Film Jeopardy

Directors

100

This director is known for his dark visual style influenced by German Expressionism

Tim Burton

200

Steven Spielberg's movies include Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and this 1975 hit about a killer shark

Jaws

300

Movies by this director of Titanic and Avatar have made more than $10 billion at the box office

James Cameron

400

Ryan Coogler broke the record for most Oscar nominations with this 2025 horror film

Sinners

500

Damien Chazelle became the youngest director to win an Oscar for this 2016 musical rom-com starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone

La La Land

Hollywood History

100

This 1952 movie musical is about the transition from silent films to talkies

Singin' in the Rain

200

This set of rules in effect from 1934 to 1968 spelled out what content movies could and couldn't show

Hays Code

300

This era of Hollywood between the 1930s and 1960s gave rise to the studio system

Golden Age

400

These awards for achievement in film were first given out in 1929

Oscars/Academy Awards

500

1927's The Jazz Singer ushered in the use of this

Sound

Genres

100

This genre may be observational or participatory

Documentary

200

Main trops of this genre are isolation, an unreliable narrator, and unseen villains 

Psychological horror

300

The word genre comes from the French word for this

Kind/sort/class/style

400

Sunset Blvd. is an example of this genre, known for the femme fatale character type and moody instrumental music

Film noir

500

The Great Train Robbery is considered the first in this genre

Western

Movie Trivia

100

This was the first full-length animated movie ever released

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

200

It's the name of Riley’s imaginary friend in Inside Out

Bing Bong

300

In Star Wars, Luke’s home planet of Tatooine has this many suns 

Two

400

The Shape of Water and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are the only fantasy movies to win an Oscar in this category

Best Picture

500

Sir Ian McKellen is the only actor to be nominated for acting in this movie franchise

Lord of the Rings

Vocab

100

This is the overall effect of a movie's visual elements

Mise-en-scene

200

This is the term for a movie's camera work

Cinematography

300

Any sound that is part of the world of the movie is called this

Diegetic

400

Traditional hand-drawn animation is called this, referring to the see-through sheets animators draw on

Cel

500

An animation technique in which live-action footage is traced frame by frame by animators

Rotoscoping