Trivia For Fans of 90s Films

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Trivia For Fans of 90s Films

Samantha Williamson

Posted: April 17, 2024 | Last updated: April 17, 2024

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Trivia For Fans of 90s Films

"Do you remember who won Best Picture at the 1995 Academy Awards? Or how about who bagged the Best Actor award in 1998? Find out if your 90s Academy Award recalls is on point with this daring quiz. It's time to don your red carpet gown and step on stage because you could be the one walking away with all the trophies!

Get ready for glitz and glamour galore as we take you on a journey across the golden era of moviemaking. Challenge yourself like never before and see how many Academy Award nominees, winners, and trivia questions you can correctly answer. So what are you waiting for? Get quizzing!"

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it The Fugitive or The Postman?

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Correct Answer: The Fugitive

The Fugitive is a 1993 American action thriller film. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture; Jones won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It has come to be viewed as one of the greatest action films of the 1990s.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Gary Oldman or Jack Palance?

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Correct Answer: Jack Palance

Jack Palance was an American actor. Known for playing tough guys and villains, he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, receiving nominations for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953) and winning almost 40 years later for his role in City Slickers (1991).

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Julianne Moore or Marisa Tomei?

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Correct Answer: Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei is an American actress. After having minor roles in a few films, she came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy, My Cousin Vinny, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Clint Eastwood or Keanu Reeves?

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Correct Answer: Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, film director, producer, and composer. An Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for his Western film Unforgiven (1992) and his sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004).

Is it Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones?

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Correct Answer: Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, director, and narrator. In 1994, he starred in the prison drama The Shawshank Redemption for which he received another Academy Award nomination.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Groundhog Day or Forrest Gump?

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Correct Answer: Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film. Forrest Gump won six Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Buffalo 66 or Schindler's List?

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Correct Answer: Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American historical drama film. It was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and won seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Hilary Swank or Sigourney Weaver?

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Correct Answer: Hilary Swank

Hilary Ann Swank is an American actress and film producer. Swank came to international recognition for her performance as Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry (1999).

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it The Green Mile or The Best Man?

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Correct Answer: The Green Mile

The Green Mile is a 1999 American magical realism drama film. It was a commercial success, grossing $286 million from its $60 million budget, and was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Duncan, Best Sound and Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Judi Dench or Andie MacDowell?

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Correct Answer: Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench is an English actress who is regarded as one of Britain's best actresses. An eight-time Academy Award nominee, Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998).

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Meet Joe Black or Dick Tracy?

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Correct Answer: Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is a 1990 American action crime comedy film. It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, winning in three of the categories: Best Original Song, Best Makeup, and Best Art Direction. It is remembered today for its visual style.

Is it Ghost or 10 Things I Hate About You?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Ghost or 10 Things I Hate About You?

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Correct Answer: Ghost

Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy thriller film. Ghost earned five nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and winning Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Blue Sky or Before Sunrise?

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Correct Answer: Blue Sky

Blue Sky is a 1994 American drama film. It won critical praise and Lange won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress, along with the Golden Globe Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Samuel L. Jackson or Will Smith?

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Correct Answer: Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor. For his role in Pulp Fiction, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Is it The Last of the Mohicans or Braveheart?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it The Last of the Mohicans or Braveheart?

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Correct Answer: Braveheart

Braveheart is a 1995 American epic historical drama film. The film received 10 nominations at the 68th Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Kevin Costner or Jim Carrey?

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Correct Answer: Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, producer, and film director. He starred in the film JFK (1991) and won two Academy Awards.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Whoopi Goldberg or Halle Berry?

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Correct Answer: Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality. For her performance as an eccentric psychic in the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a second Golden Globe Award.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it One False Move or Philadelphia?

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Correct Answer: Philadelphia

Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film. For his performance as Andrew Beckett, Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 66th Academy Awards, while the song "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Is it Independence Day or Robinson in Space?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Independence Day or Robinson in Space?

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Correct Answer: Independence Day

Independence Day (also promoted as ID4) is a 1996 American science fiction action film. It became the second-highest-grossing film ever at the time, behind Jurassic Park (1993). The film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound.

Is it The Parent Trap or The Sixth Sense?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it The Parent Trap or The Sixth Sense?

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Correct Answer: The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural psychological thriller film. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Shyamalan, Best Supporting Actor for Osment, and Best Supporting Actress for Collette.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it James Coburn or Jeremy Irons?

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Correct Answer: Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons is an English actor and activist. Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990).

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Dianne Wiest or Cate Blanchett?

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Correct Answer: Dianne Wiest

Dianne Evelyn Wiest is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters and the 1994 Bullets over Broadway (both of which were directed by Woody Allen).

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it American Beauty or Magnolia?

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Correct Answer: American Beauty

American Beauty is a 1999 American black-comedy-drama film. At the 72nd Academy Awards, the film won several Oscars, including Best Picture, along with Best Director for Mendes, Best Actor for Spacey, Best Original Screenplay for Ball and Best Cinematography for Hall.

Is it The Matrix or Die Hard with a Vengeance?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it The Matrix or Die Hard with a Vengeance?

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Correct Answer: The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film. At the 72nd Academy Awards, the film won all four categories it was nominated for, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Johnny Depp or Leonardo Dicaprio?

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Correct Answer: Leonardo Dicaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. At age 19, he received critical acclaim and his first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his performance as a developmentally disabled boy in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He achieved international stardom with the star-crossed romances Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997).

