International cinema

Just finished watching the lengthy “Laurence Anyways” and found it very moving and beautifully shot.

Questions

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1943 film “Day of Wrath” is based on what 1909 play by Hans Wiers-Jenssen? It is named for someone who was burned alive in Bergen at the end of the 16th century after being accused of witchcraft.

ANNE PEDERSDOTTER

A winner of the Golden Lion that saw Emil Hass Christensen and Birgitte Federspiel honoured with Bodil Awards, which 1955 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer that is centred around the Borgen family sees one character think they are Jesus Christ after suffering a mental breakdown?

ORDET / THE WORD

Her other work including “The Cave of the Yellow Dog” and “Veins of the World”, which Mongolian filmmaker’s “The Story of the Weeping Camel” received a Best Documentary nomination at the Oscars held in 2005?

BYAMBASUREN DAVAA

On the production team for Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Dogtooth”, which female Greek director’s films include the strange short “The Capsule” and the competitive “Chevalier”, a film that included Sakis Rouvas in its cast?

ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI

Winning the Volpi Cup for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Attenberg”, which Greek-French actress who married Yorgos Lanthimos in 2013 has appeared in western films such as “Assassin’s Creed”, “The Souvenir” and “Flux Gourmet”?

ARIANE LABED

Chantal Akerman directed which 2011 film that was an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s first novel? It received multiple Magritte Award nominations including Most Promising Actress for Aurora Marion.

ALMAYER’S FOLLY

Featuring a small role for her David di Donatello winning sister Alba, the 2023 Etruscan artifact seeking “La Chimera” is by which Italian director? Her previous films “The Wonders” and “Happy as Lazzaro” have won awards at Cannes.

ALICE ROHRWACHER

Known for his Emmy Award winning role as Prince Charles in “The Crown”, who played the role of archaeologist Arthur in the Italian film “La Chimera”? He also made up part of the tennis love triangle in Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers”.

JOSH O’CONNOR

Known for directing films like “Laurence Anyways”, Canadian Xavier Dolan also acts with him having received a 2022 César Award nomination for which adaptation of a novel from Honoré de Balzac’s “La Comédie Humaine”? Also in the cast were Cécile de France and Gérard Depardieu.

ILLUSIONS PERDUES / LOST ILLUSIONS

Starring alongside Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément in Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” was which celebrated French actress who has won multiple César Awards? Her films include Jean-Luc Godard’s “Every Man for Himself” and Claude Chabrol’s “The Flower of Evil”, with her also gaining celebrity renown for her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday.

NATHALIE BAYE

UK Film

Just had a fun time watching “Love Lies Bleeding” that has allowed me to finish a batch of questions I’ve been collecting for a while.

Questions

Now most well known as director of “Return of the Jedi”, Welshman Richard Marquand’s other work includes which 1981 movie that starred Donald Sutherland as German World War II sleeper agent Henry Faber? It was an adaptation of a 1978 Ken Follett novel.

THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE

The last of his silent films before moving on to talkies with “Blackmail”, Alfred Hitchcock adapted which Hall Caine novel for the screen in 1929, its title being a nod to where the author dwelt?

THE MANXMAN

Cinematography is provided by Swedish Oscar winner Linus Sandgren for which 2023 Emerald Fennell drama, which sees Barry Keoghan play an Oxford University student who spends some time at the titular estate?

SALTBURN

Directed by Frenchman Jean-Jacques Annaud of “Black and White in Color” fame, “Enemy at the Gates” saw Jude Law portray Russian sniper Vasily Zaitsev at the Battle of Stalingrad, with which English actor having a go at Nikita Kruschchev?

BOB HOSKINS

Turning up as Elizabeth Kublek in the two season spin-off “The Walking Dead: World Beyond”, which English actress has had film roles that include Vivien Leigh in “My Week with Marilyn”, Smilla Jaspersen in “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” and Sabrina Fairchild in a remake of Billy Wilder’s “Sabrina”?

JULIA ORMOND

Sister to two famous actors, who directed “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema” and “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology”? In both of these Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek was the main man.

