary Poppins) |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1200: Roy Pomeroy won an engineering effects Oscar for his work on this 1927 war film, 2 years after its release Wings |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1600: In 1937 an honorary Oscar was named for this MGM "boy wonder" who died young, & oh--the building named for him is not far (Irving G.) Thalberg |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $2000: In 1975 John Wayne presented an honorary Oscar to this alliterative man who had directed him in "Red River" & "Rio Bravo" Hawks |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ACTING THE OSCAR-WINNING PART $400: Channeling Judy Garland in "Judy" (Renée) Zellweger |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ACTING THE OSCAR-WINNING PART $800: Making dreams come true as Effie White in "Dreamgirls" Jennifer Hudson |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ACTING THE OSCAR-WINNING PART $1200: The MC welcoming us "Im Cabaret,
au Cabaret,
to Cabaret" Joel Grey |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ACTING THE OSCAR-WINNING PART $1600: The charismatic Fred Hampton in "Judas & the Black Messiah" Daniel Kaluuya |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ACTING THE OSCAR-WINNING PART $2000: Karen Crowder, trying to fix the fixer in "Michael Clayton" Tilda Swinton |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: As a teen in Arizona he wrote & directed a sci-fi film called "Firelight", a precursor to "Close Encounters" Steven Spielberg |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Once upon a time at his Kickapoo High School in Missouri, he was on the student council & was also voted Best Dressed Brad Pitt |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1200: She knew acting was her calling after playing Lady Macbeth in a high school production Frances McDormand |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: Here a few years away from serving in Vietnam, he used those experiences to shape some of his films like "Platoon" Oliver Stone |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: He could have been a contender for class clown & incorrigible, so much so that his father sent him away to military school (Marlon) Brando |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING WOMEN $400: At the awards in 2013, she not only sang "Skyfall", she also won an Oscar for it Adele |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING WOMEN $800: For her Afro-futuristic fashions in this Marvel film, Ruth E. Carter became the first Black woman to win for Costume Design Black Panther |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING WOMEN $1200: In the '90s she won for her lead role in "Howards End" & also for Adapted Screenplay for "Sense and Sensibility" Emma Thompson |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING WOMEN $1600: In 2022, all eyes were on this actress as she picked up the prize for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" Jessica Chastain |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING WOMEN $2000: She was home in Rome when Cary Grant called to let her know she had won Best Actress for "Two Women" Sophia Loren |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | THE OSCAR-WINNING FORMULA $200: Tom Hanks
+ a feather
x history Forrest Gump |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | THE OSCAR-WINNING FORMULA $400: Jean Dujardin
+ Bérénice Bejo
- audible conversations The Artist |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | THE OSCAR-WINNING FORMULA $600: Dustin Hoffman
+ Meryl Streep
÷ divorce Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | THE OSCAR-WINNING FORMULA $800: Matt Dillon
+ Thandiwe Newton
+ Los Angeles
÷ bigotry Crash |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | THE OSCAR-WINNING FORMULA $1000: Claudette Colbert
+ Clark Gable
- an undershirt It Happened One Night |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $200: She's the only host of "The View" who can boast of being an Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $400: He & his daughter Corinne joined forces to host a musical game show called "Beat Shazam" Jamie Foxx |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $600: On "Alaska Daily", she plays a journalist who looks into the disappearance & murders of indigenous women (Hilary) Swank |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $800: In 2022, she took on the role of Dottie, matriarch of a country music dynasty on "Monarch" (Susan) Sarandon |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1000: Angelina Jolie's dad in real life, he played Liev Schreiber's dad on "Ray Donovan" Jon Voight |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $400: Mork from Ork Robin Williams |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $800: Godmother on "Fleabag" Olivia Colman |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $1200: Elliot Alderson on "Mr. Robot" Rami Malek |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $1600: Real-life crime boss Bumpy Johnson on "Godfather of Harlem" Forest Whitaker |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $2000: In full prosthetic makeup, convicted killer Pam Hupp in 2022's "The Thing About Pam" Renée Zellweger |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $400: He won Best Song Score for "Purple Rain" Prince |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $800: Eminem won for the song "Lose Yourself" from this film 8 Mile |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $1200: This comedian was u'nique when she won Best Supporting Actress for "Precious" Mo'Nique |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $1600: One-named designer Renié won for Costume Design on this 1963 film about a one-named Egyptian lady Cleopatra |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Greek composer Vangelis ran away with his Oscar for this Olympics-centered film Chariots of Fire |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $200: 1990:
"Dances with Wolves" danced away with a win for him Kevin Costner |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $400: 1998:
"Saving Private Ryan" won the war for this man Spielberg |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $600: 2006:
"The Departed" gave him his long-anticipated Oscar Scorsese |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $800: 1989:
This director cruised to victory for "Born on the Fourth of July" (Oliver) Stone |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $1,000 (Daily Double): 2012:
There are more letters in "Life of Pi" than in his name Ang Lee |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: 2018:
"Shallow", co-written by Lady Gaga A Star is Born |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: 2002:
"Lose Yourself" 8 Mile |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1200: 1987: "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life", sung by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes Dirty Dancing |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1600: 1972: "The Morning After", from this disaster film The Poseidon Adventure |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: "Thanks For The Memory", from "The Big" this "of 1938" Broadcast |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | & THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $400: Tommy Lee Jones, for doing the pursuing in this movie The Fugitive |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | & THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $800: Jared Leto, as Rayon in this 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | & THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $1200: This man, as Juan in "Moonlight" (Mahershala) Ali |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | & THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $1600: Jason Robards, as this newspaper editor in "All the President's Men" Bradlee |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | & THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $2000: Martin Landau, as this real-life actor in "Ed Wood" (Bela) Lugosi |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $400: When she won for "Tootsie", Jessica Lange said she felt real lucky to have this man "as my leading lady" Hoffman |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $1200: In 2021 this "Nomadland" Best Director quoted a Chinese work that begins, "People at birth are inherently good" (Chloé) Zhao |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $1600: Winning for this "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" character, Louise Fletcher said, "I've loved being hated by you" Nurse Ratched |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $2000: In 1952 he said, "It's a very long way from the heart of the Belgian Congo to the stage of the Pantages Theater" Humphrey Bogart |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $3,000 (Daily Double): This "Moonstruck" actress said, "Okay, Michael, let's go!" referring to her cousin running for president Olympia Dukakis |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HE WON AN OSCAR PLAYING A REAL PERSON $400: Eddie Redmayne as him in "The Theory of Everything" Stephen Hawking |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HE WON AN OSCAR PLAYING A REAL PERSON $800: Jamie Foxx as this R&B legend Ray Charles |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HE WON AN OSCAR PLAYING A REAL PERSON $1200: Him as the title guy in "Capote" (Philip Seymour) Hoffman |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HE WON AN OSCAR PLAYING A REAL PERSON $1600: Forest Whitaker as this Ugandan dictator in "The Last King of Scotland" Idi Amin |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HE WON AN OSCAR PLAYING A REAL PERSON $2000: Jeremy Irons as this hubby of Sunny in "Reversal of Fortune" Claus von Bülow |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $400: "Wall Street" & "Behind the Candelabra" Michael Douglas |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $600: "Shakespeare in Love" & "Glee" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $800: "The Reader" & "Mildred Pierce" on HBO Kate Winslet |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $1000: "Monster's Ball" & "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" (Halle) Berry |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $200: Julia Roberts as this activist Erin Brockovich |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: Marion Cotillard as this chanteuse Edith Piaf |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $600: Diane Keaton as this title New York City resident Annie Hall |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: Jodie Foster as this G-woman in training Clarice Starling |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1000: Anne Bancroft as this pioneer in education of the deaf Annie Sullivan |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | SINGING FOR YOUR OSCAR $400: "I Dreamed A Dream" in "Les Miserables" Anne Hathaway |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | SINGING FOR YOUR OSCAR $800: "All That Jazz" in "Chicago" Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | SINGING FOR YOUR OSCAR $1200: "The Weary Kind" in "Crazy Heart" Jeff Bridges |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | SINGING FOR YOUR OSCAR $1600: "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" in "La La Land" Emma Stone |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | SINGING FOR YOUR OSCAR $2000: "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" in "My Fair Lady" Rex Harrison |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS $400: Best Actress: "The Client" (1994) & "Dead Man Walking" (1995) Susan Sarandon |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS $800: Best Director: "Mystic River" (2004) & Best Actor: "Million Dollar Baby" (2005) Clint Eastwood |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS $1200: Best Supporting Actress: "The Help" (2011) & Best Actress: "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012) Jessica Chastain |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS $1600: Best Original Song: "You've Got A Friend In Me" from "Toy Story" (1995) & Best Original Musical Score: "James & the Giant Peach" (1996) Randy Newman |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS $2000: Best Actor: "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012) & Best Supporting Actor: "American Hustle" (2013) Bradley Cooper |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $200: John Avildsen may have been an underdog, but he won a directing Oscar for this 1976 Sylvester Stallone movie Rocky |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $400: To win a 2000 Oscar in this movie, Russell Crowe played a real blood sport Gladiator |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $600: He won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as real-life champ Jake LaMotta in 1980's "Raging Bull" De Niro |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $800: This Swank-y 2004 film fought its way to Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actress & Supporting Actor Million Dollar Baby |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $1000: Punchy pug Marlon Brando brawled his way to a Best Actor Oscar in this 1954 classic On the Waterfront |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $400: New Zealand-born Russell Crowe received 3 straight Best Actor nominations, winning in 2001 for this film Gladiator |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Welsh-born man won a Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Fighter" Christian Bale |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1200: Born in Vienna, he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Col. Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds" Christoph Waltz |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1600: Though born in Sweden, she won an Oscar for her supporting role in 2015's "The Danish Girl" Alicia Vikander |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Jean Dujardin didn't have much to say in becoming the first Frenchman to win Best Actor, for this 2011 film The Artist |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $400: The only Oscar-winning vehicle for this duo, Stan & Ollie, was the 1932 short film "The Music Box" Laurel and Hardy |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $800: Starring Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight, it's the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $1200: The only statuette made of this was a special award to Edgar Bergen, in honor of his pal Charlie McCarthy wood |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $1600: The only silent-era Best Picture was this 1927 film about World War I flyboys Wings |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $2000: The only winner for Best Actress for playing a saint was Jennifer Jones for playing this peasant girl of Lourdes St. Bernadette |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS $400: 2016: Barry Jenkins, from Tarell McCraney's play Moonlight |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS $800: 2002: Ronald Harwood, from the memoir by Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman The Pianist |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS $1200: 2005: Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, based on a short story by Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS $1600: 1999: John Irving, from his novel The Cider House Rules |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS $2000: 1971: Ernest Tidyman, based on Robin Moore's nonfiction account of NYC cops & drug smuggling The French Connection |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian helped propel this 1935 film to best picture, the first remake to win the Oscar Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: It was Oscar's kind of town for 2002 Chicago |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: This recent winner began as an attempt to remake "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" The Shape of Water |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Johnny Hooker got the help of "the greatest con artist of them all" as this 1973 pic stole away with the Oscar The Sting |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Professor, author, critic & PBS host Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as a consultant on this 2013 film 12 Years a Slave |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $400: Not opening with "Good even-ing", this thriller director took the Thalberg in 1968 with "Thank you...very much indeed" Hitchcock |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $800: Music Score winner Dimitri Tiomkin, for this Cooper-Kelly western: "Thank you very much. Thank you"; now give us the time of day! High Noon |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $1200: "Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.”said Delbert Mann who directed this actor as 1955's "Marty" Borgnine |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $1600: This Viennese-Amer. Best Director for "The Apartment": "Thank you so much, you lovely discerning people. Thank you" (Billy) Wilder |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $2000: Best actor William Holden, for this "numeric" 1953 film set in a German P.O.W. camp: "Thank you. Thank you" Stalag 17 |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | OSCAR RECORDS $200: "Life is Beautiful" & "8 1/2" are 2 of the record 14 films from this country to win Best Foreign Language Film Italy |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | OSCAR RECORDS $400: For "Mudbound", Rachel Morrison was the first woman nominated in this category given to directors of photography Cinematography |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | OSCAR RECORDS $800: This actor's last-minute work on "All the Money in the World" made him the oldest actor ever nominated at 88 Christopher Plummer |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | OSCAR RECORDS $1000: Beginning in 1940 this comic hosted the Oscars the most times--18 Bob Hope |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | OSCAR RECORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): Winning for "The Miracle Worker", Patty Duke is tied for the shortest Oscar speech:
