| 100% | ARGOHIPS | 8 | *What Elvis might have called his swiveling body parts if he acted in the 2012 Best Picture winner? |
| 29% | THEFRENCHCONNECTION | 19 | Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have |
| 27% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 Best Picture winner set in Iran |
| 25% | EAR | 3 | Part of the body that becomes what it does if you put an H in front of it |
| 25% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner about the rescue of American diplomats in Iran |
| 25% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture Oscar winner released in 2012 |
| 25% | ADAMSAPPLE | 10 | Body part called a "goozle" in the South |
| 24% | EYE | 3 | Body part that might have a 36-Across in it |
| 24% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner whose name rhymes with a Coen brothers film set in the Midwest |
| 24% | HIPS | 4 | Part of the body that Elvis swiveled |
| 23% | XRATING | 7 | What only one Best Picture winner has had |
| 23% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a book with the subtitle Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century |
| 23% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 Best Picture winner |
| 23% | MACARONI | 8 | What Yankee Doodle called the feather in his cap |
| 23% | PROFESSORPLUM | 13 | He might have done it with the candlestick in the study |
| 23% | BERTCONTROL | 11 | What Ernie may wish he had vis-à-vis his roommate? |
| 23% | LINEONE | 7 | What the first call to a receptionist might come in on |
| 22% | PROSHOP | 7 | What might be in trouble if it's out of the woods? |
| 22% | HULCE | 5 | He played Mozart in a Best Picture winner |
| 22% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 Best Picture winner directed by Ben Affleck |
| 22% | EARTH | 5 | What you might "come down to" after having your head in the clouds |
| 22% | NICHOLSON | 9 | Actor in the Best Picture winners of 1975, 1983 and 2006 |
| 22% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 Best Picture Oscar winner |
| 22% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner of 2012 |
| 22% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner in 2013 |
| 22% | CODA | 4 | Best Picture winner in 2022 |
| 22% | ANORA | 5 | Best Picture winner in 2025 |
| 22% | FIENNES | 7 | He acted in the Harry Potter films and Quiz Show |
| 22% | NOMAD | 5 | What Frances McDormand's character Fern was, in the most recent Oscar winner for Best Picture |
| 22% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner set in Tehran |