| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $400: The hills were alive with her singing the title song in "The Sound of Music" Julie Andrews |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $800: Renee Zellweger razzles & dazzles 'em in this murderous musical smash Chicago |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $1200: In "Birdman" he starred as a washed-up screen superhero trying to make a comeback on stage Michael Keaton |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $1600: Who wants to get rich on a game show in India? Dev Patel, in this Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $2000: She was nominated for Best Actress for "The Shape of Water", in which she didn't have much dialogue but did get a singing scene Sally Hawkins |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $200: Accepting for his "Revenant" role, he said, "Climate change is real, it is happening... let us not take this planet for granted" Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $400: This longtime TV character was originally orange but he said a vacation to swamp mushy muddy turned him green overnight Oscar the Grouch |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $400: Sure, you remember the swan dress of this Icelandic singer, but how 'bout the 6 ostrich eggs she "laid" on the red carpet? Bjork |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $600: Celebs began to walk a red carpet in 1961, but TV viewers may not have known because this didn't come to the Oscar telecast until 1966 color |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $800: Britannica said this writer in college in the 1870s distinguished himself "as a classical scholar, a poseur, and a wit" Oscar Wilde |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $800: In 1948 James Baskett won a special Oscar for playing this storyteller in "Song of the South" Uncle Remus |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $1000: Winner Emma Thompson said she went to Jane Austen's grave "to pay my respects...& tell her about the grosses" of this pic Sense and Sensibility |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $1200: We bet you know Oscar Goodman became mayor of this city in 1999 & swore in his wife to replace him in 2011 Las Vegas |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $2,000 (Daily Double): A Chicago magnet school is named for this man, a once-local butcher Oscar Mayer |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $2000: This fashion icon from the Dominican Republic dressed First Ladies, including Nancy Reagan Oscar de la Renta |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $200: Nearly 44 million people were watching the Oscars on ABC in 2014 when this film about Solomon Northup won Best Picture 12 Years a Slave |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $400: On Oscar night 2016 Best Animated Short went to "Bear Story"; this other bear story won Best Actor & Best Director The Revenant |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $600: This half of a sibling duo runs the gamut from "There's Something About Mary" to "Green Book", for which he won 2 Oscars Peter Farrelly |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $800: The second, third & fourth Oscars for Best Actress went to Canadian-born women, starting with her, "America's Sweetheart" Pickford |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $1000: The Oscar-winning song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" was by this hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE OSCARS $200: Almost one year after receiving her Oscar for Best Actress, she became a real-life princess Grace Kelly |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE OSCARS $400: Both Jose Ferrer & Gerard Depardieu received Oscar nominations for playing this title character Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE OSCARS $600: At the ceremony in 1998, this Best Director declared himself "King of the World" James Cameron |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE OSCARS $800: 3 actors got 1982 nominations for acting in drag: Dustin Hoffman, Julie Andrews & this film's John Lithgow The World According to Garp |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE OSCARS $1000: This Oscar-winning song from 1952 is subtitled "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" "High Noon" |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE OSCARS $400: After winning Best Supporting Actress for "Kramer vs. Kramer", she left her statuette in the ladies' room Meryl Streep |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE OSCARS $800: Timothy Hutton won a 1980 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film directed by Robert Redford Ordinary People |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE OSCARS $1200: Paddy Chayefsky won an Oscar for his very first screenplay--this 1955 Ernest Borgnine film Marty |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE OSCARS $1600: The rumor that her acceptance speech for "Mrs. Miniver" ran over an hour is untrue; actually it was about 7 minutes Greer Garson |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE OSCARS $1,800 (Daily Double): Her 2 acting Oscars for "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" & "Airport" were 39 years apart Helen Hayes |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | OSCARS OF THE '70s $400: No relation to the Lakers' center, she's the youngest ever to win a Supporting Actress Oscar Tatum O'Neal |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | OSCARS OF THE '70s $800: "Colorful" actor seen here who won Best Supporting Actor in 1973 Joel Grey |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | OSCARS OF THE '70s $1200: Of Jack Nicholson's 5 nominations in the 1970s, this was the only movie for which he won One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | OSCARS OF THE '70s $2000: This son of a famous French Impressionist painter received an honorary Oscar in 1975 Jean Renoir |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | OSCARS OF THE '70s $10,000 (Daily Double): For her portrayal of Greta Ohlsson in a 1974 mystery, this legendary actress scored her third Oscar Ingrid Bergman |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS $400: This classic, the Best Picture of 1953, made getting sandy seem sexy From Here to Eternity |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS $800: The second African-American actress to win an Oscar, she hosted the ceremony the night Halle Berry won Whoopi Goldberg |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS $1200: This comedian holds the record for hosting the most Oscar ceremonies: a whopping 18 of them Bob Hope |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS $1600: This late, great actor's performance in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" made him the Best Actor of '57 Alec Guinness |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS $2000: This 1939 classic earned 11 Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture
