Mike Leigh - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The cinematographer Dick Pope and actresses Alison Steadman and Lesley Manville are regular crew members of this director, who won the 1996 Palme d’Or for a film about a Black doctor and her white birth mother. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this director whose scripting approach involves crafting characters in one-on-one sessions with actors. This director from Manchester set films like Hard Truths, Naked, and Secrets and Lies in London.

ANSWER: Mike Leigh (“lee”)

[10e] Before making feature films, Leigh wrote and directed teleplays and shows produced by this public broadcaster. David Attenborough narrated this public broadcaster’s Planet Earth series of nature documentaries.

ANSWER: BBC [or British Broadcasting Corporation; or BBC Studios]

[10m] In Leigh’s film Happy-Go-Lucky, Sally Hawkins plays a woman with this profession. Mads Mikkelsen played men with this profession in Thomas Vinterberg’s films The Hunt and Another Round.

ANSWER: teachers [or schoolteachers; or instructors]

<AP, Other Fine Arts>

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	17.00	100%	60%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	16.25	100%	38%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Valencia A	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
BU	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	NYU B	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Haverford A	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Kenyon	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Case Western B	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Duke	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	UNC C	0	10	10	20
Liberty A	UNC D	0	10	0	10
Wake Forest	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Georgetown A	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Purdue	0	10	0	10
UW A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UW B	UBC	0	10	0	10
John Jay College	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
ESF A	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Florida B	UCF C	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois A	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Missouri	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Winona State	Wisconsin A	10	10	10	30
Brandeis A	Harvard B	10	10	10	30
Brown A	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Dartmouth A	0	10	10	20
UMass Boston	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Bruin A	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge E	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
NYU C	Durham	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
LSE	Sheffield	0	10	0	10