Will you win a copy of Living After Midnight: Hard and Heavy Stories?

As it's Oscar season, it seems like a good time for a contest centered around my favorite Oscar-trivia question. It's my favorite because I thought I was the only person who'd ever been interested in the answer enough to ask the question. But this idea was proven untrue with a little Googling.

Either way, I'm sure some of you already know it, or are savvy enough to look it up. And I'm prepared to reward you for this meager effort with a copy of the e-book–only horror and dark-fantasy anthology Living After Midnight: Hard and Heavy Stories. (For more information and reviews, click to visit the Amazon page.)

Here goes:

As you may have realized, when actors cross over into directing, they are more likely to be awarded by the Academy for their directing than for their acting in the same film. Some examples include such Best Director winners as Kevin Costner for Dances with Wolves, Mel Gibson for Braveheart, and Clint Eastwood for both Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.

(On a side note, the same is true for actor/writers. Witness Oscars given to Emma Thompson for Sense and Sensibility, Billy Bob Thornton for Sling Blade, and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting.)

In fact, only two actor/directors have directed movies that won them Best Actor Oscars. Your job is to name them and the film for which each won.

E-mail your four-part answer to craig [dot] clarke [at] yahoo [dot] com, with the subject line "LAM Oscar Contest," by March 1, 2011, to be considered.

The prizes are as follows:

Anyone who gets all four parts of the answer correct will receive a free copy of Living After Midnight in your e-book format of choice and free copies of Acid Grave Press's next two releases. (The first due out later this year and the second due early next year.)

Anyone who gets at least two parts of the answer correct will receive a free copy of Living After Midnight in your e-book format of choice and a free copy of Acid Grave Press's next release (due out later this year).

Anyone who submits an answer will get a copy of Living After Midnight.

Thanks in advance for playing, and good luck.