EXAM 4
Brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein created what small, independent studio in 1979 choosing a name that combined their parent's—Miriam and Max?
Miramax
In 1992 which independent studio began an eleven year nomination streak for Best Picture, winning for The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, and Chicago?
Miramax
Which British comedy troupe prided themselves on offending everyone with their satire?
Monty Python
Following the success of his Batman origin film, Dark Knight, which director created a complex and intelligent story of truth, reality, and the subconscious which won Best Cinematography and Visual Effects for his 2010 film Inception?
Christopher Nolan
Memento, a neo-noir mystery directed by which of the following directors is a psychological thriller that established his directorial style of non-linear narratives that explore time, memory and reality.
Christopher Nolan
Which successful Hollywood director (Momento, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk) refuses to follow the trend of directing in HD but insists upon shooting with 35 mm film?
Christopher Nolan
Which of the following director's career was supported by the instigation of the Australian Film Commission?
- Peter Weir - George Miller - Mel Gibson
The 180° Rule creates a spatial relationship known as:
-A center line -An eye line -An axis of action
Which of these is true?
-An educated audience is a powerful one -We've seen some of the best movies ever made -We should all demand the best of our film makers
Which of the following is true about Steven Spielberg
-His films have nine nominations for Best Picture winning for Schindler's List -He has seven nominations for Best Director winning for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan -He was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Award for his work as a Creative Producer
Common themes or motifs in Spielberg's films include:
-Large scale epics -Children are often in danger -Fathers or father figures are often reluctant, absent or irresponsible
In the 1980's studios run by corporate conglomerates had what influence on film subjects?
-Studios avoided experimentation preferring guaranteed box office successes -Male-dominated action films became the norm -Simple, formulaic retreads of popular television shows
How did the film industry regard James Cameron's costly 1997 film, Titanic?
A near death experience to be avoided
Although he began his career in television which Actor/Director was able to not only make the transition to feature films but formed his own production, began directing and in 1992 won Best Picture and Best Director for Unforgiven and in 2004 for Million Dollar Baby?
Clint Eastwood
Sergio Leone restarted the career of which American actor establishing him as a strong, silent action hero in films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
Clint Eastwood
In the 1990's why did studios begin joint ventures using multiple studios and/or production companies in making films and still continue today to show all of their company logos before the start of a film?
Combining their monetary responsibility also shared the potential monetary loss
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which film genre did Hollywood turn to in order to offer American audiences entertainment and a sense of security?
Comic book superheroes
Who took over running the studios in the 1980's?
Corporate executives from outside the film industry
After a successful career as a child actor beginning in television as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and films like The Music Man, The Courtship of Eddie's Father and later in George Lucas' American Graffiti which of the following Actor Directors left the successful television spin-off, Happy Days to become a director?
Ron Howard
What is the name of the production company formed by Mel Gibson in 1989 to produce Hamlet in which he played the title role?
Icon
What is the name of the production company formed by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer in 1986 which has produced more than 60 films in association with Universal Pictures?
Imagine
Beginning in the 1990's studios began successfully producing Oscar winning films directed by which "new" group?
Actor/Directors
For which film written and directed by James Cameron were the visual effects primarily performed live by Oscar-winning special effects make-up artist Stan Winston, who created the look of the creature as well as the 14-foot Queen, which was operated by puppeteers, cables, hydraulics, control rods and a crane?
Aliens
How is "performance capture" or "motion capture" technology achieved by directors like Robert Zemeckis in Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007) and A Christmas Carol (2009)?
Attaching sensors to the actor's face and body for computers to match their action to CGI characters
In Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis used new computer technology in creating extensive visual effects in order to allow Forrest (Tom Hanks) to:
Be incorporated into archival footage of famous people and events
Which director is known for the use of dance within the plot of his films like The Last Tango in Paris?
Bernardo Bertalucci
Which director pushed forward the technology of digital film making by basing his 2007 film, 300 on the ancient Greek battle of Thermopylae?
Zack Synder
The sound element known as "Voice" is:
Dialogue, narration or voice-over
What was the name of the first James Bond film released in 1962 starring Sean Connery?
Dr. No
Which director of the Mad Max series including the latest edition Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) won his only Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2007 for Happy Feet.
George Miller
In addition to demonstrating the integrity and courage of Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly which film directed by George Clooney also addresses the responsibility of anyone who reaches out to touch an audience.
Good Night and Good Luck
Which director has the distinction of directing the two highest grossing films, Titanic and Avatar?
James Cameron
Which director is known for his highly successful action-packed, special effects epics that feature strong female characters in films like Terminator, Aliens and Avatar?
James Cameron
Which highly successful feature film director has also directed three documentaries about underwater subjects—Ghosts of the Abyss, Aliens of the Deep and Deep Sea Challenger - and is the only person to make a solo dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth?
