MOVIE QUIZ
Guess who’s turning 50 today. It’s the eternally babyfaced Matt Damon; how you like them apples?
So, let’s honor the newly christened quinquagenarian with a quiz about his more than 30-year-long movie career.
1. Matt Damon won his sole Oscar (so far) for cowriting 1997’s “Good Will Hunting ” with BFF Ben Affleck. How many other nominations has he received?
2. Which one of these directors has Matt Damon NOT worked with as an actor: Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Cameron Crowe, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Redford or Terry Gilliam?
3. Matt Damon has worked with director Gus Van Sant on many films. On which of them did he also receive an editor credit, as well as star as the title character (sort of )?
4. 1988’s “Mystic Pizza” was Matt Dillon’s film debut and the first of four bigscreen appearances opposite Julia Roberts. But character actor John Cunningham, who played his stern father here, had that same relationship with him in what 1992 film?
5. Matt Damon famously lost more than 40 pounds to play a drug-addicted veteran in 1996’s “Courage Under Fire,” and suffered lingering health issues because of it. But in what 2009 Steven Soderbergh film did he gain almost that same amount to look more like the real-life character he was playing ?
6. How many Academy
Award-winning best pictures has Matt Damon appeared in: one, two, four or six?
7. In 1999’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Matt Damon stars with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow (as well as Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman). He teamed up with Law and Paltrow a second time for what 2011 film that became unexpectedly popular again this year?
8. In which of the “Bourne” series of thrillers based on Robert Ludlum novels does Matt Damon NOT appear: “Jason Bourne,” “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Bourne Legacy,” “The Bourne Identity ” or “The Bourne Supremacy”?
9. “Stuck on You,” the 2003 Farrelly Brothers comedy starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins, also features Cher, Meryl Streep, Tom Brady, Jay Leno and what former presidential candidate who is now a member of the current administration’s cabinet?
10. Matt Damon has only appeared in three remakes, and in only one of those does he play a character first portrayed by country and pop singer Glen Campbell. What is the film?
Here are the answers to the Movie Quiz on page 2.
1. Four other nominations; three for acting and one as a producer
2. Paul Thomas Anderson
3. “Gerry”
4. “School Ties”
5. “The Informant!”
6. One, “The Departed,” but he’s been in six that have been nominated
7. “Contagion”
8. “The Bourne Legacy”
9. Ben Carson
10. “True Grit”