Round 9: Tossup 7

A director with this surname is known for avant-garde shorts set in London like Blight, The Girl Chewing Gum, and a 1987 film in which a man seems to be followed by an enormous black tower. (15[1])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 for the 2024 Pulitzer for Criticism. An actress with this surname played an eccentric homeless woman in the play-turned-film The Lady in the Van, written by Alan (*) Bennett. While playing Desdemona on stage in 1964, an actress with this surname was once knocked out by her blackface-wearing co-star, Laurence Olivier. That Triple Crown winner with this surname, who won an Oscar for starring as Miss Jean Brodie, (10[1])often played upper-class women like Charlotte 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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