Movies

In 2003, what non-American movie won the second ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film?

spirited away (Ghibli Anime)

Charlie Kaufman wrote this 2002 film that starred Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman

Adaptation

The 3 big-screen Gatsbys have been Warner Baxter, Robert Redford & this "Shane" star

Alan Ladd

Madonna appeared in this 2002 Bond film & sang the title tune

Die another day

"EASY": The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises his character practiced as a child

5 easy pieces

Robert De Niro chews the scenery & some eggs as Louis Cyphre (get it?) in this New Orleans-set film

Angel heart

This director of the "Men in Black" movies also directed Will Smith in "Wild Wild West"

Barry Sonnenfeld

From the '80s: "I want my 2 dollars"

Better off dead (1985 black comedy with John Cusack)

won best director for "The Lost Weekend" & "The Apartment"

Billy Wilder

What 1974 film does Diahann Carroll play the title Harlem mother who falls in love with garbage collector Roop Marshall, played by James Earl Jones?

Claudine

What confusing 2012 Movie stars Tom Hanks and Halle Berry?

Cloud Atlas (book by David Mitchell)

Keith David voices a black cat who tells the title character "I'm not the other anything, I'm me," before helping her escape a fate of having buttons sewn over her eyes in what 2009 animated film?

Coraline

Before winning an Oscar as a 1960s Black Panther, he played Slim to Jodie Turner-Smith's Queen in a 2019 film

Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the black messiah)

Reagan played Bette Davis' boozing high society pal in this 1939 film about a socialite dying of a brain tumor

Dark Victory

Her "You Are My Lucky Star" number was cut from "Singin' in the Rain", but it's back on the DVD

Debbie Reynolds

In what 1954 film directed by Alfred Hitchock does Princess Grace star as Margot Wendice? In this film Margot is a wealthy socialite who is married to a former tennis player, however she is having an affair. Ray Gilland stars as her husband Tony Wendice in this film.

Dial M for murder

What 1967 war film starred Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and Telly Savalas, and shares its name with an annual list published by the Environmental Working Group that highlights the year's most pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables?

Dirty Dozen

Jerry Bruckheimer & this man produced such movies as "Flashdance", "Top Gun" & "Days of Thunder"

Don Simpson

This assassin was featured in the movie "Daredevil" & got her own film 2 years later

Elektra

This 2014 movie was a remake of the 1981 Brooke Shields movie of the same name

Endless Love

In this film when asked, "Is this heaven?", Kevin Costner answers, "It's Iowa"

Field of Dreams

In "Milk", Victor Garber portrayed this slain San Francisco mayor

George Moscone

This one-named designer created the iconic little black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Givenchy

2 characters: "Look, your worshipfulness... I take orders from just one person: me"; "It's a wonder you're still alive"

Han Solo & Princess Leia

French ballet star Zizi Jeanmarie dances her way into Danny Kaye's heart in this 1952 musical bio

Hans Christian Andersen

His fairy tales include "The Metal Pig", "Aunty Toothache", "The Rags" & "The Fir Tree"

Hans Christian Andersen

1940's "The Grapes of Wrath" starred this actor as Tom Joad

Henry Fonda

In "My Darling Clementine" he played Wyatt Earp & Victore Mature played Doc Holliday

Henry Fonda

The Jacobite played this train in the Harry Potter films

Hogwarts Express

"MOVIE ANTAGONISTS": 2015: Despot of a post-apocalyptic wasteland Immortan Joe

Mad Max-Fury Road

2 characters: "You're using Bonetti's Defense against me, ah?"; "I thought it fitting considering the rocky terrain"

Inigo Montoya & Westley

THE AFI's 100 GREATEST FILMS: One of the top 20, this 1946 film was based on a short story published as "The Man Who Was Never Born"

It's a wonderful life

At age 79 he became the oldest person ever nominated for Best Director, for "Prizzi's Honor"

