Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen!

Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen!

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Best Actor

Best Actor

Successfully answer 35 questions in Pop Quiz about Oscar® winning actors and actresses.

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How to unlock the Best Actor achievement in Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! - Definitive Guide

Time to give this achievement an update with some more info to help everyone get it.

First off, this game does not save your progress for this achievement. Make plans to play until it pops or you will never get it. You will need 2-4 hours depending on your luck. It took me 3.

The best method for getting this achievement is by doing this:

1. Start a Fast-Fire Game and keep restarting until you get the proper Pop Quiz in your first Puzzle (I think chances are about 2% but it's still the fastest way; I had 5 proper ones in 2 hours).
2. Answer Pop Quiz questions and finish the game (you can run the clock down answering all questions wrong in next Puzzle).
3. Repeat until you get all 35 ... and the achievement.

I got this method from Flapjack waldi off x360a in the forums. I turned off the announcer as well. It does show up like he says and sometimes it feels like it will never show up. Then pop, it finally does. So you have to keep restarting until you get one. What stinks is when one does pop up and it’s not 1 of the 5 Oscar winning actors, you have to restart until you get one of the 5 Oscar winning actors. This is where the luck comes in on what you get for the time to complete the achievement.

The actors you need to pop up are: Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Andrews, Kate Winslet, and Marlon Brando.

To help even more, here are the answers to the questions that will pop up for these actors. This way you won’t miss any.

Anthony Hopkins

A River Runs Through It.....FALSE
Dead Again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Dracula............................TRUE
Hannibal,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Howard's End...................TRUE
Legends of the Fall,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Misery.............................FALSE
Nixon,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Scent of a Woman............FALSE
Speed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
The French Connection......FALSE
The Remains of the Day,,,,,TRUE
The Silence of the Lambs...TRUE
Time Bandits,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Valkyrie............................FALSE

Dustin Hoffman

All the President's Men....TRUE
Glengarry Glen Ross,,,,,,,FALSE
In the Line of Fire............FALSE
lion for lambs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Mamma Mia!..................FALSE
Meet the Fockers,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Midnight Cowboy............TRUE
Nights in Rodanthe,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Outbreak.......................TRUE
Tootsie,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Year of the Dog..............FALSE
The Graduate..............TRUE
Wag The Dog...............TRUE

Julie Andrews

A Cinderella Story............FALSE
A Shot in the Dark,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Annie..............................FALSE
Bedtime Stories,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Best in Show...................FALSE
Gigi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Ice Princess.....................FALSE
Mary Poppins,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
My Fair Lady....................FALSE
S.O.B.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
The Nanny Diaries.............FALSE
The Princess Diaries,,,,,,,,,TRUE
The Sound of Music..........TRUE
Thoroughly Modern Millie,,,TRUE
Victor/Victoria...................TRUE

Kate Winslet

A Room with a View.........FALSE
American Beauty,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Being John Malkovich.......FALSE
Emma,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind......TRUE
Finding Neverland,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Ghost World....................FALSE
Heavenly Creatures,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Hideous Kinky.................TRUE
Little Children,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Notes on a Scandal.........FALSE
Raising Helen,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Sense and Sensibility......TRUE
The Reader,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Titanic.......TRUE

Marlon Brando

Apocalypse Now.............TRUE
From Here to Eternity,,,,,,FALSE
Mutiny on the Bounty......TRUE
On the Waterfront,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Rebel Without a Cause...FALSE
Spartacus,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Superman......................TRUE
The Godfather,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
The Godfather Part III.......FALSE
The Lost Weekend,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
The Maltese Falcon.........FALSE
The Wild One,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Touch of Evil...................FALSE
West Side Story,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE

Sidney Poitier

Sneakers...................TRUE
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.....TRUE
Lilies of the Field..........TRUE
A Raisin in the Sun.......TRUE
Fried Green Tomatoes.......FALSE

I hope this will help everyone out on getting this achievement. Good Luck!
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17 Nov 2011 15:33

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Took me around 3.5 hours to get this over two sessions. Be prepared to get excited when Pop Quiz comes up and then immediately disappointed to find that the questions are for a non-Oscar winning actor. I will also point out that these are not the order of the questions, just an alphabetical list of the movies that will come up during the quiz. I didn't notice that like a dummy the first time I had the Julie Andrews Pop Quiz. This is doable - just takes a lot of patience.
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By GorillaBuddha on 28 Dec 2012 16:24
For Dustin Hoffman.. he also appeared in The Graduate and Wag The Dog. Came up on my pop quiz (as true).
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By ProjectSix on 25 Sep 2013 04:21
A good way to find out if its true or false is to go to google and type in the actor/actress name. Then wait till the question starts and type the name of the movie. If the movie doesn't come up then its false.
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By jordaOwO on 06 Jan 2014 02:50
Agreed, Sidney Poitier definitely counts. Natalie Portman doesn't, she must have won her Oscar soon after the game came out.
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By Mental Knight 5 on 30 Aug 2014 21:59
I got mine achievement on Sidney Poitier. so you might want to add him to the list.
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By FUNERAL PYRE on 23 Feb 2016 19:15
I've added what everyone has mentioned. If you know any more Sidney Poitier question/answers, let me know as there has got to be more. Having IMDB up will show all the movies he has been in.
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By ZeroDesolation on 25 Feb 2016 19:01
Some additional stuff for Sidney Poitier:

