And the Answer is … Envelope please (4)

Caren Berg
2 min readApr 12, 2021
Oscar winners were hidden in plain sight. Did you find them?

Here are the answers to last post’s word game — where you can find hidden Best Actors and Best Actresses

1. The Bridges of Madison County — Jeff Bridges won for Crazy Heart

2. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving — Tom Hanks won for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump

3. Rush Hour 2 — Geoffrey Rush won for Shine

4. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings — Nicolas Cage won for Leaving Las Vegas

5. The Goldfinch — Peter Finch won for Network

6. The Young and The Restless — Loretta Young won for The Farmer’s Daughter

7. The Old Man and The Sea — Gary Oldman won for The Darkest Hour

8. The Speckled Bird — Gregory Peck won for To Kill A Mockingbird

9. The Phantom Tollbooth — Shirley Booth won for Come Back, Little Sheba

10.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Joaquin Phoenix won for Joker

11.Anne of Green Gables — Clark Gable won for It Happened One Night

12.March of the Penguins — Fredric March won for The Best Years of Our Lives and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

13.Romancing The Stone — Emma Stone won for La La Land (see #18)

14.Scott Pilgrim vs. The World — George C. Scott won for Patton

15.The Hurt Locker — William Hurt won for Kiss of the Spider Woman

16.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter — Holly Hunter won for The Piano

17.1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — Sean Penn won for Mystic River and Milk

18.The Sword and the Stone (a different answer from number 13) — Charlton Heston won for Ben Hur

19.Lawrence of Arabia — Jennifer Lawrence won for Silver Linings Playbook

20.The Ron Burgundy Podcast — Charlize Theron won for Monster

21.Sleigh Ride — Vivien Leigh won for Gone With The Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire

22.Alias Smith and Jones — Jennifer Jones won for Song of Bernadette

23.Mr. and Mrs. Smith (a different answer from number 21) — Maggie Smith won for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

24.Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Glenda Jackson won for Women in Love and A Touch of Class

25.Field of Dreams — Sally Field won for Norma Rae and Places in the Heart

26.The Hunt for Red October — Helen Hunt won for As Good As It Gets

Did you find many? All? I’ll bet a considerable number of you found most of them or at least a couple! Keep reading The Aspiring Critic — there’s been a hidden game in every column. I’ll let you know about it soon. 😊

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Caren Berg

Pop culture fan and writer - open to new ideas - send them my way