"The whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THE OSCARS $200: One of the 2 films for which Barbra Streisand has won an Oscar Funny Girl (or A Star is Born) |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THE OSCARS $400: This 2000 love story that won 4 Oscars is the highest-grossing foreign language film in North America Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THE OSCARS $600 (Daily Double): Followed by several sequels, this 1970 film was the first modern disaster movie nominated for Best Picture Airport |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THE OSCARS $600: In 1973, "The Godfather" won Best Picture, while this musical won 8 Oscars Cabaret |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THE OSCARS $1000: This 3-time Oscar winner won his third Academy Award for playing Judge Roy Bean in "The Westerner" Walter Brennan |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | THE OSCARS $200: His performance in "The Cider House Rules" earned him his second Oscar -- & a standing ovation Michael Caine |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | THE OSCARS $400: Adding that he was "stunned" to win, this star of "American Beauty" quipped, "This is the highlight of my day" Kevin Spacey |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | THE OSCARS $600: Robin Williams & some high-kicking Lady Mounties performed this nominated song from the "South Park" film "Blame Canada" |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | THE OSCARS $800: This Best Actress winner for "Boys Don't Cry" said, "I pray for the day when...we actually celebrate our diversity" Hilary Swank |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | THE OSCARS $1000: Winning for Best Supporting Actress, she called Jon Voight "A great actor, but a better father" Angelina Jolie |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $200: Producer David O. Selznick won 2 straight Best Picture Oscars: "Rebecca" for 1940 & this film the previous year Gone With The Wind |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $400: Upon winning Best Director for this 1998 film, Steven Spielberg said, "Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?" Saving Private Ryan |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $600: She was 10 when she won Best Supporting Actress for "Paper Moon", the youngest acting winner ever Tatum O'Neal |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $800: 1941's "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" & this 1978 remake starring Warren Beatty were both nominated for Best Picture Heaven Can Wait |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $1000: Gloria Swanson won a 1928 Oscar nomination for her title role as this Somerset Maugham tart Sadie Thompson |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | THE OSCARS $200: He won an Oscar for Best Actor for his final film, "On Golden Pond" Henry Fonda |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | THE OSCARS $400: Edith Head holds the record for most consecutive years of Oscar nominations with 19, all in this field Costuming |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | THE OSCARS $600: Both Marlon Brando & Robert De Niro won Oscars for playing this character Don Vito Corleone |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | THE OSCARS $800: He won as producer for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" & as Best Actor for "Wall Street" 12 years later Michael Douglas |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | THE OSCARS $1000: This director of "Prizzi's Honor" was 79 when he was nominated for Best Director, the oldest ever John Huston |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THE OSCARS $200: He's the first man since Walter Brennan to win 3 acting Oscars; yep, that's "As Good As It Gets" Jack Nicholson |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THE OSCARS $400: Ben Affleck said winning was "Really, really scary" when he & Matt Damon won for writing this film Good Will Hunting |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THE OSCARS $600: He won back-to-back Oscars as Best Actor of 1993 & 1994 Tom Hanks |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THE OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1969 film was the first X-rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THE OSCARS $1000: 1935 cinematography winner Hal Mohr is still the only person to win by votes of this type Write-in votes |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | THE OSCARS $600: This star of "Elmer Gantry" earned his last Oscar nomination for Louis Malle's 1981 film "Atlantic City" Burt Lancaster |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | THE OSCARS $800: Liam Neeson was nominated for an Oscar for playing a man named Oskar in this 1993 film "Schindler's List" |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | THE OSCARS $1000: For the 1998 Oscars this nominee wore a $20 million diamond inspired by the gem in "Titanic" Gloria Stuart |
| #3156, aired 1998-04-27 | THE 70th OSCARS $100: Hours before she won her Oscar, she agreed to return to "Mad About You", for $1 million an episode Helen Hunt |
| #3156, aired 1998-04-27 | THE 70th OSCARS $200: Confidentially, she was named Best Supporting Actress for "L.A. Confidential" Kim Basinger |
| #3156, aired 1998-04-27 | THE 70th OSCARS $300: On winning for this film, Robin Williams said, "Thank you, Ben and Matt. I still want to see some I.D." Good Will Hunting |
| #3156, aired 1998-04-27 | THE 70th OSCARS $400: "I'm the king of the world!" exulted this director when he won for "Titanic" James Cameron |
| #3156, aired 1998-04-27 | THE 70th OSCARS $500: On winning this honorary Oscar, this director-choreographer tap-danced & sang part of his thank you speech Stanley Donen |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | THE OSCARS $200: Though he's acted on screen, as in "Tommy", his first nomination & win was for a song in "The Lion King" Elton John |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | THE OSCARS $400: Song from "Pinocchio" that won a real, not wooden, Oscar "When You Wish Upon A Star" |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | THE OSCARS $800: In 1951 "Harvey"'s Jimmy Stewart lost by a nose to best actor Jose Ferrer in this title role Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | THE OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): Film seen here, its director was nominated, but it didn't make it into the Best Picture category: Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | THE OSCARS $1000: Paul Newman's only win for Best Actor was for the second time he played this character "Fast Eddie" Felson |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | THE OSCARS $200: Steven Spielberg compared this Thalberg