| 100% | AVADUVERNAY | 11 | "Selma" director who was the first African-American woman nominated for a Best Picture Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 94% | AVA | 3 | Director DuVernay who was the first African American woman nominated for a Best Picture Oscar |
| 84% | AVA | 3 | Director DuVernay who was the first African-American woman nominated for a Best Picture Oscar |
| 64% | JANECAMPION | 11 | "The Piano" director who was the second woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 63% | GRETAGERWIG | 11 | "Lady Bird" director who was the fifth woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 63% | SOFIACOPPOLA | 12 | "Lost in Translation" director who was the third woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 61% | JANECAMPION | 11 | "The Piano" director who was the second woman nominated for the Best Director Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 59% | JANECAMPION | 11 | Woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar for 1993's "The Piano": 2 wds. |
| 57% | POITIER | 7 | Sidney who was the first African American to win a Best Actor Oscar |
| 56% | GRETAGERWIG | 11 | Woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar for 2017's "Lady Bird": 2 wds. |
| 54% | POITIER | 7 | Sidney who was the first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar |
| 53% | DANDRIDGE | 9 | Singer Dorothy who was the first African-American to get a Best Actress Oscar nomination |
| 52% | LORNASIMPSON | 12 | "Projects 23" photographer who was the first African-American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (2 wds.) |
| 51% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" author who died August 5, and who was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize: 2 wds. |
| 51% | WARRENMOON | 10 | Undrafted quarterback who was the first African American quarterback inducted into the Hall of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 50% | 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.) |
| 50% | KATHRYNBIGELOW | 14 | "The Hurt Locker" director who is the only woman to win the Best Director Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 50% | GEOFFREYRUSH | 12 | "Shine" star who was the first Australian to be nominated for Oscars in two acting categories (2 wds.) |
| 49% | NICOLEKIDMAN | 12 | "Moulin Rouge!" and "The Hours" star who was the first Australian to win an Oscar for Best Actress and the first to be nominated in consecutive years (2 wds.) |
| 49% | KATHRYNBIGELOW | 14 | Woman who won the Best Director Oscar for 2009's "The Hurt Locker": 2 wds. |
| 47% | STEVEN | 6 | Yeun who was the first Asian American nominated for Best Actor (2020's "Minari") |
| 47% | MARLONBRANDO | 12 | Best Actor Oscar winner for "On the Waterfront" who was a Worst Supporting Actor Razzie winner for "The Island of Dr. Moreau": 2 wds. |
| 47% | ANGELA | 6 | Bassett who was the first person to be nominated for an Oscar for acting in a Marvel movie |
| 47% | LEE | 3 | Rebecca ___ Crumpler, physician who was the first African-American woman in the US to earn a medical degree |
| 47% | ABOUTSCHMIDT | 12 | 2002 dramedy starring Kathy Bates, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a woman in a memorable hot tub scene (2 wds.) |
| 47% | RICHARDJEWELL | 13 | 2019 biographical drama starring Kathy Bates, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing the title character's mother (2 wds.) |
| 46% | JOANRIVERS | 10 | Comedian who was the first woman to host a late-night talk show on a major network: 2 wds. |
| 46% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | ROMA | 4 | Alfonso Cuarón film that was the first Netflix production nominated for the Best Picture Oscar |
| 46% | RONALDREAGAN | 12 | U.S. president who was the first born in Illinois, the first to have been divorced, and the first to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court (2 wds.) |