Q 01/05

Goodfellas is adapted from which 1985 nonfiction book by Nicholas Pileggi?

A) Wiseguy

B) Casino

C) Donnie Brasco

D) Underboss

Answer · why

A) Wiseguy

Wiseguy reached Scorsese while he was making The Color of Money; he cold-called Pileggi to say he had waited his whole life for this book, and Pileggi...

Q 02/05

Which actor plays Henry Hill, the narrator of Goodfellas?

A) Robert De Niro

B) Ray Liotta

C) Joe Pesci

D) Frank Sivero

Answer · why

B) Ray Liotta

Ray Liotta was not the studio's choice: Warner Bros. kept asking for a bigger name, but his turn in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild had already won ov...

Q 03/05

Which cast member won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Goodfellas?

A) Robert De Niro

B) Paul Sorvino

C) Joe Pesci

D) Frank Vincent

Answer · why

C) Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci's Oscar was the film's only win of the night: it lost Best Picture, and its director, its screenplay and its editor all went home empty-hand...

Q 04/05

Robert De Niro plays which character in Goodfellas?

A) Paulie Cicero

B) Tuddy Cicero

C) Morrie Kessler

D) Jimmy Conway

Answer · why

D) Jimmy Conway

Jimmy Conway was De Niro's own idea: reading the book, he rang Scorsese and proposed himself, which gave the studio the star it wanted and Scorsese th...

Q 05/05

In Goodfellas, Henry's opening narration begins "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a" what?

A) gangster

B) wiseguy

C) made man

D) somebody

Answer · why

A) gangster

A gangster: the line lands on a freeze-frame of Henry slamming a car trunk on a dying man, and he adds that the life beat being President of the Unite...