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With the ninety-eighth Academy Awards ceremony coming up this weekend, now’s the time to hone your Hollywood trivia chops. Luckily, TheNew Yorker’s crosswordarchive is full of movie-centric puzzles spotlighting iconic auteurs (DAVID LYNCH), titans of global cinema (BONG JOON HO), and present-day nominees (CHLOÉ ZHAO).
Can you identify the filmmakers featured in the crosswords below? Bonus points if you can solve all ten puzzles before the Best Director award is handed out on Sunday. Note: each answer is a full name.
“Writer-director of ‘Julie & Julia’ ” (10 letters)
“Director of ‘Velvet Goldmine’ and ‘The Velvet Underground’ ” (10 letters)
“So-called mother of the French New Wave” (10 letters)
“Prolific director dubbed ‘the Black Pioneer of American film,’ by J. Hoberman” (13 letters)
“Director of the 2023 film ‘Past Lives’ ” (10 letters)
“First nonwhite person to win a directing Oscar, in 2006” (6 letters)
“Director who played a director in ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ ” (9 letters)
“Director whom William S. Burroughs called the ‘Pope of Trash’ ” (10 letters)
“Pseudonym used by directors when disavowing their own films” (11 letters)
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