Test your TIFF knowledge with a star-filled quiz
This September, the Toronto International Film Festival welcomes back audiences, talent, press and industry for a (limited) in-person experience — following public health protocols, of course.
For many of the filmmakers and actors, this will not be their first TIFF so, with this quiz, let’s take a look at some of the people giving a repeat performance.
1. Director Jane Campion returns to TIFF with her starladen western drama “The Power of the Dog,” her first feature film in 12 years. In 1993, Campion’s classic film “The Piano” also debuted at the festival where it was a runner-up for the People’s Choice Award. Which movie won the award that year?
a) “A Bronx Tale”
b) “The Snapper”
c) “The Joy Luck Club”
d) “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”
2. Which Oscar-nominated actor, whose previous TIFF movies include “Sound of Metal” and “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” will head the jury for the festival’s Platform Competition?
a) Riz Ahmed
b) Viggo Mortensen
c) Michael Shannon
d) Dev Patel
3. “Dune” will get the really big screen treatment when it premieres as a World Exclusive IMAX Special Event at Ontario Place’s Cinesphere Theatre. The movie’s Canadian director has come a long way since he first came to TIFF in 1997 with the short film anthology “Cosmos.” Name that director.
a) Jean-Marc Vallée
b) Xavier Dolan
c) Denis Villeneuve
d) Guy Maddin
4. Jessica Chastain plays the titular televangelist in Michael Showalter’s biopic “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” but, in 2017, she starred in what other TIFF biopic alongside Idris Elba?
a) “Molly’s Game”
b) “Interstellar”
c) “Zero Dark Thirty”
d) “A Most Violent Year”
5. Which British actor, whose previous TIFF movies have included “The Imitation Game” and “12 Years a Slave,” will receive the TIFF Tribute Actor
Award this year?
a) Tom Hardy
b) Tom Hiddleston
c) Chiwetel Ejiofor
d) Benedict Cumberbatch
6. Director Stephen Chbosky, who was at TIFF in 2012 with “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” comes to the festival again this year with the opening night gala presentation, a movie based on which Tony Awardwinning musical?
a) “Fun Home”
b) “Dear Evan Hansen”
c) “The Book of Mormon”
d) “Spring Awakening”
7. Alanis Obomsawin, who has been making films for 50 years, will receive the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media at this year’s festival. The Indigenous documentary filmmaker is probably best known for her doc “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance,” which premiered at the festival in 1993 and is about a land claim dispute involving which First Nation?
a) Cree
b) Ojibwe
c) Mohawk
d) Oneida
8. Director Antoine Fuqua, who was at TIFF in 2016 with a remake of “The Magnificent Seven,” returns to TIFF with another remake, “The Guilty,” based on a 2018 crime thriller of the same name from where?
a) Sweden
b) Denmark
c) France
d) Mexico
9. Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s drama “Spencer” imagines a tumultuous Christmas in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, and is described as a “thematic companion” to his 2016 TIFF selection about which other world-famous woman?
a) Queen Elizabeth II
b) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
c) Jackie Kennedy
d) Judy Garland
10. Musicians — like Dionne Warwick, Alanis Morissette and the band Triumph — are the focus of a number of documentaries this year, including a doc about which late Canadian musician, directed by TIFF regular, Toronto’s Barry Avrich?
a) Oscar Peterson
b) Leonard Cohen
c) Gord Downie
d) Neil Peart
1. b) “The Snapper”
2. a) Riz Ahmed
3. c) Denis Villeneuve
4. a) “Molly’s Game”
5. d) Benedict Cumberbatch
6. b) “Dear Evan Hansen”
7. c) Mohawk
8. b) Denmark
9. c) Jackie Kennedy
10. a) Oscar Peterson