| 100% | SYDNEYPOLLACK | 13 | "Out of Africa" Oscar-winning director who directed 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 68% | CLINTEASTWOOD | 13 | "Million Dollar Baby" director who has won 2 Oscars out of 4 nominations for Best Director: 2 wds. |
| 67% | FRANKCAPRA | 10 | "It's a Wonderful Life" director who has won 3 Oscars out of 6 nominations for Best Director: 2 wds. |
| 67% | WOODYALLEN | 10 | "Midnight in Paris" director who has won 4 Oscars as Director and as Screenwriter, out of 24 total nominations: 2 wds. |
| 58% | ROBERTZEMECKIS | 14 | Oscar-winning director of "Forrest Gump" who also directed "Romancing the Stone": 2 wds. |
| 57% | MARTINSCORSESE | 14 | New Hollywood director who won an Oscar for "The Departed," and is the most-nominated director alive in terms of Oscars: 2 wds. |
| 54% | MERYLSTREEP | 11 | Oscar-winning actress who starred with 29-Across in "Out of Africa" (2 wds.) |
| 54% | ALFONSOCUARON | 13 | Mexico-born director who won an Oscar for "Gravity": 2 wds. |
| 53% | CHLOEZHAO | 9 | 16-Across director who won an Academy Award for Best Director in 2021, becoming the first non-white woman to win a directing Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 52% | DAVIDFINCHER | 12 | "Gone Girl" director who produces and directs episodes of "House of Cards": 2 wds. |
| 51% | ETHANCOEN | 9 | "Fargo" director who directed 15-Across without his brother Joel: 2 wds. |
| 50% | SPIKEJONZE | 10 | "Her" director who also directed the music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice": 2 wds. |
| 49% | FORDCOPPOLA | 11 | New Hollywood director Francis (birthday today), who directed "The Godfather," and has won Oscars as director, writer, and producer: 2 wds. |
| 49% | BOBFOSSE | 8 | Choreographer/director who won a Best Director Oscar for "Cabaret" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | GLORIAESTEFAN | 13 | "Coming Out of the Dark" singer who, with her husband Emilio, won the 2019 Gershwin Prize: 2 wds. |
| 47% | NIKICARO | 8 | "Whale Rider" director who directed Disney's live-action "Mulan": 2 wds. |
| 47% | JAMESLBROOKS | 12 | He won the Best Director Oscar for the first film he directed, 1983's "Terms of Endearment": 3 wds. |
| 47% | JAMESLBROOKS | 12 | Filmmaker who won three Oscars (Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay) for 1983's "Terms of Endearment": 3 wds. |
| 47% | MARIASCHRADER | 13 | "Unorthodox" Emmy-winning director who directed the 2022 film "She Said" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | BAZLUHRMANN | 11 | "Moulin Rouge!" director who directed 1996's "Romeo + Juliet": 2 wds. |
| 46% | MIKENICHOLS | 11 | Oscar-winning "The Graduate" director who was born in Germany: 2 wds. |
| 46% | KATHRYNBIGELOW | 14 | "The Hurt Locker" director who is the only woman to win the Best Director Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 46% | STEPHENDALDRY | 13 | "The Inheritance" director who won the 2020 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (2 wds.) |
| 46% | JONATHANDEMME | 13 | Director of the Oscar-winning psychological thriller film, "The Silence of the Lambs": 2 wds. |
| 45% | ANGLEE | 6 | Oscar-winning "Life of Pi" director: 2 wds. |
| 45% | SAMMENDES | 9 | "The Ferryman" director who won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019 (2 wds.) |
| 45% | TODDPHILLIPS | 12 | "War Dogs" director who has directed the psychological thriller "Joker": 2 wds. |
| 45% | GRETAGERWIG | 11 | "Lady Bird" and "Little Women" director who also directed "Barbie": 2 wds. |
| 45% | CHLOEZHAO | 9 | "Songs My Brothers Taught Me" writer/director who directed the 2020 film adaptation of 45-Across by 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 45% | ADRIENBRODY | 11 | Oscar-winning actor who has appeared in four movies directed by 40-Across, including "The French Dispatch" (2 wds.) |