Fantasy Films Trivia Questions

It was nominated but lost to A Beautiful Mind; the third film, The Return of the King, won Best Picture in 2004.

All characters were portrayed by puppets created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop; no human performers appeared on screen.

Principal photography took place in New Zealand, with additional scenes in the Czech Republic, not the United Kingdom.

The first feature-length film in three-strip Technicolor was Becky Sharp (1935). The Wizard of Oz (1939) famously used the same process, but it was not the first.

Forced perspective was a key technique in The Lord of the Rings to create size differences between hobbits and humans, notably in scenes with Gandalf.

The Princess Bride received only one Oscar nomination, for Best Original Song, and was not nominated for Best Picture.

Michael Ende criticized the film's deviation from his book and publicly disowned it, a well-documented controversy.

The horse was coated with a non-toxic gelatine-based dye that was easily washed off after filming, a fact often cited in film history.