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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.

Author
methreepio

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
41,381

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
20

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12 / 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

Holly Hunter

Tom Cruise

Frances McDormand

John Hurt

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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

Shirley MacLaine

Walter Matthau

Jack Lemmon

Anne Bancroft

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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

Cher

Morgan Freeman

Denzel Washington

Brad Pitt

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

Katharine Hepburn

Humphrey Bogart

Joan Crawford

Bette Davis

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Question 5 of 20

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

Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks. Hint

Madeline Kahn

Teri Garr

Gene Wilder

Cloris Leachman

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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

Dianne Wiest

Martin Landau

Johnny Depp

Winona Ryder

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Question 7 of 20

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

Mike Nichols, Frank Oz. Hint

Kevin Kline

Melanie Griffith

Joan Cusack

Steve Martin

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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

Jane Fonda

Faye Dunaway

Sidney Poitier

Meryl Streep

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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

John Wayne

Henry Fonda

Katharine Hepburn

Debbie Reynolds

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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

Susan Sarandon

Tim Robbins

Sean Penn

Michelle Pfeiffer

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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

Meryl Streep

Sissy Spacek

Jeff Bridges

Christopher Walken

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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

Ingrid Bergman

Elizabeth Taylor

Peter Lorre

Humphrey Bogart

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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

Dianne Wiest

Martin Landau

Diane Keaton

Mia Farrow

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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

Lee Grant

Jack Lemmon

Walter Matthau

Lee Remick

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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

Barbara Stanwyck

Katharine Hepburn

James Stewart

Cary Grant

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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

Julie Andrews

Elizabeth Taylor

Shirely MacLaine

Audrey Hepburn

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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

Faye Dunaway

Warren Beatty

Annette Bening

Dustin Hoffman

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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

Shelley Winters

Frank Sinatra

James Stewart

Sidney Poitier

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Question 19 of 20

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

Jonathan Lynn. Hint

Diane Lane

Veronica Lake

Marisa Tomei

Mia Farrow

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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

Dustin Hoffman

Meryl Streep

Gene Hackman

Jessica Lange

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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).

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