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1990s Best Picture Oscar Nominees - Multiple Choice

Identify the 90s films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture but lost.

Other decades in this quiz series here.

Wrong answers were nominated in categories other than Best Picture in the same year.
Year given is the year in film being awarded, not the date of the ceremony.
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Last updated: March 10, 2021
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1. Which 1990 Best Picture nominee lost to Dances with Wolves?
Reversal of Fortune
Ghost
Pretty Woman
2. Which 1991 Best Picture nominee lost to The Silence of the Lambs?
Boyz n the Hood
Beauty and the Beast
Barton Fink
3. Which 1992 Best Picture nominee lost to Unforgiven?
Malcolm X
A Few Good Men
The Player
4. Which 1993 Best Picture nominee lost to Schindler's List?
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
The Fugitive
Short Cuts
5. Which 1994 Best Picture nominee lost to Forrest Gump?
Heavenly Creatures
The Shawshank Redemption
The Madness of King George
6. Which 1995 Best Picture nominee lost to Braveheart?
Leaving Las Vegas
Babe
12 Monkeys
7. Which 1996 Best Picture nominee lost to The English Patient?
Fargo
Romeo + Juliet
Trainspotting
8. Which 1997 Best Picture nominee lost to Titanic?
Good Will Hunting
Amistad
Kundun
9. Which 1998 Best Picture nominee lost to Shakespeare in Love?
Pleasantville
American History X
Saving Private Ryan
10. Which 1999 Best Picture nominee lost to American Beauty?
The Sixth Sense
Being John Malkovich
The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Level 66
Sep 11, 2022
You're telling me Babe was nominated for Best Picture??
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Level 84
Sep 11, 2022
Yep, that's what I'm telling you.