Film History of Kevin Costner Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Big Chill

Costner indeed appeared in 'Testament', 'Table for Five' and 'Night Shift' (1982), all bit parts. He was set to appear as a dead guy in 'The Big Chill', the 1983 ode to baby boomers everywhere, but his scenes were later cut by director Lawrence Kasdan. Kasdan would later make up for this.

Answer: Dennis Quaid

Danny Glover appeared as Mal Johnson, Kevin Kline as Paden, and Scott Glenn as Emmett, Jake's brother. The film also featured the acting talents of John Cleese, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Dennehy, Linda Hunt and Rosanna Arquette. It seems that Lawrence Kasdan included Costner as a 'make up' for editing him out of 'The Big Chill'. He can't have been disappointed.

Answer: Eliot Ness

In 1987's 'The Untouchables', Costner takes on the Chicago mobs, led by Al Capone (played memorably by Robert De Niro). Costner gets added help from Sean Connery, who plays his assistant Jim Malone, and Andy Garcia, who portrays Agent George Stone (aka Giuseppe Petri). This was really one of Costner's best pieces of work, I thought.

Answer: Tin Cup

Costner is a big baseball fan, even appearing as the announcer of Major League Baseball's All-Century Team in 1999 during the All-Star game in Boston. 'Tin Cup' was a movie centered around golf...a less exciting sport, in my opinion.

Answer: That Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

In the 1991 film 'JFK', directed by Oliver Stone, Costner plays Jim Garrison, a prosecutor who attempts to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone!

Answer: False

Costner did win two Oscars for 'Dances with Wolves', Best Director and Best Picture. He was nominated for Best Actor, but did not take home the award, which went to Jeremy Irons for his work in 'Reversal of Fortune'. Up to and including his work in 2004's 'Open Range', these were still Costner's only Oscar nominations.

Answer: The Bodyguard

Apparently, these two worked well together up until 'Waterworld'. 'Fandango' was an early Costner film, from 1985...their first collaboration. In 1991 they teamed up again for 'Robin Hood', a moderately interesting film. 'Waterworld', a 1995 film that lost a ton of money (it was the most expensive film ever produced prior to 'Titanic'), seemingly ended their collaboration together. Apparently Reynolds walked off the set of the film a couple weeks prior to the ending of production and Costner was forced to finish directing it. Costner was not officially credited with its direction.

Answer: Neither of these

In the Oliver Stone film 'JFK', as already mentioned, Costner plays a lawyer named Garrison. In 'Thirteen Days', Costner plays an advisor to President Kennedy named Kenny O'Donnell.

Answer: True

Indeed, Costner filled all of these rolls for 'The Postman', another film that performed not so stunningly at the box office. In 'The Postman', Costner's character was simply called 'The Postman', while in 'Waterworld', he was credited as 'Mariner'. Maybe the lesson for these two films is that Costner's characters need actual names?

Answer: Robert Duvall

This is really a terrific western, one of Costner's best films, and actually one of his best acting performances as well! Duvall should have been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance, and I also believe Annette Bening, who plays Costner's love interest Sue Barlow, should have gotten a supporting actress nod. Regardless...let's hope Costner keeps churning out the excellent work. Thanks for playing this quiz, I hope you enjoyed it and will try some of my other stuff.