Sidney Poitier

A Raisin in the Sun TRUE
An Officer and a Gentleman FALSE
Apocalypse Now FALSE
Fried Green Tomatoes FALSE
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner TRUE
In The Heat of the Night TRUE
Lilies of the Field TRUE
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest FALSE
Sneakers TRUE
The African Queen FALSE
The Deer Hunter FALSE
The Dirty Dozen FALSE
The Lion In Winter FALSE
To Sir, With Love TRUE
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf FALSE
wink
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By LeXXuz on 12 Jun 2016 13:42
I'm trying this method since yesterday and never met one single good game...
Yeah I know, it said I don't have the game because I have the Canadian version which doesn't contain any solution...
I really hope I'll met one soon.
Been to 47/50 for a few years now.
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By ParadoxReal8 on 07 Mar 2018 16:07
Actually the game DOES save your progress. The big deal is it does not LOAD you progress properly upon startup. So after the very first checkpoint in the game, it overwrites all your hard earned progress from your last session with a nearly fresh savegame.

After almost 50+ useless hours I spent in this game with many achievos not popping, I found a way to circumvent this:

Startup the game WITHOUT your profile logged in. Finally at the character selection screen select your profile and log into your gamertag. The game now should load your progress properly. A good way to verify this is to change some settings like the background music to zero. If you start up the game like I just explained and the background music is gone as soon as you load your profile. Everything is fine and your good to go. AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANY CUMULATIVE ACHIEVEMENT IN THIS GAME IN ONE GO (ANYMORE)! wink
Also this game does not use any save file. It saves your progress right to your gamertag. If you play on multiple consoles keep that in mind.

Hope this helps! smile
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By LeXXuz on 12 Jun 2016 12:55
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Remember the achievement from Scene it BOS that’s similar to this? This one is even worse.

In every short game, you’re only going to get one of the follow puzzle blocks:

Pop Quiz, Hint Parade, Celebrity Ties.

It can come up in the beginning or the end of a short game, but this achievement requires “Pop Quiz”, so if you get Celebrity ties, or Hint Parade, restart your game and try again.

I suggest you play next to a computer that’s on the website www.imdb.com. When the first pop quiz answer comes up, answer it the best you can, then hit pause. Look up the actor on imdb.com and check what awards he\she has won. It only counts if they have won Best Actor\Actress in a lead or supporting role.

For instance, Client Eastwood didn’t count because all 4 of his Oscars are for Best Picture and Best Director, none for acting.

Memorize the actor’s list of movies and then proceed with the pop quiz. I found it helpful to search (F3 in Internet Explorer) and finding the name of the movie. I found there was enough time to search and answer the question before time ran out.

The Actor’s that I had come up were:

Kevin Spacy
Marlon Brando
Anthony Hopkins
Dustin Hoffman.

The achievement pops up right away, so I was halfway through Dustin Hoffman’s questions when it popped up.

I’m also not sure how this game saves the info, but if you get an qualifying Actor in pop quiz, I HIGHLY recommend you finish the game all the way through and not just the round. Getting a qualifying Pop Quiz round is hard enough, you don’t want to leave this to chance. This was my final achievement in this game.
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14 Dec 2009 02:18

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Scarlett Johansson never won, nor was nominated for an Oscar.
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By Shiney Cheese on 14 Dec 2009 07:08
Thanks for the link. It is a necessity for this achievement. smile Other actor's I had come up were..

Julie Andrews
Sidney Poitier

The game saves at the end of every round. Just make sure you see the autosave icon happen after the qualifying "Pop Quiz" before you restart the game.
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By Chad and Jessie on 06 Oct 2010 17:05
You can add Kate Winslet to the list of qualifying actors.

I just got it and I played all the different kinds of games, so that wasn't an issue for me. Using the two-controller method mentioned above, I got a Pop Quiz about every other short game, so that seems to be the fastest way.
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By tasdurre on 24 Nov 2010 04:10
I tried both the two controller system and using Fast Fire solo, and I can definitely say its faster to go into Fast Fire solo and keep resetting until you get Pop Quiz first with one of the best actor/actresses. You only need to find an appropriate puzzle 4 times since you get 10 questions per, and that even allows you to get the first one wrong before you pause and look everything up online.