Award winner & "Star Wars" director to Luke Skywalker George Lucas |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | THE OSCARS $400: When he won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Fugitive", his head was shaved for his role as Ty Cobb Tommy Lee Jones |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | THE OSCARS $600: The 2 actors nominated for their performances in this 1995 film were Ed Harris & Kathleen Quinlan "Apollo 13" |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | THE OSCARS $800: At age 79 he became the oldest person ever nominated for Best Director, for "Prizzi's Honor" John Huston |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | THE OSCARS $1000: The first movie nominated for Best Foreign Language Film & Best Picture, its title is just 1 letter "Z" |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | THE OSCARS $100: It's "clear" he's the perfect choice to host the Oscars; since 1990, he's done it 5 times Billy Crystal |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | THE OSCARS $200: This superstar & Cuba Gooding, Jr. were both nominated for "Jerry Maguire"; Cuba won Tom Cruise |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | THE OSCARS $300: Best actress Frances McDormand played a pregnant cop in this film named for a North Dakota city Fargo |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | THE OSCARS $400: This Frenchwoman was surprised to win for "The English Patient"; she thought Lauren Bacall deserved it Juliette Binoche |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | THE OSCARS $500: This pianist made a surprise appearance on the show, & Geoffrey Rush won for playing him in "Shine" David Helfgott |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE OSCARS $200: The Best Song Oscars for 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994 & 1995 went to songs from this company's animated movies Disney |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE OSCARS $400: For 1986 this director's film won a whole "Platoon" of Oscars Oliver Stone |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE OSCARS $600: Clint Eastwood won for directing "Unforgiven" & this man won for acting in it Gene Hackman |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE OSCARS $800: One of the few women directors to have their films nominated for Best Picture, she did it with "Awakenings" Penny Marshall |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE OSCARS $1000: It was the first color film to win a Best Picture Oscar Gone With The Wind |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | THE OSCARS $200: Even Daddy Warbucks couldn't buy this 1982 John Huston-directed musical an Oscar; it lost both nominations "Annie" |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | THE OSCARS $400: Woody Allen was nominated for acting in, directing & writing this 1977 film; he won for the latter 2 "Annie Hall" |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | THE OSCARS $600: Greta Garbo was nominated for this, her first MGM sound film, based on a Eugene O'Neill play "Anna Christie" |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | THE OSCARS $800: Her supporting actress win for 1993's "The Piano" made her the 2nd-youngest winner of a competitive Oscar Anna Paquin |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | THE OSCARS $1000: She won for her starring role in her first English language film, "The Rose Tattoo" Anna Magnani |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | THE OSCARS $200: Jose Ferrer & Gerard Depardieu were nominated for this title role 40 years apart; Ferrer won Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | THE OSCARS $400: This series of films earned nominations for Pat Morita & the song "Glory Of Love" The Karate Kid |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | THE OSCARS $600: This 1949 movie featuring Terry Moore & a gorilla earned a special-effects award Mighty Joe Young |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | THE OSCARS $800: This French actress won for "Room At The Top" & was nominated for "Ship Of Fools" Simone Signoret |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | THE OSCARS $1000: Rick Baker has won Oscars in this category for "An American Werewolf In London" & "Ed Wood" Makeup |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | THE 68th OSCARS $100: Paul Sorvino wept with joy when this actress, his daughter won for "Mighty Aphrodite" Mira |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | THE 68th OSCARS $200: This Oscar host, a winner for "Ghost" called herself "The Might Afro Deity" Whoopi Goldberg |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | THE 68th OSCARS $300: Christine Cavanaugh, the voice of this pig, carried a jeweled handbag shaped like a pig to the Oscars Babe |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | THE 68th OSCARS $400: His "Maverick" co-star Jodie Foster hired a bagpiper to serenade him at Oscar night parties Mel Gibson |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | THE 68th OSCARS $500 (Daily Double): Ironically, the envelope was missing when this film from Italy won a 1995 Oscar for its musical score Il Postino |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | THE OSCARS $100: He said, "I swear I have never held one before" when he accepted his Best Director Oscar for "Schindler's List" Steven Spielberg |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | THE OSCARS $200: The 1939 Oscar she won for playing Scarlett O'Hara was auctioned off in 1993 for $563,500 Vivian Leigh |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | THE OSCARS $300: This winner of the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Award said "The salad dressing is outgrossing my films" Paul Newman |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | THE OSCARS $400: 1993's Best Actress for "The Piano"; she was also a 1993 nominee for her supporting role in "The Firm" Holly Hunter |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | THE OSCARS $500: A 6-time Best Actress nominee for such films as "The King And I"; she received a honorary Oscar in 1994 Deborah Kerr |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | THE OSCARS $100: When he won for directing the Scottish epic "Braveheart", he joked "What I really want to do is act" Mel Gibson |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | THE OSCARS $200: She had the "Sense and Sensibility" to win an Oscar for her screenplay adapted from Jane Austen's novel Emma Thompson |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | THE OSCARS $300: His performance as a suicidal alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas" won him the Best Actor Oscar Nicolas Cage |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | THE OSCARS $400: A "champion" among actors; this star of "Spartacus" earned a honorary Oscar & a standing ovation Kirk Douglas |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | THE