The Oscars Best Picture Trivia Questions

'Wings' won the inaugural Best Picture Oscar in 1929. It's a silent war epic featuring aerial combat, surprising many who assume the first winner was a talkie or a different genre.

At the 38th Academy Awards in 1966, 'The Sound of Music' won Best Picture, while 'Doctor Zhivago' was a fellow nominee. The previous answer was incorrect.

'Titanic' (1997) won 11 Oscars including Best Picture, but no acting nominations. This is rare for a winner—only 'The Last Emperor' and 'Wings' also did it.

The first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 honored 'Wings', a silent film with no spoken dialogue, which won the top prize (now Best Picture).

'12 Years a Slave' won in 2014, three years before 'Moonlight' (2017). Both have predominantly Black casts, so the statement is false.

'Marty' (1955) is the shortest Best Picture winner at just 91 minutes, well under the 100-minute mark.

Only one pure horror movie, 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991), has ever won Best Picture. 'The Exorcist' and 'Get Out' were nominated but lost.

No Best Picture winner has ever been disqualified. The closest scandal was 'Crash' (2005) facing backlash, but it remains an official winner.