SOPHIE FIENNES

Sally Potter’s 2017 film “The Party” includes in its ensemble cast which actress as Martha, a character who is in a same-sex relationship with the pregnant Jinny as played by Emily Mortimer? She has won Emmy Awards for her roles in “24”, “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Succession”.

CHERRY JONES

2017 black comedy “The Party” by British director Sally Potter won the Rainbow Spike at which Spanish city’s international film awards that began in 1956? Past winners of its Golden Spike include “Thelma and Louise”, “Requiem for a Dream” and “3-Iron”.

VALLADOLID

Known for the documentaries “Senna”, “Diego Maradona” and “Amy”, the last winning a Best Documentary Oscar, which Brit directed the 2001 Irrfan Khan starring Hindi language film “The Warrior”?

ASIF KAPADIA

Her debut film being the disturbing horror “Saint Maud”, which British director brought us back to the end of the 80s in the 2024 dark thriller “Loves Lies Bleeding”?

ROSE GLASS

US Film

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.

THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE

US Film

Now I’m a bit older I think “The Matrix” is one of those films I should re-watch because just maybe I might understand it this time. In reality I’d rather watch Keanu kicking lumps out of people in the “John Wick” series.

Questions

Commercials for video games like “Destiny” and “Gears of War” are some of the earlier work by which American director of “Top Gun: Maverick”? He teamed up with Miles Teller again for “Only the Brave” and “Spiderhead”.

JOSEPH KOSINSKI

His pilot given the call sign ‘Hangman’ in “Top Gun: Maverick”, Glen Powell represented someone who went even further into the sky when he portrayed which astronaut in “Hidden Figures”?

JOHN GLENN

Son to a famous actor, who played the pilot known as ‘Bob’ in “Top Gun: Maverick” and stars alongside Brie Larsen in the TV drama series “Lessons in Chemistry”?

LEWIS PULLMAN

Playing Arnie’s daughter Emma Brunner in “FUBAR”, in which upcoming James Mangold film is Monica Barbaro down to play Joan Baez opposite Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan?

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

Coming to prominence through the “Maze Runner” trilogy of films, who was the American director of “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”, the fourth film in the series re-boot?

WES BALL

2024’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is set a few hundred years after which 2017 film in the series that included Woody Harrelson in its cast and starred Andy Serkis as Caesar?

WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

The role of Mae in “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” was taken on by which English actress who has brought the video game character Ciri to life in “The Witcher” TV series?

FREYA ALLAN

Not particularly well acclaimed, which 2015 space opera brought to us by the Wachowskis that stars Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum has one of its settings as a refinery in the Great Red Spot?

JUPITER ASCENDING

German actors Benno Fürmann, Moritz Bleibtrau and Cosma Shiva Hagen all pop up in which 2008 film by the Wachowskis that was an adaptation of a Tatsuo Yoshida manga?

SPEED RACER

Its story being continued in the relatively short-lived MMORPG “The Matrix Online”, what was the third film in “The Matrix” film series?

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS

Three was seemingly not a crowd when signing up to direct “Cloud Atlas” when the Wackowskis teamed up with which German filmmaker whose other films include “Run Lola Run” and “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”? The trio worked together again on the Netflix sci-fi series “Sense8”.

TOM TYKWER

First appearing in 2004, which comic book series written by the Wachowskis sees a famous literary character from an 1818 novel get involved with the Scopes Monkey Trial and Roe v. Wade?

DOC FRANKENSTEIN

Involving a professional assassin who must exact revenge for the murder of a Triad member, which 1998 debut feature film by Antoine Fuqua was set in Los Angeles and saw the American debut of Chow Yun-fat?

THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS

What was the repetitively titled name of the 1963 comedy in which Jayne Mansfield became the first significant American actress to do a nude scene on film since the silent era?

PROMISES, PROMISES

Based on a 2010 documentary, which 2018 Robert Zemeckis film stars Steve Carrell as Mark Hogancamp, a man struggling with PTSD who creates a fictional village to ease his trauma?

