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Quentin Tarantino's nomination for directing Inglourious Basterds is his second in this category. He won the Oscar for Pulp Fiction (1994).

1. Name the two motion picture trilogies that have received a Best Picture nomination for each installment.

The Godfather trilogy in 1972, 1974 and 1990 and The Lord of the Rings trilogy in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

District 9 is Peter Jackson's fourth nomination for Best Director, counting all three installments of the Lord of the Rings.

2. Name the two most-nominated films and how many nominations they received.

All about Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997), each with 14 nominations. Eight other motion pictures have received 13 nominations.

Jeff Bridges' Best Actor nomination for Crazy Heart is his second. He was nominated for his role in Starman (1984); and received Supporting Actor nominations for The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and The Contender (2000).

3. Who is the most-nominated male performer?

His 12th nomination, in 2002 for his leading performance in About Schmidt allowed Jack Nicholson to extend his lead. Laurence Olivier has received ten nominations for acting (Olivier was also nominated in the Directing category and received two Honorary Oscars). Spencer Tracy and Paul Newman each received nine acting nominations.

Jack Nicholson led One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to win all five major awards in 1975.

Matt Damon, nominated for his supporting roll in Invictus, was also nominated for Best Actor in Good Will Hunting (1997), but came away with just an Original Screenplay Oscar.

4. What is the only film adapted from a teleplay to win a Best Picture Oscar?

Marty, in 1955.

5. Name the only two married couples to win Oscars for acting.

Laurence Olivier (1948) and Vivien Leigh (1951) (who were not yet married when Leigh won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1939); Paul Newman (1986) and Joanne Woodward (1957).

6. What was unusual about Robert De Niro's performance that won him a Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II?

It was the only Oscar-winning performance in an American picture in which all of the character's dialogue was in a foreign language (Italian).

The director to receive the most Academy Awards is John Ford, who took home Oscars four of the five times he was nominated (he also received a nomination for Best Picture). The director to receive the most directing nominations is William Wyler, with 12. His three wins rank him just behind Ford (and tied with Frank Capra).

Trumbo's story for The Brave One had been written under the pseudonym "Robert Rich." No one came to the podium to receive the award when Rich's name was announced, and Trumbo did not receive his statuette until 1975, a year before his death. Trumbo received a second Oscar posthumously, for his story for Roman Holiday (1953), which had originally been credited to Trumbo's friend and fellow writer, Ian McLellan Hunter.

Cimarron in 1930/31, Dances With Wolves in 1990 and Unforgiven in 1992.

10. What film holds the record for an awards sweep, winning in all the categories for which it was nominated?

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) with 11 awards for 11 nominations. Two films, Gigi (1958) and The Last Emperor (1987), won 9 awards for 9 nominations. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) won 8 awards for 8 nominations.

11. Who was the only director in Oscar history to direct both his father and his daughter in Academy Award-winning performances?

Walter Huston was Best Supporting Actor of 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. Thirty-seven years later John Huston directed Prizzi’s Honor, for which his daughter Anjelica was named Best Supporting Actress.

12. Cate Blanchett, with her roles as Elizabeth I, was the fifth performer (and first woman) nominated for playing the same role in two different films. Who are the four men?

Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986); Peter O'Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968); and Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). Of these, only Bing Crosby and Paul Newman won Oscars (in 1944 and 1986, respectively).

13. One character in movie history was played by two different actors in two different films, with each performance earning an Academy Award. Name the performers and the role they shared.

Marlon Brando won a Best Actor Oscar in 1972 for his performance as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, and in 1974, Robert De Niro won a Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.

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