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Quiz about OscarNominated Performers by Director
Quiz about OscarNominated Performers by Director

Oscar-Nominated Performers by Director Quiz

I'll give you a series of directors, all of whom directed a particular actor or actress to an Academy Award nomination (and, in some cases, a win). You name the performer. For help, the directors (and thus, the nominations) are listed chronologically.

A multiple-choice quiz by methreepio. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
methreepio
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
41,381
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
20
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
12 / 20
Plays
1749
Last 3 plays: Guest 35 (13/20), DCW2 (20/20), Guest 207 (11/20).
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Question 1 of 20
1. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Alan Parker, Joel Coen, Cameron Crowe. Hint


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Question 2 of 20
2. Which actor/actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Vincente Minnelli, Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder, Herbert Ross, James L. Brooks. Hint


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Question 3 of 20
3. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Richard Attenborough, Edward Zwick, Spike Lee, Norman Jewison. Hint


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Question 4 of 20
4. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

John Cromwell, Alfred E. Green, William Wyler, Edmund Goulding, William Wyler, William Wyler, Irving Rapper, Vincent Sherman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Stuart Heisler, Robert Aldrich. Hint


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Question 5 of 20
5. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination?

Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks. Hint


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Question 6 of 20
6. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Tim Burton. Hint


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Question 7 of 20
7. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination?

Mike Nichols, Frank Oz. Hint


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Question 8 of 20
8. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Sydney Pollack, Alan J. Pakula, Fred Zinnemann, Hal Ashby, James Bridges, Mark Rydell, Sidney Lumet. Hint


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Question 9 of 20
9. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

John Ford, Mark Rydell. Hint


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Question 10 of 20
10. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Louis Malle, Ridley Scott, George Miller, Joel Schumacher, Tim Robbins. Hint


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Question 11 of 20
11. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination?

Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Cimino, John Carpenter, Rod Lurie. Hint


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Question 12 of 20
12. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Michael Curtiz, John Huston, Edward Dmytryk. Hint


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Question 13 of 20
13. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Woody Allen, Ron Howard, Woody Allen. Hint


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Question 14 of 20
14. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Ross. Hint


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Question 15 of 20
15. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Frank Capra, George Cukor, Frank Capra, Henry Koster, Otto Preminger. Hint


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Question 16 of 20
16. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Blake Edwards, Terence Young. Hint


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Question 17 of 20
17. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination?

Arthur Penn, Warren Beatty, Warren Beatty, Barry Levinson. Hint


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Question 18 of 20
18. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Stanley Kramer, Ralph Nelson. Hint


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Question 19 of 20
19. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination and win?

Jonathan Lynn. Hint


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Question 20 of 20
20. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win?

Mike Nichols, John Schlesinger, Bob Fosse, Robert Benton, Sydney Pollack, Barry Levinson, Barry Levinson. Hint



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1. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Alan Parker, Joel Coen, Cameron Crowe.

Answer: Frances McDormand

 Best Supporting Actress for 'Mississippi Burning' (Parker, 1988); Best Actress for 'Fargo' (Coen, 1996 - WIN); Best Supporting Actress for 'Almost Famous' (Crowe, 2000)
2. Which actor/actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Vincente Minnelli, Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder, Herbert Ross, James L. Brooks.

Answer: Shirley MacLaine

 Best Actress for 'Some Came Running' (Minnelli, 1958); 'The Apartment' (Wilder, 1960); 'Irma La Douce' (Wilder, 1963); 'The Turning Point' (Ross, 1977); 'Terms of Endearment' (Brooks, 1983 - WIN).
3. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Richard Attenborough, Edward Zwick, Spike Lee, Norman Jewison.

Answer: Denzel Washington

 Best Supporting Actor for 'Cry Freedom' (Attenborough, 1987); Best Supporting Actor for 'Glory' (Zwick, 1989 - WIN); Best Actor for 'Malcolm X' (Lee, 1992); Best Actor for 'The Hurricane' (Jewison, 1999).
4. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? John Cromwell, Alfred E. Green, William Wyler, Edmund Goulding, William Wyler, William Wyler, Irving Rapper, Vincent Sherman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Stuart Heisler, Robert Aldrich.

Answer: Bette Davis

 Best Actress for 'Of Human Bondage' (Cromwell, 1934); 'Dangerous' (Green, 1935 - WIN); 'Jezebel' (Wyler, 1938 - WIN); 'Dark Victory' (Goulding, 1939); 'The Letter' (Wyler, 1940); 'The Little Foxes' (Wyler, 1941); 'Now, Voyager' (Rapper, 1942); 'Mr. Skeffington' (Sherman, 1944); 'All About Eve' (Mankiewicz, 1950);} 'The Star' (Heisler, 1952); 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' (Aldrich, 1962).
5. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination? Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks.

Answer: Madeline Kahn

 Best Supporting Actress for 'Paper Moon' (Bogdanovich, 1973); 'Blazing Saddles' (Brooks, 1974).
6. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Tim Burton.

