| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $600: At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first Black Best Actor winner Sidney Poitier |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 11 $600: This religious epic from 1959 was the first film to win 11 Academy Awards Ben-Hur |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Bob Hope famously quipped, "The Academy Awards, or as it's known at my house," this Jewish holiday Passover |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | CINEMAPOURRI $1000: Here's this woman who won no fewer than eight Academy Awards for costume design Edith Head |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $200: Here's Little Big Town in 2018 performing their cover of a song from a tribute album honoring this legendary performer Elton John |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $400: After 9 previous nominations, this performer who brings the thunder from Down Under was named Entertainer of the Year in 2019 Keith Urban |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $600: At the 2017 awards these guys, a '90s boy band, joined Florida Georgia Line to perform "God, Your Mama And Me" the Backstreet Boys |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $800: In 2017, before we met her in the middle with Zedd & Grey on pop radio, she was named ACM New Female Vocalist of the Year Maren Morris |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $1000: At the awards in 2019, he was named Artist of the Decade Jason Aldean |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $800: The first Academy Awards, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, saw this war movie winning for "Outstanding Picture" Wings |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: I'd like to thank the Recording Academy for handing out these awards, first presented in 1959 the Grammys |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THEIR JOBS IN 2019 $200: Academy Awards host nobody (there was no host) |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences gives out these awards "honoring the best of the Internet" a Webby |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PHOTOGRAPHY $2000: This company near the end of the alphabet has won 3 Academy Awards in science & engineering for its camera lenses Zeiss |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | FOREIGN FILM AWARDS $800: In 2016 this monster finally got his due when a film featuring him won the Japanese Academy Award Godzilla |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | FOREIGN FILM AWARDS $2000: Of course "Run Lola Run" won the Lola Award for Best Film by this country's film academy Germany |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $1200: These awards given annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences were awarded an OED entry the Webby Awards |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $400: The College Television Awards are given out by the same academy as these awards the Emmys |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | THE HANDMADE TALE $400: The Academy of Handmade Artists & Supporters Awards include Best Artist in this pottery-making art ceramics |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $800: An Academy Award is named for this boy wonder movie producer who died at 37 Irving Thalberg |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | SCHTICK $1600: Hosting the 1968 Oscars, he quipped, "Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover" Bob Hope |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $400: Won in 2015 by Svetlana Alexievich, it's handed out annually by the Swedish Academy the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: His 1861 textbook on organic chemistry won the Demidov Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences Mendeleev |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | WHAT ABOUT BOB? $200: I gotta tell ya, this comic got 5 special Academy Awards for his humanitarian services & services to the film biz Bob Hope |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $200: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) My favorite movie is this 1985 Meryl Streep film set in Nairobi that won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture Out of Africa |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1000: A sacrarium was one of these in a home or temple, smaller than the L.A. awards show venue dating from 1926 a shrine |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This Academy Award for Excellence in Producing Films is named for the "Boy Wonder" of Hollywood Irving Thalberg |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | HONORARY ACADEMY AWARDS $400: 2001:
To this "actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance" Robert Redford |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | HONORARY ACADEMY AWARDS $800: 1927:
"To Warner Bros. for producing" this movie, "the pioneer outstanding talking picture" The Jazz Singer |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | HONORARY ACADEMY AWARDS $1600: 1948:
Give a hand & a foot to this iconic theater owner "who raised the standard of exhibition of motion pictures" Sid Grauman |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | HONORARY ACADEMY AWARDS $2000: 1989:
