Head of Household #6

Hello houseguests, and welcome to your 6th Head of Household competition of the season. Mila Kunis, as outgoing Head of Household, you are not eligible to compete. However, you are eligible to compete in the reward challenge, which will be posted shortly.





For this challenge, we will, once again, look at another of favorite movies ever: The Lives of Others. . I recommend that if you are into foreign films and have not seen this one yet, that you do so ASAP. It's a good one.


The challenge it's very simple: I will post three paragraphs with information about the movie. Some key facts, however, have been left out. Your goal is to fill in the blanks with the appropriate name/fact. For your convenience, the facts are posted below the paragraphs, so all you have to do is write the letter attached to each of them in the corresponding blank. First person to do this successfully, or person with the most correct blanks filled after 15 minutes, will be the new Head of Household.


I will post the paragraphs at 5:05 and you will have til 5:20 to send me your answers. If I dont have anything by then from you, you are out of the challenge.


You will be sending me your answers in a private message with the title: "The Lives of Others". Any other title, and youre disqualified. You can only send once.

The Lives of Others (German: __________________) is a 2006 German thriller film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker __________________________.
The film is about the monitoring of ____________ by agents of the ________, the GDR's secret police. It stars __________ as Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, Ulrich Tukur as his boss ___________, Sebastian Koch as the playwright Georg Dreyman, and Martina Gedeck as Dreyman's lover, a prominent actress named __________________
The film was released in Germany on _____ March 2006. At the same time, the screenplay was published by ____________. The Lives of Others won the _____ Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had earlier won seven ____________awards—including those for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, and best supporting actor—after setting a new record with _____ nominations. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Golden Globe Awards. The Lives of Others cost US$2 million and grossed more than US$77 million worldwide as of November_____.

The film was received with widespread acclaim. Film aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes reports a 93% "Fresh" rating, based on 142 positive reviews out of 152. Several critics pointed to the film's subtle building up of details as one of its prime strengths. The film is built "on layers of emotional texture", wrote____________ in______________. ______________ writing in the ____________________called the film "a triumph of muted grandeur." Lisa Schwarzbaum, writing in Entertainment Weekly, pointed out that some of the subtlety in the film is due to the fact that "one of the movie's tensest moments take place with the most minimal of action" but that the director still "conveys everything he wants us to know about choice, fear, doubt, cowardice, and heroism.

In February 2007, _______________ and_____________ announced a deal with The Weinstein Company to produce and direct an English-language remake of The Lives of Others. Minghella died in March _____ and Pollack died less than three months later, ending any possibility for a remake of the film by them.




A. 2008
B. 23
C. Stasi
D. Das Leben der Anderen
E. Salon online magazine
F. Anton Grubitz
G. Suhrkamp Verlag
H. Ulrich Mühe
I. 2006
J. Anthony Minghella
K. Josh Rosenblatt
L. 2007
M. Stephanie Zacharek
N. 11
O. Christa-Maria Sieland
P. Austin Chronicle
Q. East Berlin
R. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
S. Sydney Pollack
T. Deutscher Filmpreis



Remember to PM me your answers with the title "The Lives of Others"

You guys freaked me out for a bit. I got like 4 PMs, all with wrong titles. But along came the winner, who spared me from embarrassment of watching my cast throw an HOH challenge



Anyway, your new Head of Household is...

Spoiler:

Ok, you have til 6:15 to name your nominees for this round. The POV challenge will take place at 6:30 PT, so I'll see you all then.

Yeah Nick! You go boy

Congrats on HoH Nick!

What?! Congrats Nick!

Why so serious?

omg good job nick!

Congrats Nicholas!

Nicholas! Well done.

Congrats Nicholas!

I sent in the correct title at least. Congrats Nicholas

This is a tough decision because all of you are active for the most part. However, I have to nominate two people for eviction and its never an easy task. That being said, I have chosen to nominate Jennifer and Marilyn for eviction. We hardly speak in this game and when we do, it's always right when a challenge is over.

No problem. Good luck Jennifer!

Thanks for the key, Nick!

Good luck ladies!

Good luck Marylin!

Thanks for the key bro. best of luck with PoV and eviction ladies

Good luck girls! Thanks Nick!

Good Luck girls. Thanks Nicholas.