British Film Directors MCQs with Answers
Who directed the film “Inception” (2010)?
a) Guy Ritchie
b) Christopher Nolan
c) Edgar Wright
d) Danny Boyle
Answer: b) Christopher Nolan
Which British director is known for films like “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” (1998)?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Edgar Wright
c) Richard Curtis
d) Guy Ritchie
Answer: d) Guy Ritchie
The film “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014) was directed by whom?
a) Wes Anderson
b) Martin McDonagh
c) Danny Boyle
d) Edgar Wright
Answer: a) Wes Anderson
Who directed the British film “The King’s Speech” (2010)?
a) Tom Hooper
b) Danny Boyle
c) Christopher Nolan
d) Guy Ritchie
Answer: a) Tom Hooper
The film “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008) was directed by whom?
a) Gurinder Chadha
b) Danny Boyle
c) Ken Loach
d) Stephen Frears
Answer: b) Danny Boyle
Who directed the British film “Trainspotting” (1996)?
a) Tom Hooper
b) Danny Boyle
c) Richard Curtis
d) Guy Ritchie
Answer: b) Danny Boyle
The British director Ken Loach is known for his work in which genre?
a) Romantic Comedy
b) Science Fiction
c) Social Realism
d) Fantasy
Answer: c) Social Realism
Who directed the film “Atonement” (2007)?
a) Joe Wright
b) Mike Leigh
c) David Lean
d) Sam Mendes
Answer: a) Joe Wright
The British director Edgar Wright is known for his work on which comedy trilogy?
a) The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy
b) The Cornetto Trilogy
c) The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
d) The Ice Cream Cone Trilogy
Answer: c) The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
Who directed the British film “Suffragette” (2015)?
a) Sam Mendes
b) Joe Wright
c) Sarah Gavron
d) Danny Boyle
Answer: c) Sarah Gavron
The film “The Theory of Everything” (2014) about Stephen Hawking’s life was directed by whom?
a) Tom Hooper
b) Joe Wright
c) James Marsh
d) Stephen Frears
Answer: c) James Marsh
Who directed the British film “Bend It Like Beckham” (2002)?
a) Gurinder Chadha
b) Mike Leigh
c) Ken Loach
d) Stephen Frears
Answer: a) Gurinder Chadha
The British director Joe Wright is known for his work on which literary adaptation?
a) Pride and Prejudice (2005)
b) Sense and Sensibility (1995)
c) Emma (1996)
d) Northanger Abbey (2007)
Answer: a) Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Who directed the British film “Shakespeare in Love” (1998)?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Guy Ritchie
c) Stephen Frears
d) John Madden
Answer: d) John Madden
The film “Fish Tank” (2009) was directed by whom?
a) Ken Loach
b) Danny Boyle
c) Andrea Arnold
d) Gurinder Chadha
Answer: c) Andrea Arnold
Who directed the British film “V for Vendetta” (2005)?
a) Guy Ritchie
b) Christopher Nolan
c) Edgar Wright
d) James McTeigue
Answer: d) James McTeigue
The British director Mike Leigh is known for his work in which style of filmmaking?
a) Science Fiction
b) Romantic Comedy
c) Social Realism
d) Fantasy
Answer: c) Social Realism
Who directed the film “Pride and Prejudice” (2005)?
a) Joe Wright
b) Gurinder Chadha
c) Mike Leigh
d) Stephen Frears
Answer: a) Joe Wright
The British director Andrea Arnold is known for her work on which film set in the American Midwest?
a) Red Road
b) Fish Tank
c) American Honey
d) Wuthering Heights
Answer: c) American Honey
Who directed the British film “A Single Man” (2009)?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Christopher Nolan
c) Edgar Wright
d) Tom Ford
Answer: d) Tom Ford
The film “Nowhere Boy” (2009) about John Lennon’s early life was directed by whom?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Ken Loach
c) Sam Taylor-Johnson
d) Guy Ritchie
Answer: c) Sam Taylor-Johnson
Who directed the British film “This Is England” (2006)?
a) Shane Meadows
b) Danny Boyle
c) Edgar Wright
d) Mike Leigh
Answer: a) Shane Meadows
The British director Steve McQueen is known for his work on which film about slavery?
a) Twelve Years a Slave
b) The Butler
c) Amistad
d) Django Unchained
Answer: a) Twelve Years a Slave
Who directed the British film “The Full Monty” (1997)?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Ken Loach
c) Richard Curtis
d) Peter Cattaneo
Answer: d) Peter Cattaneo
The British director Lynne Ramsay is known for her work on which psychological thriller?
a) Red Road
b) Fish Tank
c) We Need to Talk About Kevin
d) Wuthering Heights
Answer: c) We Need to Talk About Kevin
Who directed the British film “Notes on a Scandal” (2006)?
