Poll: Oscar Nominee Trivia

Results of 608 votes:

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   Parasite (2019)

    

   Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the first Korean film to ever do so.
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   Joker (2019)

    

   Joaquin Phoenix called perfecting the Joker's laugh the toughest part of playing the character.
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   A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

    

   Days before the film premiered, ancestry confirmed Tom Hanks and Fred Rogers are actually sixth-cousins.
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   1917 (2019)

    

   Inspired by Sam Mendes' grandfather's experiences in WWI: "The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes 1897-1991."
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   The Two Popes (2019)

    

   Jonathan Pryce commented on his physical resemblance to Pope Francis at the Toronto International Film Festival: "The day Pope Francis was declared Pope, the Internet was full of images of me and…
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   Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

    

   Brad Pitt ad-libbed the line, "You're Rick fucking Dalton! Don't you forget that.". Pitt based that line on an actor who told him the same thing when he was a budding actor in the early nine…
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   Jojo Rabbit (2019)

    

   Taika Waititi discovered in his research that WWII Germany was very vibrant and fashionable, and was interested in shying away from traditional war films showing it as dreary and dark, instead present…
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   The Irishman (2019)

    

   According to Deadline, before accepting the role of Russell Bufalino, Joe Pesci refused multiple times to come out of retirement in order to appear in this film. Some sources say the actual number of …
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   Ford v Ferrari (2019)

    

   In preparation for his role, Christian Bale took race driving lessons at the Bondurant High Performance Driving School. As it happened, the founder of the school had been a friend of Ken Miles. So in …
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    The Lighthouse (2019)

     

    Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson stated that they barely spoke a word to each other on set and were too exhausted to hang out together after a day of shooting because filming was so physically demand…
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    Little Women (2019)

     

    After finding out that the adaptation was in the works, Saoirse Ronan reached out to Greta Gerwig and told her she decided she was going to play Jo March. Gerwig was initially hesitant to cast Ronan a…
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    Marriage Story (2019)

     

    Based in large part on Noah Baumbach's own experiences when he divorced Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2013. According to Baumbach, Leigh read the script, has seen the film, and likes it.
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    Knives Out (2019)

     

    The police detective heard on the television series Marta's sister is watching is voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, billed in the film's credits as playing Detective Hardrock. Gordon-Levitt has appeared…
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    Ad Astra (2019)

     

    The title means "to the stars" in Latin. It is often used as a shorthand for "Per Aspera Ad Astra" (Through the hardships to the Stars).
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    Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019)

     

    Series music composer John Williams appears for a cameo as the bartender in the cantina on Kijimi.
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    Toy Story 4 (2019)

     

    When Bo Peep gets taken away, the car driven by the new owner has the license plate RMRF97. it's a sort of meta-Toy Story 2 (1999) reference. It's an often repeated story that the second Toy Story fil…
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    Harriet (2019)

     

    The script was originally written and owned by Disney but they refused to make the film, the film only was able to get made once Disney relinquished the rights to the script.
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    American Factory (2019)

     

    The first film released from the new production company Higher Ground, founded by former US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
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    Frozen II (2019)

     

    The song used to call Elsa to the enchanted forest is a type of Scandinavian herding call called kulning. It was used briefly in the score of the first movie. In Frozen 2, the kulning that is central …
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    The Lion King (2019)

     

    Jon Favreau revealed in an interview that he brought James Earl Jones back as the voice of Mufasa because: "I see it as carrying the legacy across. Just hearing him say the lines is really moving…
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    The Cave (2019)

     

    The Cave was shortlisted for the Documentary Feature Oscar, but director Feras Fayyad was denied a visa to the United States to attend events to promote his film.
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    Bombshell (2019)

     

    Margot Robbie's character is the only main character in the film not based on a real person. Her character was invented for the film, possibly from a combination of real-life people or experiences, ro…
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    Judy (2019)

     

    Renée Zellweger spent a year training with vocal coach Eric Vetro before shooting began, then rehearsed with Musical Director Matt Dunkley for four months to master her vocals.
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    Klaus (2019)

     

    Director Sergio Pablos had wanted to do a traditionally animated feature film, but he wanted to see how the animation would have evolved without the switch to computer-generated animation. So the stud…
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    How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

     

    DreamWorks Animation's first franchise in which each movie was distributed by a different film studio: Paramount Pictures distributed How to Train Your Dragon (2010), 20th Century Fox distributed How …