John Huston

Clint Eastwood's role in "White Hunter, Black Heart" was inspired by this director of "The African Queen"

John Huston

Who directed "The Dead" (1987)

John Huston

In "A Walk in the Clouds", he's a WWII vet who poses as the husband of an unmarried, pregnant woman

Keanu Reeves

In 1994's "Wyatt Earp", he played Earp to Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday

Kevin Costner

Reagan called this 1942 film in which he played an amputee the best one he ever made

King's row

Captain Marvel gets some powers due to the Tesseract; others she has via an infusion of this alien race's blood thanks to Yon-Rogg

Kree

In 1993's "Tombstone", he played Earp to Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday

Kurt Russell

A 2019 horror movie was called "The Curse of" her, Spanish for "the weeping woman"

La Llorona

Will Ferrell was sucked into a time-space vortex in this 2009 film based on a '70s TV show

Land of the lost

Henry Mancini topped the pop charts just once, with this movie theme heard here:

Love theme from Romeo and Juliet

Natalie Wood romances Gene Kelly but ends up with Martin Milner in this film of novel by Herman Wouk

Marjorie Morningstar

Pinnacle Rock was used as target practice by U.S. pilots in World War II, but despite the damage, it still looked good enough to be featured in this 2003 Russell Crowe film, the first major Hollywood motion picture to be made in the Galapagos

Master & Commander

What is the name of Harvey Weinstein's production company that produced "Sex, lies and Videotape" and "Pulp Fiction"?

Miramax

What 2022 movie stars Jared Leto as a living vampire after he cured himself of a rare disease?

Morbius

Which 1999 song by Gloria Estefan and NSYNC was nominated for an Academy Award and appeared on the soundtrack of a film where Estefan made her big screen debut?

Music of my heart (streep/Bassett)

The character King Kaiser is based on Sid Caesar in this 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the world of 1950s TV

My favourite year

Secretary of Defense Gene Hackman gets offensive & kills his girlfriend in this 1987 Kevin Costner thriller

No way out

White Noise, a post-modernist novel from author Don DeLillo, has been adapted for the big screen by what Oscar-nominated director?

Noah Baumbach

Instead of Christmas the family in the movie "Captain Fantastic" observes the birthday of this linguist & left-wing social critic

Noam Chomsky

This 1965 war drama was Frank Sinatra's directorial debut

None but the brave

What actress who was married to Ossie Davis for 50 years starred in "The Jackie Robinson Story" and "A Raisin in the Sun"?

Ruby Dee

Who are the main characters in the original Ghostbusters movie from 1984?

Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), Janine (Annie Potts), Dana (Sigourney Weaver)

CHARACTERS: Jules Winnfield, Butch Coolidge, "The Wolf"

Pulp Fiction

This movie introduced the world to Indiana Jones

Raiders of the lost Ark

Yes, it's safe to look at the angels that adorn the top of the object of Indiana Jones's quest in this 1981 film

Raiders of the lost ark

Vic Vega is a tortured soul--no, make that a torturing soul--& gets an earful from a cop in this 1992 Tarantino film

Reservoir Dogs

This "All in the Family" co-star directed the film "The Princess Bride" & read the book on cassette

Rob Reiner

Anthony Hopkins played the role of author C.S. Lewis in this Richard Attenborough film

Shadowlands

Burt Reynolds drives a Trans Am from Georgia to Texas & back in this 1977 romp

Smokey and the bandit

1939: "My friends just call me Ringo--nickname I had as a kid"

Stagecoach

WHO PLAYED Bada Bing owner Silvio Dante

Steven Van Zandt

President portrayed by Brian Keith in "The Wind and the Lion"

Teddy Roosevelt

The title of this 1935 Hitchcock film starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll refers to a spy organization

The 39 steps

This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film

The Circle

A tired & hapless Jeff Bridges expresses some strong dislike for the Eagles in this 1998 Coen Brothers comedy

