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Which 2014 Best Picture Nominees Pass the Bechdel Test: A New Yorker Quiz
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Bechdel Test, created in 1985 by the cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, asks three questions of a film: Does it contain two or more named female characters? Do they talk to each other? And, if so, do they discuss something other than a man? Take the quiz to see how this year’s Best Picture nominees stack up against favorites from the past.
Click here to take the New Yorker’s Oscar quiz.
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