Texas - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about deep focus cinematography, for 10 points each.

[10e] Chinese-American cinematographer James Wong Howe won an Oscar for his deep focus imagery of this state for the film Hud. Roger Deakins shot the Coen brothers’ film No Country for Old Men, which is set in this state.

ANSWER: Texas [or TX]

[10h] The critic André Bazin admired this cinematographer’s deep focus shots in William Wyler films like The Best Years of Our Lives. Orson Welles praised this cinematographer’s visual innovations on his film Citizen Kane.

ANSWER: Gregg Toland [or Gregg Wesley Toland]

[10m] Toland refined his deep focus craft on this director’s film of The Grapes of Wrath. My Darling Clementine is among the many films this director shot in Monument Valley.

ANSWER: John Ford [or John Martin Feeney]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	33%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	13.33	78%	44%	11%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%

Data


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