While we anticipate the winners of this year’s Academy Awards, it is a good time to look back on the history of the Oscars. This quiz will test your knowledge of some of the most controversial years.
There are several years where a general consensus has challenged the Academy’s choice, for example many wonder how Dances With Wolves beat Goodfellas for 1990 Best Picture or how Crash beat Brokeback Mountain for 2004 Best Picture. But those are not the only years where many criticized the Best Picture award.
See how well you remember those controversial choices. Answer these ten questions about which film won the Best Picture these years, where in retrospect, many believe another film should have taken home the gold statue.
How did you do? Which year do you think the Academy was most wrong in its Best Picture choice? Who will win this year? Leave your two cents in the comments.
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Ever since Shakespeare in Love won, I’ve been kind of turned off of the Oscars. It’s probably the case that a producer could always buy the win, but some years it just seems that the best movie wins. I wish the quiz had the actual nominees to see what the movies were up against, just to see what the rest of the field was.
Yeah, “Shakespeare in Love” (1998) beating “Saving Private Ryan” is often cited as a big upset too. There are a lot of factors that go into the sometimes odd choices, and the promotion certainly plays a role to some extent. Regarding the answer choices, the listed movies were all eligible for the Oscar that year and most were nominees, but I went outside some of the actual nominees to show some of the better movies that were completely overlooked, like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Thanks for the comment.