Combination of stars that were top-billed in Oscar Best Picture winners Quiz by rockgolf

Can you name the combination of stars that were top-billed in Oscar Best Picture winners?

created by rockgolf

Enter a pair of actors in the box below
Correctly named & paired actors' Oscar-winning films will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
TO SOLVE: Enter a pair of actor's names who were top-billed in Best Picture Oscar winners. Example: "Bogart Bergman" would give the answer Casablanca (1940). DO NOT ENTER MOVIE TITLES!
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Actor/Actress
Bergman

Actor/Actress
Bogart

Actor/Actress
Zellweger

Actor/Actress
Zeta-Jones

Actor/Actress
Allen
Andrews
Bening
Brando
Brando
Colbert
Connelly
Crowe
Crowe
Cruise
Dafoe
Dafoe
Damon
De Niro
DiCaprio
DiCaprio
Eastwood
Eastwood

Actor/Actress
Fiennes
Fiennes
Fiennes
Firth
Foster
Freeman
Gable
Gable
Gable
Hackman
Hackman
Hanks
Hoffman
Hoffman
Hoffman
Hopkins
Keaton
Keaton
Laughton

Actor/Actress
Leigh
Lemmon
Malden
Malden
MacLaine
MacLaine
Mortensen
Neeson
Newman
O'Toole
Pacino
Pacino
Paltrow
Phoenix
Plummer
Poitier
Redford
Redford
Rush

Actor/Actress
Scheider
Scott
Sheen
Stallone
Spacey
Sharif
Shire
Steiger
Streep
Streep
Streep
Swank
Tandy
Voight
Winger
Winslet
Wood
Wright Penn

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8▇◄ Best Picture by Leads Quiz

by rockgolf

Created Jun 30, 2010 in Movies
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	rockgolf:	Jun 30th, 2010 at 22:10 GMT		2 points
	In rare cases I've swapped the billing of stars to get all versions of the same actor or actress in the same column. Mathematically, that reduces the number of valid combinations, and should make the quiz slightly simpler.

	totebags:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 03:45 GMT		0 points
	Fun quiz. Maybe cut down the time to 6 minutes, maybe?

	enough:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 03:50 GMT		3 points
	Voight is misplaced alphabetically

	kthxbai:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 03:59 GMT		4 points
	Just for a second I wondered what Stephen Colbert was doing in It Happened One Night...then the mental image just got weird.

	JohnJF:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 04:16 GMT		-1 points
	Are you sure about Keaton as the second lead in Godfather Part II? I did a similar quiz to this a while back and in all of my research on the topic, Robert Duvall was the #2.

	Just_Fold:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 05:05 GMT		0 points
	cut to no more than 5 minutes. Fun though.

	rockgolf:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 05:19 GMT		-1 points
	@johnJF: You're correct. Duvall was credited second, Keaton third. I used Keaton because she was also in Annie Hall. And De Niro got something like fifth billing and probably had more lines and screen time than anyone in the picture.

	rockgolf:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 05:50 GMT		-1 points
	@enough: Thx. Fxd.

	rockgolf:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 06:15 GMT		-1 points
	Statistical note: When it got to 100 plays and most answers were solved 90% or more of the time, I realized this may be too simple. (That's rare. Usually I underestimate how difficult quizzes are.) So I've reduced the time and added five more pairs. That explains the difference in the scores of the bottom five.

	dummo:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 07:25 GMT		2 points
	I tried Eastwood-Freeman for both 'Unforgiven' and 'Million Dollar Baby'. Damn him being third billed in both those movies.

	debaser_1985:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 10:48 GMT		1 point
	@rockgolf: on another statistical note, how come for quite a few films a higher % get the first lead than the second lead (e.g. Chicago: 86.5 vs 83.1). Should always be identical surely?

