Packet 9: Tossup 7

A director with this surname is known for avant-garde shorts set in London like Blight, The Girl Chewing Gum, (15[1])and (15[1])a 1987 (15[1])film in which a man seems to be followed by an enormous black tower. (15[2])The New York Review of Books article “The Instrumentalist,” in which an author with this surname discussed the generational divide central to Tár, was a finalist (15[1])for the 2024 Pulitzer for Criticism. An actress (15[1])with this surname played an eccentric homeless (15[1])woman in the play-turned-film The Lady in the Van, written by Alan (*) Bennett. (10[1])While playing Desdemona (10[1])on stage in 1964, (10[1])an actress with this surname was once knocked out by her blackface-wearing co-star, Laurence Olivier. (10[1])That Triple Crown winner (-5[1])with this surname, who won an Oscar for starring as Miss Jean Brodie, (10[2])often played upper-class women like Charlotte (10[1])in A Room With a View and Countess Constance in Gosford Park. For 10 points, give this surname of the Dame who played Dowager Violet Crawley in Downton Abbey. ■END■

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