Special Feud: The Oscars by ArchiveGuy [Game Over]

The Game Room
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  1. Name a memorable Oscar host.
    1. Billy Crystal 19

  2. Johnny Carson 3

  3. David Letterman 2

  4. Jon Stewart 2

  5. Bob Hope 1

  6. Name someone who gave a memorable Oscar acceptance speech.
    2. Sally Field 20

  7. Cuba Gooding, Jr. 2

  8. Michael Moore 2

  9. Roberto Benigni 2

  10. Halle Berry 1

  11. Name a “classic” movie that was not nominated for a single Oscar.
    3. King Kong 5

  12. Star Wars 4

  13. Citizen Kane 3

  14. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 3

  15. Birth of a Nation 2

  16. Animal House 1

  17. Caddyshack 1

  18. Goodfellas 1

  19. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1

  20. Rambo 1

  21. Rebel Without A Cause 1

  22. Roadhouse 1

  23. The 39 Steps 1

  24. Three Kings 1

  25. Vertigo 1

  26. Name a movie that won multiple Oscars but lost Best Picture.
    4. Star Wars 13

  27. Brokeback Mountain 4

  28. Cabaret 2

  29. Pulp Fiction 2

  30. Saving Private Ryan 2

  31. Fargo 1

  32. Good Night and Good Luck 1

  33. Network 1

  34. The Pianist 1

  35. Name someone who’s won an Oscar for Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted).
    5. Quentin Tarantino 9

  36. Matt Damon/Ben Affleck 7

  37. The Coen Brothers 4

  38. Billy Wilder 1

  39. Diablo Cody 1

  40. Herman J. Mankiewicz 1

  41. Mario Puzo 1

  42. Orson Welles 1

  43. Warren Beatty 1

  44. Woody Allen 1

  45. Name someone who’s won a music Oscar (Score or Song).
    6. John Williams 16

  46. Elton John 3

  47. Randy Newman 2

  48. Alfred Newman 1

  49. Bruce Springsteen 1

  50. Burt Bacharach 1

  51. Eminem 1

  52. pass 1

  53. Tim Rice 1

  54. Name someone who’s won an Oscar in a “technical” category (excluding the music ones).
    7. Edith Head 8

  55. Rick Baker 5

  56. John Dykstra 2

  57. John Williams 2

  58. Ben Burtt 1

  59. Conrad L. Hall 1

  60. Dennis Muren 1

  61. Jamie Selkirk 1

  62. Loren Carpenter 1

  63. Pass1 1

  64. pass2 1

  65. pass3 1

  66. Stan Winston 1

  67. Walt Disney 1

  68. Name someone who’s famous for never winning an Oscar.
    8. Peter O’Toole 8

  69. Kate Winslet 4

  70. Richard Burton 4

  71. Alfred Hitchcock 3

  72. Bob Hope 2

  73. Cary Grant 1

  74. Harrison Ford 1

  75. Marilyn Monroe 1

  76. Martin Scorsese 1

  77. Stanley Kubrick 1

  78. Thelma Ritter 1

  79. Name a movie that featured a character in the story winning an Oscar.
    9. In and Out 10

  80. A Star is Born 7

  81. Sunset Boulevard 2

  82. Tropic Thunder 2

  83. Austin Powers in Goldmember 1

  84. California Suite 1

  85. Holiday 1

  86. pass 1

  87. The Naked Gun 33-1/3 1

  88. The Oscar 1

  89. Name a movie nominated for an Oscar this weekend that will go home completely empty-handed.
    10. Frost/Nixon 17

  90. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4

  91. Milk 2

  92. The Reader 2

  93. Kung Fu Panda 1

  94. The Wrestler 1

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I sense that I’m going to do really bad on this one.

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May I have the envelope, please? ~riiipp~ And the winner is ~drumroll~ anyrose!!! Good job, girl! Rosie got 8/10 top answers. Way to go! Perfect was 462.96.

Thanks everyone! Thanks for the timely Feud, ArchiveGuy. It was fun!

New one up tonight sometime.

