Text size: A A A
About the BFI
Strategy and policy
Press releases and media enquiries
Jobs and opportunities
Join and support
Become a Member
Become a Patron
Using your BFI Membership
Corporate support
Trusts and foundations
Make a donation
Watch films on BFI Player
Tickets
BFI Southbank tickets
BFI Shop
Watch and discover
In this section
Watch at home on BFI Player
What’s on at BFI Southbank
What’s on at BFI IMAX
BFI National Archive
Explore our festivals
BFI film releases
Read features and reviews
Read film comment from Sight & Sound
I want to…
Watch films online
Browse BFI Southbank seasons
Book a film for my cinema
Find out about international touring programmes
Learning and training
BFI Film Academy: opportunities for young creatives
Get funding to progress my creative career
Find resources and events for teachers
Join events and activities for families
BFI Reuben Library
Search the BFI National Archive collections
Browse our education events
Use film and TV in my classroom
Read research data and market intelligence
Funding and industry
Get funding and support
Search for projects funded by National Lottery
Apply for British certification and tax relief
Industry data and insights
Inclusion in the film industry
Find projects backed by the BFI
Get help as a new filmmaker and find out about NETWORK
Read industry research and statistics
Find out about booking film programmes internationally
Find us
Think you’ve got a good head for Academy Award trivia? Try your luck with these brain-teasers about the history of romantic films at the Oscars.
10 November 2015
Which of these romantic films received the most Oscars?
Gone with the Wind
West Side Story
Out of Africa
Titanic
Which of these 1980s romantic films was not nominated for best picture?
Moonstruck
A Room with a View
When Harry Met Sally…
Working Girl
Annie Hall (1977)
Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (1977) is one of the very, very few romantic comedies to win best picture. Which one of these does not appear in the film?
Truman Capote
Shelley Duvall
Jeff Goldblum
Elliott Gould
Marshall McLuhan
Paul Simon
Christopher Walken
Sigourney Weaver
Two romantic films starring Ingrid Bergman – Casablanca and For Whom the Bell Tolls – received 17 nominations between them at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944. But for which was Bergman herself nominated?
Casablanca
For Whom the Bell Tolls
All of these couples won the Oscars for best actor and best actress – except one pair, who were only nominated. Which pair lost out?
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets)
Jon Voight and Jane Fonda (Coming Home)
Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr (From Here to Eternity)
Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
This is a still from which romantic best picture Oscar winner?
The English Patient
Which of these did NOT win the Oscar for best actress?
Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind
Cher for Moonstruck
Meryl Streep for Out of Africa
Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
All these romantic films won the best song Oscar, except for one, which was nominated only for best costume design. Which was that?
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
An Officer and a Gentleman
Somewhere in Time
The Way We Were
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Brokeback Mountain was the most nominated film at the 88th Academy Awards, though it won in just three categories. Which of these combinations of the awards it received is correct?
Best picture, best director, and best cinematography
Best director, best adapted screenplay, and best original score
Best director, best actor (Heath Ledger), and best original score
Best actor (Heath Ledger), best supporting actor (Jake Gyllenhaal), and best cinematography
All these films with ‘Love’ in the title were nominated for best picture, but only one of them won. Which?
Love Affair
Love Is a Many-splendored Thing
Love Story
Shakespeare in Love
This is a detail from a famous still from which of these best picture Oscar winners?
From Here to Eternity
It Happened One Night
Rebecca
Parenthood (1989)
Which songwriter’s (to date) 12 Oscar-nominated songs include ‘I Love to See You Smile’ (from Parenthood), ‘When She Loved Me’ (from Toy Story 2) and ‘A Fool in Love’ (from Meet the Parents)?
Randy Newman
Stephen Sondheim
Diane Warren
LOVE
Films to fall in love with… films to break your heart.
Read more
Back to the top
Subscribe now for exclusive offers and the best of cinema. Hand-picked.