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Decode the Director's Signature

Every auteur has a fingerprint. Can you spot who held the clapperboard just from their habits, obsessions and quirks? Test your director IQ now.

🎬 Movies medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Which director is known for the 'trunk shot', filming characters from inside a car boot?
  • Stanley Kubrick shot the candlelit scenes of Barry Lyndon with lenses originally made for NASA.
  • The 'Spielberg face' is a trademark shot of a character doing what?
  • Did Christopher Nolan crash a real Boeing 747 into a building for Tenet instead of using CGI?
  • How many feature films did Stanley Kubrick direct?
  • Select ALL of these films directed by David Lynch.
  • Which director composed the synthesiser scores for many of his own films, including Halloween and The Fog?
  • Order these directors by birth year, oldest first.
  • Which director had a real steamship hauled over a hill in the Peruvian jungle for Fitzcarraldo?
  • Alfred Hitchcock made a cameo in Lifeboat, even though the whole film takes place on a small boat.
  • Did Ingmar Bergman shoot several films on the island of Fårö, where he later lived?
  • In what year did Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival?
  • Which director is famous for perfectly symmetrical, centred compositions?
  • Select ALL of these directors who won the Palme d'Or twice between 1980 and 2020.
  • Which director filmed so many westerns in Monument Valley that a lookout there is named after him?
  • Order these Christopher Nolan films by release year, earliest first.
  • Which director co-founded the Dogme 95 movement with Thomas Vinterberg?
  • Sergio Leone shot the desert landscapes of his Dollars westerns in the American West.
  • Does Spike Lee's signature 'double dolly' shot make a character seem to float through the scene?
  • In what year did Alfred Hitchcock shoot The Pleasure Garden, his first completed film as director?