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Test your knowledge of Oscar nominations by year with this fun quiz. Choose any year since 1928 and guess the nominees for major categories.

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Oscar Nominations By Year – Choose Year (Premium Only)

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First choose any year since 1928. Then, name the nominees for the major Oscars categories for that year. 2020 refers to the movies of 2020, which were nominated for the ceremony held in 2021, and so on. ‘*’ refers to winner. Picture/director have no hint, actor categories have the role as a hint. First three words accepted for longer film titles.

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Enter a year since 1928 to begin (i.e. '1989').

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robzalli

9 months ago

Viewing missed answers hasn’t been working for me. Clicking 20 Missed only shows missed answers in the 20 answers. Eg. Missed directors are not shown
Also – some of the answers for 2021 don’t match the clue they replace. I noticed for

Ariana Debose, Benedict, Cumberbatch, Will Smith

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SqrlMnkey

3 years ago

What do you think about adding the movies of the actors and directors as something to be guessed?

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darin

3 years ago

Reply to SqrlMnkey

that would give away the best picture movies often.

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