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Quiz about The Artist

The Artist Trivia Quiz


The Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards for 2011 went to "The Artist". This quiz looks (mostly) at some of the talking points surrounding the movie and awards information, rather than the plot.

A multiple-choice quiz by darksplash. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
darksplash
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
383,299
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
1341
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. The 2011 Best Picture award at the Academy Awards was won by "The Artist". It was a homage to a particular style of movie from a bygone time. Which of these was it? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "The Artist" (2011) won an Academy Award for Best Picture. In terms of technology, what was noteworthy about the movie? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. When "The Artist" won multi-Academy Awards for 2011, it was the first movie from a particular country to win Best Picture. Which of these was it? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. If you were watching closely you may have noticed that "The Artist", the Best Picture at the 2011 Academy Awards, showed a famous Los Angeles feature in its original glory and not as it is seen today. Which was it? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. As well as winning a number of Academy Awards, the 2011 movie "The Artist" also won the Palme d'Or, the highest award at one international film festival. Which of these was it? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The 2011 Best Picture Oscar went to "The Artist", a European movie. Which language was spoken by the actors throughout the movie Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Although it charmed the critics and won awards worldwide, the 2011 movie "The Artist" attracted the ire of a Hollywood star who condemned it for using music from Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film "Vertigo". Which star of that film said it was "morally wrong" for that piece of music to have been borrowed? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The 2011 multi-Oscar winner "The Artist" was a film showing the making of a film. Every movie needs a producer and the on-screen film company boss and producer was an actor who won awards for playing a sit-com husband to a larger-than-life wife for nine years and chalked up numerous nominations for big screen performances. Who was he? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The 2011 movie "The Artist" was nominated for 185 awards worldwide and won 94. One award went to an animal star called Uggie. What kind of animal was Uggie? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Among many quirks in its production, the 2011 multi-Oscar winner "The Artist" did not feature any zoom shots. Why not? Hint



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1. The 2011 Best Picture award at the Academy Awards was won by "The Artist". It was a homage to a particular style of movie from a bygone time. Which of these was it?

Answer: The golden era of silent movies

"The Artist" tells the story of George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a swashbuckling silent movie star whose career plummets with the advent of sound.

When told there will be no more movies for him, he makes his own, but it flops and he is financially ruined. In the meantime, he meets a rising star of the new talkies, Peppy Miller, (Berenice Bejo.)

He almost dies in a fire at his home and Peppy visits him in hospital. She insists that he gets a part in her next movie, with him starring as a dancer in a musical.
2. "The Artist" (2011) won an Academy Award for Best Picture. In terms of technology, what was noteworthy about the movie?

Answer: It was shown in black and white

The film was shot in colour and then converted to black and white. It was also the first movie shot in 4:3 aspect to win Best Picture in more than 50 years. (In case you are wondering, the last one before that was "From Here To Eternity" in 1953.)
3. When "The Artist" won multi-Academy Awards for 2011, it was the first movie from a particular country to win Best Picture. Which of these was it?

Answer: France

"The Artist" was only the 12th movie exclusively financed outside the United States to win Best Picture. The previous 11 were financed wholly or partly in the United Kingdom.
4. If you were watching closely you may have noticed that "The Artist", the Best Picture at the 2011 Academy Awards, showed a famous Los Angeles feature in its original glory and not as it is seen today. Which was it?

Answer: The 'Hollywood' sign

If you look at it now you will see a sign saying "Hollywood", but when constructed in 1923, it said "Hollywoodland". It was meant to advertise a new housing suburb.

In subsequent years it endured damage by storm and automobile accident. In 1949 the Los Angeles Parks Department took over maintenance, but at the stipulation of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the "land' suffix was removed, leaving just "Hollywood".

Special effects were used to add it back into "The Artist", since it was set pre-1930. By the way, if you spotted any of the wrong answers in the movie, they would be bloopers. None of the wrong answers existed before 1930.
5. As well as winning a number of Academy Awards, the 2011 movie "The Artist" also won the Palme d'Or, the highest award at one international film festival. Which of these was it?

Answer: Cannes Film Festival

The movie won three awards in all at Cannes: the Palme d'Or; Best Actor; and Palm Dog Award (for best canine performance).
6. The 2011 Best Picture Oscar went to "The Artist", a European movie. Which language was spoken by the actors throughout the movie

Answer: It was a predominantly silent movie

What a crazy notion: not only shoot a black and white movie, but a silent one - in 2011!

"When I first told people about my idea for this movie, they just laughed at me. Friends, actors, producers - they all laughed," director Michel Hazanavicius told 'The Guardian' newspaper.

There are some lines of dialogue, in English, near the end, and also sound effects including traffic noise, a telephone ringing, a dog barking and passers-by laughing in the street.
7. Although it charmed the critics and won awards worldwide, the 2011 movie "The Artist" attracted the ire of a Hollywood star who condemned it for using music from Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film "Vertigo". Which star of that film said it was "morally wrong" for that piece of music to have been borrowed?

Answer: Kim Novak

Novak's condemnation was, in fact, expressed in much stronger language than used here. In its closing scenes, the originally-composed score was replaced by a 1992 recording of Elmer Bernstein conducting an orchestral performance of the Bernard Herrmann composition 'Scene d'Amour'.

The director, Michel Hazanavicius, was bemused. He pointed out that "The Artist" was a homage to all that was good about the Hollywood glory years, including the movies of Hitchcock. He told CNN: "I used music from another movie, but it's not illegal. We paid for that, we asked for that and we had the permission to do it. For me there is no real controversy... I feel sorry for her, but there's a lot of movies with music from other movies, directors do that all the time and I'm not sure it's a big deal."
8. The 2011 multi-Oscar winner "The Artist" was a film showing the making of a film. Every movie needs a producer and the on-screen film company boss and producer was an actor who won awards for playing a sit-com husband to a larger-than-life wife for nine years and chalked up numerous nominations for big screen performances. Who was he?

Answer: John Goodman

John Goodman was Dan Conner, husband to Roseanne in the TV series of the same name. She was played by Roseanne Barr. It earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1993. He had numerous movie roles as well and racked up several nominations.

In "The Artist" he plays Al Zimmer, a demanding producer. In one of the few dialogue exchanges in the movie, he declares a dance scene in a film "perfect" - then calls on the dancers to do it again.
9. The 2011 movie "The Artist" was nominated for 185 awards worldwide and won 94. One award went to an animal star called Uggie. What kind of animal was Uggie?

Answer: Dog

Among that plethora of awards and nominations, "The Artist" was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Jean Dujardin, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.

Uggie was a Jack Russell terrier and won the Palm Dog Award (for best canine performance) at the Cannes Film Festival.

He was a seasoned performer, with at least three other big movies under his collar before "The Artist".
10. Among many quirks in its production, the 2011 multi-Oscar winner "The Artist" did not feature any zoom shots. Why not?

Answer: It reflected pre-1930 movies in which zoom lenses were not commonly used.

Although zoom lens technology was known about in 1902, in Hollywood the first use was in "It", starring Clara Bow, in 1927. It was not until 1932 that the Bell and Howell Cooke "Varo" 40-120 mm lens became the first zoom lens regularly used in Hollywood.
Source: Author darksplash

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