OSCARS $500: Winning for "Dead Man Walking", she told Tim Robbins, "This is yours as much as mine. Thank God we live together!" Susan Sarandon |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | THE OSCARS $200: The first Best Picture winner, "Wings", was set in this war World War I |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | THE OSCARS $400: For this 1942 film, James Cagney became the first actor to win for a musical Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | THE OSCARS $600: She accepted her Oscar for "The Three Faces of Eve" wearing a hundred-dollar dress she made herself Joanne Woodward |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | THE OSCARS $800: The Best Song for 1990 was "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from this Warren Beatty film Dick Tracy |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | THE OSCARS $1000: Paul Newman won an Oscar for this 1986 sequel to "The Hustler" The Color of Money |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE 1994 OSCARS $100: Original Score & Original Song awards went to music from this "roaring" good animated film The Lion King |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE 1994 OSCARS $200: Best Original Screenplay went to this film's Roger Avary & Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE 1994 OSCARS $300: She could hired a "Blue Sky" writer to announce her Best Actress win Jessica Lange |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE 1994 OSCARS $400: Lizzy Gardiner picked up her Costume Design award wearing a dress made out of 254 of these cards American Express cards |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE 1994 OSCARS $500: Tom Hanks became the first actor since this man in 1937-38 to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars Spencer Tracy |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | THE OSCARS $100: The Oscar ceremony held in 1959 set this record: amazingly, it lasted only 1 hour & 40 minutes the shortest one on record |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | THE OSCARS $200: He directed his daughter Anjelica's Oscar-winning performance in "Prizzi's Honor" John Huston |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | THE OSCARS $300: In 1995 this Tom Hanks film received 13 Oscar nominations including Best Actor & Best Picture Forrest Gump |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | THE OSCARS $400: A documentary about this woman won a 1955 Oscar, 7 years before Patty Duke won for playing her as a child Helen Keller |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | THE OSCARS $500: She was only 22 when she won the first Best Actress Oscar; she must have been in "Seventh Heaven" Janet Gaynor |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE OSCARS $200: These 2 Hepburns competed against each other for the 1959 & 1967 Best Actress Oscars Audrey and Katharine Hepburn |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE OSCARS $400: 1961's Best Actor, Maximilian Schell, directed the 1984 Oscar-nominated film "Marlene", about this star Marlene Dietrich |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE OSCARS $600: After winning her first Oscar, for "BUtterfield 8", she went backstage & fainted Elizabeth Taylor |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE OSCARS $800: Eva Marie Saint was 1954's Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in this Marlon Brando classic On the Waterfront |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE OSCARS $1000: Neil Simon & this actress, his wife at the time, were both 1977 nominees for "The Goodbye Girl" Marsha Mason |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | THE OSCARS $100: In 1988 this former James Bond was named "Best Supporting Actor" for "The Untouchables" Sean Connery |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | THE OSCARS $200: This 1991 "Best Picture" winner starring Jodie Foster was the first to appear on home video prior to its win The Silence of the Lambs |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | THE OSCARS $300: On March 26, 1990, this revered Japanese director received an honorary Oscar for his body of work Kurosawa |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | THE OSCARS $400: This director received Oscar nominations for his first 2 films, winning for "The Graduate" (Mike) Nichols |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | THE OSCARS $500: Keith Carradine won a 1975 Oscar for composing "I'm Easy" for this Robert Altman film Nashville |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | THE OSCARS $100: This Steven Spielberg film about Peter Pan received a 1992 nomination for "Best Costume Design" Hook |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | THE OSCARS $200: In 1992 this Disney film became the first animated feature ever nominated for "Best Picture" Beauty and the Beast |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | THE OSCARS $300: This actor won as "Best Director" for "Dances with Wolves", his directorial debut Kevin Costner |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | THE OSCARS $400: "Somewhere In My Memory" from this 1990 Macaulay Culkin film was nominated for "Best Song" Home Alone |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | THE OSCARS $500: Bruce Joel Rubin won an Oscar for writing this 1990 film in which Whoopi Goldberg played a medium Ghost |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | THE OSCARS $100: When Dimitri Tiomkin "scored" with a 1954 Oscar, he thanked these 3 Bs of classical music Brahms, Beethoven & Bach |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | THE OSCARS $200: It was the first color film to win a "Best Picture" Oscar &, fittingly, it had a "Scarlett" heroine Gone with the Wind |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | THE OSCARS $300: He was an Oscar-winning producer before he won an acting Oscar for his performance in "Wall Street" Michael Douglas |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | THE OSCARS $400 (Daily Double): "Babette's Feast", based on a story by this woman, was the 1st Danish winner as "Best Foreign Language Film" Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | THE OSCARS $500: Never nominated for "Best Director", he got a Supporting Actor nomination for "Sunset Boulevard" Erich von Stroheim |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | THE OSCARS $200: Screenwriter Callie Khouri described her win as "a happy ending for" this Susan Sarandon-Geena Davis film Thelma & Louise |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | THE OSCARS $400: She thanked her director Peter Bogdanovich & her father when she won for "Paper Moon" Tatum O'Neal |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | THE OSCARS $600: In 1974 this urbane British actor was co-hosting the Oscars when a streaker flashed by David Niven |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | THE