MOVIE QUIZ

Was there something in the water on May 14, over the course of multiple years? Three famous and successful directors – Sofia Coppola, George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis – were all born on that date. This Saturday, Coppola turns 51, Lucas will be 78 and Zemeckis hits the big 7-0.

Let’s see how much you know about their individual, and often intertwined, movie careers by taking our latest quiz. So, set your thinking caps back to the future, may the force be with you and hopefully nothing gets lost in translation.

1. Most of Sofia Coppola’s ill-fated acting career was spent in movies directed by her father, Francis Ford Coppola. But she did appear in a movie from either George Lucas or Robert Zemeckis. Which one directed her and what was the hit 1999 movie?

2. Tom Hanks famously won his second consecutive Oscar for starring in Robert Zemeckis’ “Forrest Gump,” but what other collaboration between the two resulted in a later nomination for Hanks?

3. George Lucas only directed six feature-length films, but combined with his skills as a writer, producer, innovator and entrepreneur, he ranks as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. What future Oscar-winning actor starred as the title character in Lucas’ 1971 sci-fi directorial debut “THX 1138”?

4. True or false: Coppola, Lucas and Zemeckis have each only won one Academy Award.

5. Which one of the following motion capture animated films was not directed by Robert Zemeckis: “Beowolf,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Monster House” or “Polar Express”?

6. Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut, “The Virgin Suicides,” based on Jeffrey Eugenides’ debut novel, features Kathleen Turner as the overprotective mother of five daughters. In “Peggy Sue Got Married,” directed by Coppola’s father, what was the relationship between Turner and Coppola’s characters?

7. “American Graffiti,” George Lucas’ sophomore effort, received a big addition to its budget and was saved from being turned into a TV movie after what Hollywood heavyweight signed on as a producer?

8. Like “American Graffiti,” Zemeckis’ directorial debut takes place over the course of one day in the early 1960s, this one being the historically and culturally significant date of Feb. 9, 1964. Name the movie.

9. Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” films was reportedly based on George Lucas’ dog, whose name had a connection to the filmmaker’s other, later blockbuster franchise. What was the dog’s name?

10. Nearly a decade before “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Jamie Dornan made his film debut as a character whose look was inspired by Adam Ant in a Sofia Coppola movie that included among its cast Molly Shannon, Marianne Faithful, Steve Coogan, Rip Torn, Judy Davis, Rose Byrne, Tom Hardy and French pop band Phoenix, led by Coppola’s future husband, Thomas Mars? What is the title of this historical drama?

Answers to Movie Quiz on page 2.

1. George Lucas, “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”

2. “Cast Away”

3. Robert Duvall

4. True. Zemeckis won best director for “Forrest Gump”; Coppola, best original screenplay for “Lost in Translation.” Lucas’ win was an honorary one – he took home the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award. He had previously lost all four competitive Oscars for which he was nominated.

5. “Monster House”

6. Coppola played Turner’s little sister

7. Francis Ford Coppola

8. “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” It takes place on the day of the Beatles first live appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

9. Indiana

10. “Marie Antoinette”