EA 'Namesakes'
Barely Best Picture
Behind the Scenes
Based on a True Story
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
100

Overzealous and enthusiastic local government official known for her love of breakfast foods and Joe Biden.

Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)

100

A young man gets a cheap ticket to a luxurious cruise that doesn’t go quite how he expected.

Titanic

100

Known for his commitment to method acting, Christian Bale famously lost 63 pounds to play a malnourished factory worker before putting on 100 pounds for this role just a few months later.

Batman (Bruce Wayne) 

100

Cool Runnings is the true story of bobsled Olympians from this unlikely country


Jamaica

100

Kevin Bacon co-starred with this actor in Mystic River, who snagged the Oscar

Sean Penn

200

Noble from a wealthy family who’s most notably missing an appendage.

Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones) 

200

A family finds the house of their dreams but is dismayed when the current tenants don’t want to move out.

Parasite

200

This actor got his big break on the set of a legendary sci fi franchise by convincing the film’s director that he was better suited for a role than the actors that he himself was helping to audition.

Harrison Ford

200

This 2016 biopic follows the lives of 3 mathematicians during the American Space Races

Hidden Figures

200

Kevin Bacon is married to Kyra Sedgwick. She stars in Brooklyn 99 as Madeline Wuntch, the arch-nemesis of this character

Captain Raymond Hult

300

Youngest member of TV’s most famous animated family whose remained silent throughout the show’s three decade run.

Maggie Simpson (The Simpsons)

300

 A man succeeds in not blowing himself up, feels bad about it and decides to try again. 

The Hurt Locker

300

With a gross of almost three billion dollars, Avengers: Endgame is Marvel Studios’ most profitable movie, but actually cost less to produce than this Marvel film.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

300

The story of this woman follows her case against Pacific Gas and Electric, and their water contamination across southern California.

Erin Brockovich

300

Kevin Bacon’s independent drama Taking Chance was directed by Ross Katz. Ross worked on the set of Reservoir Dogs, directed by this man.

Quentin Tarantino

400

Foul mouthed amateur chemist from New Mexico.

Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

400

A man finally gets rid of a piece of jewelry he never wanted in the first place

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

400

This famous war film went so infamously over budget the film’s director wrote George Lucas to ask for money to finish the movie. Most notably, the crew spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to shoot a scene on a French plantation that never made the film’s final cut.

Apocalypse Now

400

Steven Spielberg’s landed his first Academy award directing this hero’s life in black and white, asides a girl in a red coat.

Oskar Schindler

400

Kevin Bacon acted alongside Meryl Streep in The River Wild. Meryl played Julia Child in Julie & Julia, co-starred by this actress as Julie

Amy Adams

500

Stern but compassionate head nurse of the Sacred Heart hospital.

Carla Espinosa (Scrubs)

500

A soft-spoken man wanders around the state in search of his missing briefcase.

No Country for Old Men

500

Production for David Fincher’s Gone Girl adaptation was reportedly shut down for four days over Ben Affleck’s anger over this wardrobe choice for his character.

A Yankees hat

500

Joaquin Phoenix portrayed a musical icon in this film, titled after one of his hits.

Walk the Line

500

Kevin Bacon had an affair with Steve Carrell’s wife in Crazy, Stupid Love. He voices the character Gru in Despicable Me, alongside Ken Jeong. Ken Jeong is the villain over students in Community. Community stars this famous rapper

Donald Glover / Childish Gambino

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