OSCARS $800: He produced the Oscar-winning "Grand Hotel" & a special award was named for him after he died in 1936 Irving Thalberg |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | THE OSCARS $1000: Rachel Roberts & this actor, her husband at the time, were both nominated for 1963 Oscars; neither won Rex Harrison |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $100: 6 of the first 10 Oscars for "Best Director" went to men with this first name, including Capra Frank |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $200: Meryl Streep starred in this 1985 film, the only one with a continent in its title to win "Best Picture" Out of Africa |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $300: He & his sister Jane were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for Writing & she for Acting Peter Fonda |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $400: "It Happened One Night" that she became the first French-born actress to win an Oscar (Claudette) Colbert |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $800 (Daily Double): This songwriter was nominated for a 1942 Oscar for writing the original story of "Holiday Inn" Irving Berlin |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | THE OSCARS $200: Jack Palance won his "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar for this 1991 western film City Slickers |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | THE OSCARS $400: This 1990 film's only performance award was won by Whoopi Goldberg for "Best Supporting Actress" Ghost |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | THE OSCARS $600: 1 of 2 films for which Oliver Stone has won "Best Director" Platoon (or Born on the Fourth of July) |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | THE OSCARS $800: This second Indiana Jones film won a 1984 Oscar for its visual effects Temple of Doom |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | THE OSCARS $1000: Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow won Oscars for scripting this Dustin Hoffman film about an autustic man Rain Man |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | THE OSCARS $100: The Academy showed good "taste" in giving him a "Best Actor" Oscar for "The Silence of the Lambs" Anthony Hopkins |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | THE OSCARS $200: When she won an Oscar for "Terms of Endearment", she cracked, "I deserve this" Shirley MacLaine |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | THE OSCARS $300: Bette Davis presented him with a "Best Actor" award for "On The Waterfront", & he accepted it Marlon Brando |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | THE OSCARS $400: This actor received 2 Oscar nominations for playing the same role in 2 "Godfather" films Al Pacino |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | THE OSCARS $500: Mary Badham was such a good "Scout" in this Gregory Peck film that she received a 1962 Oscar nomination To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | THE OSCARS $100: Jeremy Irons' performance as this enigmatic socialite won him a 1990 Oscar von Bulow |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | THE OSCARS $200: Michael Caine & Dianne Wiest both won Oscars for this Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | THE OSCARS $300: This director who won for "The Last Emperor" is Italian, not Chinese Bertolucci |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | THE OSCARS $400: William Hurt, Holly Hunter & Albert Brooks all received acting nominations for this 1987 film Broadcast News |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | THE OSCARS $500: Whoopi Goldberg was the first Black actress to win since this actress won for "Gone with the Wind" Hattie McDaniel |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | THE 1991 OSCARS $100: The Oscars were held on this actor's 55th birthday, & his film "Bugsy" won 2 awards Warren Beatty |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | THE 1991 OSCARS $200: Her portrayal of FBI trainee Clarice Starling won this star her 2nd Best Actress Oscar in 3 years Jodie Foster |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | THE 1991 OSCARS $300: He's the only actor we know who ever accepted an Oscar by doing 1-handed push-ups Jack Palance |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | THE 1991 OSCARS $400: This co-star of "The Fisher King" became the 2nd Mercedes to drive home with an acting Oscar Mercedes Ruehl |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | THE 1991 OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): These "Rambling Rose" co-stars were the first mother & daughter ever nominated in the same year Laura Dern & Diane Ladd |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | THE 1990 OSCARS $100: Kevin Costner will "never forget" that this film led the pack with 7 Oscars, & neither will we Dances with Wolves |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | THE 1990 OSCARS $200: In the film & on the Oscar show she sang "Sooner or Later" from "Dick Tracy" Madonna |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | THE 1990 OSCARS $300: He became the 1st son of a Thalberg Award winner to win a Thalberg Award; his father, Darryl, won 3 Richard Zanuck |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | THE 1990 OSCARS $400: We don't know if James Caan dared tell her to "break a leg", but she won for her role in "Misery" (Kathy) Bates |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | THE 1990 OSCARS $500: This 85-year-old accepted her honorary Oscar by satellite hookup from her NYC apartment Myrna Loy |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | THE 1990 OSCARS $100: 1990's Best Picture, it became only the 2nd western to win that award Dances with Wolves |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | THE 1990 OSCARS $200: John Caglione Jr. & Doug Drexler won Best Makeup for bringing to life Pruneface & other villains in this film Dick Tracy |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | THE 1990 OSCARS $300: Her Oscar for playing a medium in "Ghost" was the 1st won by a Black actress since 1939 Whoopi Goldberg |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | THE 1990 OSCARS $400: Joe Pesci won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing a sadistic mobster in this film Goodfellas |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | THE 1990 OSCARS $500: He won the Best Actor Oscar for playing Claus von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune" Jeremy Irons |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | THE OSCARS $100: At 80, she won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy", making her the oldest Best Actress winner ever Jessica Tandy |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | THE OSCARS $300: After winning for this film Sissy Spacek thanked Loretta Lynn Coal Miner's Daughter |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | THE OSCARS $400: His role as a troubled ex-colonel in "Separate Tables" earned him the 1958 Best Actor Oscar David Niven |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | THE OSCARS $500 (Daily Double): Heard here, he won a 1984 Oscar for writing the following song:
