Robert Downey Jr., with his Best Actor nod for 1992′s “Chaplin,” is one of only two stars who received Oscar nominations for portraying a real-life Oscar nominee. Who’s the other?

Cate Blanchett won a Supporting Actress Oscar for portraying real-life Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn in 2004′s “The Aviator

 Which actress accidentally left her statue in the bathroom after winning her first Oscar?

Meryl Streep forgot her trophy in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion bathroom after her first win for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for “Kramer vs. Kramer” in 1980.

Three films (“Ben Hur,” “Titanic” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”) hold the record for most Oscar wins. Which two films hold the record for most nominations with 14 each?

“Titanic” nabbed 11 trophies out of 14 nominations in 1997, while “All About Eve” won just six of its 14 nominations in 1950.

Who’s the only actor to receive two Oscar acting nominations for the same performance?

Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Going My Way.” Oscar voters decided his co-star, Bing Crosby, deserved the Oscar for Lead Actor.

What movie won an Oscar 20 years after it was made?

Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight,” made in 1952, wasn’t eligible for an Oscar until it was released in Los Angeles in 1972. Chaplin won a statue for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score in 1973. 

Who’s the only actor to receive two posthumous Oscar nominations?

 James Dean received Best Actor nominations for “East of Eden” in 1956 and “Giant” in 1957, both after his September 1955 death

 Who has hosted the most Oscar ceremonies?

Legendary actor and comedian Bob Hope hosted 18 Oscar shows, though he was never nominated himself for an Academy Award.

Seven foreign language films have been Best Picture nominees. How many of those have won the award? 

“Grand Illusion,” “Z,” “The Emigrants,” “Cries and Whispers,” “The Postman,” “Life is Beautiful” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” all received Best Picture nods, but none were winners.

“In the Heat of the Night,” the Sidney Poitier drama about racial tension, won the Best Picture Oscar at a ceremony that was postponed because of what event?

The 1968 Academy Awards ceremony was postponed for two days, until after the funeral of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr

Which actress is the youngest person to receive the most Oscar nominations of any actor before the age of 30?

Kate Winslet

Where was the first Oscar ceremony held?

At the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929. The ceremony lasted just five minutes and tickets to the event cost $10.

Which Oscar telecast featured the infamous Rob Lowe/Snow White song-and-dance number?

Former “West Wing” star Lowe sang “Proud Mary” to Snow White as the opening number for the 1989 Academy Awards telecast

Who received the only Oscar ever fashioned from timber?

Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen received a carved wooden Oscar, presented in honor of his dummy, Charlie McCarthy

In what year did a Los Angeles scrap metal dealer save the Academy Awards when he found dozens of stolen Oscar statues dumped into a supermarket trash bin?

The year was 2000 when 61-year-old Willie Fulgear found 52 of 55 missing Oscars and turned them over to police

Which two stars won Best Actor Oscars for playing the same character?

Marlon Brando won a Best Actor statue for playing Don Vito Corleone in 1972′s “The Godfather.” Robert De Niro won a Best Actor Oscar for playing the younger version of Vito Corleone in 1974′s “The Godfather Part II.”

Which actor said, “I’ve been there seven times and lost. Maybe if I stay away, I’ll win,” right before winning his first Oscar?

Paul Newman, who had been nominated for seven Oscars previously, skipped the 1987 ceremonies, in which he finally nabbed his first statue, a Best Actor trophy for “The Color of Money.” 

Who is the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for directing one movie and acting in another in the same year?

 George Clooney

 What is the Oscar/Academy Award officially named?

The Academy Award of Merit

Who is the only person to win an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?

 George Bernard Shaw

 Who is the only Oscar to win an Oscar?

Oscar Hammerstein II (Best Song: 1941, 1945)

 How much does an Oscar statuette way?

8 1/2 pounds

What was the last black-and-white film to win an Oscar for Best Picture?

“Schindler’s List”