Minute A Day About Movies

Final Friday Five, the monthly mini-quiz
Quiz No. 13 | January 28, 2011

The Quiz
The Answers (highlighted below)

1.  The name Sundance comes from Robert Redford’s character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.  What was the real name of the outlaw known as the Sundance Kid?

Henry Brubaker (Redford’s character in Brubaker)
Hubbell Gardiner (Redford’s character in The Way We Were)
Johnny Hooker (Redford’s character in The Sting)
Harry Longabaugh
Robert LeRoy Parker (birth name of Butch Cassidy, played onscreen by Paul Newman)

2.  Aside from documentary and short films, a couple of movies have won awards both at Sundance and on Oscar night.  The first was Hustle & Flow, which in 2005 won twice at the film festival (audience and cinematography awards) before winning an Oscar for original song (“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”).  What other film was a dual winner?

Precious, winner of three Sundance awards (Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, Special Jury Prize for Acting for Mo’Nique) and two Oscars (Mo’Nique for Best Supporting Actress, Geoffrey Fletcher for Adapted Screenplay).

3.  Several documentary films have won both Sundance and Academy Awards.  Which of the following did not win both?

The Times of Harvey Milk
American Dream
Crumb (Crumb won best documentary at Sundance in 1995 but failed to win an Oscar nomination.  The snubs of Crumb and Hoop Dreams in the same year created an outcry that resulted in the Academy changing its awards process.)
When We Were Kings
Man on Wire
The Cove

4.  Jeff Bridges earned a Best Actor nomination this week for his performance as Rooster Cogburn in the remake of True Grit.  John Wayne won his only Academy Award, as Best Actor, playing Cogburn in the original 1969 western.  Several times before, two actors earned Best Actor nominations for playing the same character in different films.  Name the two actors who played each character below.

Cyrano de Bergerac,  Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) — Jose Ferrer, Gerard Depardieu
Henry Higgins, Pygmalion (1938), My Fair Lady (1964) — Leslie Howard, Rex Harrison
Henry V, Henry V (1944), Henry V (1989) — Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh
Henry VIII, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Anne of the Thousand Years (1969) — Charles Laughton, Richard Burton *
Joe Pendleton, Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1978) — Robert Montgomery, Warren Beatty
Mr. Chips, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) — Robert Donat, Peter O’Toole
Norman Maine, A Star is Born (1937), A Star is Born (1954) — Fredric March, James Mason
Richard Nixon, Nixon (1995), Frost/Nixon (2008) — Anthony Hopkins, Frank Langella

* Robert Shaw was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the role of Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966).

5.  Only once has the same character been played by different actors in two Oscar-winning performances.  Name the role, the actors, and the films.

Vito Corleone, played by Best Actor Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972) and by Best Supporting Actor Robert De Niro in The Godfather, Part II (1974).