Answer: Martin Landau

 Best Supporting Actor for 'Tucker: The Man and His Dream' (Coppola, 1988); 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' (Allen, 1989); 'Ed Wood' (Burton, 1994 - WIN).
7. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination? Mike Nichols, Frank Oz.

Answer: Joan Cusack

 Best Supporting Actress for 'Working Girl' (Nichols, 1988); 'In and Out' (Oz, 1997).
8. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Sydney Pollack, Alan J. Pakula, Fred Zinnemann, Hal Ashby, James Bridges, Mark Rydell, Sidney Lumet.

Answer: Jane Fonda

 Best Actress for 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' (Pollack, 1969); Best Actress for 'Klute' (Pakula, 1971 - WIN); Best Actress for 'Julia' (Zinnemann, 1977); Best Actress for 'Coming Home' (Ashby, 1978 - WIN); Best Actress for 'The China Syndrome' (Bridges, 1979); Best Supporting Actress for 'On Golden Pond' (Rydell, 1981); Best Actress for 'The Morning After' (Lumet, 1986).
9. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? John Ford, Mark Rydell.

Answer: Henry Fonda

 Best Actor for 'The Grapes of Wrath' (Ford, 1940); 'On Golden Pond' (Rydell, 1981 - WIN).
10. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Louis Malle, Ridley Scott, George Miller, Joel Schumacher, Tim Robbins.

Answer: Susan Sarandon

 Best Actress for 'Atlantic City' (Malle, 1981); 'Thelma and Louise' (Scott, 1991); 'Lorenzo's Oil' (Miller, 1992); 'The Client' (Schumacher, 1994); 'Dead Man Walking' (Robbins, 1995).
11. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination? Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Cimino, John Carpenter, Rod Lurie.

Answer: Jeff Bridges

 Best Supporting Actor for 'The Last Picture Show' (Bogdanovich, 1971); Best Supporting Actor for 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' (Cimino, 1974); Best Actor for 'Starman' (Carpenter, 1984); Best Supporting Actor for 'The Contender' (Lurie, 2000).
12. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Michael Curtiz, John Huston, Edward Dmytryk.

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

 Best Actor for 'Casablanca' (Curtiz, 1942); 'The African Queen' (Huston, 1951 - WIN); 'The Caine Mutiny' (Dmytryk, 1954).
13. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Woody Allen, Ron Howard, Woody Allen.

Answer: Dianne Wiest

 Best Supporting Actress for 'Hannah and Her Sisters' (Allen, 1986 - WIN); 'Parenthood' (Howard, 1989); 'Bullets Over Broadway' (Allen, 1994 - WIN).
14. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Ross.

Answer: Walter Matthau

 Best Supporting Actor for 'The Fortune Cookie' (Wilder, 1966 - WIN); Best Actor for 'Kotch' (Lemmon, 1971); Best Actor for 'The Sunshine Boys' (Ross, 1975).
15. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Frank Capra, George Cukor, Frank Capra, Henry Koster, Otto Preminger.

Answer: James Stewart

 Best Actor for 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (Capra, 1939); 'The Philadelphia Story' (Cukor, 1940 - WIN); 'It's a Wonderful Life' (Capra, 1946); 'Harvey' (Koster, 1950); 'Anatomy of a Murder' (Preminger, 1959).
16. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Blake Edwards, Terence Young.

Answer: Audrey Hepburn

 Best Actress for 'Roman Holiday' (Wyler, 1953 - WIN); 'Sabrina' (Wilder, 1954); 'The Nun's Story' (Zinnemann, 1959); 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (Edwards, 1961); 'Wait Until Dark' (Young, 1967).
17. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination? Arthur Penn, Warren Beatty, Warren Beatty, Barry Levinson.

Answer: Warren Beatty

 Best Actor for 'Bonnie and Clyde' (Penn, 1967); 'Heaven Can Wait' (Beatty, 1978); 'Reds' (Beatty, 1981); 'Bugsy' (Levinson, 1991).
18. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Stanley Kramer, Ralph Nelson.

Answer: Sidney Poitier

 Best Actor for 'The Defiant Ones' (Kramer, 1958); 'Lilies of the Field' (Nelson, 1963 - WIN).
19. Which actress did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination and win? Jonathan Lynn.

Answer: Marisa Tomei

 Best Supporting Actress for 'My Cousin Vinny' (Launer, 1992 - WIN).
20. Which actor did these directors direct to an Oscar nomination/win? Mike Nichols, John Schlesinger, Bob Fosse, Robert Benton, Sydney Pollack, Barry Levinson, Barry Levinson.

Answer: Dustin Hoffman

 Best Actor for 'The Graduate' (Nichols, 1967); 'Midnight Cowboy' (Schlesinger, 1969); 'Lenny' (Bob Fosse, 1974); 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (Benton, 1979 - WIN); 'Tootsie' (Pollack, 1982); 'Rain Man' (Levinson, 1988 - WIN); 'Wag the Dog' (Levinson, 1997).
Source: Author methreepio

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