Oscars 2024 Trivia
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57 free Oscars 2024 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 96th Academy Awards, on March 10, 2024, closed out the year of Barbenheimer. Oppenheimer won seven Oscars including Best Picture, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. took both male acting prizes, Emma Stone won her second Best Actress statuette, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph completed a season-long sweep. Ryan Gosling sang 'I'm Just Ken' with 62 Kens, John Cena presented Costume Design apparently naked, and Al Pacino announced the winner without reading the nominees. This quiz covers the whole night: every major winner, the records and firsts (Lily Gladstone, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Billie Eilish), the international and documentary winners from Britain, Japan and Ukraine, the presenters and performances, the honorary awards, the ratings, and the new inclusion rules that took effect that year. Questions run from easy warm-ups to details only awards-season diehards will know. Every answer was checked against the Academy's own results as recorded on Wikipedia and the winners' own pages, so you can use it for a movie night, a pub quiz round or a pre-Oscars party without worrying about a wrong answer.
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Q 01Which venue, the Oscars' regular home since 2002, hosted the 2024 ceremony?
Dolby Theatre
Dolby Theatre was the Kodak Theatre until 2012: Kodak went bankrupt halfway through a 20-year naming deal, and Dolby put its name on the Oscars' home instead.
Q 02Which film won Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars?
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer won Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards; the atomic-bomb biopic grossed more than $900 million worldwide, the highest-grossing winner of the award since 2003.
Q 03Which studio released the 2024 Best Picture winner after its director split from Warner Bros.?
Universal
Universal landed the film after its director, long a Warner Bros. fixture, blasted that studio for putting its 2021 releases on streaming the same day as cinemas.
Q 04Which composer extended his record as the oldest Oscar nominee with a 54th nomination in 2024?
John Williams
John Williams, 91, was nominated for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, leaving only Walt Disney with more nominations; he lost the award to a composer 52 years his junior.
Q 05Which comedian hosted the 2024 Oscars for the fourth time?
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel greeted the booking with a joke, 'I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times', a tally still far behind Bob Hope's 19.
Q 06Who won Best Actor at the 2024 Oscars for playing the physicist behind the atomic bomb?
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy, winning on his first nomination, dedicated the Oscar to 'the peacemakers everywhere', saying we all now live in the world his character made.
Q 07Who won Best Actress at the 2024 Oscars for playing the reanimated Bella Baxter in Poor Things?
Emma Stone
Emma Stone's second Best Actress Oscar was no formality: the race had looked too close to call until the envelope opened.
Q 08Which 2016 musical earned the 2024 Best Actress winner her first Oscar?
La La Land
La La Land won her Best Actress in 2017, minutes before it was wrongly announced as Best Picture; the mix-up was corrected on stage and Moonlight took the prize.
Q 09Who won Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Oscars for playing Lewis Strauss?
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. began his speech by thanking 'my terrible childhood and the Academy, in that order', adding that he needed the job more than it needed him.
Q 10The 2024 Best Supporting Actor winner was earlier nominated for Chaplin and which 2008 comedy?
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder cast him as Kirk Lazarus, a method actor who has his skin surgically darkened to play a Black soldier; the satire earned a nomination, but he lost to the late Heath Ledger.
Q 11Who won Best Supporting Actress at the 2024 Oscars for playing grieving school cook Mary Lamb?
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, in tears, told the audience: 'For so long I've always wanted to be different, and now I realise I just need to be myself.'
Q 12Which Best Picture nominee is set at a New England boarding school in 1970?
The Holdovers
The Holdovers began when Alexander Payne watched Merlusse, a 1935 French film about boarding-school boys stuck over the holidays with a despised teacher, and had a new story built on it.
Q 13The 2024 Best Picture winner was the first to also win both male acting awards since which 1959 film?
Ben-Hur
Q 21Which rock guitarist joined Ryan Gosling's 'I'm Just Ken' at the 2024 Oscars?