a) Joe Wright
b) Richard Curtis
c) Mike Leigh
d) Richard Eyre
Answer: d) Richard Eyre
The film “45 Years” (2015) was directed by whom?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Christopher Nolan
c) Andrew Haigh
d) Edgar Wright
Answer: c) Andrew Haigh
Who directed the British film “Fisherman’s Friends” (2019)?
a) Richard Curtis
b) Danny Boyle
c) Gurinder Chadha
d) Chris Foggin
Answer: d) Chris Foggin
The British director Ridley Scott is known for his work on which science fiction film?
a) Alien
b) Blade Runner
c) The Terminator
d) The Matrix
Answer: b) Blade Runner
Who directed the British film “The Remains of the Day” (1993)?
a) Mike Leigh
b) Joe Wright
c) Stephen Frears
d) James Ivory
Answer: d) James Ivory
The film “Calvary” (2014) was directed by whom?
a) Joe Wright
b) Ken Loach
c) Mike Leigh
d) John Michael McDonagh
Answer: d) John Michael McDonagh
Who directed the British film “Love Actually” (2003)?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Richard Curtis
c) Mike Leigh
d) Ken Loach
Answer: b) Richard Curtis
The British director Danny Boyle is known for his work on which survival drama?
a) Slumdog Millionaire
b) Trainspotting
c) 127 Hours
d) 28 Days Later
Answer: c) 127 Hours
Who directed the British film “Billy Elliot” (2000)?
a) Guy Ritchie
b) Christopher Nolan
c) Danny Boyle
d) Stephen Daldry
Answer: d) Stephen Daldry
The British director Stephen Frears is known for his work on which historical drama?
a) The Queen
b) The King’s Speech
c) Elizabeth
d) Victoria & Abdul
Answer: a) The Queen
Who directed the British film “Pride” (2014)?
a) Ken Loach
b) Joe Wright
c) Danny Boyle
d) Matthew Warchus
Answer: d) Matthew Warchus
The film “Red Road” (2006) was directed by whom?
a) Lynne Ramsay
b) Andrea Arnold
c) Jane Campion
d) Sally Potter
Answer: a) Lynne Ramsay
Who directed the British film “Vera Drake” (2004)?
a) Ken Loach
b) Mike Leigh
c) Stephen Frears
d) Mike Nichols
Answer: b) Mike Leigh
The British director Shane Meadows is known for his work on which film about a group of friends in Nottingham?
a) This Is England
b) A Room for Romeo Brass
c) Dead Man’s Shoes
d) Somers Town
Answer: a) This Is England
Who directed the British film “Philomena” (2013)?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Mike Leigh
c) Stephen Frears
d) Stephen Daldry
Answer: c) Stephen Frears
The film “The Iron Lady” (2011) about Margaret Thatcher’s life was directed by whom?
a) Ken Loach
b) Joe Wright
c) Mike Leigh
d) Phyllida Lloyd
Answer: d) Phyllida Lloyd
Who directed the British film “An Education” (2009)?
a) Mike Leigh
b) Richard Curtis
c) Danny Boyle
d) Lone Scherfig
Answer: d) Lone Scherfig
The British director John Michael McDonagh is known for his work on which dark comedy film?
a) The Guard
b) In Bruges
c) The Crying Game
d) The Lobster
Answer: a) The Guard
Who directed the British film “The Lobster” (2015)?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Christopher Nolan
c) Edgar Wright
d) Yorgos Lanthimos
Answer: d) Yorgos Lanthimos
The film “45 Years” (2015) was directed by whom?
a) Danny Boyle
b) Christopher Nolan
c) Edgar Wright
d) Andrew Haigh
Answer: d) Andrew Haigh
Who directed the British film “T2 Trainspotting” (2017)?
a) Guy Ritchie
b) Danny Boyle
c) Edgar Wright
d) Christopher Nolan
Answer: b) Danny Boyle
The British director Matthew Warchus is known for his work on which film about the LGBT community’s support for miners during the 1984 strike?
a) Pride
b) Pride & Prejudice
c) Pride and Glory
d) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Answer: a) Pride
Who directed the British film “Under the Skin” (2013)?
a) Guy Ritchie
b) Danny Boyle
c) Edgar Wright
d) Jonathan Glazer
Answer: d) Jonathan Glazer
The British director Joanna Hogg is known for her work on which autobiographical film series?
a) The Souvenir
b) The Goldfinch
c) The Favourite
d) The Lobster
Answer: a) The Souvenir
Who directed the British film “Pride and Prejudice” (2005)?
a) Joe Wright
b) Gurinder Chadha
c) Mike Leigh
d) Stephen Frears
Answer: a) Joe Wright