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Put your Oscar history trivia to the test

By: Diana Estigarribia

 
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1. Only three women have been nominated for directing in Oscar history: Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties (1976), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993), and who is the third?
  Sofia Coppola
  Barbara Streisand
  Jodie Foster
 
2. Who waited the longest between his first nomination and the first time he won?
  Kevin Spacey
  Henry Fonda
  Jack Nicholson
 
3. Who is the only person actually named Oscar to win an Academy Award?
  Oscar Levant
  Oscar de la Renta
  Oscar Hammerstein II
 
4. Who has hosted the Oscars telecast the most times?
  Bob Hope
  Billy Crystal
  Johnny Carson
 
5. Only three films in the past 77 years have won all five of the major awards. They are:
  Ben-Hur, The English Patient and Titanic
  It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Silence of the Lambs
  Citizen Kane, The English Patient and Forrest Gump
 
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