{"id":47868,"date":"2025-02-18T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=47868"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:07:36","slug":"earle-oscars-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/earle-oscars-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivia with Corey! Test Your Knowledge of Cornell at the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Big Red history expert Corey Ryan Earle \u201907 offers a challenging prelim on alums nominated for one of filmmaking\u2019s highest honors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 Questions \u2022 Level: Challenging<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 97th Academy Awards<\/a>\u2014recognizing the best of cinema from 2024\u2014are scheduled for March 2, 2025. Unfortunately, no Cornellians are nominated this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, journalist Keri Blakinger \u201911, BA ’14<\/a>, is a producer of I Am Ready, Warden<\/em>, nominated for Best Documentary Short. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film\u2014which is currently streaming on Paramount+<\/a>\u2014tells the story of a death row prisoner whose case Blakinger (and fellow alum Maurice Chammah ’10) covered in a 2021 article<\/a> for the Marshall Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Due to Academy rules limiting the number of producers who can be included in a nomination, Blakinger’s name doesn’t appear on the Oscar ballot. The same rule impacted producer Ryan Silbert ’02 when God of Love<\/a><\/em> won Best Live Action Short in 2011.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell’s next closest connection to this year’s awards might be the inclusion of Peter Yarrow \u201959<\/a> as a character in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. <\/em>Actor Nick Pupo plays the late musician (of Peter, Paul, and Mary fame) in the film, which is nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But over the years, many alumni have made their mark on Hollywood and on the Oscars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And dozens have brought home a gold statuette, primarily for roles behind the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(In 2024, the drama Oppenheimer<\/em>\u2014which was nominated for 13 Academy Awards and won seven\u2014had numerous historical Cornell connections<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think you\u2019re a whiz at Big Red movie trivia? Test your knowledge in our Oscars-themed quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you know of a Cornellian involved with one of this year\u2019s Oscar-nominated films, let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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