Do you know which Best Director nominee donated $25,000 to the DCCC? Which nominated actress once worked at the Pentagon? What celeb once said: "If there weren't blacks, Jews, and gays, there would be no Oscars"?
Sunday is Oscar Night, but that's no reason to put politics aside. After all, it's one of Hollywood's most political evenings -- why shouldn't we wear our partisan stripes as well?
Whether you're rooting for a favorite flick, just channel-surfing through, or watching to make fun of the outfits, make your Oscar-viewing a little more entertaining with Screening Liberally Oscar Trivia. Host your own Oscars party (or join ours in New York), and enjoy! The rest of the quiz below the fold.
A version of this post originally appeared on TakePart.com
Since the Academy Awards coincide with Black History Month, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight the top 10 black actors who have won Oscars for Best Actor/Actress in a Leading Role. So Hollywood--which harbors, aids and abets, politically-correct, identity-politics-spouting, hand-out giving, limousine liberals--can finally shut up about the so-called "racism" and all the other fake "isms" they claim exist and need to be addressed. Here's the list of black Academy Award Winners for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Leading Role, in chronological order.
1.1963:Sidney Poitier wins for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field, becoming the first African-American actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
1964-2000: Lots of white winners.
2. 2001: Denzel Washington wins for his role as civil rights luminary and martyr Malcolm X in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, wins for his role as Rubin Carter, the real life legendary boxer, convicted of a crime he didn't commit, who overcomes the racist criminal justice system, police corruption and brutality, and proves his innocence through his persuasive and passionate autobiography in Hurricane, for his role as the corrupt, criminal, violent, lecherous cop, Alonzo Harris, in Training Day
3. 2001: Halle Berry wins for her role as Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball, becoming the first (and only) African-American actress to win Best Actress.
2002-2003: Some more white people.
4. 2004: Jamie Fox wins for his role as Ray Charles in Ray.
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