I'd also advise against dashboarding during this achievement run. The memory in this game clearly resets itself each time you load it up (look at your high score leaderboard disappear everytime). Instead, just keep resetting and dont turn off your box or load another game until youre done.
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By Salty Old Dog on 25 Apr 2011 12:14
^^ Agreed. When I get to this one, I may do a party play and leave it on for a few days until all of my buggy cheevos pop. Lol. Thanks for the list of qualified actors!
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By PugslyPuppy on 01 May 2011 17:24
Mel Brooks won an Oscar for Young Frankenstein, although, I've yet to get this crap achievement to pop. I've been running the game for nearly 48 hours now. Imma bout to have to turn it off. Wish me luck I get it soon. :)
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By PugslyPuppy on 02 May 2011 05:24
Mel Brooks won a screenplay Oscar for the producers (which wouldn't count towards this). Young Frankenstein was nominated for Best sound and screenplay but won neither
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By Bolch on 04 Dec 2012 14:26
Seems best to use two controllers for this, because during each round in a short game, the losing player gets to pick the next category, and it can give you the choice of Pop Quiz.
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By zigs00 on 24 Jan 2010 18:06
Also, the Fast Fire achievement seems to reset, so if you are doing it that way, you should do it in one session. I am not sure about the short and long plays. I did however had to get all 35 of mine in one session in short play so just keep that in mind if you are having problems getting this achievement to pop up since it is mildly glitched.
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By RLB Hypnotic on 24 Aug 2010 13:33
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This achievement is from Hell!
I have been working on it for a long time and think there may be a glitch, (I'm almost positive I've answered over 35 Questions).
Either way I've noticed a few things that are in opposition to the above guide.
While playing a short game, I just got a Pop Quiz with Anthony Hopkins and in the same game got a Hint Parade. Up until this moment Stumpy25 assessment that you can only possible get 1 of the 3 puzzles per game has seemed correct.
I've also noticed that even though I would quit after seing a Hint Parade or Celebrity Ties, they would still come up in the following games as if the game wouldn't give me a Pop Quiz unless I finished those puzzles first. Through my endless attempts, the majority of the time I always have to complete 2 Hint parades and 1 Celebrity Ties before a Pop Quiz will show up. Operating on this assumption, everytime I got a Pop Quiz that wasn't an Oscar winner I would immediately guide button to dashboard to prevent the game from auto saving, (when you hit start and exit game it will often save if you are currently in a Pop Quiz or Hint Parade). Then I would restart the game and would usually get a Pop Quiz within 3 games.
Hope this helps if you are stuck as I am. If you haven't started this game, DON'T.
I will never play a Scene It game again after this achievement!!
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28 Oct 2010 09:18

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Just got the achievement to POP!!
Additional info-
I'm pretty sure I answered more than 35 but if I didn't get counted for past answers because of not finishing the entire game or quitting before a save I can't say. At least it wasn't glitched like the Pop Quiz achivement in the previous game.
One other thing of note; in the comment for Stumpy25 guide the idea of using 2 controllers to force a choice of puzzles didn't work for me. I tried it a couple times and my decision was Hint Parade, Celebrity Ties, and Visual Puzzlers. It didn't give me the Pop Quiz option. This isn't to say the comment is inacurate; it just didn't work for me.
Also, If you get frustrated with this you can set up the game, and leave the game on while watching cable or a DVD from another device and either set up a mod controller to rapid fire A button or manually hit A blindly while watching something else. This will sift through games and if you happen to get a qualifying Pop Quiz while watching or doing something else you will get at least half if not the greater majority of the questions correct, (I've noticed most of the answers, usually 7+, are true for the oscar winners).
It seems some people POP this with more ease than I, hopefully it is easier for whomever is reading this as well. Good Luck!!!
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By FIASCOcomedy on 29 Oct 2010 00:49
On fast fire, the first round is random and is sometimes pop quiz. I believe the quickest way to get pop quizzes is to start a fast fire game and hope the first round is pop quiz. If it isn't, press start and choose "restart". This saves you having to sit through unnecessary rounds to get to the ones that matter.
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By stevemccaslin on 29 Jan 2011 16:47
Just a note on the "SceneIt" franchise, this one was buggier than the other two because it was written by a different company than the other two. I'm not sure, but I think there could be a possibility that the DLC from BOS was written by the same people that did the third game. It has the appearance and stability of the third installment more so than the first or second. They really screwed up a great formula for a great game. What a shame. It was one of the best trivia games on xbox until the shift.

(Sorry, I know that was neither a solution nor a rant. I just wanted to share. I honestly feel a loss over a great franchise.) :(
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By PugslyPuppy on 01 May 2011 17:22
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