Settings for All Oscar Nominees of the 2010s

 

Sporcle Quiz I Made: Most Nominated Actresses for Golden Globe (for movies)

This is another Sporcle quiz I made updated from an old quiz that didn't account for the last five years. When playing, keep in mind: -This quiz only covers movie nominations -The Golden Globes were created in 1943 but were highly irregular in terms of categories and the number of nominees in their first couple of decades. Some years, they didn't include any alternative nominees at all. -Comedy (and in some years musical) is included here, so actresses with great comedic performances to their name might pop up higher. -Have fun!

Sporcle Quiz I made: Songs and Movies with the Same Title

More Random Trivia Items

Whenever I hear some interesting about a film, I often add it to the trivia section on IMDB. Over the years, I've accumulated quite a few contributions and since they are my own property, I occasionally post a few here. Give a thumbs up if you find any interesting:
 
Review

• The season finale to the first season was shot with the intention that the show would not be renewed.
• Andy Daly said in a Reddit AMA that the writers decided that Forest should get divorced early on so he could go on sex adventures.

Back to the Future II

• The motivation for writing a scene with an automatically hydrating oven in the future was due to product placement needs with Pizza Hut's sponsorship.
  Pizza Hut provided a professional food stylist and pizza kitchen to be at the set of the future McFly house to make hot, attractive pizzas for each take.
• The plot line of George McFly dying in 1985 was based entirely on Crispin Glover's refusal to do the sequel.
• Screenwriter Bob Gale was inspired to write science fiction by the George Powell version of The Time Machine that he watched as a kid and subsequently gobbled up a lot of time travel novels thereafter.
• One of the conceptions of the 2015 universe that didn't make it on screen because of the budget cuts was a sport called "Slam Ball" that would be played in an anti-gravity chamber and combine Jai Alai, handball, and roller derby.

The Brink

• Not only are the translations accurate when characters are speaking in Hebrew, Urdu, or German but the dialects are as well.
• The show was screened for Ex-President George HW Bush who is friends with Executive Producer  Jerry Weintraub 

School Daze

• Thanks to Columbia Pictures exec David Pickler, Spike Lee got final cut rights for the film which was pretty rare for any director at the time.
• "Straight and Nappy" was written by Spike Lee's father Bill Lee. His sister, Joie Lee, who would play a more prominent role in "Do the Right Thing" also got a small part in this film as well.
• Despite mixed reviews, the film cost $6.5 million to make and grossed $15 million making it one of Columbia Studio's most profitable films of 1988.
• To the degree that the film is considered a musical, it is the first studio-funded musical to be directed by an African-American. 

Key Largo

• In honor of its connection to Humphrey Bogart with this film, Key Largo, FL hosts a Humphrey Bogart film festival every year. 
• Rocco's character was modeled after Al Capone who retired to South Florida shortly after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
• An urban legend has sprouted from a misquoted line of Rocco's dialogue that this film predicted the recount battle in the 2000 presidential election.
• Claire Trevor didn't want to do the singing scene and was tricked by the director, John Huston, into doing a take that ended up winning her an Oscar

X-Men (Cartoon Series)

• The voice actors were largely cast from the Toronto theater scene
• Fox initially had a lot of resistance to the cartoon series before it became a success. They felt that the target audiences, kids under 10, wouldn't be interested in a romantic love triangle between Cyclops, Jean, and Wolverine. They also thought kids wouldn't keep up with a show that was serialized
• Story editor and writer Eric Lewald liked the "Nightcrawler" episode best because he felt that the religious themes made the episode weightier than the network usually permitted
• Stan Lee was not creatively active with Marvel comics at the time the series was being produced so his involvement wasn't particularly big on the series. He gave some producers notes on the first thirteen episodes

The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (2009 remake)

•  The production team worked closely with the MTA and was given access to the MTA control room for research
• The actor who plays Bashkim was an ex-convict, just released from prison, who was originally hired as a consultant for the film. 

Charlie Wilson's War

•  Charlie Wilson's aides in his Senate office were all beautiful well-endowed women nicknamed "Charlie's Angels." In real life, his chief aide, played by Amy Adams in the film, was often played by a man.
• Former New York City mayor and presidential candidate is referenced in the film. Rudy Guiliani was never able to find enough evidence that Wilson had done cocaine, though Wilson hasn't flatly denied it either.
• In addition to the deviant lifestyle being portrayed on screen, Charlie Wilson also had a DUI Hit-and-Run Charge outside Georgetown on the Key Bridge. If indicted, he would have been far less successful in securing money for his project in Afghanistan, but thankfully he got away. The History Channel documentary about his life suggests that he drank that night and other nights to ease the pain he felt for the Afghan people.

Name the cast

A trivia game, the name of one key cast member is omitted in each case:
Name the film:
1. Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Ed Harris, Harry Shearer, Holland Taylor
2. Judd Hirsch, Anthony Rapp, Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Josh Lukas
3. Shia LeBouf, Bridget Moynahan, Chi McBride, Bruce Greenwood, Will Smith, James Cromwell
4. Donald Sutherland, Ethan Suplee, Nicole Kidman, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi, Natalie Portman, Jack White, Brendon Gleason
5. Amanda Peete, Jeffrey Wright, George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, Chris Cooper
6. Marcia Gay Harden, Claire Forlani, Jeffery Tambour, Brad Pitt
7. Gene Hackman, John Voight, Jack Black, Regina King, Barry Pepper, Jason Lee, Lisa Bonnet
8. Greg Kinnear, Janeane Girafolo, Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Geoffrey Rush, Claire Forlano
9. Tilda Swenson, Chris Cooper, Maggie Gyllenhall, Ron Livingston, Meryl Streep, Judy Greer
10. Michael Clarke Duncan, Amy Adams, John C. Rilley, Jane Lynch, Gary Coleman
11. Martin Sheen, Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner, Christopher Walken
12. Meryl Streep, John Voight, Kimberly Elise, Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright
13. Danny DeVitto, Michael Keaton, Jan Hooks, Chris Walken
14. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn, Gwenyth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett
15. Robert De Niro, Ethan Hawke, Gwenyth Paltrow, Chris Cooper
16. Steve Zahn, Dave Chapelle, Tom Hanks, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear
17. Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Peter Sargasaard, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Liam Niesson, Tim Curry
18. Tommy Lee Jones, Drew Barrymore, Jim Carrey, Chris O'Donnell, Nicole Kidman
19. Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyffus, Jacinda Barrett, Emma Rossum, Josh Lukas, Andre Braughter
20. Rene Russo, Zoey Deschannel, Stanley Tucci, Jason Lee, Stanley Tucci, Ben Foster, Dennis Farina, Janeane Girafolo