1. anyrose 444.44
2. critter42 422.22
3. wheresgeorge04 418.52
4. Sigmagirl 392.59
5. Mahaloth 377.78
6. twickster 366.67
7. Queen Tonya 359.26
8. The Superhero 351.85
9. 42fish 348.15
9. ArchiveGuy 348.15
9. Hilarity N. Suze 348.15
12. RickJay 333.33
13. gonzomax 314.81
14. Dolores Reborn 307.41
14. NDP 307.41
16. criminey.jicket 266.67
17. AuntiePam 262.96
17. drm 262.96
19. Key Lime Guy 259.26
20. JohnT 248.15
21. astorian 214.81
22. MsWhatsit 188.89
23. Freudian Slit 174.07
23. Claptree 174.07
25. RealityChuck 151.85
26. Little Nemo 144.44
27. WormTheRed 140.74

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*::Writes down::

:: Don’t take part in any Feuds I know nuttin about anymore.::

:: promise to read that before every new Feud::*

Google is NOT my friend.

45

Ouch! 23 out of 27. Burn baby burn.

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I did some of these questions just to gauge awareness of some films’ reputations with the Oscars. Hence…

Vertigo, Rebel Without a Cause and yes, even Rambo: First Blood Part II were all nominated for Oscars. And Goodfellas, Citizen Kane and Star Wars were not only all Oscar winners, but even Best Picture nominees. Birth of a Nation, of course, was not nominated for an Oscar by virtue of being 13 years too early. :stuck_out_tongue:

Good Night and Good Luck was not a multiple Oscar winner–it went 0-for-7. And while Pulp Fiction did win screenplay, that was the only thing it won, so it’s not a multiple winner either.

It’s interesting that the top 2 vote getters received their Oscar on their only writing nomination

Technically, O’Toole, Hope, and Grant are all Oscar winners, though not competitively (they all received Honorary awards). But Scorsese and Kubrick both won competitive Oscars (the latter won the Oscar for the Visual Effects of 2001).

Norma Desmond is/was a silent film star, so her career preceded the Oscars.

Well, these all can’t be right unless Slumdog sweeps everything and Richard Jenkins wins Best Actor. We’ll see…

Thanks, Dolores (and everyone else)–it was fun!

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But Rambo: First Blood, was not nominated for any Oscar.

Not that it did me any good :frowning:

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Fun feud – thanks ArchiveGuy, Rebo!

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Good game! Thanks, you two!

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Last night a local station ran" Jesse James meets Frankensteins Daughter", if that did not win any awards, how could I be expected to compete.

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We saw that listing last night here, gonzo, don’t tell me you subjected yourself to watching it?

Any feud I wind up in the top ten is a great feud! Thanks,** ArchiveGuy** and Rebo.

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I know. It’s annoying to have a right answer that gets outscored by a wrong answer.

53

The Wolf has 1950 era movies every weekend. He digs the bottom of the barrel but I like watching the environment. They drive through the streets in brand new 1950s cars. There are Edsels, Nashs and strange cars brand spankin new. The movies are kind of weak. A couple weeks ago they showed the classic" Santa Claus vs the Martians." Then watching the neighborhoods is interesting too . It is a time capsule.

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Are you sure? I can’t find any noms for it, but I just sat through most of Tora! Tora! Tora! with my ex-Navy husband, and AMC is promoting a week of movies that received Oscar nominations, and Rambo is one of them. I know the movie itself would never be nominated, but there must have been a nomination in some category, or else AMC is fudging.

I knew I should have gone with King Kong and Edith Head, but I figured only the old-timers would think of them. Can’t explain why I went with Carson for the host, except that being dead (and a good host) makes him more “memorable”.

I suck at these, but it’s sure fun to play.

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  1. Billy Crystal

  2. Sally Field

  3. Frankenstein

  4. Saving Private Ryan

  5. Ben Affleck

  6. John Williams

  7. Rick Baker

  8. Robert Mitchum

  9. pass

  10. Frost/Nixon

  11. The 1931 Boris Karloff version.

  12. With Matt Damon, for Good Will Hunting.
    Crap. I was trying hard not to see the other replies, so I didn’t realize the feud has ended.

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Just check the link. It links to all the awards Rambo: First Blood has gotten and been nominated for.

Unless IMDB is wrong?

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Rambo was the name of the sequel (which was nominated for an Oscar). The original was simply titled First Blood and that wasn’t.

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Gottcha.

59

Yep, it goes:

First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo III
Rambo: I Am Not Yet Dead

(ok, I embroidered the last one a bit…sue me :slight_smile: )