Academy Awards Quiz: We'd Like to Thank the Academy for All These Oscar Firsts

“And the Oscar goes to…”

The Academy Awards have been celebrated since 1929, and since then, there have been many "firsts" in Oscars history. In fact, even today, history is still being made. With each and every awards season, glass ceilings are being broken, records are being set, and different groups of people are being recognized who haven't been before.

Do you think you know all the Academy Award "firsts"? Then take our Oscar Firsts Quiz and strut your stuff on this red carpet history tour.

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"I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry." – Hattie McDaniel

McDaniel was the first Black woman to win an acting Oscar (as you'll know from our Oscar History 101 Quiz), and this quiz will identify many other Oscar firsts.

From the first host to the first time someone awarded an Oscar to themselves, our Oscar Firsts Quiz will both educate and entertain you. Can you answer all these firsts? What was the first non-English film to win Best Picture? Who was the first woman to be awarded a Best Picture Oscar? What film was the first color picture to take home the top prize? If you know all these answers and more, you might just walk away with that coveted trophy. 

Be the first to ace this Oscar Firsts Quiz, and show QuizGriz just how Oscar-worthy you are! 

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