Minute A Day About Movies

Final Friday Five, the monthly mini-quiz
Quiz No. 16 | April 29, 2011

The Quiz
The Answers (highlighted below)

1.  Sidney Lumet is one of the quintessential New York directors.  All but one of his films below are primarily set in the New York metropolitan area.  Which one is not?

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Garbo Talks (1984)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) — Set in England, France, Turkey, and aboard the Orient Express
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
The Pawnbroker (1964)
Prince of the City (1981)
Q&A (1990)
Serpico (1973)
That Kind of Woman (1959)
12 Angry Men (1957)

2.  Each of these nine films directed by Lumet received multiple nominations for Academy Awards.  Which received the most Oscar nods?

12 Angry Men (1957) — 3 nominations
Serpico (1973) — 2
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) — 6
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) — 6
Network (1976) — 10
Equus (1977) — 3
The Wiz (1978) — 4
The Verdict (1982) — 5
Running on Empty (1988) — 2

3.  Six Oscars have been awarded for work in films directed by Lumet, four for acting and two for writing.  Pick the Academy Award winners from the list below.

Lauren Bacall (Best Supporting Actress), Murder on the Orient Express
Ingrid Bergman (Best Supporting Actress), Murder on the Orient Express
John Cazale (Best Supporting Actor), Dog Day Afternoon
Paddy Chayefsky (Original Screenplay), Network
Faye Dunaway (Best Actress), Network
Peter Finch (Best Actor), Network
Kelly Masterson (Original Screenplay), Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Paul Newman (Best Actor), The Verdict
Al Pacino (Best Actor), Serpico
Frank Pierson (Original Screenplay), Dog Day Afternoon
Beatrice Straight (Best Supporting Actress), Network
William Holden (Best Supporting Actor), Network

4.  Lumet directed several films adapted from plays.  Match the Lumet film with the playwright.

The Fugitive Kind (1959) — Tennessee Williams [Williams co-wrote the screenplay, adapting his 1957 play Orpheus Descending, not his 1937 play Fugitive Kind]
A View from the Bridge (1961) — Arthur Miller
Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962) — Eugene O’Neill
The Sea Gull (1968) — Anton Chekhov
Child’s Play (1972) — Robert Marasco
Equus (1977) — Peter Shaffer
Deathtrap (1982) — Ira Levin

5.  Each of the actors below starred in multiple films directed by Lumet.  Which one appeared in more Lumet films than any of the others (excluding documentaries and television work)?

Martin Balsam (3)
Sean Connery (5) — The Hill (1965), The Anderson Tapes (1971), The Offence (1972), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Family Business (1989)
Albert Finney (2)
Henry Fonda (3)
James Mason (4)
Anthony Perkins (2)