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1. "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1982) stars Mel Gibson as a young reporter and Sigourney Weaver as a British Embassy official who are working in Indonesia during dangerous political times. Both are befriended by a diminutive local photographer named Billy Kwan, played by which actor, who won an Academy Award for their performance?
2. "12 Years a Slave" (2013) is adapted from the memoir of a black man who was free, but then was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. Which actor earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for playing the lead role?
3. "One Million Years B.C." (1966) is a fantasy movie depicting a fictional time when cavemen and dinosaurs coexisted. It stars which fur bikini-clad actress, who plays Loana of the Shell Tribe?
4. "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005) stars Steve Carell in the lead role. Carell co-wrote the movie with which person, who had his directorial debut with the movie and also helped produce the movie after having worked with Carell as the producer on "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004)?
5. "My Favorite Year" (1982) is a delightful comedy about a young television writer in the 1950s who meets his idol Alan Swann, an actor known for playing swashbuckling movie characters. Which actor, who earned one of his eight Oscar nominations for Best Actor for his performance in the film, starred as Alan Swann?
6. "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) is a romantic comedy from director Billy Wilder. It includes one of the most iconic film images of the twentieth century when which starring actress, who is standing on a subway grate, has her dress blown upward by a passing underground train?
7. Another "Seven Year" film is "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997). It is a biographical war drama based on the memoir of an Austrian mountaineer who is in India when World War II begins and is imprisoned but escapes into a new life. Which actor, who also starred in "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) and "Legends of the Fall" (1994), played the lead role in the film?
8. "Life in a Year" (2020) concerns a young man whose father has aspirations of him going to Harvard but he falls in love with a girl who, he later finds out, has terminal cancer. Which actor is the star of the movie and is the son of a famous actor, having appeared with his father in several prior films?
9. "Man of the Year" (2006) is political satire film in which a political-comedy television show host runs for president. The lead role is played by which deceased comic/actor?
10. "Leap Year" (2010) is a romantic comedy about a woman planning to take advantage of an Irish tradition which says that a woman may ask a man to marry her on Leap Day. The film stars which actress, who won consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for her performances in "American Hustle" (2013) and "Big Eyes" (2014)?
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