60 Fun Facts About 2010s Movie

In Inception, what does Cobb use as a totem to test whether he is dreaming?

He walks away without watching it fall, which is the ending everyone still argues about.

Which French song is used in Inception to signal the 'kick' that wakes the dreamers?

The Édith Piaf recording is slowed down to form the film's famous brass motif.

Christopher Nolan first pitched Inception to Warner Bros. in what genre?

He shelved the 80-page treatment after Insomnia to build up experience on the Batman films first.

The Social Network is based on which book?

Eduardo Saverin consulted on the book; Zuckerberg and Facebook stayed away from the film entirely.

Who plays Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network?

Timberlake plays Sean Parker and Hammer plays both Winklevoss twins.

Which band's members composed the award-winning score for The Social Network?

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross went on to score Gone Girl and Soul.

Toy Story 3 was the first animated film to do what?

It was also only the third animated film nominated for Best Picture.

Where are the toys accidentally donated in Toy Story 3?

It is run by the strawberry-scented bear Lotso.

The King's Speech centres on which monarch's struggle with a stammer?

Colin Firth won Best Actor and the film took Best Picture from a field-leading 12 nominations.

Why did the writer of The King's Speech delay the project for decades?

The Queen Mother died in 2002; nine weeks before filming, Logue's real diaries turned up and were written into the script.

Bridesmaids was co-written by Annie Mumolo and which star of the film?

McCarthy was Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actress and the pair for Best Original Screenplay.

In which city does Bridesmaids' Annie Walker live after her bakery fails?

The film out-grossed Knocked Up to become Apatow Productions' biggest hit.

Who wrote and directed The Avengers (2012)?

He rewrote Zak Penn's original screenplay; the film became the third-highest grosser ever at the time.

Which alien race does Loki lead against Earth in The Avengers?

The Other, their representative, gives Loki the sceptre in exchange for the Tesseract.

The Hunger Games was filmed primarily in which state?

Katniss's District 12 was built in the woods around Asheville.

Which studio produced The Hunger Games films?

Lionsgate signed the co-production deal with Color Force in March 2009, weeks after the rights were bought.

Which two Bond regulars returned in Skyfall after being absent for two films?

Naomie Harris and Ben Whishaw took the roles; Javier Bardem played the villain Silva.

Skyfall's production was suspended in 2010 because of what?

Screenwriter Peter Morgan quit during the delay; the film went on to gross over $1 billion.

Argo dramatises the rescue of six US diplomats from which city?

The 'Canadian Caper' used a fake sci-fi production as cover during the 1979-81 hostage crisis.

Argo won the top Oscar but Ben Affleck famously missed a nomination in which category?

Bradley Cooper declared that Affleck 'got robbed'.

Frozen was loosely inspired by which Hans Christian Andersen tale?

It went on to gross $1.28 billion, then a record for animation.

Which husband-and-wife team wrote the songs for Frozen?

Let It Go won the Oscar for Best Original Song.

Gravity's visual effects, covering more than 80 of its 91 minutes, were made by which British company?

The film won seven Oscars including Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón.

12 Years a Slave was based on whose 1853 memoir?

Lupita Nyong'o won Best Supporting Actress and the film took Best Picture.

The Wolf of Wall Street set a record for what?

It contains at least 500 uses of the word in question and was DiCaprio's fifth film with Scorsese.

Whiplash grew out of an 18-minute short film that premiered at which festival?

The short attracted the investors; the full film opened Sundance a year later and won both its top prizes.

Interstellar was developed from a treatment by producer Lynda Obst and which theoretical physicist?

He served as executive producer and wrote The Science of Interstellar; the film won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

Which Guardian of the Galaxy is voiced by Vin Diesel?

Bradley Cooper voices Rocket; the film was the third-biggest hit of 2014.

Birdman is presented as though it were filmed how?

Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki won the Oscar; the film also took Best Picture and Best Director.

Mad Max: Fury Road stars Charlize Theron as which character?

Anya Taylor-Joy played the younger version in the 2024 prequel.

In what year did the Mad Max creator first come up with the idea for Fury Road?

