| 100% | JOHN | 4 | ___ Carpenter, "Halloween" director who also composed the music for the movie |
| 83% | CHARLIE | 7 | ___ Chaplin, "The Circus" director who also composed the music for the movie |
| 83% | ROBERT | 6 | ___ Rodriguez, "Spy Kids" director who also composed the music for the movie |
| 80% | DAVID | 5 | ___ F. Sandberg, "Lights Out!" director who also composed the music for the original short movie |
| 64% | CLINT | 5 | ___ Eastwood, "Unforgiven" director who also composed "Claudia's Theme" for the movie |
| 56% | DAVIDFINCHER | 12 | "Gone Girl" director who also directed the music video for Madonna's "Vogue": 2 wds. |
| 55% | SPIKEJONZE | 10 | "Her" director who also directed the music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice": 2 wds. |
| 54% | GUSVANSANT | 10 | "Milk" director who also directed the music video for Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge": 3 wds. |
| 50% | RAVI | 4 | Shankar who composed the music for the Apu trilogy |
| 49% | ROTA | 4 | Nino who composed the music for "The Godfather" |
| 48% | ELFMAN | 6 | Danny who composed the music for The Simpsons and The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| 48% | BRIAN | 5 | ___ Tyler, composer who wrote original music for the 2010 action film "The Expendables" and also composed music for "Now You See Me" |
| 46% | ADLER | 5 | Richard who composed the music for "Damn Yankees" and "The Pajama Game" |
| 46% | SARA | 4 | Singer Bareilles who wrote and composed the music for Broadway's "Waitress" |
| 44% | PEELE | 5 | Director Jordan who appears in the music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's "White & Nerdy" |
| 44% | ELFMAN | 6 | Danny who composed the theme music for "The Simpsons" |
| 43% | SETTLEASCORE | 12 | Finalize the music for the movie? |
| 43% | HANS | 4 | ___ Zimmer who composed the theme music of the historical drama TV series "The Crown" and has also won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for "The Lion King" |
| 42% | ENO | 3 | Brian ___, who composed the 6 second start-up music for Windows 95 |
| 42% | BRIANENO | 8 | Ambient music pioneer who composed the "Microsoft Sound" for Windows 95: 2 wds. |
| 40% | SCORINGBIG | 10 | Composing the music for a Tom Hanks fantasy film? |
| 39% | EDWOOD | 6 | Movie director who was himself the subject of a 1994 movie |
| 39% | RUPERTSANDERS | 13 | Director of the "Ghost in the Shell" movie, who has also directed "Snow White and the Huntsman" previously : 2 wds. |
| 39% | IRA | 3 | Newborn who composed the scores for the "Naked Gun" films |
| 39% | ANTOINEFUQUA | 12 | 14-Across and 27-Across director who directed music videos for Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Coolio in the 1990s |
| 38% | BRAFF | 5 | "Wish I Was Here" star/director Zach who raised money for the movie with Kickstarter |
| 38% | SARA | 4 | Singer Bareilles who wrote the music for the Broadway show "Waitress" |
| 38% | AIMEE | 5 | Mann who wrote most of the songs for the movie "Magnolia" |
| 38% | SARA | 4 | Singer Bareilles who wrote the music for the Broadway musical "Waitress" |
| 38% | ROREM | 5 | Ned, who composed "Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra", first played in '75 and winner of the Pulitzer in '76 |