"I just called to say I love you..." Stevie Wonder |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | THE OSCARS $500: The son of a British Poet Laureate, he won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "My Left Foot" Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | THE OSCARS $100: "Annie Hall" is the only film directed by him to have won an Oscar for Best Picture Woody Allen |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | THE OSCARS $200: When he served as the president of the Academy from 1927-29, his wife, Mary Pickford, won an Oscar Douglas Fairbanks |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | THE OSCARS $300: He won an Oscar for adapting his own novel, "The Exorcist", to film William Peter Blatty |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | THE OSCARS $500 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 songs by Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer that won Oscars in 1961 & 1962 "Moon River" (or "Days Of Wine And Roses") |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | THE OSCARS $500: Like brother Joseph, Herman Mankiewicz won an Oscar; his was for co-writing this 1941 Welles classic Citizen Kane |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | THE OSCARS $100: When he won for the 1st time in 1970, he said he "should have put on that eyepatch 35 years earlier" John Wayne |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | THE OSCARS $300: The only Oscar-winning song sung by a cricket "When You Wish Upon a Star" |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | THE OSCARS $400: These two actors have won Oscars only as directors in 1980 & 1981 Robert Redford & Warren Beatty |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | THE OSCARS $500: She broke an Academy ban when she walked up to receive her "Darling" Oscar in 1966 in a mini-dress Julie Christie |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | THE OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 "Becket" stars have each been nominated 7 times without winning Peter O'Toole & Richard Burton |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | THE OSCARS $100: Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo won writing Oscars for this 1972 film The Godfather |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | THE OSCARS $200: This 1964 James Bond film with Gert Frobe in the title role won a sound effects Oscar Goldfinger |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | THE OSCARS $300: The Best Cartoon of 1949, "For Scent-imental Reasons", starred this Warner Bros. character Pepe Le Pew |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | THE OSCARS $400: For "An American Werewolf in London", Rick Baker won the first Oscar ever presented in this category Makeup |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | THE OSCARS $500: In 1961 he won Oscars for writing & directing "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | THE OSCARS $100: 1943's "Yankee Doodle Mouse" was the 1st Oscar-winning cartoon starring this cat & mouse Tom & Jerry |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | THE OSCARS $200: Of Best Assistant Director, Best Producer, or Best Best Boy, the one that was once an Oscar category Best Assistant Director |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | THE OSCARS $300: "It Happened One Night" in 1935 that she won the Best Actress Oscar Claudette Colbert |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | THE OSCARS $400: She received an Honorary Oscar for Outstanding Juvenile Performance in 1960 for "Pollyanna" Hayley Mills |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | THE OSCARS $500: Upon receiving a Special Oscar in 1982, Barbara Stanwyck gave a tribute to this actor, her "Golden Boy" William Holden |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | THE OSCARS $100: Edgar Bergen received an honorary Oscar in 1938 for creating this dummy Charlie McCarthy |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | THE OSCARS $200: The last Oscar for cinematography in B & W went to this '66 film based on an Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #936, aired 1988-10-03 | THE OSCARS $100: His Oscar in 1932 wasn't for building a better mousetrap but a better mouse Walt Disney |
| #936, aired 1988-10-03 | THE OSCARS $300: He's received 3 nominations for acting in Italian language films; the latest was for "Dark Eyes" (Marcello) Mastroianni |
| #936, aired 1988-10-03 | THE OSCARS $400: 3 of the 1st 4 actresses to win Oscars were born in this country, not the U.S. Canada |
| #936, aired 1988-10-03 | THE OSCARS $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 films for which Laurence Olivier received Oscars; he was a prince in one & a king in the other Hamlet or Henry V |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | THE 1987 OSCARS $100: After winning, Michael Douglas thanked this man "for helping a son to step out of his shadow" Kirk Douglas |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | THE 1987 OSCARS $200: This actress ended her acceptance speech with encouraging words for her cousin, Michael Olympia Dukakis |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | THE 1987 OSCARS $300: Hosting the presentation, he greeted the audience with, "Good evening, Hollywood phonies" Chevy Chase |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | THE 1987 OSCARS $500 (Daily Double): 1987 Oscar-winning actor heard here, singing in a 1975 film:
"The Son of God goes forth to war / A kingly crown to gain / His blood red banner streams afar / Who follows in His train" Sean Connery |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | THE 1987 OSCARS $500: His 1st directing nomination was for "Last Tango in Paris", but he won for directing "The Last Emperor" Bernardo Bertolucci |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | THE OSCARS $100: Youngest person to win a regular Oscar was this 10-year-old for Best Supporting Actress in "Paper Moon" Tatum O'Neal |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | THE OSCARS $200: In 1929 only, a separate award was also given for Best Director of this type of film a comedy |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | THE OSCARS $300: While angered at receiving Oscar for "Pygmalion", he reportedly displayed it on his mantel George Bernard Shaw |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | THE OSCARS $400: Tho Scarlett's father in 1939's best picture, "GWTW", he won best supporting actor that year for "Stagecoach" Thomas Mitchell |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | THE OSCARS $500: 1964's best song, from "Mary Poppins" "Chim Chim Cher-ee" |
