Director Cameos
This director appears in one scene of his 1970s classic, to slice open the hero's nose with a knife.
Roman Polanski
A 1958 nature documentary gave rise to what popular myth?
Lemming mass suicide
This film is Pixar's only financial disappointment
The Good Dinosaur
This is the popular go-to pseudonym used by many directors who want to disown their films.
Alan Smithee
The 1997 film A Thousand Acres, based on a Jane Smiley novel, is which Shakespeare play set on an Iowa farm?
King Lear
This director only made one cameo in his films, as an alien playwright named Baron Papanoida in the last film he directed.
George Lucas
Werner Herzog made the documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and later adapted it into what fictionalized war movie?
Rescue Dawn
This film, Jack Nicholson's last, failed to make even half its $120 million budget.
How Do You Know
Joseph Nichols, a 2000s blockbuster director so afraid of flying he dropped out of directing a Superman movie, is better known by what shorter name?
McG
Falstaff
This director's hands are used instead of the lead actor's in a famous scene in his movie where the lead man draws a portrait of the lead lady. Name the director and the movie.
James Cameron in Titanic
MONTAGE OF HECK is a documentary made from home movie footage of what famous rock star?
Kurt Cobain
When this film made $3.5 million on a $40 million budget, it lead to the death of its studio and the end of the New Hollywood era.
Heaven's Gate
For the US release of his first major film, this director was credited as "Bob Robertson" to hide his real nationality.
Sergio Leone
The Disney Channel Original Movie MOTOCROSSED is which Shakespeare play set in the world of teen off-road motorcycle racing?
Twelfth Night
This director appears as himself in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, in a scene where he and Alvin discuss his famous NC-17 exploitation film, which Alvin has canonically seen.
An Oscar-winning documentary portrays a coal mining strike in this titular Kentucky location
Harlan County, U.S.A.
This film, which grossed $22 million with an $80 million budget, is the only adaptation of a work by the only American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in the last 30 years.
Beloved
This director who edits his own films is credited as editor as "Mary Ann Bernard" because he doesn't like to see his name twice in the credits.
Stephen Soderbergh
In Troma's TROMEO AND JULIET, what famous rock frontman played the narrator/chorus?
Lemmy from Motorhead
Of his 54 major movies, how many did Alfred Hitchcock cameo in?
40
Name the only two documentaries ever nominated for the Best Editing Oscar. One about music, one about sports.
Woodstock (1970) and Hoop Dreams (1994)
The author of the novel that was made into the 3rd highest grossing film of the 1990s also wrote two novels that were adapted into these two movies, which both lost at least 60 million dollars and were two of the biggest bombs of the decade. Name both.
The 13th Warrior and Sphere
Oscar-nominated film editor Roderick Jaynes doesn't exist, but is a fake name used by these two directors for editing credits.
The Coen Bros.
Kenneth Branagh's next film after HAMLET was this Shakespeare adaptation, done as a Hollywood musical.
Love's Labour's Lost