WELCOME TO MARWEN

Although nominated for the Best Costume Design Oscar it is regarded as a box office flop. Who played the two leads in Robert Zemeckis’ 2016 film “Allied”, and in which city is it set?

BRAD PITT, MARION COTILLARD & CASABLANCA

Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred as Philippe Petit in which 2015 Robert Zemeckis film that was based on the famous highwire performer’s “To Reach the Clouds”?

THE WALK

International cinema

A film about Donald Trump is on the way. I can’t wait…

Questions

Director of Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee “A Man Called Ove”, which Swede directed a trilogy of films featuring the same family, “The Anderssons in Greece”, “The Anderssons Hit the Road” and “The Anderssons Rock the Mountains”?

HANNES HOLM

Not the film for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, “The Two Popes” was a 2019 film by which director, whose other films include “The Constant Gardener” and an adaptation if José Saramago’s “Blindness”?

FERNANDO MEIRELLES

Based on a Bambara legend, “Yeelen”, named for a word that translates to something like ‘light’, was a Jury Prize winning film at Cannes for which Malian director, who has had other films like 2009’s “Tell Me Who You Are” screen at the festival?

SOULEYMANE CISSÉ

Director of the 1976 film “The Message”, a film that told the story of the prophet Muhammad without depicting him, which Egyptian later became part of the team that brought us the “Halloween” series of films? He was killed during the 2005 hotel bombings that occurred in the Jordanian capital of Amman.

MOUSTAPHA AKKAD

Starring Alexander Kaidanovsky at the titular figure, Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” had its screenplay written by the Strugatsky brothers. The film is loosely based on which 1972 novel of theirs?

ROADSIDE PICNIC

Filmed in the Republic of Congo when Brazilian director Glauber Rocha was in exile, “The Lion Has Seven Heads” features which French actor as a Jesuit priest? A regular in films by both François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, they played the unstable director in Olivier Assayas’ “Irma Vep”.

JEAN-PIERRE LÉAUD

Thanks to her role in Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider”, who became the first Iranian to win the Best Actress Award at Cannes? She also won the equivalent award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for portraying a judo coach in “Tatami”.

ZAR AMIR EBRAHIMI

Its title being the first name of a baby in the film as well as the surname of a famous author, which 2016 horror was the first full-length work by Iran-born Ali Abbasi?

SHELLEY

Ali Abbasi’s 2018 fantasy film “Border” was based on a short story by which Swedish writer who also brought us “Let the Right One In”?

JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST

With Maria Bakalova turning up as Ivana Trump, the 2024 Ali Abbasi biographical film “The Apprentice” stars which actor as Donald Trump?

SEBASTIAN STAN

US Film

Batches on Kurt Russell and Antoine Fuqua as well as a couple I’ve spun around because I already used their previous iteration for Five Quiz Group.

Questions

Snake Plissken is the anti-hero played by Kurt Russell in “Escape from New York” and “Escape from L.A.”, both those films having been brought to us by which director?

JOHN CARPENTER

Films directed in the talkie era by silent film star Monty Banks include “Queen of Hearts” and “We’re Going to be Rich”, both of these featuring which future wife of his?

GRACIE FIELDS

The John Carpenter film “They Live” sees which actor roam the streets of L.A. sporting some special sunglasses that allow him to see hidden messages? Other movies starring him include the suspiciously titled “Immortal Kombat” and “Sci-Fighters”.

RODDY PIPER

The Disney films “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes”, “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t” and “The Strongest Man in the World” make up which trilogy named for the character played in all three by Kurt Russell? The same role was taken on by “Growing Pains” actor Kirk Cameron in a 1995 TV remake of the first part of the series.

DEXTER RILEY

Kurt Russell received a Worst Supporting Actress nomination at the Razzies for which 1989 buddy cop film where he starred as one of the title characters, the other one being played by Sylvester Stallone?

TANGO & CASH

Its cast also featuring Australian actress Charmaine Bingwa and Laura Prepon’s husband Ben Foster, which 2022 Antoine Fuqua film stars Will Smith as an enslaved man who escapes from a Louisiana plantation?

