Nov 12, 2024
Oscar Quiz: Directors
My Oscar Book:
*Name the only person to win both the Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscars for two consecutive years:
J.L. Mankiewicz, Letter to Three Wives, 1949; All About Eve, 1950
*How many directors have won consecutive Oscars?
John Ford (1940, 1941)
Mankiewicz (1949, 1950)
Both directors won for movies made at Fox.
*How many French directors have been nominated for making French films:
Edourad Molinaro, La Cage Aux Folles
*Who was the first director to win Oscars for both writing and directing
Leo McCarey, Going My Way, 44
*Name the youngest person to be ever dominated for Best Directing Oscar?
Singleton, Boyz ‘N the Hood, 1991
Branagh, Henry IV, 1989
J. Sheridan, My Left Foot, 1989
*How many directors have won triple Oscars, for producing, directing, and writing the same film?
Leo McCarey, Going My Way
Billy Wilder, The Apartment (co-writer)
Peter Jackson, Lord of the Rings (co-writer)
Chris Nolan, Oppenheimer (won directing and producing, nominated for writing)
*Oldest Nominees
Agnes Varda was the oldest person to receive an Honorary Oscar Award, on November 11, 2017 for her contributions to cinema, making her the first female director to receive such an award. The prize was presented to her by Angelina Jolie at the ninth Governors Oscar ceremony.
Then, two months later, in Januarie 20187, she was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature for Faces Places, becoming the oldest nominated person at the show; Varda was 8 days older than fellow nominee James Ivory, who won Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Call Me by Your Name.
My Oscar Book:
