Ultimate 62-Question Hollywood Movie Trivia Quiz: Hard Mode for Cinephiles

Round 5: Modern Legends (Questions 52-62)

Which 2019 film was the first non-English language film to win Best Picture?
Who directed the “Dark Knight” trilogy?
Which 2014 film was shot over the course of 12 years with the same cast?
What is the highest-grossing film of all time (not adjusted for inflation)?
Which actress won an Oscar for her role in La La Land?
Who played the lead in the 2019 film Joker?
Which 2023 film became the highest-grossing biopic of all time?
Who directed the 2022 visual spectacle Avatar: The Way of Water?
Which 2021 film won Best Picture and was the first to star a predominantly deaf cast?
What is the name of the fictional kingdom in Black Panther?
Which director is known for the “unreliable narrator” in films like Fight Club and Gone Girl?

When Parasite (Q52) won Best Picture, it didn’t just break the “subtitle barrier.” It became the first film in history to win both the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Picture since Marty in 1955. It proved that a “local” story from South Korea could be the most universal story in the world.

The Master Answer Key

#	Answer	#	Answer
1	Kathryn Bigelow	32	The Exorcist
2	The Jazz Singer	33	Robert De Niro (Vito Corleone)
3	Lon Chaney	34	The Orca
4	Wings	35	Tron (or Raiders of the Lost Ark)
5	United Artists	36	Robert Towne
6	Nosferatu	37	Raging Bull
7	Al Jolson	38	Red Dawn
8	Becky Sharp (1935)	39	The Omen
9	Clara Bow	40	Distant Drums (1951)
10	1929	41	Alfred Hitchcock
11	Sherlock Jr.	42	The Blair Witch Project
12	D.W. Griffith	43	Walt Disney
13	Citizen Kane	44	Goodfellas (Copa Scene)
14	Peter Finch	45	A classroom at CalArts
15	The Wizard of Oz	46	Marlon Brando
16	Barbara Stanwyck	47	Midnight Cowboy
17	Alfred Hitchcock	48	Jurassic Park
18	Beauty and the Beast	49	Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
19	Daniel Day-Lewis	50	Toy Story
20	Rick’s Café Américain	51	Toy Story 2
21	Sunset Boulevard	52	Parasite
22	Audrey Hepburn	53	Christopher Nolan
23	Ben-Hur	54	Boyhood
24	Giant	55	Avatar
25	Sergio Leone	56	Emma Stone
26	Jaws	57	Joaquin Phoenix
27	No one (Sir Alec Guinness was nominated)	58	Oppenheimer
28	Bonnie and Clyde	59	James Cameron
29	Ridley Scott	60	CODA
30	Al Pacino	61	Wakanda
31	Westworld (1973)	62	David Fincher