Slash
Slash had already played on the film's studio recording after producer Mark Ronson sent him the track; at the Oscars he turned up to play the closing solo.
Q 22Which film became the first British winner of Best International Feature at the 2024 Oscars?
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest keeps the killing off screen: it is only heard from the family garden beside the camp wall, and that soundscape won the film a second Oscar, for Best Sound.
Q 23The 2024 Best International Feature winner follows the family of which real Auschwitz commandant?
Rudolf Höss
Ben-Hur's Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith both won in an 11-Oscar sweep; MGM, in financial trouble, had gambled on the costly epic to turn the studio around.
Q 14Who won Best Director at the 2024 Oscars, taking home his first Academy Award?
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan had lost on all five of his earlier nominations, including screenplay nods for Memento and Inception, before winning for both directing and Best Picture in one night.
Q 15At 81, who became the oldest Best Director nominee in Oscar history in 2024?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese took the record from John Huston, nominated at 79 for Prizzi's Honor; it was his tenth directing nomination, and only The Departed had brought him a win.
Q 16Which actress became the first US-born Native American nominated for Best Actress, in 2024?
Lily Gladstone
Lily Gladstone, raised on the Blackfeet reservation, had already made history at the Golden Globes, where she began her acceptance speech in the Blackfeet language.
Q 17Which film brought De Niro's first nomination, 49 years before 2024's?
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II won him the Oscar at the first attempt, for a young Vito Corleone who speaks almost no English; the 49-year span beat Katharine Hepburn's 48, the longest for any actor.
Q 18Which song won Best Original Song at the 2024 Oscars?
What Was I Made For?
'What Was I Made For?', Billie Eilish's ballad for the Greta Gerwig film, beat that film's own 'I'm Just Ken', which Ryan Gosling performed live on the night.
Q 19The 2024 Best Original Song winner first won that award for which Bond film's theme?
No Time to Die
No Time to Die won at the 2022 ceremony; its singer and her brother wrote and recorded the Bond theme in three days on a tour bus in Texas.
Q 20Ryan Gosling's 2024 performance of 'I'm Just Ken' paid homage to a number from which classic film?
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes gave Marilyn Monroe 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend'; the Oscars number restaged it with a sparkling pink suit and dozens of dancing Kens.
Rudolf Höss lived with his wife and children in a villa against the camp wall, as the film shows; in April 1947 he was hanged at Auschwitz itself.
Q 24The director of the 2024 Best Animated Feature winner first won that award 21 years earlier for which film?
Spirited Away
Spirited Away won at the 2003 ceremony, but its director stayed home: he later said he had not wanted to visit a country that was bombing Iraq.
Q 25Which film won Best Visual Effects at the 2024 Oscars with an effects team of only 35 artists?
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One beat far costlier Hollywood blockbusters to give the 70-year-old franchise its first Oscar; director Takashi Yamazaki also supervised the effects himself.
Q 26Which film won Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Oscars?
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron exists because Hayao Miyazaki went back on his 2013 retirement; at 83 he won the award he had first taken two decades earlier.
Q 27Which Palme d'Or winner took Best Original Screenplay at the 2024 Oscars?
Anatomy of a Fall
Anatomy of a Fall won even though France's Oscar committee had passed it over as the country's International Feature entry, choosing The Taste of Things, which then missed the nominations.
Q 28Which film, drawn from Percival Everett's novel Erasure, won Best Adapted Screenplay in 2024?
American Fiction
American Fiction follows a novelist whose joke manuscript, a parody of stereotyped 'Black' books, is mistaken for serious literature and becomes a hit; it was Cord Jefferson's first film.
Q 29Which film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2024 Oscars, its country's first Academy Award?
20 Days in Mariupol
20 Days in Mariupol's director said on stage that he would trade the Oscar for Russia never having attacked Ukraine or occupied its cities.
Q 30Which news organisation's journalists filmed the 2024 Best Documentary Feature winner?
Associated Press
Associated Press journalists Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko were the only international reporters left in the besieged city, and their footage gave the world its defining images of the siege.