Questions and Answers
March 1
Q: In 1915, a version of Thackeray's VANITY FAIR was shot in Boston in what famous square?
A: Louisburg Square
Winner: Ronald Paglierani won 10 movie passes from Sony Loews Theaters.
March 2
Q: Orson Welles was the first person to be nominated for Actor, Director and Original Screenplay for CITIZEN KANE in 1941. Who was the second?
A: WOODY ALLEN IN 1978 FOR ANNIE HALL
Winner: Mark Lavallee won 10 movie passes from Sony Loews Theaters.
March 3
Q: What fictional character was featured in a series of short subjects filmed in Massachusetts in 1896?
A: RIP VAN WINKLE
Winner: Anthony Smith won 10 movie rentals from Blockbuster
March 6
Q: What was the first film nominated for both Best Foreign
Language Film and Best Picture?
A: Z
Winner: Tanya Woodard won 10 movie passes from Sony Loews Theatres
March 7
Q: What two movies about the 1950 Brinks robbery were shot
in Boston?
A: SIX BRIDGES TO CROSS and THE BRINK'S JOB
Winner: Ed Franklin won 6 General Cinema passes
March 8
Q: Name the two actors with the most nominations who never
won an acting Oscar?
A: PETER O'TOOLE and RICHARD BURTON
Winner: Visakha Samaraweera won a Blockbuster prize pack
March 9
Q: What Academy Award winning writer/director was nominated
for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for a made in Massachusetts movie?
A: JOHN HUSTON in THE CARDINAL
Winner: Jim Mandell won 10 movie passes from Sony Loews Theaters
March 10
Q: What was the last Best Picture winner to receive no other
award?
A: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Winner: Jon Workman won 10 movie passes from Sony Loews Theaters
March 13
Q: What movie mogul began his film career by opening a movie
theatre in Haverhill Massachusetts in 1907?
A: LOUIS B. MEYER
Winner: Ann-Marie Duffy won 10 movie passes from Sony Loews Theaters
March 14
Q: What film won the most Academy Awards (8) without winning
Best Picture?
A: CABARET
Winner: John Pappas won a Blockbuster prize pack
March 16
Q: Name the person nominated every year from 1948 to 1966.
A: COSTUME DESIGNER, EDITH HEAD
Winner: Denise Gelb won a Blockbuster prize pack
March 17
Q: What film, whose star won an Academy Award for Best Actor, was filmed partially in Nahant?
A: CLIFF ROBERTSON in CHARLEY
Winner: Marienne Sanders won a Blockbuster 52 week movie pass
March 20
Q: The Best Director Oscar was shared by two people only once. Name the film and the directors
A: WEST SIDE STORY/ROBERT WISE and JEROME ROBBINS
Winner: Betsy Hanson won a Blockbuster 52 week movie pass
March 21
Q: What film, whose star won an Academy Award for Best Actor, was filmed partially in Gloucester?
A: SPENCER TRACEY in CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS
Winner: Thomas Friends won two complimentary passes to a Duck Tour
March 22
Q: Who was the FIRST person to win an Oscar for their film
debut?
A: GALE SODERGAARD in 1937 for ANTHONY ADVERSE
Winner: Paula O'Dowd won 10 movie passes from Sony Loews Theaters
March 23
Q: What Academy Award winner, originally from
Massachusetts, had their film debut in MYSTIC PIZZA?
A: MATT DAMON
Winner: Marsha DeMarco won 10 movie passes from Sony Loews Theaters
March 24
Q: Name the actress who was home with a broken ankle when
she won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar, and a stranger picked up
her Oscar. She never saw the award, and the thief was never found.
A: Alice Brady, IN OLD CHICAGO
Winner: Jennifer McCauley won 4 tickets to the Museum of Fine Arts.