	Squinta:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 12:30 GMT		3 points
	What about Brando and Steiger for On The Waterfront? Or was Steiger not second billed?

	rockgolf:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 14:03 GMT		0 points
	@Squinta: I assumed Eva Marie Saint got second billing, but actually it was Karl (Patton) Malden! So, yes, I'll add it to the mix. Thanks. Brando, Malden, Lee J Cobb & Steiger were the top 4 listed stars and 3 of them also got top billing in a second Best Picture. I can't think of another Best Picture cast that were able to carry forward that success. And Cobb came close to joining them: he was in the Oscar nominated films (and all time favorites) Twelve Angry Men and The Exorcist.

	rockgolf:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 14:04 GMT		0 points
	@Debaser: On the lower ones, I added the lines while the game was active. Between the time I added one actor and the other, someone must have guessed the combination.

	hahobigshot:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 14:54 GMT		0 points
	great idea for quiz, but too much time, once i got the 24 pairs i knew i had more than enough time to try every pair once in order to get them all, which i understand takes away from the game but if i have time why not? great quiz

	Pinguin_Nikki:	Jul 2nd, 2010 at 11:26 GMT		-1 points
	Ugh damn those actors with the same last names. I was thinking of janet leigh and james wood instead of vivien leigh and elijah wood. Did had woody allen in mind instead of tim.

	Sheldon:	Jul 6th, 2010 at 21:08 GMT		1 point
	How possible would it be to have the answer acceptable both ways? eg. For DiCaprio and Damon in The Departed you could type "Damon DiCaprio" and still have it accepted even though Damon is in column 2? Would that cross over with anything else?

	rockgolf:	Jul 8th, 2010 at 03:59 GMT		0 points
	@pinguin-nikki: I think my favorite Vivian Leigh / Elijah Wood film is "Gone With The Ring".

	exackerly:	Jul 21st, 2010 at 21:52 GMT		1 point
	Next time do the whole list! Umm let's see, Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres...

	jda28:	Aug 9th, 2010 at 10:35 GMT		2 points
	What about Joseph Fiennes and Paltrow for 'Shakespeare in Love'? Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas for 'The English Patient'? Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes for 'Schindler's List'? F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce for 'Amadeus'?

	rockgolf:	Nov 1st, 2010 at 22:26 GMT		1 point
	@Jda28: The Fiennes trifecta is brilliant! I've added it.

	rockgolf:	Nov 1st, 2010 at 23:17 GMT		1 point
	I've done a radical makeover to the quiz, merging all the acts into one alphabetical list and putting in 4 columns for ease of view. It makes it easier to see, but harder to play.

	ncr1119:	Nov 2nd, 2010 at 05:01 GMT		1 point
	Seriously, 18% of people missed the example?

	rockgolf:	Nov 2nd, 2010 at 19:57 GMT		1 point
	@ncr: Not really. The Z-Z combo used to be in the main body before I reorganized the quiz to make it tougher.

	doesthatsparkle:	Nov 24th, 2010 at 23:37 GMT		1 point
	i thought it was hard, if that helps :)

	IAmOysterman:	Jan 20th, 2011 at 18:42 GMT		2 points
	Took me a minute to figure out what I was doing, but as it turns out, reading helps. Cool quiz!

	ZZZZ:	Jan 21st, 2011 at 23:53 GMT		-3 points
	Dull

	maaxwell:	Apr 28th, 2011 at 16:16 GMT		1 point
	Would much rather have seen Walken in there than Meryl Streep. And no love for Jack Nicholson! Cool quiz though

	leviper:	Jun 19th, 2011 at 03:58 GMT		0 points
	Leigh isn't top-billed with Gable for Gone with the Wind. If you look at the poster, the top-billed actors are Clark Gable and Leslie Howard. Similar instance with Lawrence of Arabia.

	rockgolf:	Jun 19th, 2011 at 06:16 GMT		1 point
	@leviper: True, but both Leigh & O'Toole were listed as "and introducing" which basically the equivalent of top billing. Besides, in retrospect, both are clearly the lead characters in virtually every scene.

	antwandelfiglo23:	Jul 10th, 2011 at 19:20 GMT		1 point
	platoon was in '86 (not '88). also, fiennes-rush should maybe be acceptable for shakespeare in love. other that, very good quiz!