feature film
Features are longer than shorts. This topic is part of Film within Movies & Television. This page currently draws on 19 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
feature film trivia questions
A feature film is a movie of what general type?
Answer: Full-length main attraction
Bonus fact: Features are longer than shorts.
What organization commonly defines a feature film for awards purposes as longer than about 40 minutes?
Answer: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Bonus fact: Feature-length thresholds vary among institutions.
How did the rise of feature films change early cinema programs?
Answer: Longer single narratives replaced programs dominated by many short films
Bonus fact: Features became the central theatrical attraction.
Which 1995 film became the first fully computer-animated feature film?
Answer: Toy Story
Bonus fact: Pixar's Toy Story marked a major milestone in animation.
Traditional feature films were once delivered to theaters on how many reels?
Answer: Several reels
Bonus fact: Projectionists changed reels or used larger platter systems.
Which Vinterberg film won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film?
Answer: Another Round
Bonus fact: Another Round won in 2021.
Before feature films, Gondry became famous directing what?
Answer: Music videos
Bonus fact: He directed inventive videos for Björk, The Chemical Brothers, and others.
What was Pixar's first feature film?
Answer: Toy Story
Bonus fact: Pixar's official feature-film chronology lists Toy Story in 1995 as its earliest feature.
Before Sidney Lumet made 12 Angry Men as a feature film, the story first appeared in which medium?
Answer: Television play
Bonus fact: BFI says Reginald Rose's story began as a 1954 television play for CBS.
Which country did Parasite represent when it won the 2020 Oscar for International Feature Film?
Answer: South Korea
Bonus fact: Parasite also won Best Picture.
John Lasseter directed which pioneering 1995 computer-animated feature?
Answer: Toy Story
Bonus fact: Toy Story was the first fully computer-animated feature film.
Which mining ship serves as the main setting of Alien?
Answer: Nostromo
Bonus fact: Ridley Scott's Alien was released in 1979 and was his second feature film.