| #338, aired 1985-12-25 | THE OSCARS $200: British actress who won for showing "A Touch of Class" Glenda Jackson |
| #338, aired 1985-12-25 | THE OSCARS $400: Winning director who explained why he made "Godfather II": "Paramount made me an offer I couldn't refuse" Francis Ford Coppola |
| #338, aired 1985-12-25 | THE OSCARS $600: She claims her speech for "Mrs. Miniver" Oscar, reputedly an hour long, was actually 5 1/2 minutes Greer Garson |
| #338, aired 1985-12-25 | THE OSCARS $800: He was nominated for both Best Actor & Best Support for his cantankerous priest in "Going My Way" Barry Fitzgerald |
| #338, aired 1985-12-25 | THE OSCARS $1000: Oscar holds one of these sword |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | THE OSCARS $100: He anchored the Oscar telecast on March 25, 1985 Jack Lemmon |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | THE OSCARS $200: His "Philadelphia Story" Oscar now has a matching honorary bookend Jimmy Stewart |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | THE OSCARS $300: Surgeon Haing S. Ngor won for his acting debut in this film which paralleled his life The Killing Fields |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | THE OSCARS $400: Though he played the title role in "Amadeus", he lost the Oscar to co-star F. Murray Abraham Thomas Hulce |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | THE OSCARS $500: 1984's Best Documentary Feature featured his life & "Times" Harvey Milk |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | THE OSCARS $100: Elizabeth Taylor & Shirley Jones both won Oscars playing members of this oldest profession prostitute |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | THE OSCARS $200: Spencer Tracy & Bing Crosby both won Oscars playing members of this honored profession priests |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | THE OSCARS $300: Both "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" & "Day for Night" won this Best Foreign Film |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | THE OSCARS $400: In 1948, it became the only Shakespearean play to win Best Picture Hamlet |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | THE OSCARS $500: Father & son team that won directing & supporting actor Oscars for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" the Hustons (John and Walter) |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | THE OSCARS $200: She won as 1 of "Two Women" Sophia Loren |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | THE OSCARS $400: Acting Oscar not given until 1936 Best Supporting Actor |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | THE OSCARS $600: Of John, Ethel & Lionel, the one who did not win an Academy Award John Barrymore |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | THE OSCARS $800: Though she captured 2, younger sister Joan Fontaine won before her for "Suspicion" Olivia de Havilland |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | THE OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): This adventure movie won in '35, but its remake lost in '62 Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #48, aired 1984-11-14 | THE OSCARS $100: Mary Poppins' "Chimney Sweep" song that won in '64 "Chim Chim Cher-ee" |
| #48, aired 1984-11-14 | THE OSCARS $200: Won her first acting Oscar for "Butterfield 8" Elizabeth Taylor |
| #48, aired 1984-11-14 | THE OSCARS $300: Edgar Bergen's special '37 Oscar, appropriately, was made of this material wood |
| #48, aired 1984-11-14 | THE OSCARS $400: Unflappable actor on stage when '74 awards were streaked David Niven |
| #48, aired 1984-11-14 | THE OSCARS $500: Only X-rated film to win a Best Picture Oscar Midnight Cowboy |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THE OSCARS: Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS Radio Orchestra, he's been nominated for 53 Oscars John Williams |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE OSCARS: The first time an individual won 4 awards at a single ceremony was in 1954, when his wins included Best 2-Reel Short Subject Walt Disney |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE OSCARS: This Brit is the only actor to get Oscar nominations for playing 2 real-life U.S. presidents, both for 1990s films Anthony Hopkins |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | THE OSCARS: This man received 2 honorary Oscars in his career, & the actor who played him on film received a 1992 nomination for the role Charlie Chaplin |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | THE OSCARS: Jimmy Stewart starred in 3 of the 6 films for which this Italian immigrant was nominated for Best Director Frank Capra |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | THE OSCARS: Since "The Godfather Part II", this film has been the only sequel to win Best Picture Lord of the Rings: Return of the King |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | THE OSCARS: In 2005 he lost for Best Actor but won for directing, at 74 becoming the oldest winner ever in that category Clint Eastwood |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | THE OSCARS: Since 1998 this actress has received 7 Oscar nominations, the most earned after age 60 by any performer Dame Judi Dench |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | THE OSCARS: For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting George Clooney |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | THE OSCARS: "Gladiator" is close, but this film has the earliest historical setting of any Best Picture Oscar winner Ben-Hur |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | THE OSCARS: In her 30s, this Texan was up for Best Actress in 2002 & 2003; she won Best Supporting in 2004 in a Civil War drama Renée Zellweger |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | THE OSCARS: Last name of the only family to have a father & daughter receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director Coppola |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | THE OSCARS: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | THE OSCARS: The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s Ben-Hur |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | THE OSCARS: This performer is the only person to win Oscars for acting & also songwriting Barbra Streisand |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | THE OSCARS: Only Orson Welles & this man have been nominated for Best Actor & Original Screenplay in the same year while in their 20s Matt Damon |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | THE OSCARS: He holds the record for total acting, directing & writing Oscar nominations--1 acting, 6 directing, 14 writing Woody Allen |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | THE OSCARS: They're the only 2 trilogies in which all 3 of the films were nominated for Best Picture Oscars The Godfather & The Lord of the Rings |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | THE OSCARS: The 2 men who directed Marlon Brando's Oscar-winning performances Elia Kazan & Francis Ford Coppola |
