| 100% | JULIANFELLOWES | 14 | 18-Across and 44-Across writer/creator who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Gosford Park" (2 wds.) |
| 62% | HERBIEHANCOCK | 13 | American bandleader and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1986 movie "Round Midnight" (2 wds.) |
| 60% | MAURICEJARRE | 12 | French conductor and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1984 movie "A Passage to India" (2 wds.) |
| 60% | JOHNWILLIAMS | 12 | American conductor and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1982 movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (2 wds.) |
| 59% | ISAACHAYES | 10 | "Soul Man" singer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his work on the film "Shaft": 2 wds. |
| 50% | SIDNEYPOITIER | 13 | 15-Across, 30-Across, and "Lilies of the Field" star who was the first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor (2 wds.) |
| 50% | RIANJOHNSON | 11 | "Knives Out" screenwriter/director nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (2 wds.) |
| 50% | LOSEYOURSELF | 12 | Arguably Eminem's greatest hit, that was written for his biopic "8 Mile," that won an Academy Award for Best Original Song: 2 wds. |
| 49% | LEIGHBARDUGO | 12 | 18-Across and 29-Across writer whose novel "Ninth House" won the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy (2 wds.) |
| 49% | SIDNEYSHELDON | 13 | American author who wrote "If Tomorrow Comes", and won an Academy Award for "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer": 2 wds. |
| 49% | 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.) |
| 48% | STILLALICE | 10 | 2014 film for which 30-Across recently won an Academy Award for Best Actress: 2 wds. |
| 48% | BENKINGSLEY | 11 | Actor whose birthday it is today who won an Academy Award for playing Gandhi in the titular film and was knighted in 2002: 2 wds. |
| 47% | JULIEANDREWS | 12 | Performer who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the title character in her film debut, "Mary Poppins" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | DAVIDYAZBEK | 11 | 30-Across writer/composer who won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Original Score (2 wds.) |
| 47% | SHIRLEYBOOTH | 12 | Performer who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Lola Delaney in her film debut, "Come Back, Little Sheba" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | BRANDICARLILE | 13 | 18-Across and 42-Across singer who won a Best Country Song Grammy Award for "Bring My Flowers Now" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ANTHONYHOPKINS | 14 | "The Father" star who won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 2021, becoming the oldest person to win an acting Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 47% | MARLEEMATLIN | 12 | Performer who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Sarah Norman in her film debut, "Children of a Lesser God" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | AWHOLE | 6 | "___ New World," song from "Aladdin" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1993: 2 wds. |
| 46% | JAMESMCBRIDE | 12 | 15-Across and 47-Across writer who won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for "The Good Lord Bird" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | LIZAMINNELLI | 12 | Actress who won an Oscar for Best Actress for "Cabaret" and a Worst Actress Razzie Award for "Rent-a-Cop": 2 wds. |
| 45% | SEANCONNERY | 11 | Actor born in Scotland who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Jimmy Malone in "The Untouchables": 2 wds. |
| 45% | KENNETHBRANAGH | 14 | "Belfast" writer/director who won a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture in 2022 (2 wds.) |
| 44% | LETIT | 5 | "___ Go," song from the 2013 animated movie "Frozen" which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song: 2 wds. |
| 44% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | Actress who won an Oscar for Best Actress for "The Blind Side" and a Worst Actress Razzie Award for "All About Steve": 2 wds. |
| 44% | NICOLEKIDMAN | 12 | Actress who won an Oscar for Best Actress for "The Hours" and a Worst Screen Couple Razzie Award with Will Ferrell for "Bewitched": 2 wds. |
| 44% | LOVEYOU | 7 | "I Just Called to Say I ___," song from "The Woman in Red" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 44% | CHRISTIANBALE | 13 | Actor born in Wales who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Dick Dicky Eklund in the movie "The Fighter": 2 wds |
| 44% | EMILYHENRY | 10 | 18-Across, 26-Across, and 35-Across novelist who won the 2021, 2022, and 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance (2 wds.) |