EMANCIPATION

A remake of a 2018 Danish film, which 2021 Antoine Fuqua crime thriller that stars Jake Gyllenhaal in an emergency call center features the voices of Riley Keough, Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano on the other end of the line?

THE GUILTY

Starring Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor, which 2021 Antoine Fuqua sci-fi film is based on the 2009 D. Eric Maikranz novel “The Reincarnationist Papers”?

INFINITE

Its cast including Akosua Busia, the wife of John Singleton and daughter of a Ghanaian Prime Minister, which 2003 Antoine Fuqua film stars Bruce Willis as a Navy SEAL during a civil war in Nigeria?

TEARS OF THE SUN

Not a financial success, which 2000 Antoine Fuqua film stars Jamie Foxx as a thief who is released from prison by authorities to help them catch a criminal who robbed the Federal Reserve?

BAIT

Kurt Russell received a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for playing Drew Stephens in which 1983 Mike Nichols film? Not one of the action films with which he is mostly associated, it saw him play the boyfriend of the title character.

SILKWOOD

In a 1979 made-for-TV film directed by John Carpenter which singer was portrayed by Kurt Russell? The action star went on to receive an Emmy Award nomination for his performance.

ELVIS PRESLEY

1935 Best Actor & 1974 Best Supporting Actor Oscars

I rather lamely couldn’t think of a 1974 film that starred both Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Questions

A former boxer whose fights included an exhibition match against Jack Johnson, which Brit took home the Best Actor Oscar for his part in John Ford’s 1935 film “The Informer”? He played the role of ‘Gypo’ Nolan, a former member of the IRA in the period following the Irish War of Independence.

VICTOR MACLAGEN

One of three nominees for the 1935 Best Actor Oscar from “Mutiny on the Bounty”, who failed to follow up on his success from the previous year when he lost out to Victor Maclagen?

CLARK GABLE

With Clark Gable nominated for portraying Fletcher Christian, which Scarborough-born actor received a 1935 Best Actor Oscar nomination for taking on the role of Captain Bligh in “Mutiny on the Bounty”? That same year he had also played Inspector Javert in Richard Boleslawski’s “Les Misérables”.

CHARLES LAUGHTON

Distantly related to Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, Franchot Tone was the third Best Actor nominee for 1935’s “Mutiny on the Bounty”. He played which fictional narrator, a character created for the original 1932 novel on which the film was based?

ROGER BYAM

During the brief period they were permitted, Paul Muni got into 1935 Best Actor Oscar contention through write-ins. For his role in which Michael Curtiz crime film was this, with him playing Pennsylvania coal miner Joe Radek?

BLACK FURY

Winning a black and white cinematography Oscar for “On the Waterfront”, Boris Kaufman is a younger brother of which early filmmaker whose pioneering work includes “Enthusiasm: The Symphony of Donbas”?

DZIGA VERTOV

Sung by Maureen McGovern during the film, which seven-word titled tune that featured in “The Towering Inferno” went on to win the Oscar for Best Original Song?

WE MAY NEVER LOVE LIKE THIS AGAIN

Despite receiving loads of Academy Award nominations, “The Towering Inferno” was recognised only once in the acting categories. For their role as Harlee Claiborne, who was in contention for 1974 Best Supporting Actor?

FRED ASTAIRE

Oreste Baldini played a young version of which character in a 1974 film, with another actor going on to win the Best Supporting Actor for their portrayal of him at an older stage in life?

VITO CORLEONE

With Clint Eastwood playing ‘Thunderbolt’, which actor was ‘Lightfoot’ in the 1974 Michael Cimino film “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot”? Later going on to win an Oscar, he was unsuccessful on this occasion when he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

JEFF BRIDGES

A eulogy was given at Marilyn Monroe’s funeral by which person from the world of cinema? He would later be nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for their role as Hyman Roth in “The Godfather Part II”.

LEE STRASBERG

Along with Lee Strasberg and Robert De Niro, “The Godfather Part II” saw Michael V. Gazzo nominated for 1974 Best Supporting Actor. Known by the nickname ‘Frankie Five Angels’, what was the real name of the character that he played?

