The Independent Film Trivia Questions

The Room, often called the worst movie ever, received no Oscar nominations. It has a cult status but zero awards attention.

Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho, won Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020, the first non-English language film to do so.

Director Kevin Smith shot Clerks in black and white because color film stock was too expensive for its $27,575 budget.

Little Miss Sunshine was nominated for Best Picture in 2007 but lost to The Departed. It won two other Oscars.

Napoleon Dynamite grossed $46 million, far below records set by films like The Blair Witch Project. It is not the highest-grossing independent film.

The Blair Witch Project had an initial production cost of about $60,000 and grossed $248.6 million globally, making it one of the most profitable films ever.

Moonlight, which features a gay protagonist, won Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017, the first LGBTQ+ film to do so.

Non-linear storytelling existed long before Reservoir Dogs, e.g., Citizen Kane (1941) and Rashomon (1950). Tarantino's film popularized it but didn't invent it.