MOVIE QUIZ: SCORSESE, DE NIRO AND DICAPRIO
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Leonardo Dicaprio have each been frequent subjects of these quizzes in the past, but with the release this weekend of the epic period-piece crime drama, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the director and his two biggest muses are all together for the first time. In theaters and on our pages.
It marks Deniro’s 10th feature film with Scorsese behind the camera, and Dicaprio’s sixth. How much do you know about the three acclaimed artists’ previous cinematic partnerships? Find out below.
1. Which of the following Martin Scorsese-robert De Niro collaborations made the most at the box office: “Goodfellas,” “Cape Fear,” “Casino” or “The Irishman”?
2. Which of the following Martin Scorsese-leonardo Dicaprio collaborations made the most at the box office: “The Aviator,” “The Departed,” “Shutter Island” or “The Wolf of Wall Street”?
3. Which actor, De Niro or Dicaprio, starred in more Scorsese-directed Best Picture Oscar nominees?
4. True or false: Robert De Niro was originally offered the roles ultimately played by Daniel Day-lewis and Jack Nicholson in “Gangs of New York” and “The Departed,” respectively, but turned them down.
5. Harvey Keitel is a six-timer in Martin Scorsese movies. How many of them also starred Robert De Niro?
6. Back to the Academy Awards, how many of Dicaprio’s six acting nominations came from Scorsese movies?
7. Prior to “Killers of the Flower Moon,” De Niro and Dicaprio appeared together in two non-scorsese films. Can you
name one or both of them?
8. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci starred in 1995’s “Casino,” based on real-life mobsters, but
with the characters’ names changed. Which ones were the fictionalized movie names: Sam “Ace” Rothstein and Nicky Santoro
or Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro?
9. Alt-country and Americana singer-songwriters Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell have supporting roles in “Killers of the Flower Moon” as real-life figures in the 1920s murder spree that rocked the Osage Native Americans in Oklahoma. In the earlier “The Aviator,” Scorsese cast what singer and sometime coach on “The Voice” as illfated 1930s actress, Jean Harlow?
10. Which time period was longer, the stretch between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro’s eighth collaboration, “Casino,” and the ninth, “The Irishman,” or the entirety of Scorsese’s works with Leonardo Dicaprio, from “Gangs of New York” to “Killers of the Flower Moon”?