| 100% | CARY | 4 | ___ Fukunaga, film director who also worked in television on the show "True Detective" |
| 81% | MANN | 4 | Michael ___, film director who also worked in television on the show "Miami Vice" |
| 80% | DAVID | 5 | ___ Lynch, famous film director who also worked in television on the show "Twin Peaks" |
| 79% | LEE | 3 | Spike ___, famous film director who also worked in television on the show "She's Gotta Have It" |
| 57% | MARTIN | 6 | ___ Scorsese, famous film director who also worked in television |
| 38% | VICTORFLEMING | 13 | Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 |
| 35% | RACHELMCADAMS | 13 | "True Detective" actress who played 32-Across in the Guy Ritchie film "Sherlock Holmes" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | TOM | 3 | ___ Moore, TV and film director who was a director for the TV show "Cheers" |
| 34% | WES | 3 | ___ Craven, director who created the "Nightmare on Elm Street" film franchise |
| 33% | AMY | 3 | ___ Schumer, American comedian who also wrote and starred in the film "Trainwreck" |
| 33% | JOHNWILLIAMS | 12 | Composer who has worked with Spielberg on many films like "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," and is also the composer for 33a: 2 wds. |
| 33% | HAROLDRAMIS | 11 | "Groundhog Day" director who plays Egon Spengler in the "Ghostbusters" films (2 wds.) |
| 33% | FRANK | 5 | ___ Borzage, film director who won the first Academy Award for the best director for "7th Heaven" in 1929 |
| 32% | MARTINSHORT | 11 | "Three Amigos" actor who plays a Broadway director/true crime podcaster on "Only Murders in the Building" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | LETITIAWRIGHT | 13 | "Death on the Nile" actress who plays Shuri in the Marvel film "Black Panther" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | OLIVIAMUNN | 10 | The Daily Show correspondent who went on to star in an X-Men movie |
| 32% | JAMES | 5 | ___ Cameron, Canadian film director who directed the 1994 action film "True Lies" |
| 32% | FELIX | 5 | Cartoon feline who was one of the first images shown on television |
| 31% | JOHNNYDEPP | 10 | "Murder on the Orient Express" actor who plays retired detective Russell Poole in 47-Across (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ZSA | 3 | When repeated, a Gabor sister who starred in the television show "California Girls" |
| 31% | NOTH | 4 | Actor Chris who played Detective Mike Logan on "Law & Order" in the 1990s |
| 31% | JOE | 3 | ___ Deebs, fictional detective in old German films who was based on Sherlock Holmes |
| 31% | DEMME | 5 | Ted —, director of films Life, The Ref and Blow who died in 2002 |
| 31% | ANNETTEBENING | 13 | "Death on the Nile" actress who plays Dr. Wendy Lawson in the Marvel film "Captain Marvel" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | CARR | 4 | Television's Jimmy ___, who hosts the game show "I Literally Just Told You" on Channel 4 |
| 31% | DALE | 4 | Jim —, comic actor who played the title role in 1992 film Carry on Columbus |
| 31% | MICHAELHANEKE | 13 | Austrian director who made a Hollywood remake of his original film "Funny Games" in the year 2007: 2 wds. |
| 31% | EVANLYSACEK | 11 | 2010 Olympic figure skating gold medalist who also finished second on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2010 (2 wds.) |
| 30% | LAURAPREPON | 11 | "The Girl on the Train" actress, who played Donna Pinciotti in "That 70's Show": 2 wds. |
| 30% | HEIGL | 5 | Katherine ___, actress who played Izzie Stevens in the medical drama television show "Grey's Anatomy" |