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Audrey Hepburn's most famous film, its title about eating the first meal of the day at a famous jewelry store

What is Breakfast at Tiffany's?

100

Winner for Best Picture in 2008, Dev Patel stars as Jamal Malik in this film about a young boy who grows up in the slums of Mumbai

What is Slumdog Millionaire?

100

Arguably Hayao Miyazaki's most famous, this 2004 Japanese movie contains characters such as No-Face, Yubaba, and Haku

What is Spirited Away?

100

The professions of the two love-sick men in Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Chungking Express

What are police officers?

100

The crew member in charge of designing and decorating the sets during production

What is a production designer?

200

In Home Alone (1990), Kevin McCallister, played by this actor, is left home alone while burglars attempt to rob his house

Who is Macaulay Culkin?

200

Winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the 2016 film Fences, this actress is also known as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder

Who is Viola Davis?

200

This anime, accompanied by a collectible card game, became a huge hit in Japan in 1998

What is Yu-Gi-Oh?

200

Director of 30 films, including Yojimbo (1961) and Ran (1985)

Who is Akira Kurosawa?

200

This English cinematographer has been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, winning only two times for Best Cinematography 

Who is Roger Deakins?

300

The titular character of Stanley Kubrick's 1975 epic period drama about an Irish rogue and opportunist who marries a rich widow to climb up the social ladder

What is Barry Lyndon?

300

Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor in the 2019 film Joker, directed by this man, an NYU alum

Who is Todd Phillips? 

300

This is considered the first animated feature-length film

What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)?

300

This k-pop solo artist is also an actress in Korean dramas, including Hotel Del Luna, Persona, My Mister, and Dream High

Who is IU?

300

This role on set is in charge of generating call sheets, handling extras, and providing support to the 1st assistant director when possible

Who is the 2nd assistant director?

400

Premiering in 1999, this is the second longest-running prime time TV series in the U.S., starring Mariska Hargitay

What is Law & Order: SVU?

400

Winning Best Original Screenplay in 1974, this one-word title of a neo-noir mystery thriller is set in 1930s Los Angeles and stars Jack Nicholson 

What is Chinatown?

400

The song that Rapunzel & Flynn sing as they watch the lantern lights floating into the night sky in Tangled (2010)

What is I See The Light?

400

German filmmaker Werner Herzog's 1982 film about a man who wants to bring a massive boat over a mountain in order to build an opera house in his town

What is Fitzcarraldo?

400

Tisch alum and long-time collaborator with Quentin Tarantino, this editor passed away in 2010

Who is Sally Menke?

500

Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel by Alice Walker, this 1985 film tells an epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South

What is The Color Purple?

500

He is one of four people to have been nominated for an Oscar in six different categories, winning four, including Best Editing for Gravity (2013)

Who is Alfonso Cuarón?

500

Co-creator of the animated series Rick and Morty as well as the sit-com Community

Who is Dan Harmon?

500

Known for his four hour-long epic A Brighter Summer Day (1991) and Yi-Yi (2000), this filmmaker was a leading figure of the Taiwanese New Wave

Who is Edward Yang?

500

This German film score composer turned down composing for Christopher Nolan's Tenet to score Denis Villenueve's Dune, because he was a personal fan of the book

Who is Hans Zimmer?

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