Can you name the Oscars won by Lord of the Rings: Return of the King?

created by bazmerelda

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In 2004, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won every Oscar it was nominated for, but do you know which categories they were in? Just type win if you think Lord of the Rings won the category, or fail if you think it was never even nominated.
Source: Oscars.org

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Award	Win or Fail
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Feature
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short
Best Animated Short
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Makeup
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Feature
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short
Best Animated Short
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Makeup
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects

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LOTR: Return of the King Oscars Quiz

by bazmerelda

Created Jun 26, 2011 in Movies
Featured Jul 20, 2011
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	BeckyJPM:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 19:17 GMT	3 points
	Wouldn't have done as well on this if I hadn't been reading the back of the DVD box only yesterday. But I agree with Fidelio - as it's not really eligible for some awards, perhaps 'fail' is the wrong word...

	EyeKanFly:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT	4 points
	It was nice that you gave information for the losing entries, but it would have been equally nice if you had given info about the wins. For example, for Best Director you could say that Peter Jackson was the director. For Best Original Song, you could say that Into the West by Annie Lennox won.

	mcsheffrey:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 20:01 GMT	10 points
	Is it mean to laugh at the 32% of people at this point who thought that LOTR was an original screenplay? I'm guessing that it correlates well with the 32% of people taking the quiz who are grew up with the movies and didn't have to slog through the hundreds of pages of "Frodo is walking some more" to experience the story (admittedly, I still read them 3 or 4 times).

	springmom:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 20:02 GMT	-2 points
	I really think that only the awards it was actually nominated for should be on here...animated short? really?

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	bazmerelda:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 20:37 GMT	7 points
	Wow. I never expected this quiz to see the light of day again. I mainly made it to test how the wrong answers feature worked. With regards to the win/fail wording, I was trying to use the internet meaning of "fail", as in the opposite of something which is win. I really just wanted a concise word which implied that they didn't pick up the award. I wasn't really attempting absolute linguistic correctness. If anyone can think of something fewer than four letters long, more befitting of the purpose, please feel free to suggest it to the Sporcle Admins. @springmom: LotR: Return of the King won every single award it was nominated for (as mentioned in the description) so it would be quite an easy quiz if I did that. I did consider not including categories it couldn't be nominated for but then just thought "why not?" You never know where different people might make a mistake (as mscheffrey has pointed out - 35% of quiz takers not realising it couldn't be nominated in the original screenplay category). Maybe 5% people thought Gollum could have been classed as an animated short (well he is kinda short with the way he crouches down and all).

	refwen:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 21:10 GMT	3 points
	if you said "win" to the animated, short, or documentary YOU FAIL

	JohnMoonlord:	Jul 21st, 2011 at 12:47 GMT	2 points
	Denise Robert, accepting the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film "Les Invasions Barbares": "We're so thankful that Lord of the Rings did not qualify in this category."

	TheHYPO:	Jul 21st, 2011 at 13:52 GMT	1 point
	@mcsheffrey The quiz goes: Best picture, best director, best [acting awards] then Best Original Screenplay. Notwithstanding that RotK won every award it was up for (and that the quiz says this in the intro), there are people like me who just jumped right into the quiz without this info. I wouldn't doubt that the average Sporcler will assume the quiz only lists the categories nominated for until they come to something that doesn't make sense. Some people, knowing or guessing that the film won a screenplay award probably said 'win' to Original Screenplay because it comes first in the quiz, they didn't read that closely, and they hadn't yet realized that this quiz includes every Oscar catagory, not just the ones RotK was nominated for.

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	betared:	Jul 21st, 2011 at 22:24 GMT	1 point
	I've never been so happy to be right about sound editing.

	Harlingen:	Jul 22nd, 2011 at 11:53 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz. @ TheHypo: adapting the quizzes so they also work for those too eager or too lazy to read the few lines of instructions first would eliminate a whole range of very interesting quizzes. I guess you'll have to accept that sometimes it's good to read first and act after instead of the other way round.

	Dorak:	Jul 24th, 2011 at 14:07 GMT	1 point
	This would probably work better as a standard quiz, or a minefield quiz, where one has to name each award rather than a 50/50 guess. Do we really have to perpetuate "fail"? How about "snub"?

	Propellerhead:	Jul 31st, 2011 at 01:44 GMT	1 point
	How have 5% of people said Win to Documentary Short? Even if it were a documentary, it is decidedly not short.

	hbaker:	Aug 3rd, 2011 at 03:11 GMT	1 point
	This was a good year. And the last time I watched the Oscars with any interest.

	parklife:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 10:59 GMT	1 point
	@mcsheffry, harlingen, thehypo: I grew up on the books long before the films; even being part of that geeky fraternity who will sit around and discuss changed/lost elements between book and film. I CLICKED ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (and facepalmed instantly). No, it shouldn't be edited to allow for muppets like me to be lazy and avoid reading properly, but I suspect I'm not alone in the NOW FORTY PERCENT who dropped the ball here!