| #5095, aired 2006-11-03 | THE OSCARS: He's the only person over 70 years of age to win a Best Director Oscar Clint Eastwood |
| #5024, aired 2006-06-15 | THE OSCARS: 2 of the 3 Westerns to win the Oscar for Best Picture (2 of) Cimarron, Unforgiven, & Dances with Wolves |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | THE OSCARS: 1 of only 3 movies to be nominated for both Best Picture & Best Foreign Language Film in the same year (1 of) Life is Beautiful, Z, or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | THE OSCARS: 1 of only 3 pairs of mothers & daughters to receive Oscar nominations for their acting (1 of) Diane Ladd & Laura Dern, Goldie Hawn & Kate Hudson, or Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE OSCARS: The 2 Best Picture nominees for 1983 that featured astronaut characters The Right Stuff & Terms of Endearment |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | THE OSCARS: One of 4 men nominated twice for playing the same character (1 of) Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, Al Pacino & Peter O'Toole |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | THE OSCARS: 1 of only 2 actors who directed themselves to a Best Acting Oscar Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) or Sir Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | THE OSCARS: 1 of the 2 men who have been nominated for acting Oscars 10 times Jack Nicholson or Sir Laurence Olivier |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | THE OSCARS: 1 of only 2 movies since "It Happened One Night" to win Oscars for Best Picture, Actor, Actress & Director The Silence of the Lambs or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | THE OSCARS: Husband & wife who were both nominated for playing a married couple in a 1966 film; only the wife won Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | THE OSCARS: 2 of the 5 actors before Tom Hanks to win 2 Best Actor Oscars (2 of) Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March & Spencer Tracy |
| #2402, aired 1995-01-31 | THE OSCARS: She's the only performer to win a Best Actress Oscar for a foreign-language film Sophia Loren |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | THE OSCARS: His 1991 Supporting Actor Oscar came nearly 40 years after his 1st nomination for "Sudden Fear" Jack Palance |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | THE OSCARS: In 1992 John Singleton replaced this 1941 nominee as the youngest director nominated Orson Welles |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | THE OSCARS: This children's author won 3 Oscars: 2 for documentaries & 1 for a Gerald McBoing-Boing cartoon Dr. Seuss |
| #1554, aired 1991-05-09 | THE OSCARS: The 3rd most nominated actress ever, she received her 9th Oscar nomination in 1991 Meryl Streep |
| #1232, aired 1990-01-02 | THE OSCARS: Of Cecil B. De Mille's 70 films, only this non-Biblical one won "Best Picture" The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #1203, aired 1989-11-22 | THE OSCARS: This Irish-born actor has received 7 "Best Actor" nominations without winning an Oscar Peter O'Toole |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | THE OSCARS: Only Pulitzer Prize-winning novels to become Oscar-winning “Best Pictures” are “All The King's Men” & this one Gone with the Wind |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | THE OSCARS: British actress who won Oscars for playing Southern women in 2 different films Vivien Leigh |
| #1053, aired 1989-03-15 | THE OSCARS: In 1938, he was the 1st boy actor to win an honorary Oscar, & he's still performing today Mickey Rooney |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE OSCARS: This 1951 musical is the only movie with a world capital in the title to win "Best Picture" An American in Paris |
| #964, aired 1988-11-10 | THE OSCARS: Husband & wife who won Oscars almost 30 years apart, she in 1958, he in 1987 Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | THE OSCARS: Of Katharine Hepburn's 4 Oscar wins, only film for which her co-star also won an Oscar On Golden Pond |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | THE OSCARS: 1 of 2 consecutive "Best Pictures"--1949 & 1950--whose titles begin with "All" (1 of) All the King's Men or All About Eve |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | THE OSCARS: Tied with Olivier for most "Best Actor" nominations at 9, he won 2 years in a row as a sailor & a priest Spencer Tracy |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | THE OSCARS: The last movie in black & white to win Best Picture was this 1960 Billy Wilder film The Apartment |
| #563, aired 1987-02-04 | THE OSCARS: 3 actors, including Kim Hunter & Karl Malden, won Oscars for this film but Brando didn't A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #549, aired 1987-01-15 | THE OSCARS: It was the first sports film to win Best Picture Rocky |
| #523, aired 1986-12-10 | THE OSCARS: Both "The Color Purple" & this 1977 ballet drama got 11 nominations & no Oscars The Turning Point |
| #491, aired 1986-10-27 | THE OSCARS: Only family in which 3 generations have won Oscars the Hustons |
| #423, aired 1986-04-23 | THE OSCARS: This Best Picture had the shortest title, using only 2 different letters Gigi |
| #412, aired 1986-04-08 | THE OSCARS: 1 of the only 2 films whose entire casts were nominated for Oscars, they were both based on plays (1 of) Sleuth or Give 'em Hell, Harry! |
| #373, aired 1986-02-12 | THE OSCARS: In '48, she became the only performer in the sound era to win Best Actress without uttering a word in the film Jane Wyman |
| #354, aired 1986-01-16 | THE OSCARS: The 2 Black males who have won Academy Awards for acting Sidney Poitier & Lou Gossett (Jr.) |
| #313, aired 1985-11-20 | THE OSCARS: Winning Best Actress Oscars in 1964 & 65, these 2 British-born actresses share the same 1st name Julie Andrews & Julie Christie |
| #296, aired 1985-10-28 | THE OSCARS: In 1937 & '38, he became only man to win Best Actor Oscar in consecutive years Spencer Tracy |
| #266, aired 1985-09-16 | THE OSCARS: Though better known for TV work, she won an Oscar for 1971's "The Last Picture Show" Cloris Leachman |
| #183, aired 1985-05-22 | THE OSCARS: From 1978-81, all Oscar winners for Best Supporting Actress had these same initials M.S. |
| #149, aired 1985-04-04 | THE OSCARS: This 1969 film was the last time the Best Actor Oscar was awarded for a western True Grit |
| #128, aired 1985-03-06 | THE OSCARS: Best Actress in '72, her father won Oscar in '58 & mother a special "baby" Oscar in '39 Liza Minnelli |
| #92, aired 1985-01-15 | THE OSCARS: They won '34's Best Acting awards from opposite sides of blanket in "It Happened One Night" Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | THE OSCARS: In 1971 & 1973, these 2 Best Actors refused the Oscars they had won Marlon Brando & George C. Scott |