FRANK PENTANGELI

More Oscars

1974 Best Actress and 1947 Best Director make their appearance here along with a couple about the author of “The Princess Bride”.

Questions

Known for novels like “Marathon Man”, William Goldman won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his work on which 1969 film?

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

For which 1976 film did William Goldman double his Oscar collection when he was successful in the Adapted Screenplay category?

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN

The second time she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, who played the role of Evelyn Mulwray in Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown”? This character hires Jake Gittes to investigate a potential infidelity by her husband.

FAYE DUNAWAY

Directed by Martin Scorsese, for which 1974 romantic comedy did Ellen Burstyn receive the Oscar for Best Actress? Also is the cast were Diane Ladd and her daughter, Laura Dern.

ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Playing the title role in “Claudine”, a film that saw her nominated for a 1974 Best Actress Oscar, whose love interests throughout life included both Sidney Poitier and David Frost? Her role in the TV series “Julia” is seen as a groundbreaking change in the portrayal of African-Americans on the small screen.

DIAHANN CARROLL

Valerie Perrine starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s 1974 film “Lenny”, an adaptation of Julian Barry’s play about Lenny Bruce. What was the first name of her stripper character?

HONEY

The first of two Best Actress nominations for Gena Rowlands, “A Woman Under the Influence” saw her star as Mabel Longhetti. Also providing some of his own money to help get the film made, which actor played her construction worker husband Nick?

PETER FALK

Gregory Peck poses as a Jew in the 1947 drama “Gentleman’s Agreement” in order to investigate antisemitism in New York City. As well as this film winning the best picture, who took home the Best Director Oscar for it?

ELIA KAZAN

Later going on to win the Best Director Oscar for “My Fair Lady”, George Cukor received multiple nominations for that award including for which 1947 film noir for which Ronald Colman won Best Actor for portraying an actor?

A DOUBLE LIFE

His films including 1954’s “The Caine Mutiny”, which Canadian director whose surname is devoid of vowels received a Best Director Oscar nomination for the 1947 film-noir “Crossfire”, like “Gentleman’s Agreement” tackling the subject of antisemitism? He was jailed for a few months for refusing to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

EDWARD DMYTRYK

Later remade into 1996 Christmas flick “The Preacher’s Wife” with Whitney Houston in the title role, “The Bishop’s Wife” saw which German-born director nominated for a 1947 Oscar? He was married to Peggy Moran, who appeared in Abbott and Costello’s first film “One Night in the Tropics”.

HENRY KOSTER

No stranger to successful adaptations, for his take on which Dickens novel did David Lean receive a 1947 Best Director Oscar nomination? The film’s cast included John Mills, Alec Guinness and Jean Simmons.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

US Film

“Goin’ South” is a new one on me but feels like something it’s useful to be aware of.

Questions

Alan Ladd’s last role was as gunslinger Nevada Smith in which 1964 adaptation of a Harold Robbins novel? In a prequel released two years later the same character was played by Steve McQueen, Ladd having died in the interim period.

THE CARPETBAGGERS

Steven Soderbergh cited which first colour film by Michelangelo Antonioni as an influence for “The Girlfriend Experience”? It won the 1964 Golden Lion and starred Monica Vitti as a troubled woman in Italy’s industrial north following an automobile accident.

RED DESERT

What is the name of the psychiatrist who pursues Michael Myers when he escapes from his sanatorium in Haddonfield? A main protagonist of the “Halloween” series, he appears in 8 of the 12 films, five in which he is portrayed by Donald Pleasance, with Malcolm McDowell later twice taking on the role.

DR. SAMUEL LOOMIS

Considered to contain the first non-pornographic full-frontal nude scenes, which 1915 drama by Lois Weber caused riots in New York City?

HYPOCRITES

Reaching the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Makin’ It”, the theme tune from the short-lived sitcom of the same name in which he also starred, who played the titular monster in John Landis’ “An American Werewolf in London”? He is also known for advertising Dr. Pepper.