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Tom Hanks or Jim Carrey?

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Correct Answer: Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and the title character in Forrest Gump (1994).

Is it Bram Stoker's Dracula or The Blair Witch Project?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Bram Stoker's Dracula or The Blair Witch Project?

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Correct Answer: Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American Gothic horror film. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, of which it won three for Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Makeup while also being nominated for Best Art Direction.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Space Jam or Men in Black?

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Correct Answer: Men in Black

Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film. The film received three Academy Award nominations—Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Makeup—winning the lattermost award.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Tim Robbins or Anthony Hopkins?

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Correct Answer: Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor, director, and producer. In the The Silence of the Lambs film, Hopkins portrayed Hannibal Lecter, a role which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Is it The Truman Show or Dances with Wolves?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it The Truman Show or Dances with Wolves?

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Correct Answer: Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film. The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards at the 63rd Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture, Best Director for Costner, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Mixing.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Glenn Close or Meryl Streep?

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Correct Answer: Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress. She continued to gain awards, and critical praise, for her work in the late 1980s and 1990s, but commercial success was varied, with the comedy Death Becomes Her (1992) and the drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995), her biggest earners in that period.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise?

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Correct Answer: Brad Pitt

William Bradley Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven (1995) and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys (1995), the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actor!

Is it Steve Martin or Joe Pesci?

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Correct Answer: Joe Pesci

Joseph Frank Pesci is an American actor and musician. Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic gangster character Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas.

Is it Poetic Justice or Reversal of Fortune?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Poetic Justice or Reversal of Fortune?

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Correct Answer: Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune is a 1990 American drama film. The film was directed by Barbet Schroeder and stars Jeremy Irons as Claus, Glenn Close as Sunny, and Ron Silver as Dershowitz. Irons earned the 1990 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Diane Keaton or Holly Hunter?

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Correct Answer: Holly Hunter

Holly Patricia Hunter is an American actress. For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 drama film The Piano, Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Is it Melanie Griffith or Frances McDormand?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Melanie Griffith or Frances McDormand?

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Correct Answer: Frances McDormand

Frances Louise McDormand is an American actress and producer. For her portrayal of a police detective in Fargo, McDormand won her first Academy Award for Best Actress.

Is it In the Name of the Father or The Silence of the Lambs?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it In the Name of the Father or The Silence of the Lambs?

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Correct Answer: The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror film. It became the third and most recent film to win Academy Awards in all the major five categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Is it The Straight Story or The Age of Innocence?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it The Straight Story or The Age of Innocence?

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Correct Answer: The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film. It received critical acclaim, winning the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and being nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Winona Ryder), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Art Direction.

Is it Wag the Dog or As Good as It Gets?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Wag the Dog or As Good as It Gets?

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Correct Answer: As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film. Nicholson and Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making As Good as It Gets the most recent film to win both of the lead acting awards, and the first since 1991's The Silence of the Lambs.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Emma Thompson or Sandra Bullock?

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Correct Answer: Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson is a British actress and screenwriter. In 1992, Thompson won an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End.

Is it Basic Instinct or The English Patient?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Basic Instinct or The English Patient?

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Correct Answer: The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1996 epic romantic war drama film. The film received 12 nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche. It was also the first to receive a Best Editing Oscar for a digitally edited film.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Malcolm X or Goodfellas?

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Correct Answer: Goodfellas

Goodfellas is a 1990 American biographical crime film. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning for Best Supporting Actor.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Jurassic Park or The Lost World?

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Correct Answer: Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction action film. The film won more than twenty awards, including three Academy Awards for its technical achievements in visual effects and sound design.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Boyz N the Hood or Fight Club?

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Correct Answer: Boyz N the Hood

Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American coming-of-age hood drama film. It grossed $57.5 million in North America, and was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 64th Academy Awards, making Singleton the youngest person and the first African-American to be nominated for Best Director.

Is it Safe House or The Shawshank Redemption?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Safe House or The Shawshank Redemption?

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Correct Answer: The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film. It went on to receive multiple award nominations, including seven Academy Award nominations, and a theatrical re-release that, combined with international takings, increased the film's box-office gross to $73.3 million.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Sleepy Hollow or The Fisher King?

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Correct Answer: The Fisher King

The Fisher King is a 1991 American fantasy comedy-drama film. At the 64th Academy Awards the film earned five nominations, including Best Actor for Williams, with Ruehl winning Best Supporting Actress.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it Total Recall or The Insider?

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Correct Answer: The Insider

The Insider is a 1999 American drama film. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Russell Crowe).

Is it Annette Bening or Michelle Pfeiffer?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Annette Bening or Michelle Pfeiffer?

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Correct Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. In 1992, she starred in Batman Returns as Selina Kyle / Catwoman to widespread acclaim, and received her third Academy Award nomination for Love Field.

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Actress!

Is it Demi Moore or Jodie Foster?

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Correct Answer: Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, director, and producer. She won her second Academy Award three years later for the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs (1991), in which she portrayed FBI agent Clarice Starling.

Is it There's Something About Mary or My Cousin Vinny?

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Name This 90s Academy Award-Winning Film!

Is it There's Something About Mary or My Cousin Vinny?

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Correct Answer: My Cousin Vinny

My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 American comedy film. My Cousin Vinny was a critical and financial success, with Pesci, Gwynne, and Tomei all praised for their performances. Tomei won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.