2020s Movies Quiz: Oppenheimer, Barbie, Dune and More

This 2020s movies quiz covers the biggest films of the decade so far, from Oppenheimer and Barbie to Everything Everywhere All at Once, Top Gun: Maverick, Dune, Inside Out 2, Wicked, Ne Zha 2 and Anora. Ten questions, 90 seconds, answers explained.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 90 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 90s

Oscars
Which 2023 film about the creation of the atomic bomb won Best Picture?
Box Office
Which 2023 film starring Margot Robbie was the highest-grossing film of that year worldwide?
Oscars
Which film about a laundromat owner traveling through the multiverse won Best Picture in 2023?
Sequels
Which actor returned as Pete Maverick Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick (2022)?
Sci-Fi
Which 2021 science-fiction epic starred Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides?
Animation
Which 2024 Pixar sequel was the highest-grossing film of that year worldwide?
Musicals
Which 2024 musical film starred Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande?
Records
Which 2025 Chinese film became the highest-grossing animated film of all time?
Oscars
Which film won Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars?
Directors
Who directed Oppenheimer?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which 2023 film about the creation of the atomic bomb won Best Picture?
Answer: Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer won seven Oscars in 2024, including Best Picture, Best Director for Christopher Nolan and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.
Q2: Which 2023 film starring Margot Robbie was the highest-grossing film of that year worldwide?
Answer: Barbie
Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, earned more than 1.4 billion dollars. Its release on the same day as Oppenheimer inspired the Barbenheimer craze.
Q3: Which film about a laundromat owner traveling through the multiverse won Best Picture in 2023?
Answer: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven Oscars, and Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress.
Q4: Which actor returned as Pete Maverick Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick (2022)?
Answer: Tom Cruise
Top Gun: Maverick arrived 36 years after the original and earned nearly 1.5 billion dollars. Val Kilmer made a brief, emotional return as Iceman.
Q5: Which 2021 science-fiction epic starred Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides?
Answer: Dune
Denis Villeneuve's Dune was based on Frank Herbert's 1965 novel and won six Oscars. Dune: Part Two followed in 2024.
Q6: Which 2024 Pixar sequel was the highest-grossing film of that year worldwide?
Answer: Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2 earned around 1.7 billion dollars and introduced new emotions, including Anxiety, Envy, Ennui and Embarrassment.
Q7: Which 2024 musical film starred Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande?
Answer: Wicked
Wicked tells the story of the witches of Oz before Dorothy arrived. Its second part, Wicked: For Good, was released in November 2025.
Q8: Which 2025 Chinese film became the highest-grossing animated film of all time?
Answer: Ne Zha 2
Ne Zha 2, based on Chinese mythology, earned more than 2 billion dollars, most of it in China. It was the first animated film to pass that mark.
Q9: Which film won Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars?
Answer: Anora
Sean Baker's Anora won five Oscars, and Baker tied Walt Disney's record of four wins in a single night. Mikey Madison won Best Actress.
Q10: Who directed Oppenheimer?
Answer: Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan, also known for Inception and Interstellar, won his first Oscar for Oppenheimer. He shot parts of the film on special black-and-white IMAX film stock.

2020s Movies Quiz – The Films Defining a New Decade

The 2020s began with empty cinemas. The COVID-19 pandemic closed theaters around the world in 2020, delayed many big releases and pushed studios to send films straight to streaming. For a while, people wondered whether going to the movies would ever be the same again.

Then audiences came back in force. Top Gun: Maverick became a huge hit in 2022, and in July 2023 the double release of Barbie and Oppenheimer turned into a cultural event known as Barbenheimer, with fans dressing in pink or in suits to see both films on the same day. Both went on to earn hundreds of millions of dollars.

The decade's awards have rewarded bold, original films. Everything Everywhere All at Once, a wild multiverse story, swept the Oscars in 2023, Oppenheimer won in 2024 and Anora, a smaller independent film, won in 2025. Big franchises have kept going too, with Dune, Wicked and Inside Out 2 all drawing large audiences.

The global box office has also changed. Chinese films such as Ne Zha 2 have broken records, and international hits from Korea, India and Japan now reach audiences far beyond their home countries.

This quiz covers the hits, awards and records of the 2020s so far.

Streaming has changed how many people discover films, too. Titles that once would have played for a few weeks in cinemas now find second lives on services such as Netflix, Max and Disney+, and some of the decade's most talked-about films reached most of their viewers at home.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz is made for moviegoers, award-season watchers and anyone catching up on recent films.

Which films won Best Picture between 2023 and 2025
What Barbenheimer was
Which films topped the box office in 2023 and 2024
Who starred in Top Gun: Maverick, Dune and Wicked
Which film became the top-grossing animation ever
Who directed Oppenheimer

Quick Facts About 2020s Movies

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) earned more than 2.3 billion dollars.
Parasite's Best Picture win in 2020 opened the decade with a first for a non-English film.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) brought back three generations of Spider-Man actors.
Sinners set a record with 16 Oscar nominations in 2026.
Many films released in 2020 and 2021 premiered on streaming services on the same day as in cinemas.
Greta Gerwig became the first solo female director to pass 1 billion dollars with Barbie.