The only Academy Award winner or nominee to fit each category Quiz

The only...	Answer	Award year
fully-silent film to win Best Picture		1929
Best Picture winner with no other nominations or Awards		1932
actor to win two Oscars for the same performance		1947
person to win four Oscars in one ceremony		1954
short film to win an Oscar in a writing category		1957
film to be nominated in every category for which it was eligible		1967
G-rated film to win Best Picture		1969
X-rated film to win Best Picture		1970
film to win eight Oscars, but not Best Picture		1973
posthumous Best Actor winner		1977
traditionally-animated full-length film to be nominated for Best Picture		1992
film based on a US TV series to be nominated for Best Picture		1994
person to win Best Actress and the Best Actress (Comedy) Emmy in the same year		1998
truly fictitious person (not a pseudonym for someone real) to be nominated for an Oscar		2003
film to win eleven Oscars from eleven nominations		2004
remake of a foreign film to win Best Picture		2007
Best Documentary winner to also win in another category		2007

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The Only Oscar... Quiz

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	Kicking222:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 04:20 GMT		5 points
	Woo! Published! Awesome. Enjoy, everybody, and have a stellar weekend. (Or, for my Aussie friends, I hope you're already having a stellar weekend.)

	hunny10:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 04:23 GMT		7 points
	Only got LOTR and The Red Balloon... but I wanted to take it just to find out these interesting answers

	Kicking222:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 04:29 GMT		2 points
	"The Red Balloon" and Charlie Kaufman are my personal favorite clues/answers. "The Red Balloon" is simply a beautiful movie- and what a feat, for a film with basically no dialogue to be awarded Best Screenplay... can you imagine that ever happening nowadays? Of course not. The Kaufman factoid is just so freakin' interesting, and that combined with my adoration for Spike Jonze meant that the answer was a must for the quiz; indeed, it's the reason I got the idea for the quiz in the first place.

	itisofmyopinion:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 04:31 GMT		7 points
	As a huge fan of random obscure trivia, I loved this. And it's always nice to see some acknowledgement of Harold Russell, who really deserved his awards.

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	Eliot:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT		3 points
	@itisofmyopinion: I was so sorry I couldn't remember Russell's last name; could see his face and remembered his first name, but oh well. I've seen all the Best Picture winners and that's one of the five films I recommend most often. BUT I disagree that he deserved his awards; he certainly deserved the acting award in the year he won it, but his honorary award (for inspiration to other disabled vets) should have come years later, seeing as he didn't stop his work with vets until years later. Just MY opinion. :)

	MovieDynamic:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 04:48 GMT		3 points
	Also not to nag, but the years you have are inconsistent. Most of them are indeed the year that the awards took place during, but you still have 1993 for The Fugitive, which was when it was released, not the year of the ceremony. Same goes for Grand Hotel, which is indeed a 1932 film. That ceremony would have been held in 1933.

	Eliot:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 04:49 GMT		5 points
	Only performer whose every film appearance (minimum of 3 films) was in a Best-Picture-nominated film: John Cazale (Godfather movies, The Conversation, Deer Hunter, Dog Day Afternoon). He was also engaged to marry Meryl Streep, who (I believe) has lost in the acting categories more than anyone else.

	Kicking222:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 04:58 GMT		7 points
	First, MovieDynamic, the exact same thing is discussed above. Roderick Jaynes is a PSEUDONYM. There's a large difference between a pseudonym- a name that represents someone who simply does not want to (or cannot) use their real name- and a fictional person who does not exist at all. If Roderick Jaynes wins, the Coen Brothers walk up on stage to accept their statues; if "Adaptation." had won for Screenplay, the award would have gone to nobody. Second, the two clues with slightly incorrect years were added by the Sporcle gods (and I'm not questioning those clues- they're excellent), not myself, so I had no control over them. Hopefully, however, said gods will see these comments and change the years. Third, I'm going to bed. Good night, Sporclers.

	Fidelio:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 05:01 GMT		6 points
	MovieDynamic - the Oscars were run differently back in the late twenties and early thirties. (It wasn't like now, when the ceremony is in the spring and movies from the previous calendar year are honored.) In 1932, for example, the ceremony was held in November, and movies that came out between August 1931 and July 1932 were honored.

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	rockgolf:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT		2 points
	Only physician to win an acting Oscar?

	Pikknikk:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 05:40 GMT		12 points
	sometimes i wonder whether moviedynamic only comments to get low ratings

	reginaldbarker:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 06:41 GMT		4 points
	Actually, the Coens have created a whole persona for Roderick Jaynes. (He was hired by the Coens after the brothers fell in love with a beach volleyball movie he edited in the '60s.) "He" often writes short essays that accompany published work by the Coens, and when nominated for editing, a picture of a quizzical man in his 70s was shown. It was rumored that the Coens hired an actor to play Roderick Jaynes, in the case of an Oscar win. I'm really disappointed it didn't happen.

	reginaldbarker:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 06:44 GMT		4 points
	Also, "Sunrise" should be an acceptable answer for the first question. At the first ceremony, "Sunrise" won the Oscar for best "Unique and Artistic Production", while "Wings" won for best "Production." They merged the awards into one for the next year. If you ask me, it sounds like "Sunrise" was the real "Best Picture."

	reginaldbarker:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 06:53 GMT		3 points
	Here's a site with the picture of Jaynes, and a link to an interview with the fictional editor: http://d-day.blogspot.com/2008/02/roderick-jaynes-unmasked.html

	pirateofrock:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 07:07 GMT		0 points
	The Departed won Best Picture in 2006, not 2007.

	gingersnap:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 07:23 GMT		-3 points
	Do I really need to add an exclamation point at the end of Oliver? I would have gotten that right.

	Tom_the_Dog:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 08:18 GMT		2 points
	I got hung up thinking the name of the movie would work for every answer. So I missed posthumous Best Actor and fictitious nominee by naming the correct film rather than the correct actor or character.

	kingstony:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 09:00 GMT		3 points
	I love going to the pictures.

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	Kicking222:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 12:45 GMT		2 points
	@noam: You might have an "actual life" (as opposed to me- I clearly don't, which you can tell simply from the fact that I enjoy creating quizzes that make people happy and knowing nothing else about me), but you probably can't spell- "Lord of the Rings", "The Lord of the Rings", and "LotR" (along with "Return of the King" and "The Return of the King") are all acceptable answers. Related: @ginger, you don't need the exclamation point.

	tm4:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 12:52 GMT		3 points
	i did absolutely godawful on this, but learning some top-notch trivia was worth the embarrassment on my part. way to go!

	Kicking222:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 13:58 GMT		0 points
	Two more things: 1) @reginaldbarker, your "Sunrise" point is completely valid, but the Academy officially only recognizes "Wings" as a "Best Picture" winner, though they made that decision retroactively. 2) I just realize I can edit live quizzes now! That is awesome!

	gandalf:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 14:53 GMT		2 points
	Very good quiz! I stopped creating quizes because most comments were so negative and nitpicky. All of this is just for fun right?