These 2 words thank you |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $200: After his win for "Wall Street", he thanked dad Kirk for helping him step out of Dad's shadow Michael Douglas |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $400: He won an Oscar for his turn as Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour" Gary Oldman |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $600: Mahershala Ali won an Oscar for this 2016 film that won Best Picture...eventually Moonlight |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $800: This lyricist named Oscar won 2, for Best Song in "Lady Be Good" & "State Fair" (Oscar) Hammerstein |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $1000: For 1993 Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" won 3 technical Oscars & this other film of his won Best Picture Schindler's List |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $200: Keanu Reeves hopped off the bus & didn't board the ship for this "2: Cruise Control" Speed |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $400: Calling it an "infamous failure", even one of the writers admitted this Halle Berry pic was not purr-fect Catwoman |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $600: His work as Casey Ryback in "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" was overlooked by the Academy, as was the film itself Steven Seagal |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $800: Though The Rock gave his all as Mitch Buchannon, this film was not up for an Oscar; a Razzie or 4? Ohhh, yes Baywatch |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $1000: Leonard Maltin, on No. 5 in this series about cops: "What can you say about a sequel... Steve Guttenberg won't even appear in?" Police Academy |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $200: 1995:
Men in kilts battle for freedom Braveheart |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $400: 2015:
The Boston Globe illuminates church wrongdoing Spotlight |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $600: 1988:
2 very different brothers take a road trip Rain Man |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: 2008:
They didn't have to put it in the form of a question to win Slumdog Millionaire |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1,200 (Daily Double): 1996:
What they don't realize is that Ralph Fiennes' character is really Hungarian The English Patient |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NO OSCAR FOR YOU! $400: This portrayer of Indiana Jones has received a sole nomination & loss, for "Witness" (Harrison) Ford |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NO OSCAR FOR YOU! $800: This Vietnam War movie garnered Tom Cruise the first of his 3 nominations Born on the Fourth of July |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NO OSCAR FOR YOU! $1200: Glenn Close has been nominated 6 times w/o winning, including as one of a group of reuniting college pals in this film The Big Chill |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NO OSCAR FOR YOU! $2000: His 7 nominations included ones for "Equus" & "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Richard Burton |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NO OSCAR FOR YOU! $3,500 (Daily Double): Nominated 3 times but with no wins, this reclusive Swede didn't show up in 1955 to collect her honorary Oscar Greta Garbo |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $400: "Chim Chim Cher-ee" (1964), written by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman Mary Poppins |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $800: "Jai Ho" (2008), written by A.R. Rahman & Gulzar Slumdog Millionaire |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $1200: "(This title)... What A Feeling" (1983), written by Giorgio Moroder, Irene Cara & Keith Forsey Flashdance |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $1600: "Glory" (2014), written by the guys we know as John Legend & Common Selma |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $2000: "I'm Easy" (1975), written by Keith Carradine Nashville |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $400: Gold wedding bands with the name of the very first winner Wings rings |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $800: A governmental prohibition of Affleck's 2012 effort an Argo embargo |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $1200: A burly title underdog prizefighter stocky Rocky |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $1600: A shindig for Ernest Borgnine & the rest of the cast a Marty party |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME $2000: Brian Bradley tinkered & kept the ship going for James Cameron, so he's the... Titanic mechanic |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $400: Frank Stallone as a timekeeper, Frank Stallone Jr. as a streetcorner singer, Butkus Stallone as a dog Rocky |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $800: J.K. Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt & John Legend...no, I'm sorry! I mean Naomie Harris, Patrick Decile & Andre Holland! Moonlight |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | SUPPORTING CAST OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: Dooley Wilson, Claude Rains & Peter Lorre Casablanca |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY $200: In 1952 this mascot edged out Newt the Gnu & Elmo the Elephant to get a Kellogg's cereal gig Tony the Tiger |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY $400: In song--very disturbing song--"Grandma got run over by" this, "walking home from our house Christmas Eve" a reindeer |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY $600: One of "My Favorite Things" by this lyricist is "Ol' Man River" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY $800: Her credits include "Shameless" on TV & "The Phantom of the Opera" on film Emmy Rossum |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY $1000: This Tony won a Tony (& a Pulitzer) for "Millennium Approaches", part 1 of "Angels in America" Tony Kushner |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG PERFORMERS $400: "You Must Love Me" from "Evita" (1996) Madonna |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG PERFORMERS $800: The duet "City Of Stars" from "La La Land" (2016) Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG PERFORMERS $1200: "Writing's On The Wall" from "Spectre" (2015) Sam Smith |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG PERFORMERS $1600: "Into The West" from "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003) Annie Lennox |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG PERFORMERS $2000: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) B.J. Thomas |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $400: Winning for her role as Rose Maxson, she called "Fences" a movie about "life & forgiveness & grace" Viola Davis |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $800: Everybody loved his Raymond Babbitt, who definitely, definitely loved Wapner more Dustin Hoffman |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $1200: In his umpteenth Western, he was Rooster Cogburn John Wayne |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $1600: This man was recruited to portray Harvey Milk Sean Penn |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $2000: (Blue) Jasmine turned into a red-hot role for this Aussie Cate Blanchett |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $200: Patty Duke as her in 1962's "The Miracle Worker" Helen Keller |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: Her as the mother of the boy in "Boyhood" (Patricia) Arquette |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $600: This actress as the spicy Maria Elena in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (Penélope) Cruz |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $800: Melissa Leo as boxing mom Alice Ward in this film The Fighter |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan (a male role) in this Indonesia-set film The Year of Living Dangerously |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $400: Ben Affleck takes a business trip to Iran but never does make the title movie Argo |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $800: The title character hangs out with Kicking Bird & Stands with a Fist Dances with Wolves |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: From 1950:
Bette does Broadway All About Eve |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1600: From 1960:
About Jack Lemmon's not-necessarily-crash pad The Apartment |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $2,600 (Daily Double): It was the '70s:
Ted against Joanna regarding little Billy Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | OSCAR HOSTS $200: This "Daily Show" host said, "I am the fake Lou Grant of the fake news world" Jon Stewart |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | OSCAR HOSTS $400: G'day! In 1987, one of the hosts was Paul Hogan, cleaned up after playing this title guy the year before Crocodile Dundee |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | OSCAR HOSTS $600: In 1969 this "Wild & Crazy Guy" won an Emmy for co-writing "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (Steve) Martin |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | OSCAR HOSTS $800: His big-screen debut came as a valet in "Beverly Hills Cop II" before he voiced a zebra in "Madagascar" Chris Rock |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OSCAR WINNER'S MOVIE $200: For 1994:
"Can You Feel The Love Tonight"? Elton John & Tim Rice could The Lion King |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OSCAR WINNER'S MOVIE $400: For 1995:
Mel Gibson--they may take our lives... but they'll never take... Mel's directing Oscar! Braveheart |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OSCAR WINNER'S MOVIE $600: For 2009:
Mo'Nique, in a film based on a novel by a writer Precious |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OSCAR WINNER'S MOVIE $800: For 2011:
Man of few words Jean Dujardin The Artist |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OSCAR WINNER'S MOVIE $1000: For 1996:
I reckon that writer fella Billy Bob Thornton won, mm hm Sling Blade |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS $800: "Seal Island" & "Bear Country" were 2 Oscar winners from this studio's true-life adventure series Disney |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS $1200: 2011 winner "Saving Face" is about women disfigured by attacks in this country & the doctor who helps them Pakistan |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS $1600: Actor & art collector Vincent Price narrated the 1963 Oscar-winning short about this Vitebsk-born Jewish painter Marc Chagall |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS $2000: This director of "Fort Apache" was wounded while filming the 1942 Oscar-winning short "The Battle of Midway" John Ford |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $400: A Moroccan bar Casablanca |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $800: A mental hospital in Oregon One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $1200: The court of Emperor Josef II Amadeus |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $1600: A beach in Hawaii From Here to Eternity |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $2,000 (Daily Double): A Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm A Beautiful Mind |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: With music by Allie Wrubel, it's the winning song for 1947 heard here "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: From "Gold Diggers of 1935", it contains the lyric "Come on along & listen to" "The Lullaby Of Broadway" |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1200: This rousing song from "Selma" won the 2014 song Oscar "Glory" |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1600: Judy Kuhn sang "Colors Of The Wind" in the 1995 film "Pocahontas", but this former Miss America sang the hit single Vanessa Williams |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: What a feeling! This disco & electronic dance music pioneer won for "Flashdance" in 1983 Giorgio Moroder |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | AND THE OBSCURE OSCAR GOES TO... $400: Visual Effects, 2000: John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke & Rob Harvey, for this film about MMA in ancient Rome Gladiator |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | AND THE OBSCURE OSCAR GOES TO... $800: Now discontinued, Assistant this, 1936: Jack Sullivan, for "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Director |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | AND THE OBSCURE OSCAR GOES TO... $1200: Makeup, 1988: Ve Neill, Steve La Porte & Robert Short, who made up a great bio-exorcist for him! him! him! Beetlejuice |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | AND THE OBSCURE OSCAR GOES TO... $1600: Dance Direction, 1936: Seymour Felix, for a number from "The Great" him; it was no folly Ziegfeld |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | AND THE OBSCURE OSCAR GOES TO... $2000: Black & White Costume Design, 1954: This woman for whom the Academy should've just renamed the award Edith Head |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $200: In 2011 Natalie Portman danced off with Best Actress for her role in this movie Black Swan |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $400: Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with a special 8-piece Academy Award honoring this 1937 release Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $600: I'm just Wilde about Harry Stradling, who won a cinematography Oscar for this novel adaptation The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $800: Jessica Lange soared as Carly Marshall & landed a Best Actress Oscar for her role in this 1994 film Blue Sky |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $1000: "How Green Was My Valley" brought this man one of his 4 Best Director Oscars John Ford |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $200: We'll never enjoy fava beans & a nice Chianti the same way ever again Silence of the Lambs |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $400: Mumbai's the word; (& much more importantly) going on a game show can make all your dreams come true! Slumdog Millionaire |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $600: Johnny's not so friendly; what's