The big lebowski

Oscar winners Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis & Mel Gibson were entwined with this title 1984 ship

The bounty

Laurence Fishburne & Stephen Baldwin starred in "Fled", a remake of this Sidney Poitier-Tony Curtis film

The defiant ones

In this movie Robert De Niro kidnaps Jerry Lewis

The king of comedy

Harvey Keitel played the role of Judas Iscariot in this controversial 1988 film

The last temptation of Christ

Everyone from Sean Connery to Henry Fonda to John Wayne turns up in this 1962 WWII epic

The longest day

Barbra Streisand played New York psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein in this 1991 film

The prince of Tides

Sean Connery said, "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue" in this film

The untouchables

Marilyn sang a sexy rendition of "Heat Wave" in this 1954 movie musical

There's no business like show business

What are superman's earth parents names?

Thomas and Martha

In one Andersen tale, a one-legged toy soldier made of this was in love with a dancing paper doll

Tin

In what 1955 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock does Princess Grace star as Frances Stevens? Cary Grant stars opposite her as John Robie. The film takes place on the French Riviera.

To catch a thief

WHO PLAYED Felix Unger, half of a 1970s TV Odd Couple

Tony Randall

QUOTABLE MOVIES 2004: "Is there no one else? Is there no one else?"

Troy

what 2022 action movie stars Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in race against Antonio Bandaras to find the Magellan treasure?

Uncharted

Order fried green tomatoes at this cafe just north of Macon where "Fried Green Tomatoes" was filmed

Whistle Stop Café

On "Deadwood," Gerald McRaney played a vicious magnate whose son would become this real-life publishing mogul

William Randolph Hearst

In 2006, the first "High School Musical" gave this actor his breakout role

Zac Efron

A washed-up fighter pilot named Ted Stryker must cast off his personal demons and land a passenger plane after the crew (including a famous athlete portraying a pilot) are stricken with food poisoning . But this isn't "Airplane!" This is the plot of what 1957 melodrama written by Arthur Hailey (who also penned "Airport") which was the inspiration for that slightly funnier film of 1980?

Zero hour

Which 1986 Hong Kong action film saw the beginning of the 'Gun Fu' subgenre and launched both director John Woo and lead actor Chow Yun Fat into superstardom in Asia?

a better tomorrow

Home movies of JFK's assassination were taken by Orville Nix, Marie Muchmore &, famously, him

abraham zapruder

Steven Spielberg's production company is named after what 26-minute film, his 1968 debut?

amblin

AFI's first "100 Greatest American Movies" list included this D.W. Griffith silent epic; on an updated list, it was gone

birth of a nation

won best director for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" & "Lawrence of Arabia"

david lean

"F9" brought this Sung Kang character back from getting blown to bits in "Tokyo Drift"; #justiceforhim!

han

Humphrey Bogart plays a tough Hollywood writer who loses his last chance at love with Gloria Grahame in this 1950 film

in a lonely place

Grammy's mob ties came home to roost & she locked herself in here, also a 2002 Jodie Foster film title

panic room

This term for a circus or carnival worker is also the title of an Elvis Presley film

roustabout

Following the successes of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting," Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill teamed up for a third and final film (with a screenplay by the great William Goldman). Name this sentimental tale of a 1920s barnstormer

the great Waldo Pepper

The Grey Widowers are murderous, dog-sized spiders who hunt and kill humans by scent in what 2007 film? The creatures arrive during the title supernatural event, and some hide in a pharmacy next to the grocery store where much of the film takes place

the mist (Frank Derabont and Andre Braugher)

Maureen O' Hara & her brother appeared in this 1952 John Wayne film made in Ireland

the quiet man

For 1973 Marvin Hamlisch got Oscars for both the score & "memorable" title song of this Redford-Streisand film

the way we were

"DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS": Hiccup in "How to Train Your Dragon" gives his dragon this name, but soon after gets a better look inside its mouth

toothless