Q 01/05

Which two-time Oscar winner made his directing debut on Antwone Fisher and played its doctor?

A) Morgan Freeman

B) Denzel Washington

C) Forest Whitaker

D) Laurence Fishburne

Answer · why

B) Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington was first sent the script only as an actor; his agent then called to say he wanted to direct it as well.

Q 02/05

The lead actor of Antwone Fisher was working where on the Sony Pictures lot when he won the role?

A) The mailroom

B) The commissary

C) The gift shop

D) The parking garage

Answer · why

C) The gift shop

The gift shop is where the director came to deliver the news himself, greeting the stunned clerk by the character's first name.

Q 03/05

The real Antwone Fisher held which job at Sony Pictures when a producer first heard his story?

A) Security guard

B) Studio tour guide

C) Night janitor

D) Mailroom clerk

Answer · why

A) Security guard

Security guard was a job he was only two months into when he told his supervisor his story to get time off, and word spread across the lot.

Q 04/05

Antwone Fisher's teenage mother gave birth to him in what kind of place, soon after his father died?

A) A shelter

B) A convent

C) A motel

D) A prison

Answer · why

D) A prison

A prison was his birthplace because Eva Mae, then 17, was behind bars at the time; she never claimed him, and he grew up in foster care.

Q 05/05

When the adult Antwone Fisher confronts his abusive foster mother, what lead does she give him?

A) His birth certificate

B) His father's name

C) A box of letters

D) His mother's address

Answer · why

B) His father's name

His father's name, Edward Elkins, is all she offers, and it sends him through the phone book until a relative answers.