James Cameron
Which Oscar winning director's films are dynamic, action packed, visceral and eclectic in style often using multiple cameras so that in editing she can cut quickly between different angles of the same scene creating the kinetic energy associated with the tense situations that populate her films.
Kathryn Bigelow
Who is the first woman to win a Best Directing Oscar for her 2009 film, Hurt Locker?
Kathryn Bigelow
Critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Dances with Wolves" has the kind of vision and ambition that is rare in movies today. It is not a formula movie, but a thoughtful, carefully observed story. It is a Western at a time when the Western is said to be dead" about which Actor/Director's 1990 directorial debut?
Kevin Costner
Who was the first woman to be nominated for Best Director by the American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 1975 for her direction of Seven Beauties?
Lina Wertmüller
With the monies from his success in Italian Spaghetti westerns Clint Eastwood started his own production company named after a creek on his property called:
Malpaso
Although he began his career as an action-hero in films like Mad Max and the Lethal Weapon series which director won Best Picture and Best Director for Braveheart in 1995?
Mel Gibson
The 1978 French comedy, La Cage aux Folles was so successful that it inspired a Broadway musical and an American film adaptation in 1996 starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane directed by which director?
Mike Nichols
Just as social realism fought against the Technicolor epics of the 1950s, Independent filmmakers rose in the 1990's to fill a void left by what kind of films preferred by the studios?
Mindless action films
Which independent director is known for his biopic films concerning conspiracy theories and socially dynamic subjects like JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), W (2008) and Snowden (2016)?
Oliver Stone
The sound element known as "Music" is:
Orchestrated score or music played under or during a scene
The sound element known as "Foley" is:
Organic sounds like footsteps, doors closing, rustling of fabric or movement of hand props
Which Australian director directed Mel Gibson in Gallipoli and went on to garner nominations for Best Director for Witness, Dead Poet's Society, The Truman Show and Master and Commander?
Peter Weir
Which 1994 Tarantino film capitalized on sex, violence, drugs and humorously ironic, expletive rich dialogue, the film which became a hit with young audiences despite the "R" rating?
Pulp Fiction
Which 1981 film directed by Warren Beatty not only won Best Director but has the distinction of being the last film (until Silver Linings Playbook in 2012) to garner nominations in all four acting categories?
Reds
In editing terms a "cut" is:
Replacing one shot directly with another
What is the name of the first film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino with the help of actor Harvey Keitel who read the script, contributed to the funding after becoming a co-producer and starred in the film?
Reservoir Dogs
Which Actor/Director won four Oscars in 1980 for his first directorial effort, Ordinary People which won Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Timothy Hutton), Best Picture (Ronald L. Schwary), as well as Best Director?
Robert Redford
Using archetypal characters and emphasizing rituals and lyricism rather than realism, which director became known as "The King of the Spaghetti Western"?
Sergio Leone
In editing terms a "wipe" is:
Shot B replaces Shot A using a boundary line that moves across the screen
The sound element known as "Design Effects" is:
Sounds that do not occur in nature like futuristic science fiction (light sabers)
To capitalize on sales in foreign markets, studios began producing what type of films in the 1990's?
Special effects extravaganzas
Which independent film director addresses racially controversial subjects like Do the Right Thing (1989) and Malcolm X (1992)?
Spike Lee
To fulfill a promise to his mother which Hollywood director submitted Schindler's List as his senior project in order to finish the college degree he had abandoned in the 1970's allowing him to graduate in May 2002?
Steven Spielberg
Who directed Jaws, the film is considered to be the first summer Blockbuster?
Steven Spielberg
Actor/Director Robert Redford created what film festival that continues today to highlight independent film?
Sundance
The use of connecting one image to another and thereby affecting the audience's emotional connection using only images was discovered by the Russian film maker after whom it was named:
The Kuleshov Effect
What technological invention changed the way films were seen and therefore made in the 1980's?
The Video Cassette Recorder
In editing terms a "Dissolve" is:
The second image replaces the first by superimposing over it while it disappears
In editing terms a "Fade Out/Fade In" is:
The shot fades to black or white and the next shot fades in
T/F Spielberg was the first to use product placement, or using a product with the label shown in a film for a fee paid by the manufacturer.
True
Which German director is known for his collaboration with actor Klaus Kinski and for setting his films in exotic locales like the Sahara, the jungles of the Amazon and the mountains of Peru?
Werner Hertzog
Which independent actor/director created a small, klutzy, sex obsessed persona in films like Annie Hall, Manhattan, A Midsummer Night's Comedy and Mighty Aphrodite?
Woody Allen
Who has earned more Academy Award nominations for screenwriting (24) than any other original screenwriter winning three for Annie Hall, Hannah and her Sisters and Midnight in Paris?
Woody Allen
In Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg used a cinematic style that starts the film with a scene, cuts to a flashback, and ends the film by continuing with the same opening scene, also known as what?
bookends
Which of these is not a hallmark of a David Lynch film?
computer generated special effects
