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Questions
- Who directed the 1956 film, The Ten Commandments?
- Clint Eastwood has directed over 30 films but which was his first?
- 'Boy on the Bike' was one of five Hovis adverts in the early 70s directed by which film director?
- Who directed the John Travolta film Staying Alive in 1983?
- Lionel Jeffries directed which 1970 British film?
- Jonathan Demme won an Academy Award for which 1991 film?
- Which 1980 American drama film was Robert Redford's directorial debut?
- Which 1997 drama film portraying a family in South East London was Gary Oldman's debut as a director?
- In 1981, who was nominated both for both worst and best director awards for The Shining?
- Who directed the 2007 American crime thriller Gone Baby Gone?
- Burt Reynolds made his directorial debut in 1976 with which sequel to White Lightning?
- Who directed the film The African Queen?
- Who directed the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia?
- English film director Gerald Thomas is best known for which series of films?
- Who directed tar Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Three Men and a Baby?
- Who became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director?
- Quentin Tarantino made his directing debut with which 1992 film?
- Which Italian film director was regarded as the pioneer of the Spaghetti Western genre?
- Who directed the Death Wish movies?
- Who directed box office hits such as Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible?
- Which film-maker and director also won the Turner Prize in 1999 for his video based on a Buster Keaton film?
- Who directed the 2017 film Dunkirk and the 2023 film Oppenheimer?
Answers
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Play Misty for Me
- Ridley Scott
- Sylvester stallone
- The Railway Children
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Ordinary People
- Nil by Mouth
- Stanley Kubrick
- Ben Affleck
- Gator
- John Huston
- David Lean
- Carry On films
- Leonard Nimoy
- Kathryn Bigelow (for The Hurt Locker)
- Reservoir Dogs
- Sergio Leone
- Michael Winner
- Brian De Palma
- Steve McQueen
- Christopher Nolan