Selects • February 2026
The Oscars
The ceremony’s in mid-March this year – but the real competition starts right now.
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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.
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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)
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