To this Asian director who has "influenced filmmakers throughout the world" (Akira) Kurosawa |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | HONORARY ACADEMY AWARDS $4,000 (Daily Double): 1966:
To Yakima Canutt "for achievements as" one of these & "for developing safety devices to protect" them a stuntman |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, it's the leading award for Internet sites a Webby |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | A REAL COMEDIAN $1200: He agreed to host the 84th annual Academy Awards--his 9th time doing so Billy Crystal |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | OPRAH'S GUESTS $600: (Oprah Winfrey reads the clue.) When I interviewed this actor, I got to tell him what it meant to me as a young girl to see an African American walk into the Academy Awards & take home the Best Actor prize (Sidney) Poitier |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | ORGANIZATIONS & AWARDS $400: When the Academy of Television first handed out these awards in 1949, there were only 6 categories the Emmys |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $200: These 2 men who played romantic rivals in "It's Complicated" were your hosts Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $400: Barbra Streisand said, "The time has come" before announcing this best director winner Kathryn Bigelow |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $600: "Did I just wear you all down?" plaintively asked this actress & first-time winner Sandra Bullock |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $800: He continued a major awards haul for his performance as Nazi officer Hans Landa Christoph Waltz |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: Supporting actress winner Mo'nique wore a gardenia in her hair in honor of this pioneering African-American actress Hattie McDaniel |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | EMMY HISTORY $400: The 1953 awards were the first to feature Best Situation Comedy; the Academy really liked this show that year I Love Lucy |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | DANCING STARS $1000: A lowlight of this Brat Packer's career: singing & dancing with Snow White at the Academy Awards in 1989 Rob Lowe |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | NEW HOLLYWOOD $1200: Say cheese! This theater has hosted the Academy Awards since 2001 the Kodak Theatre |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: They're the 2 actors who won Oscars for playing Vito Corleone Marlon Brando & Robert De Niro |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $800: She's had 5 Oscar-nominated roles: Gloria Wandrous, Martha, Susanna Drake, Maggie Pollitt & Catherine Holly Elizabeth Taylor |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $1600: The 3 hour & 46 minute awards telecast in 1998 was 30 minutes longer than this, its Best Picture winner Titanic |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $2,000 (Daily Double): These brothers won Oscars for writing, directing & producing the "Best Picture" of 2007 the Coen Brothers |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $2000: In 1979 honorary Oscars went to Laurence Olivier & this creator of Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $1000: This 1962 novel by Ken Kesey was adapted for the big screen in 1975 & won 5 Academy Awards One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ARTHUR MILLER $600: In June 1999 Arthur Miller received a lifetime achievement one of these awards at Radio City Music Hall a Tony Award |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | I'LL BE YOUR HOST $1000: As Academy president, this "Swashbuckler" was host & sole presenter at the first Academy Awards in 1929 Douglas Fairbanks |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | THE VOTES ARE IN $600: Jack Warner thought the Academy Awards absurd, so for the 1st Best Actor award he wrote in this animal Rin Tin Tin |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $200: She received 2 straight Best Actress nominations, for "Mary Poppins" & "The Sound of Music" Julie Andrews |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: A documentary feature on her won a 1955 Oscar; 7 years later, Patty Duke won an Oscar for portraying her Helen Keller |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $600: As a presenter at the 1942 Oscars, this composer announced himself as the winner for Best Song for "White Christmas" Irving Berlin |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $800: For 1998, this Italian movie won Best Foreign Film & its star Roberto Benigni won Best Actor Life Is Beautiful |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: Of this company's 13 "True-Life Adventures" made between 1948 & 1960, 8 won Oscars Disney |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | LAKES & RIVERS $200: In 2004 she co-hosted "The Fashion Police" at the Academy Awards along with her mom Melissa Rivers |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | THE MOORE THE MERRIER $800: He was cheered & jeered at the 2003 Academy Awards Michael Moore |