up, dockworkers? more than a contender for Best Picture On the Waterfront |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: Let's playhouse; the Bard fiddles with Viola Shakespeare in Love |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1000: Winter, spring, summer & fall, it was Paul Scofield as Thomas More A Man for All Seasons |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $400: Her trophy case is getting full: Oscars for "Blue Sky" & "Tootsie" plus 2 Emmys for "American Horror Story" Jessica Lange |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $800: Fresh from her Oscar win for "Boyhood", Patricia Arquette began solving crimes for the FBI on this show CSI: Cyber |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1200: This 2-time Oscar winner had a recurring role on "The Newsroom" & stars as Grace on Netflix' "Grace and Frankie" Jane Fonda |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1600: Helen Hunt was still on "Mad About You" when she won an Oscar opposite Jack Nicholson in this film As Good As It Gets |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $2000: Post-Oscar, Holly Hunter played Detective Grace Hanadarko, offered a chance at redemption on this TV series Saving Grace |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | & THE OSCAR DOESN'T GO TO $400: The nomination of Nina Rota's music for this 1972 film was retracted because some of it had been used in a 1958 Italian movie The Godfather |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | & THE OSCAR DOESN'T GO TO $800: Boy meets operating system in this 2013 Best Picture nominee Her |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | & THE OSCAR DOESN'T GO TO $1200: Annette Bening was a 1999 Best Actress nominee for playing the wife of Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey in this film American Beauty |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | & THE OSCAR DOESN'T GO TO $1600: James Dean was nominated for the role of Jett Rink in this big 1956 film Giant |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | & THE OSCAR DOESN'T GO TO $2000: This director also wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "A Clockwork Orange" Stanley Kubrick |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS $200: The 77th Oscars saw him nominated as supporting actor ("Collateral") & lead actor ("Ray") Jamie Foxx |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS $400: Making a comeback, he played an actor making a comeback & was nominated for an Oscar in 2015 for "Birdman" Michael Keaton |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS $600: Out of 10 acting Oscar nominations, this Brit won once for "Hamlet" Laurence Olivier |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS $800: Paul McCartney & Wings got into Bond-age with this 007 theme that earned Sir Paul an Oscar nomination "Live And Let Die" |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS $1000: This movie in which Gary Cooper starred as Lou Gehrig got nominations in 2 writing categories The Pride of the Yankees |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $1200: 2010, adaptation:
"The Social Network" (Aaron) Sorkin |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $1600: 2003, original:
"Lost in Translation" Sofia Coppola |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $2000: 1999, adaptation:
"The Cider House Rules" (John) Irving |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | OSCAR $200: This film about a family of superheroes beat out "Shrek 2" & "Shark Tale" as 2004's Best Animated Feature The Incredibles |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | OSCAR $400: The title of this 2014 Best Picture refers to a superhero that Michael Keaton once played Birdman |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | OSCAR $600: (Al Gore delivers the clue.) This film about my campaign to recognize climate change as a worldwide problem won the Oscar in 2006 for Best Documentary Feature An Inconvenient Truth |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | OSCAR $800: 1980's Best Picture nominees included 2 black & white films: "The Elephant Man" & this boxing film Raging Bull |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | OSCAR $1000: She received 2 1982 acting Oscar nominations, both for playing actresses--a soap star & a '40s film star Jessica Lange |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $400: 1976:
Sylvester Stallone Rocky |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $800: 1990:
Kevin Costner Dances with Wolves |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: 2010:
Colin Firth The King's Speech |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1600: 1986:
Charlie Sheen Platoon |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $2000: 1970:
George C. Scott Patton |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $400: 1997:
"Titanic" sank his competition James Cameron |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $800: 1990:
"Dancing with Wolves" had him dancing with trophy Kevin Costner |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $1200: 2003:
Here's the thing--"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" got him the bling Peter Jackson |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $1600: 1992:
"Unforgiven" won him a statue with no apologies Clint Eastwood |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $2000: 2012:
"Life of Pi" was his second win, not his 3.14th Ang Lee |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: In Hoffman vs. Streep, this film came out on top Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Starting with "The Godfather", this actor was nominated for an acting Oscar 4 straight years Al Pacino |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1200: Heard in this 1977 winner:
"They did not take me in the army... I was a 4-P... in the event of war, I'm a hostage" Annie Hall |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: This actor turned down an Oscar for "Patton"; the producer accepted one George C. Scott |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: The hero deals with heroin in this 1971 winner The French Connection |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $200: Alright, alright, alright, for 2013, these 2 guys for their roles as Ron & Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club" Jared Leto & Matthew McConaughey |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: 1993:
Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer with AIDS, in this movie Philadelphia |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $600: 2005:
This actor as Truman Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: 1969:
John Wayne as this grumpy U.S. marshal in "True Grit" Rooster Cogburn |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1000: 1983:
This actor as a country singer in "Tender Mercies" Robert Duvall |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | OSCAR SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1939:
Above that multicolored sky arc "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | OSCAR SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1961:
Lunar brook "Moon River" |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | OSCAR SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $600: 1997:
A personal cardiac organ shall endure "My Heart Will Go On" |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | OSCAR SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 2005:
Things are difficult in regards to the call-girl management industry "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | OSCAR SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1993:
Thoroughfares in the Brotherly Love city "Streets Of Philadelphia" |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $200: 1954's "Three Coins" here in the fountain |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $400: This "tradition"-al 1971 film about Tevye & his daughters Fiddler on the Roof |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $600: This 2009 movie with the highest box-office take of all time Avatar |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $800: This 1961 nominee about war crimes trials Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $1000: 1932's "I Am a Fugitive from" one of these collectives a chain gang |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $200: 2013:
"Let It Go" from this animated flick Frozen |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: 2008:
"Jai Ho"
from this movie Slumdog Millionaire |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $600: 1942:
This holiday classic from "Holiday Inn" "White Christmas" |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: 1976:
"Evergreen",
the love theme from this movie remake A Star Is Born |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: 1962:
The title theme from "Days Of Wine And Roses" by Johnny Mercer & him Henry Mancini |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $400: (A.O. Scott of The New York Times presents.) Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director Oscar for this film I reviewed as the best nondocumentary American feature made yet about the war in Iraq The Hurt Locker |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $800: He was nominated for 5 Best Director Oscars & won a record 4, including one for "The Quiet Man" John Ford |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $1200: For this 2003 film, Sofia Coppola became the first American woman nominated for a directing Oscar Lost in Translation |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $1600: His Best Director nominations for "Blue Velvet" & "Mulholland Drive" were the only nominations for those films (David) Lynch |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: The youngest Best Director nominee was this 24-year-old who directed 1991's "Boyz N the Hood" John Singleton |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $400: From 1993 Schindler's List |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $800: Set in Atlanta Driving Miss Daisy |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $1200: Directed by Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $1600: A 1971 thriller The French Connection |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $5,000 (Daily Double): The third
Best-Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $400: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Years later, Deborah Kerr said of the love scene in this movie, "I am still astounded by how extraordinarily erotic it is" From Here to Eternity |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $800: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Director Jonathan Demme lost a close friend to AIDS, prompting him to make this film with Tom Hanks as a dying patient Philadelphia |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $1200: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) This 1934 classic was the first movie to win Oscars in the 5 major categories, including Best Actor & Actress It Happened One Night |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $1600: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Bette Davis had wanted the part of Martha in this film & Elizabeth Taylor does a little Davis impression when she says to Richard Burton's character George, "What a dump!" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $2000: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Scenic spots in Palm Springs & a humongous set on a Columbia Pictures backlot were used to create this Utopian land in 1937's "Lost Horizon" Shangri-La |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $400: Your winner? This period piece, which used a large wall left over from "King Kong" to help film the burning of Atlanta Gone with the Wind |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $800: Dorothy knows this title role was written for W.C. Fields, who is said to have turned it down over money The Wizard of Oz |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $1200: A-yup! This actor rode to stardom on "Stagecoach" as the Ringo Kid John Wayne |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $1600: Her "Eyes" have been noted in song, but it was the brain of this actress that gave her big problems Bette Davis |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: Burgess Meredith was George & Lon Chaney Jr. was Lennie in this drama, produced by comedy legend Hal Roach Of Mice and Men |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $200: 1987:
Getting greedy as Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $400: 2008:
For his brilliant & deranged Joker Heath Ledger |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $600: 1982:
Her as refugee Sophie Meryl Streep |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $800: 1996:
As Rod Tidwell, he could've said, "Show me the Oscar!" Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $1000: 1962:
Atticus! Atticus! (Finch) Gregory Peck |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | OSCAR MIRE $400: He had 5 nominations for Best Director, including in consecutive years for "Lifeboat" & "Spellbound" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | OSCAR MIRE $800: "The Big Chill" is that she was nominated for 5 Oscars in the '80s: ...but no cigar Glenn Close |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | OSCAR MIRE $1200: He retired in 2012; final score, 0 wins in 8 nominations, including twice as the same king, in "Becket" & "The Lion in Winter" Peter O'Toole |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | OSCAR MIRE $1600: Loved by the ladies, he's been spurned by Oscar for playing a captain, a barber & a children's author Johnny Depp |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | OSCAR MIRE $2000: This female producer with an alliterative name has 7 nominations from "E.T." to "War Horse" Kathleen Kennedy |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1977:
"The Goodbye Girl" Richard Dreyfus |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1985:
"Kiss of the Spider Woman" William Hurt |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS $200: "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt", starring this long-eared fellow Bugs Bunny |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS $400: "Tweetie Pie", co-starring this foe Sylvester |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS $600: "Walky Talky Hawky", starring this, I say, this rooster Foghorn Leghorn |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS $800: "Swooner Crooner", starring th-th-this character as th-the supervisor of an egg factory Porky Pig |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS $1000: "For Scent-imental Reasons", starring this early example of Eurotrash Pepe LePew |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $400: 2010:
Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook" The Social Network |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $800: 2008:
Simon Beaufoy, from the novel "Q & A" by Vikas Swarup Slumdog Millionaire |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $1200: 1950:
Joseph Mankiewicz, from the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $1600: 1976:
William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President's Men |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $2000: 1983:
James L. Brooks, from the novel by Larry McMurtry Terms of Endearment |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | THE OSCAR FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE $200: 2003:
A fish story Finding Nemo |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | THE OSCAR FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE $400: 2012:
A straight-shooting Scottish lass saves her family Brave |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | THE OSCAR FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE $600: 2011:
Lizard livin' large Rango |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | THE OSCAR FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE $800: 2007, set in Paris:
murine cuisine Ratatouille |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | THE OSCAR FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE $1000: 2006:
Super cool tap dancing Happy Feet |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $400: 1994: "Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam" Forrest Gump |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $800: 1972: "Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me" Don Corleone |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $1200: 1987: "Greed is right. Greed works. Greed... captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit" Gordon Gekko |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $2000: 2010: "The nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. but I can't speak" King George VI |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $5,000 (Daily Double): 1980: "Hey, Ray...I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray." Jake LaMotta |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE WIT OF OSCAR WILDE $200: Relatives "haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to" do this die |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE WIT OF OSCAR WILDE $400: In "A Woman of No Importance", Wilde wrote, "One should never trust a woman who tells one her real" this age |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE WIT OF OSCAR WILDE $600: This handsome title guy likes scandals about others, "but scandals about myself...have not got the charm of novelty" Dorian Gray |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE WIT OF OSCAR WILDE $800: This "is the name everyone gives to their mistakes" experience |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE WIT OF OSCAR WILDE $1000: "Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always" this one "who writes the biography" Judas |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THEIR SOLE OSCAR NOMINATION $200: Liam Neeson,
1993 Schindler's List |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THEIR SOLE OSCAR NOMINATION $400: Dudley Moore,
1981 Arthur |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THEIR SOLE OSCAR NOMINATION $600: Haley Joel Osment,
1999 The Sixth Sense |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THEIR SOLE OSCAR NOMINATION $800: As a son, Dan Aykroyd,
1989 Driving Miss Daisy |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THEIR SOLE OSCAR NOMINATION $1000: As a rancher, Rock Hudson,
1956 Giant |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $400: "A Streetcar Named Desire" netted Kim Hunter a supporting actress Oscar for playing this character Stella |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $800: Olivia de Havilland lost out on supporting actress to Hattie McDaniel, both nominated for roles in this film Gone with the Wind |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $1200: She won a supporting actress Oscar for her turn as the sassy Minny Jackson in "The Help" Octavia Spencer |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $1600: She won an Oscar for playing Hanna, the older woman who loves "The Reader" Kate Winslet |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $2000: She won an Oscar for playing Hana, the nurse to "The English Patient" Juliette Binoche |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | MOVIE BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $400: 1964: "Chim Chim Cher-ee" Mary Poppins |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | MOVIE BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $800: 1987: "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" Dirty Dancing |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | MOVIE BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $1200: 2002: "Lose Yourself" 8 Mile |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | MOVIE BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $1600: 1982: "Up Where We Belong" An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | MOVIE BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $2000: 1940: "When You Wish Upon A Star" Pinocchio |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $200: This Oscar winner for "Ordinary People" leads a team of thieves & hackers on TNT's "Leverage" (Timothy) Hutton |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $400: In the 1980s he & his daughter Holly hosted "Ripley's Believe It or Not", though we don't remember any one-armed push-ups Jack Palance |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $800: In 2012 this 2-time Oscar winner won a Golden Globe for her role on "American Horror Story" Jessica Lange |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1,000 (Daily Double): This Oscar-winning daughter of an Oscar-winning director plays producer Eileen Rand on "Smash" Anjelica Huston |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE 1980s $400: Oliver Stone, for a Vietnam movie
(1986) Platoon |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE 1980s $800: Oliver Stone, for a Vietnam movie
(1989) Born on the Fourth of July |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE 1980s $1200: Robert Redford
(1980) Ordinary People |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE 1980s $1600: Warren Beatty
(1981) Reds |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $400: Mauro Fiore, cinematographer of this 2009 film that had a 10-foot-tall Blue Man Group on an alien world Avatar |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $800: Greg Cannom, for "The Curious Case of" this guy, for makeup; making Brad Pitt look decrepit can't be easy Benjamin Button |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $1200: This "global" song from "Aladdin"; it promised "a thrilling chase, a wondrous place for you and me" "A Whole New World" |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $1600: This actor as Forrest Gump: you might know him better as an animated toy cowboy Tom Hanks |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $2000: This producer, winner of the first 8 awarded to the best short subject cartoon; he knew a little about animation Walt Disney |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | OSCAR-WINNING CO-STARS $200: Marlon Brando &
Eva Marie Saint
(1954) On the Waterfront |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | OSCAR-WINNING CO-STARS $400: Jon Voight &
Jane Fonda
(1978) Coming Home |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | OSCAR-WINNING CO-STARS $600: Henry Fonda &
Katharine Hepburn
(1981) On Golden Pond |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | OSCAR-WINNING CO-STARS $800: Clark Gable &
Claudette Colbert
(1934) It Happened One Night |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | OSCAR-WINNING CO-STARS $1000: Jack Nicholson &
Louise Fletcher
(1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | DESCRIBING THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM $400: Oh, for the days street gangs fought it out... in dance; we met a girl named Maria; J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets! West Side Story |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | DESCRIBING THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM $800: Great show at the Colosseum; all roads lead to Crowe; at my signal, unleash a hell of a movie Gladiator |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | DESCRIBING THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM $1200: Cruise into Vegas; Babbitt is rich; a big plug for Qantas' air safety, definitely, definitely Rain Man |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | DESCRIBING THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM $1600: A Renner runs through it; time to Iraq & roll; that movie is the bomb! Hurt Locker |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | DESCRIBING THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM $2000: A Ludacris carjacking; L.A. stories; Matt Dillon is an officer, not a marshal Crash |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $200: "Irish" Micky Ward, known to turn southpaw on occasion The Fighter |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $400: Winston Churchill,
Neville Chamberlain The King's Speech |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $600: Understudy for Siegfried,
"Corps de ballet" (18 of them!) Black Swan |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $800: Prince Albert,
Bill Gates The Social Network |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $1000: Cobb,
Saito,
Ariadne Inception |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $400: This actress won an Oscar for playing Loretta Lynn & did her own singing to boot Sissy Spacek |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $1200: He was acclaimed onstage as Hamlet in 1929 & onscreen as Arthur's butler in 1981 John Gielgud |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $2000: This David Cronenberg film won best makeup for transforming Jeff Goldblum into the title character The Fly |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $5,000 (Daily Double): Male & female supporting Oscars went to Michael Caine & Dianne Wiest for this comedy Hannah and Her Sisters |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $400: "Ghost" (Oscar) &
"The View" (Emmy) (Whoopi) Goldberg |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $800: "Kramer vs. Kramer" (Oscar) &
"Holocaust" (Emmy) Meryl Streep |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $1200: "The Fugitive" (Oscar) &
"The Executioner's Song" (Emmy) Tommy Lee Jones |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $1600: "Tender Mercies" (Oscar) &
"Broken Trail" (Emmy) Robert Duvall |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $2000: "The Miracle Worker"
(Oscar) &
"The Miracle Worker" (Emmy) Patty Duke |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: She had us at "Cold Mountain" Renée Zellweger |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $800: No driving over a cliff for her in "The Accidental Tourist" Geena Davis |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1200: She won for "My Cousin Vinny" & has been nominated 2 other times, as well Marisa Tomei |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1600: She won for "Tootsie", a few years after not even being nominated for "King Kong" Jessica Lange |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $2000: She took home an Oscar for "From Here to Eternity" & later starred in one of TV's most wholesome sitcoms Donna Reed |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | WHERE'S OSCAR? $200: Gwyneth Paltrow keeps her 1998 Oscar for this film in storage, saying, "I don't want that thing in my house" Shakespeare in Love |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | WHERE'S OSCAR? $400: Jodie Foster kept hers in this room because "they looked good with the faucets"--until they began to corrode the bathroom |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | WHERE'S OSCAR? $600: He gave his "Philadelphia Story" Oscar to his dad, who kept it in the window of the family hardware store Jimmy Stewart |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | WHERE'S OSCAR? $800: He reportedly keeps his 2000 Best Actor Oscar in a chicken coop on his Australian ranch Russell Crowe |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | WHERE'S OSCAR? $1000: His acting Oscar for "Ordinary People" is in his sister's fridge to surprise guests in search of beer Timothy Hutton |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | NAME THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $400: 2003 for "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (Peter) Jackson |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | NAME THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $800: 1981 for "Reds" Warren Beatty |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | NAME THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $1200: 2009 for "The Hurt Locker" Kathryn Bigelow |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | NAME THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $1600: 1982 for "Gandhi" (Richard) Attenborough |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | NAME THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $2000: 1978 for "The Deer Hunter" Michael Cimino |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $400: Retired actuary
Warren Schmidt
(2002) About Schmidt |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $800: Astronaut Garrett Breedlove
(1983) Terms of Endearment |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $1200: Oil rigger
Robert DuPea
(1970) Five Easy Pieces |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $1600: Hitman
Charley Partanna
(1985) Prizzi's Honor |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $2000: Playwright Eugene O'Neill
(1981) Reds |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $200: 1991:
Clarice Starling Jodie Foster |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: 1982:
She was the choice as Sophie Meryl Streep |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $600: 1980:
He TKO'd Oscar as Jake LaMotta Robert De Niro |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: 2009:
He was really good as Bad Blake Jeff Bridges |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1000: 1999:
Her multi-dimensional performance as Brandon Teena / Teena Brandon won an Oscar Hilary Swank |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $400: The outdoorsy home of British Merry Men becomes the new pad for a "Last King of Scotland" winner Sherwood Forest Whitaker |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $800: Uh oh... it's "Misery" when this actress checks into a "Psycho" lodging Kathy Bates Motel |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A 1953 musical based on a Shakespeare play becomes an actress who won as a literature-loving Nazi Kiss Me Kate Winslet |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: This best actor winner for "Stalag 17" has no time for Hollywood phonies as the "Catcher in the Rye" kid William Holden Caulfield |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A "timely" London landmark turns into an actor who won for a 1982 biopic Big Ben Kingsley |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: Riff & Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical West Side Story |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: In this 1977 Woody Allen-Diane Keaton film, author Truman Capote had an uncredited bit as a Truman Capote look-alike Annie Hall |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus" It Happened One Night |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date The Departed |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Temperance groups & the liquor industry both pleaded with Paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner The Lost Weekend |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $200: Him, for directing "Schindler's List" Spielberg |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $400: Geoffrey Fletcher, for writing this, "Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Precious |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $600: This singer, for her role of Effie in "Dreamgirls" (& I am telling you she was going onstage to accept the award) Jennifer Hudson |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $800: Him, for his role of Rod Tidwell in "Jerry Maguire"; show him the Oscar! Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $1000: These 2 brothers, for their adapted screenplay for "No Country for Old Men" the Coen brothers |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $400: "Lawrence of Arabia" David Lean |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $800: "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $1200: "The Graduate" Mike Nichols |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $1600: "Tom Jones"--Vanessa Redgrave's husband Tony Richardson |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $2000: "West Side Story" & "The Sound of Music" (2 in one decade!) Robert Wise |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | OSCAR IN THEIR FILM DEBUTS $400: Best Actress for "Mary Poppins" (1964) Julie Andrews |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | OSCAR IN THEIR FILM DEBUTS $800: Best Supporting Actress for "Paper Moon" (1973) Tatum O'Neal |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | OSCAR IN THEIR FILM DEBUTS $1200: Best Supporting Actress for "The Piano" (1993) Anna Paquin |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | OSCAR IN THEIR FILM DEBUTS $1600: Best Actress for "Children of a Lesser God" (1986) Marlee Matlin |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | OSCAR IN THEIR FILM DEBUTS $2000: Best Supporting Actress for "On the Waterfront" (1954) Eva Marie Saint |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $200: Rod Tidwell is an underpaid (by his lights) wide receiver in this film about a sports agent Jerry Maguire |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $400: This 1989 Oscar nominee was based on the W.P. Kinsella book "Shoeless Joe" Field of Dreams |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $600: Director Martin Scorsese had a bit part as a stagehand in this bio of Jake La Motta Raging Bull |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $800: This 1976 Oscar winner used the tagline "You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest Bicentennial in history" Rocky |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $1000: Several major league ballplayers had cameos in this 1942 Gary Cooper flick, including Babe Ruth & Bill Dickey The Pride of the Yankees |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | 1960s OSCAR NOMINEES $400: Playing the lusty Greek peasant Zorba earned him an Oscar nomination (Anthony) Quinn |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | 1960s OSCAR NOMINEES $800: He received an Oscar nomination for playing the all-powerful Henry II in "The Lion in Winter" (Peter) O'Toole |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | 1960s OSCAR NOMINEES $1200: She wasn't even nominated for "West Side Story", though she did get a nomination that year for "Splendor in the Grass" (Natalie) Wood |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | 1960s OSCAR NOMINEES $1600: The screenplay to "My Fair Lady", based on Shaw's play & on a musical by him & Loewe, earned him an Oscar nomination (Alan Jay) Lerner |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | 1960s OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: Paul Scofield was nominated for best actor (& won) for playing him in "A Man for All Seasons" Thomas More |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $200: Pacino's female pals Al's gals |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $400: Penn's pair of baby deer Sean's fawns |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $600: Actress Hilary's financial institutions Swank's banks |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $800: Dunaway's "no" votes Faye's nays |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $1000: Ms. Thompson's quandries Emma's dilemmas |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS $400: "We're after the same rainbow's end--waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend" Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS $800: " 'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin', because I'm free, nothin's worryin' me" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS $1200: "When you get caught between the moon and New York City" Arthur |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS $1600: "When I was just a little girl I asked my mother what will I be" The Man Who Knew Too Much |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS $2000: "Far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow" An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $200: This Oscar winner for "The Piano" plays a feisty Oklahoma City police detective on TNT's "Saving Grace" Holly Hunter |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $400: Although he lost the supporting actor Oscar for "Cinderella Man", he won the Emmy vote for "John Adams" Paul Giamatti |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $600: This 5-time Oscar nominee played captain Monica Rawling for a season on "The Shield" Glenn Close |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $800: Executive producer of "Ugly Betty", she has also guest starred as Sofia Reyes Salma Hayek |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $1000: "An Unmarried Woman" in the movies, she played Donald Sutherland's wife Letitia on "Dirty Sexy Money" Jill Clayburgh |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | OSCAR WORTHY? $400: Oscar Brand won a Peabody Award for helping popularize this style of music played by The Weavers folk music |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | OSCAR WORTHY? $800: On this show's opening voice-over, you might hear "He appeared at the home of his friend Oscar Madison" The Odd Couple |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | OSCAR WORTHY? $1200: Diedrich Bader voiced Oscar, a saber-tooth in this 2002 animated film Ice Age |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | OSCAR WORTHY? $1600: Oscar Martinez is a member of the "Finer Things Club" on this NBC sitcom The Office |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | OSCAR WORTHY? $2000: For more than 100 episodes, Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman tried to get his money's worth out of this title guy The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST $400: Oldest Supporting Actress winner:
Peggy Ashcroft for this film based on an E.M. Forster work A Passage to India |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST $800: Youngest Supporting Actor winner:
Him for "Ordinary People" Timothy Hutton |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST $1200: Oldest Supporting Actor nominee:
This alliteratively named actor for the 2007 movie "Into the Wild" Hal Holbrook |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST $2000: Youngest Supporting Actor nominee:
Justin Henry for this 1979 tale of a custody battle Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | OSCAR YOUNGEST/OLDEST $8,800 (Daily Double): Youngest Best Actor winner:
This 29-year-old in 2003 for a WWII-set film Adrien Brody |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $200: 1971:
As "Popeye" Doyle Gene Hackman |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $400: 1986:
As a slower "Fast Eddie" Felson Paul Newman |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $600: 1987:
As Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $800: 1952:
As Marshal Will Kane Gary Cooper |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1000: 2002:
As Wladyslaw Szpilman Adrien Brody |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $400: This film's 8 Oscars included one for original song "Jai Ho" Slumdog Millionaire |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $800: She was named Best Supporting Actress for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" Penélope Cruz |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $1200: This comic's "Kids" must have been proud of his Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Jerry Lewis |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $1600: This film with Keira Knightley as an 18th century aristocrat was honored for its costume design The Duchess |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $2000: A documentary on this Frenchman's "little" feat of wirewalking between the Twin Towers won an Oscar Philippe Petit |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR BY FILM $200: "Moonstruck" Cher |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR BY FILM $400: "Klute" Jane Fonda |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR BY FILM $600: "Shakespeare in Love" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR BY FILM $800: "Dead Man Walking" Susan Sarandon |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR BY FILM $1000: "Walk the Line" (Reese) Witherspoon |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | REMEMBER THESE OSCAR NOMINEES? $400: Best Picture-nominated period piece with Anthony Hopkins & Emma Thompson as house servants The Remains of the Day |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | REMEMBER THESE OSCAR NOMINEES? $800: "In the Name of the Father", believe us that this guy got a lead actor nod for that film Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | REMEMBER THESE OSCAR NOMINEES? $1200: 1998 contender featuring Clooney, Penn, Travolta, Nolte & Harrelson (war is hell on top billing) The Thin Red Line |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | REMEMBER THESE OSCAR NOMINEES? $1600: Actor Massimo Troisi died shortly after delivering this occupational 1994 movie Il Postino |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | REMEMBER THESE OSCAR NOMINEES? $2000: Forgot this nominee with Sissy Spacek & Tom Wilkinson? Well, it is only a prepositional phrase In the Bedroom |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $400: In 1962 Oscar loved her in "West Side Story" (& isn't she the first one you think of for the category?) Rita Moreno |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $800: In 2002 she won an Emmy for a special about Hattie McDaniel, but it's her acting Oscar for "Ghost" you might remember Whoopi Goldberg |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $1200: In 1982 this butler did it--& got a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his trouble, for "Arthur" (John) Gielgud |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $1600: The 1961 Grammy for Best Comedy Performance went to "An Evening with" him "and Elaine May" Mike Nichols |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $2000: The 1958 Tony for Dramatic Actress was bestowed on this "First Lady of American Theatre" for her role in "Time Remembered" Helen Hayes |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: A controversial U.S. general Patton |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: A Hindu leader Gandhi |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: Collision Crash |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: An historic Scotsman's nickname Braveheart |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): A middle name in Latin Amadeus |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $200: "When You Wish Upon A Star" Pinocchio |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: "Take My Breath Away" Top Gun |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $600: "You Must Love Me" Evita |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: "I'm Easy" Nashville |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: "Under the Sea" The Little Mermaid |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE SYNOPSES $400: Brock is looking for diamonds but instead finds a picture of Rose, who is 102 years old; then--a flashback Titanic |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE SYNOPSES $800: Mike & Nick get captured, play Russian roulette; Saigon falls The Deer Hunter |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE SYNOPSES $1200: Philly detectve investigates Mississippi murder; he & local sheriff get their man In the Heat of the Night |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE SYNOPSES $1600: C.C. loans out his dwelling to his superiors for their trysts; falls for Fran The Apartment |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE SYNOPSES $2000: Con-man's mentor is murdered; Henry Gondorff helps to get revenge The Sting |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $400: Clarice Starling,
"Buffalo Bill" Silence of the Lambs |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $800: Major Strasser,
Victor Lazslo Casablanca |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Alain Charnier,
"Popeye" Doyle The French Connection |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Emperor Joseph II,
Antonio Salieri Amadeus |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Molly Brown,
Jack Dawson Titanic |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $400: "A Whole New World"
(1992) Aladdin |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $800: "Let's Hear It For The Boy"
(1984) Footloose |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $1200: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
(1947) Song of the South |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $1600: "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
(1983) Yentl |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $2000: "Lose Yourself"
(2002) 8 Mile |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $400: John Ford directed this "verdant" 1941 winner about a Welsh mining family How Green Was My Valley |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $800: Greer Garson survives a Luftwaffe attack & the annual flower show as this title "Mrs." Mrs. Miniver |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $1200: Jimmy Stewart as Buttons the Clown upstages Charlton Heston in this 3-ring affair from 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $1600: Alcoholic Ray Milland is reminded that "One's too many and a hundred's not enough" in this film The Lost Weekend |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $2000: Gregory Peck gets the scoop on anti-semitism in this film adapted by Moss Hart Gentleman's Agreement |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $200: "Dreamgirls":
Beyonce,
Jennifer Hudson,
Eddie Murphy Jennifer Hudson |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $400: "Gone with the Wind":
Clark Gable,
Vivien Leigh,
Olivia de Havilland Vivien Leigh |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $600: "Cold Mountain":
Jude Law,
Nicole Kidman,
Renee Zellweger Renee Zellweger |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $800: "Paper Moon":
Madeline Kahn,
Ryan O'Neal,
Tatum O'Neal Tatum O'Neal |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $1000: "Ordinary People":
Timothy Hutton,
Mary Tyler Moore,
Judd Hirsch Timothy Hutton |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: One of 4 musicals that won for Best Picture in the 1960s, it was based on a Charles Dickens novel Oliver! |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar The Departed |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: In this film, Clint Eastwood says, "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Ya take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have" Unforgiven |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing & directing this 1995 Best Picture Braveheart |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1980: "Regular Folks" Ordinary People |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1932: "Magnificent Inn" Grand Hotel |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain" Rocky |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $1600: 1954: "Dockside" On the Waterfront |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1966: "One Bloke Year-Round" A Man For All Seasons |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | OSCAR NOMINEES $400: At the nominees luncheon in 2006, he didn't just "Walk the Line", he stumbled into an Oscar statue & did a pratfall Joaquin Phoenix |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | OSCAR NOMINEES $800: (Hi, I'm Sam Waterston) I earned an Oscar nomination for playing NY Times reporter Sydney Schanberg in this film set in war-torn Cambodia The Killing Fields |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | OSCAR NOMINEES $1200: Dolly Parton created this 1980 Oscar-nominated song by tapping it out with her nails while she was on the film's set "9 To 5" |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | OSCAR NOMINEES $1600: Acting nominees for 1980 included Eileen Brennan for "Private Benjamin" & this other "E.B." for "Resurrection" Ellen Burstyn |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: In 1995 we said "au revoir" to this man nominated for writing "Au Revoir, Les Enfants" & for directing "Atlantic City" Louis Malle |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: 1962:
Atticus Finch Gregory Peck |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: 1982:
Mahatma Gandhi (Ben) Kingsley |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1200: 1951:
Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1600: 1948:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Laurence) Olivier |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $2000: 1956:
