Frances McDormand won her third Best Actress Oscar on Sunday night. Will she catch Katharine Hepburn with another win? Seems like a possibility, given how adored she is by the Academy. Three wins off six nominations is a pretty solid batting average.
Plus she doesn’t seem to give a toss about whether or not she wins. That’s pretty cool. Having all the statues must be nice, but in the end she just really digs acting. As she said in her very brief acceptance speech this year, the voice is in the sword, and the sword is the work, and “I like work.”
In honor of Frances McDormand’s win, here’s a trivia quiz about her and her work. You have my full permission to howl your lungs out if you get all five right.
Questions
- McDormand’s film debut came in the movie “Blood Simple,” which was also the feature debut of what director, to whom McDormand has been married since 1984?
- On top of her many Oscars, SAGs and Golden Globes for her film work, Frances McDormand has been lauded for her stage and TV work. She won a Tony in 2011 for “Good People,” and picked up an Emmy in 2015 for her role as the prickly title character in what HBO miniseries?
- Frances McDormand has drama and pathos down pat in films like “North Country,” “Almost Famous” and “Primal Fear,” but she’s also a great comedian. She flexed her comedy chops in a supporting role in 2003, playing Diane Keaton’s sister in what movie?
- While giving her acceptance speech for her second Oscar for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” in 2018, McDormand talked about the need for increased diversity in filmmaking and urged Hollywood’s power players to insist on what having two-word clause in their contracts?
- While she picked up her third acting Oscar on Sunday, she actually went home with two that night, having won as a producer of Best Picture-winning “Nomadland,” becoming the first person in history to win both for acting in and producing the same film. Laurence Olivier came close in 1948, when he was nominated for producing and acting in what film – though he only won the acting prize?
Answers up after this clip of Frances McDormand winning her first Oscar. She gives good speech, this one.
Answers
- Joel Coen
- “Olive Kitteredge”
- “Something’s Gotta Give”
- Inclusion rider
- “Hamlet”
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