US Film

Andrew Whittingham

I couldn’t resist trying to write some questions about the brightly coloured and a bit on the weird side “Please Baby Please”. But of course, you usually find some unexpectedly juicy nuggets when you do this.

Questions

Suze in “Please Baby Please” was a 2022 role for British actress Andrea Riseborough, but which film released that same year where she played a troubled alcoholic saw her receive an Oscar nomination?

TO LESLIE

Other films by her including the “Lord of the Flies” inspired “Ladyworld”, which American director of “Please Baby Please” chose “Basic Instinct” to be among her favourite films in a “Sight and Sound” poll?

AMANDA KRAMER

Previously playing Dudley Dursley in the “Harry Potter” films and Harry Beltik in “The Queen’s Gambit”, who played the role of Arthur in Amanda Kramer’s “Please Baby Please”?

HARRY MELLING

Featuring as Teddy in Amanda Kramer’s “Please Baby Please” and starring in Gaspard Noé’s “Love”, American actor Karl Glusman was married to which actress from 2019 to 2021?

ZOË KRAVITZ

Additionally credited for the less prominent roles of Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come in the same film, who provides the voice of Ebeneezer Scrooge in the 2009 Robert Zemeckis animated feature “A Christmas Carol”?

JIM CARREY

Along with “Pulp Fiction” contributor Roger Avary, which famous author wrote the screenplay for Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf”?

NEIL GAIMAN

Robert Zemeckis’ “The Polar Express” was based on a 1985 children’s picture book by which author? Other works by him include “Jumanji” and its sequel “Zathura”.

CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG

Now named after Karl Jansky, which radio astronomy observatory in New Mexico is one of the main settings for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film “Contact”?

VERY LARGE ARRAY / VLA

Starring Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep, the Robert Zemeckis film “Death Becomes Her” brought home which Oscar that was one of the six won by “Forrest Gump” two years later?

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Adapted from a Stephanie Perkins novel, which 2021 slasher flick set in Nebraska stars Sydney Park and Théodore Pellerin? It opens with a college football player at home all alone.

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