| #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 |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | BACK TO THE HOTEL $1000: This "presidential" hotel was elected to host the first Academy Awards ceremony the Roosevelt |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | MOVIE MUSIC $200: 2 songs from this Civil War epic were nominated for Academy Awards in 2004 Cold Mountain |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS $200: Dominance by "LOTR" caused this host to quip, "People are moving to New Zealand just to be thanked" Billy Crystal |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS $400: He took home the little bald guy for the first time in 4 tries, winning Best Actor for "Mystic River" Sean Penn |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS $600: She had a "Monster" night, taking home Best Actress Honors Charlize Theron |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS $800: Part of this Best Animated Feature took place in an Australian dentist's office Finding Nemo |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: This Defense Secy.'s career was the subject of "The Fog of War", winner for Documentary Feature Robert McNamara |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | BOB HOPE $1,000 (Daily Double): Bob first hosted these on February 29, 1940 at the Ambassador Hotel the Academy Awards |
| #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 |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: At the 61st Academy Awards Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for this 1988 film The Accused |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | THE 74th ACADEMY AWARDS $200: Whoopi hosted, Sidney was honored, Halle won Best Actress & he won Best Actor Denzel Washington |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | THE 74th ACADEMY AWARDS $400: A tribute to New York on film was introduced by this usually absent-from-the-Oscars director Woody Allen |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | THE 74th ACADEMY AWARDS $600: Presenting an honorary award to Robert Redford, she reminisced about the way they were Barbra Streisand |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | THE 74th ACADEMY AWARDS $800: Randy Newman broke his almost Lucci-long losing streak with "If I Didn't Have You", a song from this film Monsters, Inc. |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | THE 74th ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: This Oscar-winning film featured the talents of Mike Myers Shrek |
| #3942, aired 2001-10-23 | AWARD PRESENTERS $500: The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences the Webby Awards |
| #3635, aired 2000-05-26 | HOLLYWOOD BLVD. $300: These awards are slated to return to the boulevard at a new theatre in 2001 Academy Awards (Oscars) |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $100: In 1973 Bob Fosse beat out this director with "Cabaret"; in 1975 Fosse lost to his "Godfather II" Francis Ford Coppola |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $200: Daughter of supporting player Paul, she won the 1995 Supporting Actress Oscar for "Mighty Aphrodite" Mira Sorvino |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400 (Daily Double): "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" is among the few movies set in the present day to win this award Costume Design |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: Actress seen here in her Oscar-winning 1950 performance: Judy Holliday |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $500: Robert Wise & choreographer Jerome Robbins shared the Best Director Oscar for this 1961 musical West Side Story |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | L.A. 2000 $300: L.A.'s fabulous Shrine Auditorium will again host these awards on March 26, 2000 the Academy Awards (Oscars) |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: While ABC aired this event on March 23, 1998, FOX countered with a fight night hosted by Oscar De La Hoya the Oscars |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | PLACES $200: A building for religious veneration, or the L.A. auditorium that hosted 1997's Academy Awards shrine |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $100: This Brit won twice for playing Southern belles, Scarlett & Blanche Vivian Leigh |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $200: He picked up an Oscar for his "Theme From Shaft" Isaac Hayes |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $300: Academy listings have "The Seven Samurai" nominated under this name, what it was first titled for the U.S. The Magnificent Seven |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: She was nominated for 1964's "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" & began "Bewitched" that same year Agnes Moorehead |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $500: For 1969 "Midnight Cowboy" won for its screenplay; for 1978 this "Midnight" movie won Midnight Express |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | AWARDS $300: The developers of this sound system, in common use since the '70s, received an Academy Award in 1989 Dolby |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $200: He said, "The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels" when he won his 1st Oscar, for "Philadelphia" Tom Hanks |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: In 1993 this Oscar host rode onto the stage on a giant Oscar pulled by Jack Palance Billy Crystal |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $600: She told James Caan, "I really am your number one fan" when she won an Oscar for "Misery" Kathy Bates |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $800: This accounting firm has tallied votes for the Academy Awards since 1935-- "And the envelope, please" Price Waterhouse |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: This lovely French actress earned her 1st Best Actress nomination for the 1992 film "Indochine" Catherine Deneuve |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT 1994 $300: In March this Oscar-winning actress became the first Black solo host of the Academy Awards Whoopi Goldberg |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | CAN I PUT THIS DOWN? $500: The Oscar, of Academy Awards fame, holds one of these weapons a sword |
| #2292, aired 1994-07-19 | AWARDS $300: In 1984 this comedic actress became the 1st woman inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame Lucille Ball |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | AWARDS $300: Juno Awards given by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences are equivalent to these U.S. awards Grammys |
| #2164, aired 1994-01-20 | POTPOURRI $200: This comedian first hosted the Academy Awards ceremonies on February 29, 1940 at the Ambassador Hotel Bob Hope |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | AWARDS $400: Liza Minnelli, Lili Fini Zanuck & 67 other women who've won this award posed for a historical photo in 1993 Academy Award |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE EMMY AWARDS $200: In 1982 & 1983 the TV Academy "hailed" Carol Kane & Christopher Lloyd for their roles on this sitcom Taxi |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | FRENCH ACTRESSES $600: This dancer won British Film Academy awards for "Lili" & "The L-Shaped Room" Leslie Caron |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: One of the top accounting firms, it's handled the Academy Awards balloting since 1935 Price Waterhouse |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | AWARDS $100: There's a 25-foot-high statue of this award at the TV Academy's Hall of Fame Plaza in North Hollywood Emmys |
| #1728, aired 1992-02-19 | PEOPLE $600: In 1991 he appeared on his 27th Academy Awards show, setting an all-time record Bob Hope |
| #1583, aired 1991-06-19 | POTPOURRI $500: In April 1990, this magazine of fine interior design published an Academy Awards edition of stars' homes Architectural Digest |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | AWARDS $500 (Daily Double): After this 37-year-old producer died in 1936, the Motion Picture Academy named an award in his honor (Irving) Thalberg |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: Rod Steiger won the "Best Actor" Oscar for playing a shrewd southern sheriff in this 1967 Oscar-winning film In the Heat of the Night |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | ACADEMY AWARDS $600: Jack Lemmon loaned his place to a steam of execs & their lady friends in this 1960-Oscar winning film The Apartment |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | ACADEMY AWARDS $800: "All about Eve" won "Best Picture" for 1950, but she took "Best Actress" for "Born Yesterday" Judy Holliday |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: She won the "Best supporting Actress" in 1984 for playing a man in "The Year of Living Dangerously" Linda Hunt |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | ACADEMY AWARDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Film whose theme is heard here, it won 1966 Oscars for both "Original Music Score" & "Best Song": Born Free |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | AWARDS $500: At the 1983 Academy Awards Ben Kingsley won for playing Gandhi & she won for playing Sophie Meryl Streep |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ACADEMY AWARDS $200: These sisters were nominated for "Best Actress" in 1967, 1 for "Morgan" & 1 for "Georgy Girl" Vanessa Redgrave & Lynn Redgrave |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: The Academy apologized to the Walt Disney Co. for using this character in the 1989 show w/o permission Snow White |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ACADEMY AWARDS $600: In 1989 he showed up to present for short films wearing the same dress as Carrie Fisher Martin Short |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ACADEMY AWARDS $800: Oddly, he was nominated for both "Best Actor" & ""Best Supporting Actor" for "Going My Way" Barry Fitzgerald |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: This Englishwoman won an Oscar for playing an Oscar loser in "California Suite" Maggie Smith |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | ACADEMY AWARDS $200: After cutting off her famous curls, she became the first actress to win an Oscar for a talking picture Mary Pickford |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: She was nominated for her film debut as Garp's mother in "The World According to Garp" Glenn Close |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | ACADEMY AWARDS $600: Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for playing this wretched character in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Nurse Ratched |
