Coen Brothers Fargo Oscar Wins and Trivia
The 1996 crime drama brought quirky regional American voices to the Oscar stage.
The era of the historical epic
Acting triumphs and historic streaks
Indie darlings and breakout screenplays
Unscripted magic and ceremony chaos
schopenhauer Good Will Hunting Screenplay
Drafted a fake scene, caught the lazy suits, took the Oscar home!
schopenhauer Matt Damon and Ben Affleck went from struggling actors to Oscar-winning screenwriters in 1998.
Oscar rejection: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were so broke while writing Good Will Hunting that they checked their bank accounts daily to see if the studio check had cleared.
schopenhauer The 1996 crime drama brought quirky regional American voices to the Oscar stage.
A movie produced mostly outside of a major film studio system. Joel and Ethan Coen won the 1996 Best Original Screenplay Oscar for their low-budget crime drama Fargo.
Which 1995 crime thriller won Best Original Screenplay for its famous Keyser Söze twist ending?
schopenhauer Match 1990s movie scripts to their winning actors to master the decade's Oscar trivia.
Which 1991 film became the first and only horror-thriller to sweep the 'Big Five' Academy Awards?
Which film won Best Original Screenplay in 1999, written by Alan Ball and exploring suburban existential dread?
Which writing duo won the 1998 Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Good Will Hunting?
Who won his only competitive Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor, in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting?
For which 1994 film did Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar?
Which actress won Best Actress for playing Police Chief Marge Gunderson in the 1996 film Fargo?
The 1999 sci-fi hit The Matrix won how many Academy Awards, sweeping all of its technical categories?