DAVID NAUGHTON

The 1978 Western comedy “Goin’ South” is one of the few films directed by which actor, with them also taking on its lead role of outlaw Henry Lloyd Moon?

JACK NICHOLSON

The first film directed by Jack Nicholson was which 1971 profanity-laden campus film that featured some scenes of full-frontal male nudity? Among its cast were Bruce Dern and Karen Black.

DRIVE, HE SAID

Jack Nicholson’s film “Goin’ South” saw the debut of which actress who would go on to be nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Jonathan Demme’s “Melvin and Howard”? Her other roles include playing the love interest of Doc Brown in “Back to the Future Part III”.

MARY STEENBURGEN

Who plays Ivy Elizabeth Walker, the blind daughter who is a central figure in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 period piece “The Village”?

BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD

The only Oscar nomination for “The Village” was for whose Best Original Score, a composer who was married to Rosanna Arquette for a short time? He has received other nominations for films including “The Fugitive”, “Michael Clayton” and “News of the World”, but has been unsuccessful in taking home the top prize.

JAMES NEWTON HOWARD

Black journalist and co-founder of the NAACP Ida B. Wells is a character in which 2004 film on women’s suffrage that has a title taken from a comment made by Massachusetts representative Joseph Walsh?

IRON JAWED ANGELS

A list that includes “Dirty Harry”, “Two Mules for Sister Sara” was the second of five collaborations between Clint Eastwood and which director?

DON SIEGEL

The 2018 film “At Eternity’s Gate” saw Willem Dafoe portray Vincent van Gogh and which actor provide their take on Paul Gauguin?

OSCAR ISAAC

Their other films including “Before Night Falls” and previously nominated for the Best Director Oscar for a biographical drama, which American directed “At Eternity’s Gate”?

JULIAN SCHNABEL

Oscars – Best Director 1944, 1948

I had the annual scan through Oscar nominations this morning so we’ll see how many I still manage to get wrong in the coming months.

Questions

As well as receiving a 1948 Best Director nomination, for which post-World War II film did Fred Zinnemann accept a juvenile Oscar on behalf of Czechoslovak actor Ivan Jandl because the Communist authorities would not allow the youngster to travel to the USA to accept the award?

THE SEARCH

Despite being responsible for some of the most acclaimed films of all time John Huston only took home one Best Director Oscar. This was in 1948 for which adaptation of a B. Traven novel?

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

Nominated for 1948 Best Director as well as taking home the Best Actor Oscar that year, Laurence Olivier’s performance as the title character in “Hamlet” was alongside which actress who played Ophelia? This person’s British father won a bronze medal in gymnastics at the 1912 Olympics.

JEAN SIMMONS

Born in Romania, which 1948 Best Director nominee for “Johnny Belinda” was also at the helm for the Marilyn Monroe starring “How to Marry a Millonaire”?

JEAN NEGULESCO

Kiev-born Anatole Litvak got a nomination for Best Director in 1948 for which psychological drama that sees Olivia de Havilland inside an insane asylum, though she can’t remember how she got there?

THE SNAKE PIT

Based on a story by John Steinbeck, “Lifeboat” was a ‘limited-setting’ film that saw a 1944 Best Director Oscar nomination for which auteur?

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

His other films including “Duck Soup” and “An Affair to Remember”, who won the 1944 Best Director Oscar for “Going My Way”?

LEO MCCAREY

The second year in a row that he was up for the award, Henry King’s 1944 Oscar nomination for Best Director was a biographical film about which president of the United States?

WOODROW WILSON (The film was called “Wilson”)

Adapted from a Vera Caspary mystery novel, the 1944 film noir “Laura” saw which director given an Oscar nomination? His birthplace was in the present borders of Ukraine.

OTTO PREMINGER

Billy Wilder received a 1944 Best Director Oscar nomination when he adapted James M. Cain’s novel “Double Indemnity”. The filmmaker shares screenplay credits with which author, who also contributed to the one for “Strangers on a Train”?

RAYMOND CHANDLER