Rte Guide Movie Guide Christmas Quiz

[JohnC1]

6. Which big budget US action movie in 2023 featured four Oscar-winning actresses?

11.Which movie from the 1990's stars Jamie Lee Curtis, but could have starred Derek Zoolander?

15. In which 2023 movie did the director of The Elephant Man play the director of the Quiet Man?

16. Photo of legendary actress behind the eyes?

17. Which film-making duo have been nominated fourteen times for an Oscar, winning four?

24. Burt Lancaster and Newcastle Utd FC are linked by which movie?

26. Only two movie sequels have won the Best Picture Oscar. Name them.

Any help appreciated.

 

[TheWinner]

24. local hero ?

[ubasses]

6 Fast X

[Hazlinny]

26 The Godfather Part 2  ....  Lord of th Rings: Return of the King

[ubasses]

11 Blue Steel

[elliemay1]

26 //The Godfather Part II and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are the only sequels to have won the award, and their respective trilogies are the only series to have three films nominated.//

[JohnC1]

Great, thanks all.

[Hazlinny]

24?? Field of Dreams

[Fibonacci]

17 Coen brothers

[elliemay1]

17 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert ??

[Fibonacci]

17 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_the_Coen_brothers

 

[JohnC1]

Elliemay1,

The two Daniels are mentioned as part of the Q'n as winning 3 Oscars this year for Everything Everywhere All At Once. Sorry, I didn't include that in my query.

[Fibonacci]

15 The Fablemans

David Lynch played John Ford

[Fibonacci]

Is 16 a picture question?

 

[JohnC1]

16. It is a photo of just the eyes and nose of a legendary actress. I don't know how to upload the photo here. Just chancing if anyone has answered it in Ireland as it's the RTE Guide.

[Fibonacci]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1551623.html

 

[TheWinner]

16.  might be Bette Davis (as in the song Bette Davis eyes) by kim carnes

 

[JohnC1]

8. Last one. A long one.

Which film,shot in Dublin in the 1960's,featured a supporting cast of four Dames and one Knight,and starred an Aussie playing a well-known Dub, alongside an Indian-born actress who would win an Oscar with her very next role?

[Fibonacci]

8 Young Cassidy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Cassidy

I think all the details fit.

[pabsi1983]

Q24 – Someone has already mentioned “Local Hero” (1983) but just to follow up, it stars Burt Lancaster while the film's theme song (played by Mark Knopfler) is used as an entrance / pre-match song at Newcastle United home games