| 100% | CECILBDEMILLE | 13 | "The Ten Commandments" director who also directed 18-/42-Across: 3 wds. |
| 59% | GUSVANSANT | 10 | "Milk" director who also directed the music video for Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge": 3 wds. |
| 52% | DAVIDFINCHER | 12 | "Gone Girl" director who also directed the music video for Madonna's "Vogue": 2 wds. |
| 51% | SPIKEJONZE | 10 | "Her" director who also directed the music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice": 2 wds. |
| 46% | SAMRAIMI | 8 | Director of 31-/48-Across who also directed the 2002-2007 "Spider-Man" films: 2 wds. |
| 45% | RICHARDDONNER | 13 | "The Goonies" director, who also directed "Superman" and "Lethal Weapon": 2 wds. |
| 41% | ROBERTZEMECKIS | 14 | Oscar-winning director of "Forrest Gump" who also directed "Romancing the Stone": 2 wds. |
| 41% | ZACKSNYDER | 10 | Director of 32-Across, who also directed "Man of Steel": 2 wds. |
| 41% | GRETAGERWIG | 11 | "Lady Bird" and "Little Women" director who also directed "Barbie": 2 wds. |
| 40% | MARIASCHRADER | 13 | "Unorthodox" Emmy-winning director who directed the 2022 film "She Said" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | BAZLUHRMANN | 11 | "Moulin Rouge!" director who wrote and directed the 2022 music biopic "Elvis" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | TOMHARDY | 8 | "Venom: The Last Dance" star who also stars in 3-Down, 9-Down, 18-Down, and 31-Down (2 wds.) |
| 39% | THEFOURSEASONS | 14 | 1981 romantic comedy starring 9-/53-Across, who also wrote and directed it: 3 wds. |
| 39% | TODDPHILLIPS | 12 | "War Dogs" director who has directed the psychological thriller "Joker": 2 wds. |
| 39% | CAROLEKING | 10 | Frequent collaborator of 42-Across who wrote the song "You've Got a Friend" as a response to 18-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | GEORGEMILLER | 12 | Director whose birthday it is today, who directed the 1979 film "Mad Max": 2 wds. |
| 38% | TODDPHILLIPS | 12 | "The Hangover" trilogy director who directed "Joker" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | MARTINSCORSESE | 14 | "Taxi Driver" director who directed "The Irishman" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | SYDNEYPOLLACK | 13 | "Out of Africa" Oscar-winning director who directed 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | ETHANCOEN | 9 | "Fargo" director who directed 15-Across without his brother Joel: 2 wds. |
| 38% | ROBREINER | 9 | "When Harry Met Sally... " director who directed "The Princess Bride" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | DAVIDLEITCH | 11 | "Bullet Train" director who directed "The Fall Guy" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | 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.) |
| 36% | MTSINAI | 7 | Where Moses received the Ten Commandments: 2 wds. |
| 36% | CECILBDEMILLE | 13 | American filmmaker who remade his hit movie "The Ten Commandments" in 1956: 3 wds. |
| 36% | ANDYMUSCHIETTI | 14 | Director of "It Chapter Two" who also directed "It" and "Mama": 2 wds. |
| 36% | COENBROTHERS | 12 | "Fargo" team who also directed "No Country for Old Men": 2 wds. |
| 36% | ORSONWELLES | 11 | Actor who directed 17-Across and played the title character: 2 wds. |
| 36% | CHLOEZHAO | 9 | "Songs My Brothers Taught Me" writer/director who directed the 2020 film adaptation of 45-Across by 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 35% | MTSINAI | 7 | Peak where Moses received the Ten Commandments: 2 wds., abbr. |