Cinema Flashcards
Raging Bull and Casino actor
Robert De Niro
Directed Postcards From the Edge
Mike Nichols
Best Picture 2013
12 Years a Slave
Best Picture 1968
Oliver
Directed Cape Fear
Martin Scorsese
Sally Field Best Actress film - 1979
Norma Rae
Silent screen swashbuckler
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Directed Persona
Ingmar Bergman
Charles Laughton Best Actor film - 1932-1933
Private Life of Henry VIII
The Great Gatsby and Hannah and Her Sisters actress
Mia Farrow
Directed M
Fritz Lange
Directed From Here to Eternity (Oscar)
Fred Zinnemann
Back to the Future and Doc Hollywood actor
Michael J. Fox
Best Picture 1967
In the Heat of the Night
Henry Fonda Best Actor film - 1981
On Golden Pond
Directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Oscar)
Milos Forman
Directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg
Oldest Best Actor winner
Henry Fonda (76 yrs)
Directed Dr. Zhivago
David Lean
Directed The Bridges of Madison County
Clint Eastwood
Jack Nicholson Best Actor film - 1997
As Good as it Gets
Directed The Natural
Barry Levinson
An American in Paris and Singin’ in the Rain actor
Gene Kelly
Directed Macbeth (1948)
Orson Welles
Directed Ben Hur (Oscar)
William Wyler
Directed Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock
Best Picture 1970
Patton
Pretty Woman and An Aemrican Gigolo actor
Richard Gere
Original Great Gatsby star
Alan Ladd
Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator actor
Arnold Schwarzenneger
Martin Landau Best Supporting Actor film - 1994
Ed Wood
Directed Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock
Night of the Iguana and Where Eagles Dare actor
Richard Burton
Directed Scream I - II
John Carpenter
Directed Life is Beautiful (Oscar)
Roberto Benigni
Gwyneth Paltrow Best Actress film - 1998
Shakespeare in Love
Actress with longest film career
Lillian Gish (75 years)
Helen Hunt Best Actress film - 1997
As Good as it Gets
Striptease and Ghost actress
Demi Moore
Meryl Streep Best Actress film - 1982
Sophie’s Choice
Mask and The Witches of Eastwick actress
Cher
Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind actor
Richard Dreyfuss
Directed All That Jazz
Bob Fosse
Directed Prizzi’s Honor
John Huston
Best Picture 1997
Titanic
Directed Short Cuts
Robert Altman
The Misfits and Some Like it Hot actress
Marilyn Monroe
Fort Apache and The Grapes of Wrath actor
Henry Fonda
Directed Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Oscar)
Frank Capra
Directed Annie Hall (Oscar)
Woody Allen
Directed Peggy Sue Got Married
Francis Ford Coppola
Directed Cabaret (Oscar)
Bob Fosse
Directed Guys and Dolls
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Best Picture 1963
Tom Jones
King’s Row and Bedtime for Bonzo actor
Ronald Reagan
Directed The Godfather I - II & III (Oscar - II)
Francis Ford Coppola
Best Picture 1982
Gandhi
Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias actress
Shirley MacLaine
Primary Colors and Dolores Claiborne actress
Kathy Bates
Al Pacino Best Actor film - 1992
Scent of a Woman
Twister and As Good as it Gets actress
Helen Hunt
Directed The Wild Bunch
Sam Peckinpah
Best Picture 1991
Silence of the Lambs
Directed 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
Best Picture 1971
The French Connection
Directed The Grapes of Wrath (Oscar)
John Ford
Directed Tom Jones (Oscar)
Tom Richardson
Russel Crowe Best Actor film - 2000
The Gladiator
Glenda Jackson Best Actress film - 1973
A Touch of Class
Fritz Lang’s 1926 silent masterpiece
Metropolis
Directed Gone With the Wind (Oscar)
Victor Fleming
Directed An American in Paris
Vincent Minnelli
Directed The French Connection (Oscar)
William Friedkin
Best Picture 2006
The Departed
Same Time Next Year and Catch 22 actor
Alan Alda
Best Picture 1952
The Greatest Show on Earth
Best Picture 2007
No Country For Old Men
Jaws and All that Jazz actor
Roy Scheider
Sissy Spacek Best Actress film - 1980
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Doctor Zhivago and Star Wars actor
Alec Guinness
Directed Unforgiven (Oscar)
Clint Eastwood
Best Picture 1929-1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
Directed Nightmare on Elm Street I - II - III
Wes Craven
Directed Gandhi (Oscar)
Richard Attenborough
Victor McLaglen Best Actor film - 1935
The Informer
Directed Ordinary People (Oscar)
Robert Redford
Directed The Ten Commandments
Cecil B. DeMille
Best Picture 2001
A Beautiful Mind
Directed A Man for all Seasons (Oscar)
Fred Zinnemann
Three films to win top five Oscars
It Happened One Night; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; The Silence of the Lambs
Gigi and An American in Paris actress
Leslie Caron
Directed North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock
Tom Hanks Best Actor film - 1994
Forrest Gump
Best Picture 1981
Chariots of Fire
Directed Amadeus (Oscar)
Milos Forman
He played Don Juan in 1926
John Barrymore
Oldest Best Actress Winner
Jessica Tandy (80 yrs)
Mary Poppins and Victor/Victoria actress
Julie Andrews
Roberto Benigni Best Actor film - 1998
Life is Beautiful
Prince of Tides and Yentl actress
