Can you name the Oscar Best Actors?

Year	Actor	Movie
1927-1928		The Last Command
1928-1929		In Old Arizona
1929-1930		Disraeli
1930-1931		A Free Soul
1931-1932		Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931-1932		The Champ
1932-1933		The Private Life of Henry VIII
1934		It Happened One Night
1935		The Informer
1936		The Story of Louis Pasteur
1937		Captains Courageous
1938		Boys Town
1939		Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1940		The Philadelphia Story
1941		Sergeant York
1942		Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943		Watch on the Rhine
1944		Going My Way
1945		The Lost Weekend
1946		The Best Years of Our Lives
1947		A Double Life
1948		Hamlet
1949		All the King's Men
1950		Cyrano de Bergerac
1951		The African Queen
1952		High Noon
1953		Stalag 17
1954		On the Waterfront

Year	Actor	Movie
1955		Marty
1956		The King and I
1957		The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958		Separate Tables
1959		Ben-Hur
1960		Elmer Gantry
1961		Judgment at Nuremberg
1962		To Kill a Mockingbird
1963		Lilies of the Field
1964		My Fair Lady
1965		Cat Ballou
1966		A Man for All Seasons
1967		In the Heat of the Night
1968		Charly
1969		True Grit
1970		Patton
1971		The French Connection
1972		The Godfather
1973		Save the Tiger
1974		Harry and Tonto
1975		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976		Network
1977		The Goodbye Girl
1978		Coming Home
1979		Kramer vs. Kramer
1980		Raging Bull
1981		On Golden Pond
1982		Gandhi

Year	Actor	Movie
1983		Tender Mercies
1984		Amadeus
1985		Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986		The Color of Money
1987		Wall Street
1988		Rain Man
1989		My Left Foot
1990		Reversal of Fortune
1991		The Silence of the Lambs
1992		Scent of a Woman
1993		Philadelphia
1994		Forrest Gump
1995		Leaving Las Vegas
1996		Shine
1997		As Good as It Gets
1998		Life Is Beautiful
1999		American Beauty
2000		Gladiator
2001		Training Day
2002		The Pianist
2003		Mystic River
2004		Ray
2005		Capote
2006		The Last King of Scotland
2007		There Will Be Blood
2008		Milk
2009		Crazy Heart
2010		The King's Speech

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Oscar Best Actors Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: November 3rd, 2008
Category: Movies
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Tags: Oscar Quizzes, Actor Quizzes, best, Oscar Best

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	MovieDynamic:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 04:18 GMT	7 points
	AH! Thank you sporcle! I know every single one of them! Total Oscar buff right here. :)

	UCLA83:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 04:54 GMT	8 points
	Great quiz! And 'MovieDynamic'...if you truly know them all, I bow down to your superiority. That would be amazing. I was happy getting 18, lol.

	Mish:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 05:10 GMT	3 points
	19, i knew two more but couldn't work out how to spell phillip seymour hoffman or forest whitaker. another fine quiz. thanks

	guyleguy:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 05:29 GMT	2 points
	Got everything from The Duke to DD Lewis last year, but I was sketchy on the earlier ones. Anything from 1970 onwards with the Oscars I'm pretty good.

	radish:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 05:39 GMT	5 points
	Only Got 21, Great Quiz, But I'm No Expert In This Topic.

	Antithesys:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 07:00 GMT	6 points
	Been waiting for the rest of the Oscar series (the Pictures should be combined into one quiz, methinks). Only got a little more than half, and spent the last two embarrassing minutes trying to remember who played Atticus Finch :(

	Bouchkilele:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 GMT	2 points
	I got 41 and was suitably impressed with myself. Got most from the 80's on downward and the earlier years, just guessed popular movie stars. Hey Mish, do what I do... just last names. You woulda got Phillip Seymour Hoffman, when you guessed the answer for 1979.

	mahatma:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 GMT	6 points
	I wonder if there might be a way to program these pages so that the 'clue' column is an option that can be turned on/off. I feel like giving the movie makes this a little easier than it needs to be. Thoughts?

	slw@hwdyk.com:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 13:01 GMT	5 points
	44/81. I got them all from 78 onwards, but really struggled with the earlier ones. I thought with having the movie listed, I would have done much better.

	Westley:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 13:11 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz! It's tough when there's so many to guess. I got 56 but knew many more of then -- just couldn't remember the names in that time span.

	chrispaz:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 13:14 GMT	0 points
	Great quiz. I got everything from The Duke onwards too. I'm really pleased with 67/81 considering i'm only 26.

	SirZapdos:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 14:18 GMT	4 points
	I cracked 50, so I'm happy. Great quiz. You now know that we fully expect Best Actress, and both Supporting Oscars as well. :)

	Math Chick:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 17:10 GMT	4 points
	Wonderful quiz. Though, as always, spelling is my downfall. I remembered Roberto Benigni's crazy antics at the Oscars, but couldn't spell his name! : )

	Limelight05:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 20:35 GMT	2 points
	SirZapdos - Don't forget Best Director.

	MovieDynamic:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 20:57 GMT	-1 points
	Yes David, I know all there is to know about the Oscars! Don't want to sound pompous or anything, but I've memorized all Best Actor, Actress, and Picture wins from 1927-2007. Crazed obsessive, I'll admit. ;)

	springmom:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 21:52 GMT	2 points
	I didn't get them all, I could see faces and then not remember the names in time. Thank you, though, I have been waiting for this quiz! Now, what about Best Actress and the supporting categories?

	DirtyKash:	Nov 4th, 2008 at 01:18 GMT	0 points
	32/81. I had to give up with about 6:30 left because no way I was getting 90% of those movies from before 1980.

	ku_sucks:	Nov 4th, 2008 at 02:45 GMT	2 points
	sirzapdos, i gave you a point solely for the awesome username.

	radiosilence:	Nov 4th, 2008 at 04:05 GMT	1 point
	I remember Roberto Benigni standing on his seat and announcing he would make love to everybody. I think Peter Finch died before he could accept his award for Network. Am I remembering that correctly?

	buiksloot:	Nov 8th, 2008 at 04:17 GMT	1 point
	Oh, enough with the 'I'm too young' baloney I keep seeing here and there. I was born in 1975, DirtyKash, hardly making me a founding member of Clark Gable's fan club. These are quizzes of general knowledge, not quizzes of all the knowledge you've absorbed since your date-of-birth! :)

	BlueEyedAlien:	Dec 28th, 2008 at 02:31 GMT	3 points
	Agree with the "I'm too young" come back. If you are a true movie buff, you watch movies. You know that sometimes classics come in black and white, too. (Calvin and Hobbes and all that.) If I remember correctly, the Emil Jannings award was given for two films, and the best actress that year, Janet Gaynor, won for three films.

	Amanda:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 12:25 GMT	0 points
	I love the Oscars! I named them all. :)

	jkd:	Feb 13th, 2009 at 19:29 GMT	1 point
	@Mfisch: The ability to tune the clues to one's preference would be nice, but seeing that the bell curve on the quiz peaks at well below 50% correct, I wouldn't say the quiz is too easy for most people.

	JohnJF:	Mar 23rd, 2009 at 04:22 GMT	1 point
	46. I do hate the whole too young excuse as well (I got 26 actors from before I was born). For the much older actors, may I recommend aimlessly typing in the last names of famous actors you don't know much of the work of (Cagney, Gable, Cooper, thanks).

	IHYTJT:	Apr 19th, 2009 at 15:52 GMT	2 points
	Got them all!

	Yojimbo28:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 06:42 GMT	2 points
	68/82. I'm pleased. I got everybody from 1961 until now, and then I picked off a few more here and there before that one. I'm thinking I should see Elmer Gantry. I've never seen it before and I know it won a couple of Oscars besides this one.

	BSF5775:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 10:12 GMT	-1 points
	i got 35! yaay! so much easier than the best picture quiz, if there is one! and being too young isnt an excuse! im 26 and i cant stand old movies, therefore i wont know anyone other than gable, bogart and heston! ive never even seen gone with the wind or casablanca.

	Venom1989:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 22:54 GMT	0 points
	81/82.I did a story for our local paper about the Oscars.Forgot about Whitaker.

	kimgar:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 07:44 GMT	1 point
	kinda b.s. that if you miss one letter, the name is not accept. this really screwed me with Roberto BeniGni and Nic(h)olas Cage.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Sep 30th, 2010 at 20:36 GMT	0 points
	34 for me. Couldn't for the life of me remember Burt Lancaster's name. I tried Robert Mitchum, Robert Ludlum (?!) and James Cagney to no avail... well the last one helped me a bit.

	sobdennis:	Nov 14th, 2010 at 17:35 GMT	1 point
	Too young? I got every one except for two recent ones, and part of it was that I couldn't remember Benigni's name. And Jannings was long dead before I was born. Of course, I am an old movie buff.

	bowsntoys:	Apr 3rd, 2011 at 09:46 GMT	-2 points
	I would rather lose than acknowledge the voters gave DW the Oscar over Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind." That's the perfect example of why fewer people watch every year. If DW had any class, he would have refused it.

	hlofa15:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 18:32 GMT	2 points
	@bowsntoys: If having class is refusing the Oscar for a better performance, then Crowe should have given it up the year before from Gladiator. I'm usual not a fanboy who hates the Oscars, but they should have honored Memento that year instead of Gladiator. Since that would never happen, Traffic should have won.

	LJ55:	Aug 14th, 2011 at 19:31 GMT	3 points
	I'm 15 years old and got 82/84. Can we please, once and for all, agree that age is meaningless in these quizzes?