The Producers Trivia Quiz
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This quiz is all about film producers who have won Oscars for producing Best Film winners. Important note: whenever a year is mentioned it relates to the year a film was made not when it won the Oscar.
Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What distinction does Lucien Hubbard hold?

Answer: He produced the first Best Film winner

Hubbard produced "Wings" in 1928, the first ever Best Film winner. It is also the first silent film to have won the Best Film award.

2. In recent years it has become almost customary for an entire posse of producers to take the stage when collecting the Best Film Oscar. But which of the following has been a sole recipient of the award?

Answer: Saul Zaentz

Zaentz produced 1996's "The English Patient" and "Amadeus" in 1984. He also shared producer honours with Michael Douglas in 1975 for "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".

3. How many people collected Producer Oscars for "Shakespeare in Love"?

Answer: Five

The five were Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick.

4. Who produced the Best Film of 1931, "Cimarron"?

Answer: William LeBaron

The other three all produced Best Film winners in the 1930s.

5. Who was the second woman to produce a Best Film winner?

Answer: Lili Fini Zanuck

Zanuck was one of the producers of 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy". The first woman to produce a Best Film winner was Julia Phillips. She produced "The Sting" in 1973.

6. Tony Bill is one of several actors who have produced Best Film winners. With which film did he make his acting debut?

Answer: Come Blow your Horn

Tony Bill made his acting debut in 1963. Ten years later he was one of the producers of "The Sting".

7. Sam Spiegel won two of his three Oscars for producing films directed by David Lean. Who directed the third?

Answer: Elia Kazan

The third Oscar was for 1954's "On the Waterfront". The David Lean films were 1957's "Bridge on the River Kwai" and 1962's "Lawrence of Arabia". Spiegel also produced films under the pseudonym S. P. Eagle.

8. Which of the following is the only person to produce Best Film winners in consecutive years?

Answer: David O. Selznick

Selznick produced "Gone with the Wind" in 1939 and "Rebecca" in 1940.

9. Back to the 1930s. Which of the following Best Film winners was produced by William R. Sheehan?

Answer: Cavalcade

Sheehan produced "Cavalcade" the Oscar winner of 1933. "Grand Hotel" was made by Irving Thalberg, "The Great Ziegfeld" by Hunt Stromberg, and "It Happened One Night" by Harry Cohn.

10. Finally, a slight twist. Who collects the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film winner?

Answer: The Director

Since 1928 to 2001 a foreign language film has yet to win the Best Film award.

Source: Author husker7

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