Barbara Streisand
Directed The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin
Richard Dreyfuss Best Actor film - 1977
The Goodbye Girl
Directed Cacoon
Ron Howard
Paul Muni Best Actor film - 1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Wall Street and Hot Shots Part Deux actor
Charlie Sheen
Best Picture 2009
The Hurt Locker
First wide screen movie - 1953
The Robe
Directed Spartacus
Stanley Kubrick
Best Picture 1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
Directed City Lights
Charlie Chaplin
The Mask and The Grinch actor
Jim Carrey
Best Picture 1964
My Fair Lady
Emma Thompson Best Actress film - 1992
Howard’s End
Best Picture 1950
All About Eve
Directed Gaslight
George Cukor
Directed Funny Girl
William Wyler
Snake Eyes and Forrest Gump actor
Gary Sinise
Directed The Maltese Falcon
John Huston
Directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola
Sister Act and The Color Purple actress
Whoopi Goldberg
Sally Field Best Actress film - 1984
Places in the Heart
Directed Rosemary’s Baby
Roman Polanski
Directed Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton
Best Picture 1969
Midnight Cowboy
Best Picture 1966
A Man for All Seasons
Directed It’s a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
Best Picture 2005
Crash
Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society actor
Robin Williams
Directed Wuthering Heights
William Wyler
Lou Gossett Jr. Best Supporting Actor film - 1982
An Officer and a Gentleman
Directed Tootsie
Sidney Pollack
Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally actress
Meg Ryan
Best Picture 1938
You Can’t Take it With You
Directed Gentlemen’s Agreement (Oscar)
Elia Kazan
Accidental Tourist and Thelma and Louise actress
Geena Davis
Manhattan and Annie Hall actress
Diane Keaton
Best Picture 2011
The Artist
Directed In the Heat of the Night
Norman Jewison
Directed It Happened One Night (Oscar)
Frank Capra
Best Picture 2002
Chicago
Directed The Greatest Show on Earth
Cecil B. DeMille
Directed Rocky (Oscar)
John Avildsen
Directed The Day of the Jackal
Fred Zinnemann
Directed Casablanca (Oscar)
Michael Curtez
Directed The Temptation of Christ
Martin Scorsese
Jewell of the Nile and Twins actor
Danny DeVito
Directed Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
Most nominated films to receive no oscars (11)
The Turning Point;The Color Purple
Directed The Untouchables
Brian De Palma
Othello and What’s Love Got to do With It actor
Laurence Fishburne
Directed Slaughterhouse Five
George Roy Hill
Rocky and The Clash of the Titans actor
Burgess Meredith
Directed Reds
Warren Beatty
Directed Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Mike Nichols
Directed The Player
Robert Altman
Directed Midnight Express
Alan Parker
Ben Kingsley Best Actor film - 1982
Gandhi
Olivia de Havilland Best Actress film - 1946
To Each His Own
Directed Braveheart (Oscar)
Mel Gibson
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Godzilla actor
Matthew Broderick
Malcom X and Glory actor
Denzel Washington
Susan Sarandon Best Actress film - 1995
Dead Man Walking
The World of Susie Wong and Stalag 17 actor
William Holden
Directed Bullets Over Broadway
Woody Allen
Directed Rain Man (Oscar)
Barry Levinson
Directed The Lost Weekend (Oscar)
Billy Wilder
Juliette Binoche Best Supporting Actress film - 1996
The English Patient
Jack Palance Best Supporting Actor film - 1991
City Slickers
Directed The Shining
Stanley Kubrick
Lorenzo’s Oil and 48 Hours actor
Nick Nolte
Olympic swimmers who played Tarzan
Buster Crabbe & Johnny Weissmuller
Directed In the Line of Fire
Wolfgang Peterson
Fatal Attraction and Hamlet actress
Glenn Close
Directed English Patient (Oscar)
Anthony Mingella
He played “The Sheik”
Rudolph Valentino
Directed Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Oscar)
John Huston
Fried Green Tomatoes and Cacoon actress
Jessica Tandy
Prizzi’s Honor and Peggy Sue Got Married actress
Kathleen Turner
F. Murray Abraham Best Actor film - 1984
Amadeus
Best Picture 1990
Dances With Wolves
Directed Sleeper
Woody Allen
Directed Good Morning Vietnam
Barry Levinson
Dirty Dancing and Ghost actor
Patrick Swayze
Best Picture 1996
The English Patient
Directed La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini
Star Wars and Shampoo actress
Carrie Fisher
Best Picture 1941
How Green Was My Valley
Ellen Burstyn Best Actress film - 1974
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Pretty Woman and The Pelican Brief actress
Julia Roberts
Marissa Tomei Best Supporting Actress film 1992
My Cousin Vinny
Directed The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles
Peter Finch Best Actor film - 1976
Network (Posthumous award)
Directed The Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming
Directed High Noon
Fred Zinnemann
Best Picture 1974
The Godfather II
Best Picture 1956
Around the World in 80 Days
Best Picture 1961
West Side Story
Aliens and Gorillas in the Mist actress
Sigourney Weaver
Directed Strangers on a Train
Alfred Hitchcock
Directed All About Eve (Oscar)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz