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Do You Know What Directors Look Like?

Or would you embarass yourself at the Oscars?

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Hannah Jewell
Hannah Jewell
BuzzFeed Staff

  1. 1. Which one of these directors is Christopher Nolan?

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    Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images
    Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images
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    Andrew H. Walker / Getty Images
    Andrew H. Walker / Getty Images
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    Angela Weiss / Getty Images
    Angela Weiss / Getty Images
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    Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images
    Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images
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    The others are Steven Soderbergh, Spike Jonze, and M Night Shyamalan.

  2. 2. Which of these directors is Ava DuVernay?

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    Neilson Barnard / Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival
    Neilson Barnard / Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival
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    Neilson Barnard / Getty Images
    Neilson Barnard / Getty Images
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    ROBYN BECK/AFP / Getty Images
    ROBYN BECK/AFP / Getty Images
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    The other directors are Mira Nair and Nadine Labaki.

  3. 3. Who's this?

    Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images
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    Guillermo del Toro
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    Alejandro González Iñárritu
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    Alfonso Cuarón

  4. 4. Which Coen brother is this?

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    Joel
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    Ethan

  5. 5. Who has the same last name as Ang Lee?

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    Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images
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    Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images
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    Ken Ishii / Getty Images
    Ken Ishii / Getty Images
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    It's Spike Lee. The other two are Jane Campion and Hayao Miyazaki.

  6. 6. Who's this?

    Evening Standard / Stringer
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    Jean-Luc Godard
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    David Lynch
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    Martin Scorsese
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    Stanley Kubrick
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    Fred Zinnemann

  7. 7. Which director is this director related to?

    Peter Bregg / Getty Images
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    Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images
    Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images
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    Rob Kim / Getty Images
    Rob Kim / Getty Images
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    Valerie Macon / Getty Images
    Valerie Macon / Getty Images
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    Larry Busacca / Getty Images
    Larry Busacca / Getty Images
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    That's Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford. The others are Quentin Tarantino, Agnes Varda, and Gabriela Cowperthwaite.

  8. 8. Who's this?

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    Danny Boyle
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    Wes Anderson
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    Bennett Miller
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    James Cameron

  9. 9. Which one of these directors is Richard Linklater?

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    MARK RALSTON/AFP / Getty Images
    MARK RALSTON/AFP / Getty Images
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    Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images
    Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images
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    Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Images
    Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Images
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    The others are Morten Tyldum and Tom Hooper.

  10. 10. Which person is French director Claire Denis?

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    Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images
    Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images
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    Francois Durand / Getty Images
    Francois Durand / Getty Images
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    Jason Merritt / Getty Images
    Jason Merritt / Getty Images
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    Frazer Harrison / Getty Images
    Frazer Harrison / Getty Images
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    The others are producer and screenwriter Gale Anne Hurd, director Kathryn Bigelow, and director Jehane Noujaim.

  11. 11. Who's this?

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    Sam Mendes
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    John Singleton
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    Steve McQueen
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    Edgar Wright

  12. 12. Which one is Alfred Hitchcock?

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    Central Press / Getty Images
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    Orville Logan Snider/Hulton Archive / Getty Images
    Orville Logan Snider/Hulton Archive / Getty Images
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    Baron / Getty Images
    Baron / Getty Images
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    The others are Brayn Forbes and Frank Capra.

  13. 13. Who's hugging Daniel Day-Lewis?

    Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images
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    George Lucas
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    Ethan Coen
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    Steven Spielberg
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    Who *isn't* hugging Daniel Day-Lewis?
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