Paul Gauguin Anthony Quinn |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | OSCAR YOUTH $400: Before getting an Oscar nomination, this actress won hearts as Queen Amidala Natalie Portman |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | OSCAR YOUTH $800: At age 13, Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for an Oscar in 2004 for playing a Maori girl who "rode" these cetaceans whales |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | OSCAR YOUTH $1200: Seen here, he was 11 when he got his Oscar nomination for "The Sixth Sense" (Haley Joel) Osment |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | OSCAR YOUTH $1600: Her 1935 honorary award made this curly-haired girl the youngest actress ever to receive an Oscar Shirley Temple |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | OSCAR YOUTH $2000: At age 20, she was nominated for playing Emma Thompson's sister in "Sense and Sensibility" Kate Winslet |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: Clarice Starling Jodie Foster |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: Professor Henry Higgins Rex Harrison |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1200: Don Vito Corleone (2 actors) Marlon Brando & Robert De Niro |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1600: Sally Bowles Liza Minnelli |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $2000: Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. John Houseman |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $200: Eastwood's subtle verbal clues Clint's hints |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $400: Witherspoon's parts Reese's pieces |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $600: Nicholson's trousers Jack's slacks |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $800: Hilary's financial institutions Swank's banks |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $1000: Landau's milk boxes Martin's cartons |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $400: "Norma Rae"
(Oscar)
&
"Sybil"
(Emmy) Sally Field |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $800: "As Good As It Gets"
(Oscar)
&
"Mad About You"
(Emmy) Helen Hunt |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $1200: "Save the Tiger"
(Oscar)
&
"Tuesdays with Morrie"
(Emmy) Jack Lemmon |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $1600: "City Slickers"
(Oscar)
&
"Requiem for a Heavyweight"
(Emmy) Jack Palance |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $2000: "The Subject Was Roses"
(Oscar)
&
"Chico and the Man"
(Emmy) Jack Albertson |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $400: "American Beauty":
Kevin Spacey,
Annette Bening,
Chris Cooper Kevin Spacey |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $800: "Jerry Maguire":
Cuba Gooding, Jr.,
Tom Cruise,
Renee Zellweger Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $1200: "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre":
Humphrey Bogart,
Tim Holt,
Walter Huston Walter Huston |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $1600: "Shampoo":
Warren Beatty,
Goldie Hawn,
Lee Grant Lee Grant |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $2000: "A Beautiful Mind":
Russell Crowe,
Jennifer Connelly,
Ed Harris Jennifer Connelly |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2006 $200: This film broke the back of expectations by taking the award for Best Picture Crash |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2006 $400: He stepped away from his "Daily Show" desk & came West to host the telecast Jon Stewart |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2006 $600: She walked the red carpet & walked away with the Best Actress award for her role in "Walk the Line" Reese Witherspoon |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2006 $800: A past nominee for directing movies like "Nashville" & "Short Cuts", he accepted an honorary Oscar (Robert) Altman |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2006 $1000: This film that begins in Japan in the 1920s earned Oscars for cinematography, costuming & art direction Memoirs of a Geisha |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $200: "Citizen Kane",
"Going My Way",
"How Green Was My Valley" Citizen Kane |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $400: "The Best Years of Our Lives",
"Miracle on 34th Street",
"The Lost Weekend" Miracle on 34th Street |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $600: "Lilies of the Field",
"Oliver!",
"A Man for All Seasons" Lilies of the Field |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: "The Sting",
"Network",
"Rocky" Network |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | NOT A BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1000: "Saving Private Ryan",
"Braveheart",
"The English Patient" Saving Private Ryan |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $200: "Shane",
"Shine",
"Shakespeare in Love" Shakespeare in Love |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $400: "Chinatown",
"Chicago",
"Fargo" Chicago |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $600: "Roman Holiday",
"American Graffiti",
"The French Connection" The French Connection |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof",
"The Silence of the Lambs",
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1000: "Mrs. Miniver",
"Mister Roberts",
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" Mrs. Miniver |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $400: Paquin's plantains Anna's bananas |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $800: Ms. Foster's rock & roll show equipment handlers Jodie's roadies |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $1200: Gooding's instruments Cuba's tubas |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $1600: McDaniel's hamburgers Hattie's patties |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $2000: Dame Judi's ditches Dench's trenches |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $200: "Chim Chim Cher-ee" Mary Poppins |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: "Talk To The Animals" Dr. Dolittle |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $600: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: "Colors Of The Wind" Pocahontas |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: "Al Otro Lado Del Rio" The Motorcycle Diaries |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $400: He co-wrote the musicals "South Pacific" & "The King and I" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $800: He was Lucky Luciano's right-hand man & the financial mastermind behind the mob Meyer Lansky |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $1600: This industrialist's son Solomon founded a famous New York City museum Meyer Guggenheim |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $2,000 (Daily Double): He quipped, "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances" Oscar Wilde |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $2000: Best known for his science of cybernetics, this math professor graduated from college in 1909 at age 14 Norbert Wiener |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $200: Pulling no punches, it won awards for Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor & Director Million Dollar Baby |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $400: On accepting his award for Best Actor, Jamie Foxx thanked this man "for living" Ray Charles |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $600: Sandy Powell must have been flying high after winning the Oscar for Costume Design for this film The Aviator |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $800: Original Screenplay honors went to... I can't remember... ah, yes, the writers of this Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $1000: Acknowledged for making such great movies as "Equus", "The Verdict" & "12 Angry Men", he received an honorary award Sidney Lumet |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $400: 1999:
Brandon Teena/
Teena Brandon Hilary Swank |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $800: 1967:
Christina Drayton;
1968:
Eleanor of Aquitaine Katharine Hepburn |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $1200: 1975:
Nurse Mildred Ratched Louise Fletcher |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $1600: 1957:
Eve White/
Eve Black/
Jane Joanne Woodward |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES $2000: 1996:
Marge Gunderson Frances McDormand |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: "Belle" & "Be Our Guest" were nominated, too, but it was this film's title song that won the Oscar Beauty and the Beast |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: This song about precipitation won Burt Bacharach & Hal David a 1969 Oscar "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1200: "Lose Yourself" won this rapper an Oscar in 2003, but he took its title to heart & didn't show up to accept Eminem |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1600: This 1968 winner was from "The Thomas Crown Affair", not "Man of La Mancha" "The Windmills Of Your Mind" |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: It isn't hard to name this song from "Nashville" that won Keith Carradine an Oscar "I'm Easy" |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $200: Frank Sinatra both |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $400: Mickey Rooney Oscar |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $600: Bette Midler Grammy |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $800: Julie Andrews both |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $1000: Stevie Wonder both |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | QUOTABLE OSCAR HOSTS $400: 1995:
"Uma,
Oprah.
Oprah,
Uma" David Letterman |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | QUOTABLE OSCAR HOSTS $800: 1979:
"Welcome to 2 hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a 4-hour show" Johnny Carson |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | QUOTABLE OSCAR HOSTS $1200: 1968:
"Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover" Bob Hope |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | QUOTABLE OSCAR HOSTS $1600: 2003:
"It was so sweet backstage, you should see it. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo" Steve Martin |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | QUOTABLE OSCAR HOSTS $2000: 1974: "Just think, the only laugh that man will probably ever get is for stripping and showing off his shortcomings" David Niven |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 2004 OSCAR NOMINATIONS $200: This acclaimed film about a trip through wine country got 5 nominations, including Best Picture Sideways |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 2004 OSCAR NOMINATIONS $400: Clive Owen & Natalie Portman both received nominations for supporting roles in this drama Closer |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 2004 OSCAR NOMINATIONS $600: Brad Bird was nominated for his original screenplay for this animated hit The Incredibles |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 2004 OSCAR NOMINATIONS $800: Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke acted in this film, but were nominated for writing its screenplay Before Sunset |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 2004 OSCAR NOMINATIONS $1000: Johnny Depp received his second Oscar nomination for playing this author in "Finding Neverland" J.M. Barrie |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $400: Richard Burton & Liz Taylor were nominated for playing husband & wife in this 1966 film based on an Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $800: Katina Paxinou is the only Oscar-winning actress born in this country Greece |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $1200: For 1991 3 of the 5 nominated songs, including "Belle", were from this one film Beauty and the Beast |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $1600: (Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin.) For "Sense and Sensibility", she became the first actress to be nominated for both Best Actress & Best Screenplay Emma Thompson |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $2000: His 1925 silent "The Gold Rush" was reissued in 1942 with music & sound effects & nominated for Sound Recording Charlie Chaplin |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: 1952:
Marshal Will Kane Gary Cooper |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: 1951:
Boat captain Charlie Allnut Bogart |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1200: 1945:
Mildred Pierce Joan Crawford |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1600: 1933:
Henry VIII Charles Laughton |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $2000: 1942:
Kay Miniver Greer Garson |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $400: "Blame Canada"
(1999) South Park |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $800: "Be Our Guest"
(1991) Beauty and the Beast |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $1200: "The Rainbow Connection"
(1979) The Muppet Movie |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $1600: "Up Where We Belong"
(1982) An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $2000: "The Hands That Built America"
(2002) Gangs of New York |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NATIONS $200: 1951:
"Rashomon" Japan |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NATIONS $400: 1998:
"Life Is Beautiful" Italy |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NATIONS $600: 1973:
"Day for Night" France |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NATIONS $800: 1979:
"The Tin Drum" Germany |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NATIONS $1000: 1960:
"The Virgin Spring" Sweden |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: Edward Joseph Flanagan Spencer Tracy |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: Annie Sullivan Anne Bancroft |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1200: Alvin C. York Gary Cooper |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1600: Paul Gauguin Anthony Quinn |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $2000: Defense attorney Hans Rolfe Maximilian Schell |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $200: Ron Howard grabbed 2 Oscars in quick succession as director & producer of this film A Beautiful Mind |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $400: She said that she'll place her Oscar between her husband's 2 Oscars, "but a little further forward" Catherine Zeta-Jones (husband is Michael Douglas) |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $600: Some guys have all the luck: he not only won for Best Actor, he got to kiss his presenter, Halle Berry Adrien Brody |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $800: Accepting his honorary Oscar, this great Irish actor said, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot!" Peter O'Toole |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $1000: When she won for her role in "Pollock", her first thank you was to Ed Harris, who played Pollock Marcia Gay Harden |
| #4387, aired 2003-10-07 | OSCAR WILDE & CRAZY GUY $200: Wilde said, "Only dull people are brilliant at " this meal breakfast |
| #4387, aired 2003-10-07 | OSCAR WILDE & CRAZY GUY $400: The character of Bunthorne in their operetta "Patience" is said to be partly modeled on Oscar Wilde Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #4387, aired 2003-10-07 | OSCAR WILDE & CRAZY GUY $600: "Each man" does this to "the thing he loves" kills |
| #4387, aired 2003-10-07 | OSCAR WILDE & CRAZY GUY $800: You can't handle this one; Oscar wrote that it "is rarely pure, and never simple" the truth |
| #4387, aired 2003-10-07 | OSCAR WILDE & CRAZY GUY $1000: Wilde punned, "Moderation is a fatal thing ... nothing succeeds like" this excess |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | OSCAR NIGHT 2003 $400: With 6 Academy Awards total, this adapted musical was the big winner on Oscar Night 2003 Chicago |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | OSCAR NIGHT 2003 $800: This Best Actress Winner said that Russell Crowe told her not to cry... but she did anyway Nicole Kidman |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | OSCAR NIGHT 2003 $1200: Seen here, the Chub Chubs won the Oscar in this category Animated Short |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | OSCAR NIGHT 2003 $1600: For "Talk to Her", he became the first man in over 30 years to win with a screenplay in a foreign language Pedro Almodovar |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | OSCAR NIGHT 2003 $2000: Chris Cooper won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work in this film seen here Adaptation |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $400: 1994:
Tom Hanks for this modern parable Forrest Gump |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $800: 1944:
Bing Crosby for this religious experience Going My Way |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1200: 1934:
