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What religious epic starring Charlton Heston saw the actor carry out a meticulously planned chariot race in one of its most famous scenes?
The Ten Commandments
Ben-Hur
King of Kings
The Passion of the Christ
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What 1971 Best Picture winner was a biopic recounting the life of an American war hero who was played by George C. Scott?
Patton
To Hell and Back
Flags of Our Fathers
Steward
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What 1954 Best Picture winner was a World War Two romance/drama film about lovers whose relationships were imperiled by the realities of warfare?
From Here to Eternity
The Other Side
Pearl Harbor
Bridge on the River Kwai
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What musical about warring gangs in N.Y.C. won Best Picture in 1962?
King's Street
West Side Story
Oliver!
Boondock Saints
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What silent film about two pilots competing for a woman's affection was the first ever Best Picture winner?
Once Upon a Dream
The Flying Circus
Fly by Night
Wings
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What 1985 Best Picture winner was a biopic about the life of a famous composer?
Schubert
Liszt
Ludwig
Amadeus
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What 1968 musical about a scrappy orphan boy is the only G-rated film to ever win Best Picture?
Chicago
Little Porter
Oliver!
Redgrave
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What 1982 Best Picture winner was a historical drama following two rival Olympic runners and how their unique perspectives shaped their philosophy of competition?
Chariots of Fire
Days of Thunder
Field of Dreams
Wonder of You
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1940's Rebecca was the only film by what famous director to win Best Picture?
Frank Capra
Alfred Hitchcock
Cecil B. DeMille
Orson Welles
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What famous naval-based historical drama from 1935 starred Clark Gable as the leader of a rebellion against the captain of his vessel?
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Amistad
The Titanic
Master and Commander
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What 1978 Vietnam War drama known for its iconic Russian Roulette scene won the year's Best Picture Academy Award?
We Were Soldiers
Platoon
King's Row
The Deer Hunter
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What Jack Nicholson movie about an insane asylum's patients being mistreated by their caregivers was one of the only films to win all five major Academy Awards, including Best Picture?
A Place I Know
Down on Main Street
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milburn and Me
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What legendary 1939 Civil War era romance starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh won Best Picture in that year's Oscar season?
Birth of a Nation
Atlanta
Dog Day Afternoon
Gone with the Wind
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What 1962 historical biopic won Best Picture for its epic portrayal of the memoirs of T. E. Lawrence?
Lawrence of Arabia
King of Kings
The Last Crusade
Stranger in a Strange Land
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What 1949 Best-Picture-winning political drama about a ruthless Southern politician was adapted from a book of the same name by Robert Penn Warren?
Judgment Day
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
12 Angry Men
All the King's Men
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What 1930 war film about young German men discovering the horrors of the battlefield won Best Picture the following year?
Come and See
All Quiet on the Western Front
Burning Down
Guernica
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What 1934 Clark Gable romantic comedy was the first movie to win all five major categories including Best Picture?
It Happened One Night
On a Whim
Shadow of a Doubt
Preacher Man
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What Best Picture winner was based on the music of George Gershwin, featuring added lyrics that were written by Gershwin's brother Ira?
Porgy and Bess
Fourteen
Rhapsody in Blue
An American in Paris
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What 1977 Best Picture winner starred Woody Allen as a man trying to figure out why his previous relationship soured?
Annie Hall
The Graduate
Lady Bly
Captain Marshall
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What film about Utopia author Thomas More's final years alive won Best Picture during the 1966 awards season?
The Springtime Gentleman
I Know What You Did Last Summer
A Man for All Seasons
The Winter of Our Discontent
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What is the only X-rated film to have ever won Best Picture?
Urban Cowboy
The Last Picture Show
Midnight Cowboy
The Graduate
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What Julie Andrews musical about escaping Nazi-occupied Austria won Best Picture?
I Will Remember You
The Sound of Music
Born to Run
You and I and George
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What 1976 boxing movie that introduced the world to Sylvester Stallone won Best Picture during that year's award season?
Fight Night
Grudge Match
Raging Bull
Rocky
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What Best Picture winning movie saw Sidney Poitier originate the famous quote, "They call me Mr. Tibbs"?
Bent and Broken
The Color Purple
In the Heat of the Night
Burning Down
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1972 saw what legendary mafia movie take home Best Picture?
The Godfather
Scarface
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
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What famous 1943 romantic drama featuring the quotes "Play it again, Sam" and "Here's looking at you, kid," won Best Picture during its awards season?
Rebel Cell
London Bridge
Birmingham
Casablanca
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In 1973, what crime drama starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman ran away with several Academy Awards including Best Picture?
Ocean's Eleven
The Sting
Under the Boardwalk
Still Is the Night
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What 1979 drama about a family's messy divorce won that year's Best Picture Oscar?
The Lyndon Problem
Icehouse
Kramer v. Kramer
Marriage Story
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What 1991 psychological thriller starring Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter swept the primary Oscar categories, including Best Picture?
The Silence of the Lambs
Mortimer
Suspiria
Mortal Appetites
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In 1974, Best Picture went to what film that was a sequel to a previous Best Picture winner?
Hannibal
The Godfather Part II
Vergil Tibbs
An American in London
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