Selects • February 2026
The Oscars
The ceremony’s in mid-March this year – but the real competition starts right now.
Best Mixing
We’d like to thank these questions for not fitting into any other categories.
Which 2001 box office hit was the first film to be awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and The Silence of the Lambs are the only films to achieve what Oscar-night feat?
Winners often comment on the weight but how much, roughly, does a standard Oscar statuette weigh: 2.1kg, 2.8kg, or 3.9kg?
Unbeaten since 1998, who still holds the record for the youngest Best Original Screenplay winner?
Only three women have won the Academy Award for Best Director. Name them all.
Best Mixing
Off Script
Fill in the blanks in these Best Actor/Actress Oscar-winning lines.
NB: We’ve given the year the film was released – not the year the ceremony took place!
“You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a ___.”
(Marlon Brando, 1954)
“And my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your ___. I... drink... your... ___!”
(Daniel Day-Lewis, 2007)
“And I guess that was your accomplice in the woodchipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of ___?”
(Frances McDormand, 1996)
“___ ain’t got sh*t on me!”
(Denzel Washington, 2001)
“___ out of it!”
(Cher, 1987)
Off Script
The Real Stars
Tell us the behind-the-scenes department in which these multi-Oscar-winning professionals work(ed).
John Williams
Edith Head
Roger Deakins
Thelma Schoonmaker
Dennis Muren
The Real Stars
Ceremonial Antics
It’s an honour just to go massively viral.
Introducing Idina Menzel’s performance of “Let It Go” in 2014, John Travolta mangled the Broadway star’s name – what did he call her instead?
Overshadowed by the Moonlight-La La Land snafu, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were presenting Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars to mark the 50th anniversary of what film?
For how long was Will Smith suspended from the Academy after slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars: two years, ten years, or life?
Performed by Robin Williams at the ceremony minus the profanities, Best Original Song nominee “Blame Canada” was from which 1999 animated film?
What dubious record did Adrien Brody set at the 2025 ceremony after he won his second Best Actor Oscar?
Ceremonial Antics
The Ozcars
Which Aussie Oscar winner are we talking about?
Australian star whose Best Actress win was announced by presenter Denzel Washington with the joke “by a nose!”
Director and co-writer of both the 2007 Best Animated Feature winner and the most-Oscar-winning Aussie film of all time (six in 2016).
Aussie actor who is the only woman to have been nominated twice for playing the same role in two different films.
2009 Oscar winner and 2026 nominee who starred opposite each other in the 1999 Aussie indie film Two Hands.
1994 Aussie film that is still, over 30 years later, the most recent Best Costume Design winner not to have a historical or sci-fi/fantasy setting.
The Ozcars
It’s Also A Film!
Can you name these Best Picture-winning films from the alternative clues?
Australian sewing and craft supplies shop.
Famous video game bandicoot.
Ancient ship captained by Jason.
Model Bella’s older sister.
Vulcan, Blade or Hammer, in a 90s Aussie show.
It’s Also A Film!
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