Clark Gable for this romantic comedy It Happened One Night |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1938:
Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama Boys Town |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1937:
Spencer Tracy for this rollicking adventure Captains Courageous |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $200: In 2001 he was "Bringing It All Back Home": a Golden Globe & an Oscar for "Things Have Changed" Bob Dylan |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: Melanie Griffith had "A Bod in Sin" in this film, but it was Carly Simon's "Let the River Run" that won an Oscar Working Girl |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $600: "Georgy Girl" & "Alfie" lost to this 1966 song that lionized a lioness named Elsa "Born Free" |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome) It's the title of a 1954 hit that won an Oscar for Best Song, & here's your big clue "Three Coins in the Fountain" |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: This legendary Broadway duo won only one Best Song Oscar, for the theme to "Gigi" Lerner and Loewe |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | OSCAR $400: For 1948's "Hamlet", he was nominated for both Best Director & Best Actor Sir Laurence Olivier |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | OSCAR $800: Starting with "The Deer Hunter", this actress received Oscar nominations in all but 4 years from 1979 through 1991 Meryl Streep |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | OSCAR $1200: Hal Wallis was nominated for producing an amazing 19 times, but won only once -- for this 1942 Bogart classic Casablanca |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | OSCAR $1600: Prior to winning his Best Director Oscar for "Platoon", he won for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Midnight Express" Oliver Stone |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | OSCAR $2000: This actress was not an official nominee for 1934's "Of Human Bondage", but she finished third in a write-in campaign Bette Davis |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | OSCAR! OSCAR! $400: He was nominated for Best Actor, Best Director & Best Screenplay for 1978's "Heaven Can Wait" & 1981's "Reds" Warren Beatty |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | OSCAR! OSCAR! $800: This actress won her second Oscar for her role in the 1951 film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" Vivien Leigh |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | OSCAR! OSCAR! $1200: For a 1936 film bio, Paul Muni won an Oscar for portraying this French scientist Louis Pasteur |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | OSCAR! OSCAR! $1600: Julie Christie won an Oscar as a beautiful but empty woman in this "endearing" 1965 film Darling |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | OSCAR! OSCAR! $2000: He earned Oscar nominations for producing "The Color Purple" & for composing its score Quincy Jones |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $400: 1964 for "My Fair Lady" Rex Harrison |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $800: 1989 for "My Left Foot" Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1200: 1968 for "Charly" Cliff Robertson |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1955 for "Marty" Ernest Borgnine |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1974 for "Harry and Tonto" Art Carney |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $400: Yul Brynner Oscar |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $800: Aerosmith Grammy |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $1200: Henry Mancini both |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $1600: Prince both |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $2000: Steve Martin Grammy |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHION $400: Her see-through outfit the night she won for "Funny Girl" inspired a few "On A Clear Day..." jokes Barbra Streisand |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHION $800: In 2001 this Icelandic singer appeared in a much talked-about swan dress Bjork |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHION $1200: In 1968 Sammy Davis Jr. was swinging in love beads & this "Indian"-style jacket Nehru jacket |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHION $1600: "Boys Don't Cry" star seen here in Versace, in 2001 Hilary Swank |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHION $2000: "Boys Don't Cry" co-star seen here in Yves Saint Laurent, in 2000 Chloe Sevigny |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $200: "The Godfather":
Marlon Brando,
Robert Duvall,
Al Pacino Brando |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $400: "The Goodbye Girl":
Quinn Cummings,
Richard Dreyfuss,
Marsha Mason Richard Dreyfuss |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $600: "The English Patient":
Ralph Fiennes,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Juliette Binoche Juliette Binoche |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $800: "Judgment at Nuremberg":
Spencer Tracy,
Maximilian Schell,
Judy Garland Maximilian Schell |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | PICK THE OSCAR WINNER $1000: "Bonnie and Clyde":
Warren Beatty,
Faye Dunaway,
Estelle Parsons Estelle Parsons |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | OSCAR $200: Stephen Gaghan won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for this 2000 drama about America's war on drugs Traffic |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | OSCAR $400: Maggie Smith actually won an Oscar for playing a film star who is in L.A. for the Oscars in this Neil Simon film California Suite |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | OSCAR $600: Michael Douglas won for producing this 1975 film that swept all 5 major Oscar categories One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | OSCAR $800: At the age of 80 she won her first Oscar--for Best Actress in "Driving Miss Daisy" Jessica Tandy |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | OSCAR $1000: His Oscar win for "Life is Beautiful" made him so elated he walked on chairs (Roberto) Benigni |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $200: A year after getting an honorary Oscar, he won his first acting Oscar for "The Color of Money" Paul Newman |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $600: At the 1980 show, this Supporting Actress winner for "Kramer vs. Kramer" left her statuette in the ladies' room Meryl Streep |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $800: This 1969 Jon Voight film is the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture, although today it would be rated R Midnight Cowboy |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): She won Best Actress Oscars in the 1930s, 1960s & 1980s Katharine Hepburn |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $1000: She was in almost every frame of "Paper Moon", but was nominated & won for Best Supporting Actress Tatum O'Neal |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $400: "Annie Hall" Woody Allen |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $800: "The Godfather Part II" Coppola |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $1200: "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $1600: "Traffic" Steven Soderbergh |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $2000: "Rain Man" Barry Levinson |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: 1998 for "Shakespeare in Love" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $800: 1978 for "Coming Home" Jane Fonda |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1200: 1990 for "Misery" Kathy Bates |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1976 for "Network" Faye Dunaway |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1973 for "A Touch of Class" Glenda Jackson |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $100: Mary Poppins Julie Andrews |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $200: Rooster Cogburn John Wayne |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $300: Loretta Lynn Sissy Spacek |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard Tommy Lee Jones |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $500: Mexican cop Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez Benicio Del Toro |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $200: Nominated for Best Actor for "Good Morning, Vietnam", he won for support in "Good Will Hunting" Robin Williams |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $400: Mister Robards won for "Julia"; he won for "Mister Roberts" Jack Lemmon |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $600: He served up a Best Supporting Actor performance in "Arthur" Sir John Gielgud |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $800: Kevin Kline "caught" a 1988 supporting Oscar for his role in this comedy A Fish Called Wanda |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $1000: In the '70s he was in his 70s when he "earned" an Oscar as Professor Kingsfield in "The Paper Chase" John Houseman |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $100: He won his first Oscar for directing “Unforgiven” Clint Eastwood |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $200: She won for not saying much as Ada McGrath in “The Piano” Holly Hunter |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $300: Susan Sarandon won for “Dead Man Walking” & he won for “Leaving Las Vegas”, which could have had the same title Nicolas Cage |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $400: Some didn't applaud the honorary Oscar to this “Streetcar” director & HUAC witness (Elia) Kazan |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $500 (Daily Double): His 12 nominations for movies of the decade produced 1 win, Best Original Score for “Schindler's List” John Williams |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | OSCAR, OSCAR $100: Hilary Swank won in 2000 for pretending to be a boy; this actress won for the same thing the year before Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | OSCAR, OSCAR $200: After winning for "Philadelphia", Tom Hanks followed it up the next year with a win for this role Forrest Gump |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | OSCAR, OSCAR $300: She lost with 2 Oscar nominations for 1993 films, "In the Name of the Father" & "The Remains of the Day" Emma Thompson |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | OSCAR, OSCAR $500: James Gleason was nominated for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" & Jack Warden was nominated for this 1978 remake Heaven Can Wait |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | OSCAR, OSCAR $1,000 (Daily Double): They're the 2 actresses named Hunt who've won acting Oscars Helen & Linda Hunt |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $200: 1 of only 4 animals mentioned in the titles of Best Picture winners (1 of) cuckoos, deer, wolves or lambs |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $400: This 1948 film was the first Best Picture winner based on a play by Shakespeare Hamlet |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $600: It's the last Best Picture winner with a nationality in its title American Beauty |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $800: One of the few Best Picture winners whose titles begin with a preposition is this 1967 Rod Steiger film In the Heat of the Night |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $1000: This moving 1941 drama is the only Best Picture with a color in its title How Green Was My Valley |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $100: Cher both |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $200: Meryl Streep Oscar |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $300: Madonna Grammy |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $400: Rita Moreno Both |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $500: Shirley Jones Oscar (for Elmer Gantry) |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $200: "When You Wish Upon A Star" Pinocchio |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: "Take My Breath Away" Top Gun |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $600: "You Must Love Me" Evita |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: "I'm Easy" Nashville |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" Dick Tracy |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $200: "My Heart Will Go On"
(1997) Titanic |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $400: "Gonna Fly Now"
(1976) Rocky |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $600: "Moon River"
(1961) Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $800: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
(1947) Song of the South |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $1000: "Somewhere Out There"
(1986) An American Tail |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $200: Born in India in 1913, she won her second Oscar for playing Blanche DuBois in 1951 Vivian Leigh |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $400: Aussie Geoffrey got quite a rush winning for this 1996 film Shine |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $600: Of the 2 women to win acting awards for 1961, she was the Italian Sophia Loren (for "Two Women") |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $800: Her last of 3 Oscar wins was for playing Greta Ohlsson in 1974's "Murder on the Orient Express" Ingrid Bergman |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1957 winner claimed he was born on Sakhalin Island, about 3,000 miles northeast of Siam Yul Brynner |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: "Not Excused" Unforgiven |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: "Courageous Organ" Braveheart |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $600: "Ancient Vehicles Ablaze" Chariots of Fire |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "Commonplace Populace" Ordinary People |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: "A Ruminant Pursuer" The Deer Hunter |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | OSCAR WINNING ROLES $200: Jake La Motta Robert De Niro |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | OSCAR WINNING ROLES $400: Elmer Gantry Burt Lancaster |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | OSCAR WINNING ROLES $600: Blind Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Ret.) Al Pacino |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | OSCAR WINNING ROLES $800: Terry Malloy Marlon Brando |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | OSCAR WINNING ROLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Mammy Hattie McDaniel |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | OSCAR! $100: This character has been portrayed on film by Walter Matthau & on TV by Jack Klugman Oscar Madison |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | OSCAR! $200: He lives in a garbage can, hates anything nice & loves trash Oscar the Grouch |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | OSCAR! $300: With $38 million, this boxer made Forbes' 1997 list of the highest-paid athletes Oscar De La Hoya |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | OSCAR! $400: One biography of this lyricist is called "Getting To Know Him" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | OSCAR! $500: He was designing for Elizabeth Arden before operating under his own label Oscar de la Renta |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | WHO WON THE OSCAR? $200: Al Pacino, for "Scent of a Woman"; Robert Downey Jr., for "Chaplin"; Denzel Washington, for "Malcolm X" Al Pacino (1992) |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | WHO WON THE OSCAR? $400: Tom Cruise, for "Jerry Maguire"; Geoffrey Rush, for "Shine"; Ralph Fiennes, for "The English Patient" Geoffrey Rush |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | WHO WON THE OSCAR? $600: Brad Pitt, for "12 Monkeys"; James Cromwell, for "Babe"; Kevin Spacey, for "The Usual Suspects" Kevin Spacey |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | WHO WON THE OSCAR? $800: Jodie Foster, for "Nell"; Jessica Lange, for "Blue Sky"; Winona Ryder, for "Little Women" Jessica Lange |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | WHO WON THE OSCAR? $1000: Robert Loggia, for "Jagged Edge"; Eric Roberts, for "Runaway Train"; Don Ameche, for "Cocoon" Don Ameche |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | OSCAR MOMENTS $100: She accepted her Oscar for "Places In The Heart" by exclaiming "You like me....You like me!" Sally Field |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | OSCAR MOMENTS $200: The 1991 Oscar envelope for best makeup was "hand-delivered" by Thing, from this film "The Addams Family" |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | OSCAR MOMENTS $300: In 1974 Robert Opel did this, causing David Niven to comment about Opel "showing off his shortcomings" streaking across the stage |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | OSCAR MOMENTS $400: In 1998 this director asked for a moment of silence honoring those who were lost on the Titanic James Cameron |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | OSCAR MOMENTS $500: In 1973 she said Marlon Brando "Very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award" Sacheen Littlefeather |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $100: ["Somewhere Over The Rainbow"] The Wizard of Oz |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $200: ["Tale as old as time..."] Beauty and the Beast |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $300: ["What a feeling"] Flashdance |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: ["Colors Of The Wind"] Pocahontas |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $500: ["Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | WHO WON THE OSCAR? $200: Robert De Niro, for "Cape Fear";
