| 100% | BROKEBACK | 9 | __ Mountain, most Oscar nominated film in 2006 |
| 47% | LINCOLN | 7 | Film with most nominations for the Oscars in 2013 |
| 47% | BABEL | 5 | 2006 Brad Pitt/Cate Blanchett film nominated for seven Oscars |
| 46% | CODA | 4 | Oscar-winning 2021 film with much dialogue in American Sign Language |
| 45% | HAPPYFEET | 9 | Oscar-winning 2006 animated film set in a penguin colony |
| 44% | AIR | 3 | "Up in the ___" (2009 film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar) |
| 44% | SELMA | 5 | 2014 Oscar-nominated film set in Alabama |
| 44% | MOANA | 5 | Oscar-nominated Disney film set in Polynesia |
| 43% | MINARI | 6 | Oscar-nominated film about a South Korean family in rural Arkansas |
| 42% | PANSLABYRINTH | 13 | 2006 Guillermo del Toro dark fantasy film set in Spain that won three Oscars: 2 wds. |
| 42% | TODDFIELD | 9 | Director of Oscar nominated film Tar |
| 41% | THEWHALE | 8 | 2023 Oscar nominated film with Brendan Fraser |
| 41% | LUHRMANN | 8 | Baz, directed 2023 Oscar nominated film Elvis |
| 40% | RATSO | 5 | More familiar name for Enrico Rizzo in an Oscar-winning film |
| 39% | HIDDENFIGURES | 13 | Oscar-nominated film about NASA mathematicians, and a description of the countdown found in this puzzle? |
| 39% | IMITATIONOFLIFE | 15 | 1934 Oscar-nominated film whose title hints at the wordplay in three other long answers |
| 38% | NEILYOUNG | 9 | Oscar-nominated songwriter who starred in, co-wrote and co-directed 1982 film comedy Human Highway |
| 37% | HER | 3 | Oscar-nominated film starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with his phone's operating sytstem |
| 37% | NONCE | 5 | Most films take place in the ___ |
| 37% | ARGO | 4 | Oscar-winning film set in Iran |
| 37% | NICHOLSON | 9 | Most oscar-nominated actor |
| 37% | CARS | 4 | 2006 film set in Radiator Springs |
| 37% | RELOAD | 6 | Put in more film |
| 37% | RELOADS | 7 | Puts in more film |
| 37% | JOHN | 4 | Doe in many films |
| 37% | AGNES | 5 | "___ of God" (Oscar-nominated film set in a convent) |
| 36% | GORE | 4 | 2006 Oscar winner for his first film |
| 36% | ARGO | 4 | Oscar-winning film set partly in Iran |
| 36% | RYANGOSLING | 11 | "La La Land" Oscar-nominated actor who plays Ken in the 2023 film "Barbie" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | CARS | 4 | 2006 Pixar film set in Radiator Springs |