Well, did you?

1. This year's Best Picture nominations are looking back, not forward. What was the last year in which all five Best Pic noms were set in the past? What were the films?
(1984 - A Passage to India, A Soldier's Story, Amadeus, Places in the Heart, and The Killing Fields)

2. Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench have both been nominated for Oscars for playing the same character? Which 2 actresses were nominated at last year's ceremony for doing the same? And which 2 actors both won Oscars in the '70s for playing the same character?
(Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart in Titanic; Maron Brando and Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone in The Godfathers 1 & 2)

3. This year's Best Pic noms are obsessed with World War 2. Name three previous winners in this category which were set during that conflict.
(1943, Casablanca; 1953, From Here to Eternity; 1957, The Bridge on the River Kwai; 1964, The Sound of Music; 1970, Patton; 1993, Schindler's List)

4. Spot the Oscar odd one out: Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks.
(Coppola - the rest have never won Oscars)

5. If Tom Hanks wins Best Actor in 1999, he'll be the first star to win three times. Which other actors have won a pair of Best Actor gongs?
(Spencer Tracy, 1937 & 1938; Gary Cooper, 1941 & 1952; Marlon Brando, 1954 & 1972; Dustin Hoffman, 1979 & 1988; Jack Nicholson, 1975 & 1997)

6. Hanks won consecutive acting Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. The feat has only been achieved by four other performers. Name them.
(Luise Rainer in 1936 & 1937; Spencer Tracy in 1937 & 1938; Katherine Hepburn in 1967 & 1968; Jason Robards in 1976 & 1977)

7. Danish, Polish, Irish, Deep South, Australian. Meryl Streep - nominated this year for Best Actress - can do 'em all. But which accent won her Best Actress Oscar, for which film, and in which year?
(Polish, Sophie's Choice, 1982)

8. There is one film whose entire cast were nominated for Oscars. Name it and name them.
(Sleuth - Laurence Olivier, and Michael Caine)

9. Name the two men – and their movies – to have been simultanously nominated as Producer, Director, Actor and Screenplay. Which one achived the feat twice, and for what?
(Orson Welles, Citizen Kane; Warren Beatty, Reds & Heaven Can Wait)

10. Seven out of the first eleven Best Director Oscars were won by men called Frank. What were the Franks' surnames?
(Borzage, Lloyd and Capra)