Anthony Hopkins, for "The Silence of the Lambs";
Warren Beatty, for "Bugsy" Anthony Hopkins |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | WHO WON THE OSCAR? $400: Rosie Perez, for "Fearless";
Holly Hunter, for "The Firm";
Anna Paquin, for "The Piano" Anna Paquin |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | WHO WON THE OSCAR? $600: Vanessa Redgrave, for "Howards End";
Joan Plowright, for "Enchanted April";
Marisa Tomei, for "My Cousin Vinny" Marisa Tomei |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $100: Forrest Gump Tom Hanks |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $200: Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $300: Norma Rae Sally Field |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: Miss Daisy Werthan Jessica Tandy |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $500 (Daily Double): Sophie Zawistowska Meryl Streep |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $200: This "Funny Girl"'s first New York show, "Another Evening with Harry Stoones", closed after 1 performance Barbra Streisand |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $400: He played the psychiatrist in "Equus" before he played Hannibal Lecter, who needed a psychiatrist Anthony Hopkins |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $600: Mike Nichols saw him in a play called "Eh?" & offered him the starring role in "The Graduate" Dustin Hoffman |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $800: She starred in "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean..." onstage & on film before she was "Moonstruck" Cher |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $1000: He cleaned houses before he co-starred in "Godspell" in London: what a "Reversal of Fortune" Jeremy Irons |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | OSCAR TRIVIA $200: This 1992 Clint Eastwood film was only the third Western ever to win "Best Picture" Unforgiven |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | OSCAR TRIVIA $400: At the 1942 Oscars, he presented himself with the "Best Song" award for "White Christmas" Irving Berlin |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | OSCAR TRIVIA $600: From 1939 until 1966, the award for cinematography was divided into these 2 categories color & black & white |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | OSCAR TRIVIA $1000: This French existentialist's "The Proud and the Beautiful" earned him a nom. for Best Motion Picture Story (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | OSCAR TRIVIA $1,500 (Daily Double): When he appeared to accept his 1971 honorary Oscar, he'd been out of the country for 20 years Charlie Chaplin |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | THE "OSCAR"s $200: His last collaboration with Richard Rodgers was "The Sound of Music" in 1959 Oscar Hammerstein |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | THE "OSCAR"s $400: This fashion designer came to fame when he designed a gown for the debutante daughter of a U.S. ambassador Oscar de la Renta |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | THE "OSCAR"s $600: He wrote the plays "A Woman of No Importance" & "The Importance of Being Earnest" Oscar Wilde |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | THE "OSCAR"s $800: This actor-pianist played himself in "Rhapsody in Blue" & Adam Cook in "An American in Paris" Oscar Levant |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | THE "OSCAR"s $1000: The "Pride of East L.A.", he won the olympic gold in Aug. '92 & his 1st pro bout just months later Oscar de la Hoya |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHIONS $100: He sported a snazzy red leather bow tie when he grabbed a fistful of Oscars for "Unforgiven" Clint Eastwood |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHIONS $200: In 1986 this singer-actress' Bob Mackie ensemble featured a wild feathered headdress & a bare navel Cher |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHIONS $300: She picked up her Oscar for "My Cousin Vinny" in an elegant white Chanel gown with black stripes Marisa Tomei |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHIONS $400: In 1993 this "Lorenzo's Oil" nominee poured herself into a tight gold gown that rivaled the Oscar itself Susan Sarandon |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHIONS $500: In 1993 she was in "A League of Her Own" in a daringly low-cut black velvet gown designed by Bill Hargate Geena Davis |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | OSCAR WILDE $200: The only literary property Wilde wrote after being in prison was this "Ballad" The Ballad of Reading Gaol |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | OSCAR WILDE $300 (Daily Double): Its preface begins, "The artist is the creator of beautiful things" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | OSCAR WILDE $400: On Broadway in 1992, Sheryl Lee of "Twin Peaks" gave a thinly-veiled performance in this title role Salome |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | OSCAR WILDE $600: He wrote, "Questions are never indiscreet." These "sometimes are." answers |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | OSCAR WILDE $800: Mad at his son Alfred Douglas' relationship with Wilde, this marquess wanted to box Wilde's ears the Marquess of Queensberry |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $100: Robert De Niro, John Savage & Christopher Walken played 3 friends who served in Vietnam in this 1978 film The Deer Hunter |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $200: Originally rated X, this film starring Jon Voight in the title role won the 1969 Oscar Midnight Cowboy |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $300: Completes the title of 1980's winning foreign-language film, "Moscow Does Not Believe in..." Tears |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $400: Greta Garbo delivered her famous line "I want to be alone" in this Oscar-winning 1932 film Grand Hotel |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $600 (Daily Double): Bing Crosby sang "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" in this 1944 Oscar winner Going My Way |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | OSCAR WINNING SONGS $100: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | OSCAR WINNING SONGS $200: "Talk To The Animals" Dr. Dolittle |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | OSCAR WINNING SONGS $300: "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" Dirty Dancing |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | OSCAR WINNING SONGS $400: "Let The River Run" Working Girl |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | OSCAR WINNING SONGS $500: "White Christmas" Holiday Inn |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | OSCAR LOSERS $100: Doctors don't fare well: in 1966 "Doctor Zhivago" lost, in 1968 this Rex Harrison doctor Doctor Dolittle |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | OSCAR LOSERS $200: In 1975 he lost the Best Picture Oscar as producer of "The Conversation" but won for "The Godfather, Part II" (Francis Ford) Coppola |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | OSCAR LOSERS $300: Married to each other at the time, they were both nominated for "The Goodbye Girl" Neil Simon & Marsha Mason |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | OSCAR LOSERS $400: "Taxi Driver", "Network", "All the President's Men" & "Bound for Glory" were KO'd by this film for 1976 Rocky |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | OSCAR LOSERS $500: At the 1949 awards, the time wasn't right for this Gregory Peck war film to win Best Picture 12 O'Clock High |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | OSCAR WILDE $200: Richard Strauss turned this Wilde play into a wild opera, one veil at a time Salomé |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | OSCAR WILDE $400: It's where Wilde was forced to spend the years between 1895-97 prison |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | OSCAR WILDE $600: Jack Worthing poses as this man to win the hand of Algy's cousin Gwendolen Earnest |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | OSCAR WILDE $800: Wilde spent the last years of his life in this city living under the name Sebastian Melmoth Paris |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | OSCAR WILDE $1000: Basil Hallward was the character who produced this title object The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $200: It's the title phrase following "When somebody loves you, it's no good unless he loves you..." "All The Way" |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: In this 1967 winner Rex Harrison asked up to "imagine it, chatting to a chimp in Chimpanzee" "Talk To The Animals" |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: Andy Williams used this song from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" as his TV theme but never had a hit single with it "Moon River" |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Movie which gave us the following "Best Song" of 1964:
"Chim chiminey / Chim chiminey / Chim chim cher-ee! / A sweep is as lucky / As lucky can be..." Mary Poppins |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: In 1989 Carly Simon won an Oscar for writing this song from "Working Girl" "Let The River Run" |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | OSCAR FIRSTS $200: In 1934 she became the first child star to receive an Oscar Shirley Temple |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | OSCAR FIRSTS $400: In 1988 she became the 1st person known by a single name to win a Best Acting Oscar Cher |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | OSCAR FIRSTS $600: This silent screen swashbuckler was the 1st person to emcee the awards Douglas Fairbanks (Sr.) |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | OSCAR FIRSTS $800: This star of "The Song of Bernadette" was the 1st to win an Oscar for playing a saint Jennifer Jones |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | OSCAR FIRSTS $1000: Some say he was Swiss, some say German & some say American, but all say he won 1st Oscar as "Best Actor" Emil Jannings |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $200: A wish for an Oscar came true for Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne after dropping this many "Coins in the Fountain" 3 |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: "Come on along & listen to" this winner from "Gold Diggers of 1935" "The Lullaby Of Broadway" |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $600: Yep, Gary Cooper might have told you this song began "Do not forsake me, oh my darlin'" "High Noon" |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: Not only did this 1944 film win "Best Picture", it provided the year's best song, "Swinging on a Star" Going My Way |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1,800 (Daily Double): 1967 film which gave us the following Oscar-winning song: Doctor Dolittle |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $100: Bob Hope's theme song, he 1st sang it in "The Big Broadcast of 1938" "Thanks for the Memory" |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | OSCAR-LOSING SONGS $100: After she sang "True Love" in "High Society", the song lost an Oscar but then she won a crown Grace Kelly |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | OSCAR-LOSING SONGS $300: Though it lost the 1963 Oscar, this "Theme from Mondo Cane" became BMI's all-time 2nd most played song "More" |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | OSCAR-LOSING SONGS $400: 1934 nominees "Love in Bloom" & "The Carioca" are the only 2 songs which share this distinction first 2 nominees and did not win |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | OSCAR-LOSING SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Celestial songs losing '36 Oscars included "A Melody from the Sky", "When Did You Leave Heaven" & this: [Piano instrumental plays] "Pennies from Heaven" |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | OSCAR-LOSING SONGS $500: 1954 holiday film which produced the Oscar-losing "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" White Christmas |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | OSCAR SONGS $100: As Dr. Dolittle, Rex Harrison sang this 1967 Oscar-winner to people too "Talk To The Animals" |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | OSCAR SONGS $200: 1942 Irving Berlin classic that's sold more records than any other "White Christmas" |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | OSCAR SONGS $400: In "Going My Way", Bing Crosby asks “Would you rather” be doing this title task or be a fish "Swinging On A Star" |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | OSCAR SONGS $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 Oscar winners sung in the films by Doris Day "Que Sera, Sera" or ("Secret Love") |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | OSCAR SONGS $500: This 1st winner, from "Gay Divorcee", is also a luxury car The Continental |
| #302, aired 1985-11-05 | OSCAR WOMEN $100: Sally Field won her 1st Oscar playing her Norma Rae |
| #302, aired 1985-11-05 | OSCAR WOMEN $200: "Miracle Worker" & workee who won Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress in 1962 Patty Duke & Anne Bancroft |
| #302, aired 1985-11-05 | OSCAR WOMEN $300: In her "Prime", she won for playing Miss Jean Brodie Maggie Smith |
| #302, aired 1985-11-05 | OSCAR WOMEN $400: In 1964 & '65, these 2 Julies won back to back Oscars as "Mary Poppins" & "Darling" Julie Andrews & Julie Christie |
| #302, aired 1985-11-05 | OSCAR WOMEN $500: She won the 1st "Best" for "Seventh Heaven" (Janet) Gaynor |
| #88, aired 1985-01-09 | OSCAR SONGS $200: "Breakfast at Tiffany's" tune that became Andy Williams theme "Moon River" |
| #88, aired 1985-01-09 | OSCAR SONGS $400: What "makes that little ol' ant think he can move that rubber tree plant" "High Hopes" |
| #88, aired 1985-01-09 | OSCAR SONGS $600: Crooner who sang "Sweet Leilani" in "Waikiki Wedding" Bing Crosby |
| #88, aired 1985-01-09 | OSCAR SONGS $800: Rodgers & Hammerstein musical that featured "It Might as Well Be Spring" State Fair |
| #88, aired 1985-01-09 | OSCAR SONGS $1000: "Wizard of Oz" songwriter who found Oscar at the end of his "Rainbow" Harold Arlen |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | OSCAR SONGS $100: Only Oscar winner sung by a cricket, it's Disney's theme "When You Wish Upon a Star" |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | OSCAR SONGS $200: She sang '80's "Fame" & '83's "What a Feeling" Irene Cara |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | OSCAR SONGS $300: '38 winner that became Bob Hope's theme song "Thanks for the Memory" |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | OSCAR SONGS $500 (Daily Double): 1960 song named for day Melina Mercouri rested: "Never On Sunday" |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | OSCAR SONGS $500: This 1st winner, from "Gay Divorcee", is also a Lincoln luxury car "The Continental" |
