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60 free Oscars 2024 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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 01On what date was the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held?
March 10, 2024
The 96th Academy Awards took place on March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, starting at 4 p.m. Pacific, an hour earlier than usual.
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 03How many Oscars did the 2024 Best Picture winner take home?
Seven
Seven Oscars went to the Best Picture winner: Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Film Editing and Original Score, the most of any film that night.
Q 04How many nominations did the 2024 Best Picture winner receive, the most of any film that year?
13
The Best Picture winner led the field with 13 nominations; Poor Things was second with eleven and Killers of the Flower Moon third with ten, and Killers went home empty-handed.
Q 05Which comedian hosted the 2024 Oscars for the fourth time?
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the fourth time, after 2017, 2018 and 2023; his wife Molly McNearney was one of the show's executive producers.
Q 06Who won Best Actor at the 2024 Oscars for playing the physicist behind the atomic bomb?
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy won on his first nomination; the Irish actor had already made five films with the same director, including the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception.
Q 07Who won Best Actress at the 2024 Oscars for playing the reanimated Bella Baxter in Poor Things?
Emma Stone
Emma Stone took her second Best Actress Oscar for Bella Baxter and was also nominated as a producer of Poor Things in the Best Picture category.
Q 08Which 2016 musical earned the 2024 Best Actress winner her first Oscar?
La La Land
La La Land brought her first Oscar, Best Actress at the 2017 ceremony; she had also been nominated for Birdman and The Favourite, her first film with Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Q 09Who won Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Oscars for playing Lewis Strauss?
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. won on his third nomination, 31 years after his first nod for playing Charlie Chaplin; it was his first Oscar.
Q 10The 2024 Best Supporting Actor winner was earlier nominated for Chaplin and which 2008 comedy?
Tropic Thunder
In Tropic Thunder he played Kirk Lazarus, an Australian method actor who undergoes surgery to play a Black soldier, earning a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
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's turn in The Holdovers swept the season, taking the Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG award before the Oscar.
Q 12The Holdovers is set at a New England boarding school in which year?
1970
The Holdovers unfolds over the 1970 Christmas break at fictional Barton Academy; Alexander Payne shot it to look like a film of that era, and Paul Giamatti's grumpy classics teacher earned a Best Actor nomination.
Q 13The 2024 Best Picture winner was the first to also win both male acting awards since which 1959 film?
Ben-Hur
Q 21How many actors dressed as Ken backed Ryan Gosling's 2024 Oscars performance?
62
62 dancers dressed as Ken backed him, with guitarists Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen also appearing; choreographer Mandy Moore staged the number.
Q 22Which 2024 Oscar winner was the first non-English-language British film to win Best International Feature?
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest, an Auschwitz drama filmed in German, Polish and Yiddish, was the United Kingdom's entry and the first British film to win the category.
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 did it in 1960. Both of the 2024 winners had never won before.
Q 14Who won Best Director at the 2024 Oscars, after earlier nominations for Memento and Inception?
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan won his first Oscar for directing; Steven Spielberg presented the award, and Nolan also shared the Best Picture prize with his wife and producing partner Emma Thomas.
Q 15At 81, who became the oldest Best Director nominee in Oscar history in 2024?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese, 81, became the oldest Best Director nominee; his Killers of the Flower Moon earned ten nominations, including Robert De Niro's first in 32 years, and won none.
Q 16Which 2024 nominee became the first US-born Native American person nominated for Best Actress?
Lily Gladstone
Lily Gladstone, of Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, played Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose family is murdered for oil money, in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Q 17How many years separated De Niro's first and 2024 nominations, a record span for an actor?
49
49 years separated De Niro's first nod, for The Godfather Part II at the 1975 ceremony, from his 2024 nomination for playing cattleman William King Hale, the longest span 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 19Billie Eilish's first Oscar, before her 2024 win, was for which film's theme song?
No Time to Die
'No Time to Die', the Bond theme, won at the 2022 ceremony; at 22 she became the youngest person ever to hold a second Oscar, sharing both awards with her brother and co-writer Finneas O'Connell.
Q 20Ryan Gosling's 2024 performance of 'I'm Just Ken' paid homage to a number from which classic film?
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The staging echoed Marilyn Monroe's 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend' from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with cameos from Slash, Wolfgang Van Halen and fellow Kens Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa.
Rudolf Höss, played by Christian Friedel, ran the camp; the film, loosely based on Martin Amis's 2014 novel, has Sandra Hüller as his wife Hedwig tending a garden beside the camp wall.
Q 24Who won Best Film Editing at the 2024 Oscars for cutting the Best Picture winner?
Jennifer Lame
Jennifer Lame took Best Film Editing for the atomic-bomb biopic, her first Oscar; she had previously edited Tenet and Marriage Story.
Q 25Which Japanese film won Best Visual Effects at the 2024 Oscars, reputedly made for around $10M?
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One's director Takashi Yamazaki also served as its visual-effects supervisor and shared the award, the first Oscar for any Godzilla film in the franchise's 70-year history.
Q 26Which film won Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Oscars?
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki's first film since coming out of retirement, was years in the making after production began in 2016; the 83-year-old director did not attend the ceremony.
Q 27Which French courtroom drama won Best Original Screenplay in 2024 after taking the Palme d'Or at Cannes?
Anatomy of a Fall
Anatomy of a Fall's writers Justine Triet and Arthur Harari took the screenplay prize; at Cannes the film had also won the Palm Dog for Messi the border collie, who attended the Oscars.
Q 28Cord Jefferson won Best Adapted Screenplay in 2024 for American Fiction, based on which Percival Everett novel?
Erasure
Erasure, Everett's 2001 novel, gave Jeffrey Wright's frustrated novelist Monk Ellison, who writes a deliberately stereotyped book as a joke and watches it become a hit.
Q 29Which Ukrainian film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2024 Oscars?
20 Days in Mariupol
20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Mstyslav Chernov, was shot during the first weeks of the Russian invasion in 2022 and brought Ukraine its first Oscar.
Q 30Which US news organisation's journalists filmed the 2024 Best Documentary Feature winner?
Associated Press
Associated Press journalists Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko shot the footage, compiled with PBS's Frontline; Chernov said in his speech he wished he had never had to make the film.