How to Play
• Answer the General Knowledge questions on Movies, then find the words in the grid.
• Words appear horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backwards. Some words may overlap.
Quiz Questions
- This has evolved into an organisation that gives awards, and works for the preservation of film.
- A science fiction film, about humans colonising Pandora. It won three Academy Awards in 2009.
- A psychological thriller-horror film, starring Natalie Portman, and Mila Kunis; the ‘……… Swan’.
- Starring Adrien ….., this movie is a memoir, by pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman.
- ‘Julius ………’ is a cinematic retelling of the political conspiracy, brutal assassination, and the resulting civil war in Rome.
- This man won one of his two Oscars in 1952, starring as sheriff, in the western, ‘High Noon’.
- Gladiator won five Academy Awards, including Best Actor for this star.
- This Dame won he Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth, in ‘Shakespeare in Love’.
- This man holds the record for te most Academy Awards for an individual in history (twenty-six).
- ‘Unforgiven’ (1992), and ‘Million Dollar Baby’ (2004), won him Oscars for Best Director, but the Best Actor Oscar has eluded him.
- The ‘………’ follows the hardships of a group of Swedish emigrants, to the US; nominated for five awards.
- The first commercial film, shown in stereophonic sound, consisting of animated segments, set to classical music.
- She began acting in 1965, received Oscars for ‘Norma Rae’ (1979), and ‘Places in the Heart’ (1984).
- ‘It Happened One Night’ (1934), won him an Academy Award, and he died in 1960, aged 59.
- Her first ‘talkie’, won her an Academy Award nomination. In 1954 she was given a special Oscar, for past unforgettable performances.
- The most successful movie musical of all time, not receiving an Oscar, but did have a cult following.
- ‘The ….Ziegfeld’ won the Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Dance Direction Academy Award in 1936.
- Joel is the father of Jennifer, and received and Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, in the Godfather.
- She won the Golden Globe, the SAG, and the Academy Award for best leading Actress, in a supporting role in ‘Girl Interrupted’.
- He received more than thirty posthumous awards, for ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008), including the Oscar, SAG, BAFTA, and Golden Globe.
- This movie, starring Edward G Robinson, was the beginning of a cycle of gangster movies in 1930 ……….Caesar.
- Out of the three ‘The ….of the Rings’ movies, ‘The Return of the King’ received the most Oscars, winning 11.
- …….. Smith has won Oscars for ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ (1969) and ‘California Suite” (1978).
- She starred in ‘Indecent Proposal’, ‘Disclosure’, and with Patrick Swayze in the movie ‘Ghost’.
- This was Marlene Dietrich’s first American movie, starring with Gary Cooper.
- ‘The…. Stuff’ is a film about the early days of the US Space Program, which was nominated for Best Picture in 1983.
- She is considered the best living actress, and has won Best Actress Academy Award twice and Best Supporting Actress once.
- Written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, this movie won eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Best Director.
- Starring with Robert Montgomery, this was Joan Crawford’s first talkie.
- The acronym for this association, which handed out awards for promising new movie stars.
- Sam, Harry, Albert, and Jack, collectively known as this, first introduced synchronised sound to their pictures, in 1925 (2 words)
- The very first Academy Award for best picture was won by this, in 1927/28.
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