| #1043, aired 1989-03-01 | HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $600: May 16, 1929 in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel the first Academy Awards ceremony |
| #817, aired 1988-03-08 | THE 1987 EMMYS $100: The TV Academy acknowledged this awards show as the outstanding variety program the 1987 Tony Awards |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | ACADEMY AWARDS $200: For 1966, Vanessa Redgrave was nominated for "Morgan!" & her sister Lynn, for this movie "Georgy Girl" |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: In 1961, this winner of a 1934 miniature statuette presented Hayley Mills with one Shirley Temple |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | ACADEMY AWARDS $600: 3 of the 6 studios whose cartoons were nominated for 1943 (3 of) Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM (Universal-RKO, Paramount or Columbia) |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | ACADEMY AWARDS $800: Best Song winner "Up Where We Belong" was from this 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: At the 1st Oscars, a separate directing Oscar was given for this genre comedies |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | ALL FALL DOWN $500: Kim Zimmer fell down on her way to pick up one of these awards in 1986, Kathleen Noone in 1987 Daytime Emmy |
| #758, aired 1987-12-16 | SHOW BIZ BILLYs $600: He's the only filmmaker ever to take home three Academy Awards in 1 night for 1 film, in 1960 for "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | ACADEMY AWARDS $100: The 1st year "Best Song" was awarded, 2 of the 3 nominees were from films featuring this dapper dancer Fred Astaire |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | ACADEMY AWARDS $200: Gary Cooper won 1st of 2 Best Actor Oscars for playing him, America's most-decorated WWI hero Sergeant York |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | ACADEMY AWARDS $300: Everybody wondered if it was "to be or not to be" Best Picture of 1948--& it was Hamlet |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: A language teacher before turning costume designer, she won her last Oscar for "The Sting" Edith Head |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | ACADEMY AWARDS $500: Though he played both "Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde", he still only received one Oscar for the film Fredric March |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | GERALDINE PAGE $200: Page lost more of these awards than any other actress before finally winning in 1986 for "The Trip to Bountiful" the Academy Award |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARDS $100: This NBC star hosted the telecasts on ABC from 1979-82 & in 1984 Johnny Carson |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARDS $200: This '87 Best Actor Oscar winner was a no-show for some of the 6 times he didn't win, too Paul Newman |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARDS $300: The last of the 11 awards it won, the night of April 4, 1960, was for "Best Picture" Ben-Hur |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: She presented the 1980 Best Costume Oscar for the picture she had starred in, "Tess" Nastassja Kinski |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARDS $500: This song from the black & white portion of its film won for 1939 somewhere "Over The Rainbow" |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | HOLLYWOOD LANDMARKS $100: The 1st public presentation of these awards was held in 1929 in the Blossom Room of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel the Academy Awards |
| #495, aired 1986-10-31 | GILLIGAN'S ISLAND $300: Only cast member to come into the show with performances that "drew" 2 Academy Awards Jim Backus |
| #485, aired 1986-10-17 | MOVIE TRIVIA $300: This Spielberg film won every single award at the 1986 Anson County, North Carolina Academy Awards The Color Purple |
| #282, aired 1985-10-08 | ORGANIZATIONS $500: Prince & Stevie Wonder won awards from this org. March 25, 1985 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |
| #167, aired 1985-04-30 | ACADEMY AWARDS $100: This '83 role was a good decision for Meryl Streep who won Best Actress Sophie's Choice |
| #167, aired 1985-04-30 | ACADEMY AWARDS $200: With thirteen nominations & 4 acting Oscars, she's a double record holder Kate Hepburn |
| #167, aired 1985-04-30 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: Her Oscar-winning role in "The Year of Living Dangerously" was a real drag Linda Hunt |
| #167, aired 1985-04-30 | ACADEMY AWARDS $500 (Daily Double): '68 film of romance & robbery whose winning theme song was the following:
[Instrumental music plays] The Thomas Crown Affair |
| #167, aired 1985-04-30 | ACADEMY AWARDS $500: Maximilian Schell went through trials and tribulations to get Best Actor for the '61 film Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #68, aired 1984-12-12 | HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS $200: She won 8 Academy Awards with only her clothes appearing on screen Edith Head |
| #62, aired 1984-12-04 | MOVIE TRIVIA $300: For the first time in '68, the Academy Awards were held in this auditorium, its current home the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | AWARDS $100: The annual awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences the Oscar |