Delays included 9/11, the Iraq War and the Mel Gibson controversies before Tom Hardy was cast.

Spotlight follows the investigative team of which newspaper?

The real reporting won the paper the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Spotlight was the first top-prize Oscar winner since 1952 to win how many other statuettes?

Its only other win was Best Original Screenplay.

Jurassic World's genetically engineered dinosaur is called what?

The film set records for the biggest opening weekend both domestically and worldwide.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was filmed on location mainly in Abu Dhabi, Iceland and which other country?

The Skellig Michael scenes were the Irish part; the film became the highest grosser ever in the US and Canada.

Which sound acts as the hypnotic trigger in Get Out?

Jordan Peele won Best Original Screenplay for his directorial debut, made for $4.5 million.

Which two actors were originally in talks to star in La La Land before Gosling and Stone?

Chazelle had conceived the film with composer Justin Hurwitz while both were at Harvard.

La La Land set a record by winning how many Golden Globes?

It won five BAFTAs too, including Best Film.

Moonlight was adapted from an unpublished play by whom?

The play was titled In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

Which Moonlight actor became the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar?

He won again two years later for Green Book.

The Shape of Water won the top prize at which festival before its Oscar run?

It took the Golden Lion and later became the second fantasy film to win Best Picture.

The Shape of Water was inspired by which classic monster movie?

It is set in a 1962 Baltimore government lab.

Black Panther was the first superhero film to achieve what?

It was also the first MCU film to win an Oscar and the highest-grossing film ever by a Black director.

Green Book takes its title from what?

The Negro Motorist Green Book was published from 1936 to 1966.

Green Book was only the fifth film to win the top Oscar without a nomination in which category?

It joined Wings, Grand Hotel, Driving Miss Daisy and Argo.

Avengers: Endgame held the title of highest-grossing film ever until which film reclaimed it in 2021?

Endgame passed Infinity War's entire run in eleven days.

Joker was the first R-rated film to do what?

It also won the Golden Lion and Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix.

Parasite was the first Korean film to win which prize?

It then became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.

What kind of home do the Kim family live in at the start of Parasite?

The banjiha flat floods in the film's storm sequence.

The Artist (2011), a Best Picture winner made as a silent film, is set in Hollywood during which years?

Jean Dujardin's silent star fades as the talkies arrive; he won Best Actor at Cannes and then the Oscar.

In Life of Pi (2012), how many days do Pi and the tiger Richard Parker spend adrift in a lifeboat?

Shyamalan, Cuarón and Jeunet were all attached at various stages before Ang Lee took on the adaptation of Yann Martel's novel.

The title of Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012) nods to a 1966 spaghetti Western by which director?

Tarantino began the project in 2007 while writing a book about Corbucci; Will Smith was considered for the lead before Jamie Foxx.

Over how many years was Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2014) filmed with the same cast?

Shooting ran from 2002 to 2013 with only basic plot points fixed in advance, so Ellar Coltrane aged on screen from six to eighteen.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) is set in which fictional European country?

Wes Anderson drew on the writings of Stefan Zweig for the story of concierge Gustave H. and his lobby boy Zero.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar-winning role in The Revenant (2015) was based on which real frontiersman?

Michael Punke's 2002 novel supplied the story; production delays pushed shooting from Canada to Argentina to find snow.

What finally persuaded 20th Century Fox to greenlight Deadpool in 2014?

Tim Miller's directorial debut was shot in Vancouver in spring 2015 and premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris.

Which pop star made his feature film debut in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017)?

Nolan told the story with little dialogue and shot on IMAX 65 mm, using historic boats from the real evacuation.

Pixar's Coco (2017) was inspired by which Mexican holiday?

It was the first film with a nine-figure budget to feature an all-Latino principal cast.

Which comedian was originally cast as Freddie Mercury when Bohemian Rhapsody was announced in 2010?

He left in 2013 over creative differences; Rami Malek eventually took the role and won the Best Actor Oscar.

Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2018) takes its name from a neighbourhood in which capital?

The semi-autobiographical film won the Golden Lion at Venice before streaming on Netflix.