Oscar Quiz: Best Picture Nominee or Adult Film? Can You Tell By Just the Title?

I did this quiz last year and it got a good reaction.  Here are fifty more films for you to try.  If you didn’t do that well last year then hopefully you, um, boned up for it this year.

Here’s a little quiz to see how well you know your Oscar nominees.  I will list a series of real film names, grouped by related titles.  Some of them will be ones nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and others will be on AVN’s list of the Top 101 Adult Videos.  Can you tell which is which?  Score one point for every correct answer.

Religion:

All About Eve

All This and Heaven Too

The Bells of St. Mary’s

The Bishop’s Wife

Body & Soul

Dark Angels

Devil in Miss Jones

The Nun’s Story

The Resurrection of Eve

Seventh Heaven

Splitsville:

Bad Wives

The Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee

An Unmarried Woman

When the Lights Go Out:

In the Heat of the Night

It Happened One Night

Neon Nights

Night Trips

One Night of Love

A Little Naughty:

As Good As It Gets

Conflict

Flirtation Walk

Friendly Persuasion

Love Affair

The Love Parade

Nothing to Hide

One Hour With You

Scent of a Woman

Scoundrels

Secrets & Lies

A Touch of Class

Getting Freaky:

Awakenings

Bound for Glory

Dangerous Liaisons

Dr. Strangelove

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Hidden Obsessions

The More the Merrier

Underworld

Wild Things

Miscellaneous:

Bus Stop Tales

Double Feature

Naked Came the Stranger

Raw Talent

Realities

Reel People

Watchers

West Side

Wild Goose Chase

Zazel

Answers:

There are a total of 27 Best Picture nominees and 23 Adult Films in this quiz.  They break down as follows:

Religion: All About Eve, All This and Heaven Too, The Bells of St. Mary’s, The Bishop’s Wife, The Nun’s Story, and Seventh Heaven are the nominees; Body & Soul, Dark Angels, Devil in Miss Jones, and The Resurrection of Eve are the adult films.

Splitsville: The Divorcee, The Gay Divorcee, and An Unmarried Woman are the nominees; Bad Wives is the adult film.

When the Lights Go Out: In the Heat of the Night, It Happened One Night, and One Night of Love are the nominees; Neon Nights and Night Trips are the adult films.

A Little Naughty: As Good As It Gets, Flirtation Walk, Friendly Persuasion, Love Affair, The Love Parade, One Hour With You, Scent of a Woman, Secrets & Lies, and A Touch of Class are the nominees; Conflict, Nothing to Hide, and Scoundrels are the adult films.

Getting Freaky: Awakenings, Bound for Glory, Dangerous Liaisons, Dr. Strangelove, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and The More the Merrier are the nominees; Hidden Obsessions, Underworld, and Wild Things are the adult films.

Miscellaneous: Bus Stop Tales, Double Feature, Naked Came the Stranger, Raw Talent, Realities, Reel People, Watchers, West Side, Wild Goose Chase, and Zazel are all adult films.  There are no nominees among these miscellaneous movies.  As Bugs Bunny would say, “Ain’t I a stinker?”

How Did You Do?

0	Seriously?  You didn’t even get Dr. Strangelove?
1 – 10	At least you got Dr. Strangelove.
11 – 20	You might want to explore more Oscar nominated films.
21 – 30	Not bad.  You must have seen your share of films.
31 – 40	Damn good.  You really know your stuff.
41 – 49	Very impressive.  You are an expert on Oscar nominees.  (Or adult films.)
50	That IMDB sure is a handy site, isn’t it?

If you are interested, here are my prior Oscar quizzes:

2013 – Match the Oscar winner to their less than Oscarworthy film

2014 – Best Picture Nominee or Adult Film?  Part 1