Check out how much more you know about the Oscars with our third Oscar quiz. Enjoy!
1. Ben Kingsley won the 1982 Oscar for Gandhi. He has been nominated once more in the Actor in a Leading Role category. For which film?
a. Bugsy
b. Sexy Beast
c. House of Sand and Fog
The correct answer is House of Sand and Fog. Something of a trick question! Sir Ben (he reportedly insists that he be referred to thus on the sets) was nominated in 2003 for House of Sand and Fog.
He was also nominated for Bugsy (1991) and 2001's Sexy Beast (he played gangsters in both movies; Don Logan in Beast was far more chilling than the almost caricaturish Meyer Lansky in Bugsy) -- but in the Actor in a Supporting Role category for those films.
The year he won, the actor born Krishna Pandit Bhanji beat a field that included Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie), Jack Lemmon (Missing), Paul Newman (The Verdict) and Peter O'Toole (My Favorite Year).
In Friday's quiz, we told you who he lost to (please check the Johnny Depp question) in 2003.
In 1991, along with Harvey Keitel (also nominated for Bugsy), Michael Lerner (Barton Fink) and Tommy Lee Jones (JFK) he lost to Jack Palance (City Slickers).
Ten years later, he lost out to fellow Englishman Jim Broadbent (who played novelist Iris Murdoch's husband John Bayley in Iris). There was another Englishman in the fray (Sir Ian McKellen for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), with Ethan Hawke (Training Day) and Jon Voight (Angelina Jolie's pa, for Ali).
Did you know Kinglsey also won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Recording for The Words of Gandhi.
Richard Attenborough's epic also won him the Padma Shri in 1985.
One last thing: Do you know Pankaj Kapur dubbed Kingsley's lines in the film's Hindi version. Kapur also played Mahadev Desai, the Mahatma's secretary, in the film. He had just one spoken word in the English version -- 'Bapu'. In the Hindi version, that word was spoken by Attenborough himself :-)
He was also nominated for Bugsy (1991) and 2001's Sexy Beast (he played gangsters in both movies; Don Logan in Beast was far more chilling than the almost caricaturish Meyer Lansky in Bugsy) -- but in the Actor in a Supporting Role category for those films.
The year he won, the actor born Krishna Pandit Bhanji beat a field that included Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie), Jack Lemmon (Missing), Paul Newman (The Verdict) and Peter O'Toole (My Favorite Year).
In Friday's quiz, we told you who he lost to (please check the Johnny Depp question) in 2003.
In 1991, along with Harvey Keitel (also nominated for Bugsy), Michael Lerner (Barton Fink) and Tommy Lee Jones (JFK) he lost to Jack Palance (City Slickers).
Ten years later, he lost out to fellow Englishman Jim Broadbent (who played novelist Iris Murdoch's husband John Bayley in Iris). There was another Englishman in the fray (Sir Ian McKellen for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), with Ethan Hawke (Training Day) and Jon Voight (Angelina Jolie's pa, for Ali).
Did you know Kinglsey also won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Recording for The Words of Gandhi.
Richard Attenborough's epic also won him the Padma Shri in 1985.
One last thing: Do you know Pankaj Kapur dubbed Kingsley's lines in the film's Hindi version. Kapur also played Mahadev Desai, the Mahatma's secretary, in the film. He had just one spoken word in the English version -- 'Bapu'. In the Hindi version, that word was spoken by Attenborough himself :-)
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2. What links Peter Finch and Heath Ledger?
Both performers also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for their winning roles, which was also linked by the element of craziness. Finch played what has been dubbed the 'crazed' television personality Howard Beale in Network. Ledger, of course, was the spooky Joker in The Dark Knight, a film which is more chilling than all the vampire flicks which are the craze these days. In another coincidence, both actors were also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a a Leading Role for playing gay men. Finch played a homosexual Jewish doctor in Sunday Bloody Sunday; Ledger was the tormented cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. They didn't win, losing to Gene Hackman (The French Connection) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) respectively. Finch died of a heart attack a few weeks before he was posthumously nominated for an Oscar. Ledger's death was judged an accident caused by an overdose of prescription medicines. Finch died on January 14, 1977. Ledger died on January 22, 2008.
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