| 100% | MINARI | 6 | 2021 Best Picture nominee with a title that loosely translates to "water celery" |
| 41% | FIELDOFDREAMS | 13 | 1989 Best Picture nominee ... with a hint to 20-, 24-/27- and 32-/37-Across |
| 39% | JUNO | 4 | 2007 Best Picture nominee with a mythological name |
| 39% | PARASITE | 8 | 2020 Best Picture nominee that begins with a son lying his way into an English-tutoring job |
| 38% | CODA | 4 | 2022 Best Picture nominee with a mostly deaf cast |
| 38% | HER | 3 | 2013 Best Picture nominee with a major unseen female character |
| 35% | BABEL | 5 | 2006 Best Picture nominee that lost to "The Departed" |
| 34% | DRZHIVAGO | 9 | 1966 Best Picture nominee that used beeswax to create an ice palace |
| 33% | BETTER | 6 | "___ the Devil You Know," 1990 song by Kylie Minogue with a title that refers to a common idiom |
| 32% | FARGO | 5 | North Dakota city that shares its name with a Best Picture nominee |
| 32% | JAWS | 4 | Best Picture nominee with three sequels |
| 32% | HIDDENFIGURES | 13 | 2016 Best Picture nominee ... or a hint to the circled letters in 20-, 25- and 43-Across |
| 31% | RYAN | 4 | Title role in a 1999 Best Picture nominee |
| 31% | CAT | 3 | Tortoiseshell ___, feline with a colorful coat that is believed to bring good luck and money |
| 31% | PRAT | 4 | 12-Down that loosely translates to “dumbass” |
| 30% | RAY | 3 | 2004 biopic that was a Best Picture nominee |
| 30% | BABE | 4 | Best Picture nominee about a pig |
| 30% | MINARI | 6 | 2021 Best Picture nominee starring Steven Yeun and Youn Yuh-jung |
| 30% | HALO | 4 | Beyoncé song with a title that describes a saintly glow |
| 30% | YOU | 3 | Penn Badgley series with a title that's a pronoun |
| 29% | THESONGOF | 9 | With 24-Across, 2011 Madeline Miller novel that became a 2021 hit thanks to TikTok: 3 wds. |
| 29% | WINE | 4 | Fine ___, rhyming phrase that refers to enhancement with time, just like a well-cellared Cabernet |
| 29% | AVON | 4 | River in England with a name that translates to "river" in Celtic language |
| 29% | SEABISCUIT | 10 | Sports film that was a 2003 Best Picture nominee |
| 29% | THEVVITCH | 9 | 2015 horror film with a title that mimics colonial-era lettering |
| 29% | SCARLETT | 8 | 1994 miniseries that was a sequel to the 1939 Best Picture winner "Gone With the Wind" |
| 29% | THEPRINCE | 9 | Machiavelli treatise with a chapter that considers “whether it is better to be loved than feared” |
| 29% | THEGRADUATE | 11 | Best Picture nominee that debuted in December 1967 (2 wds.) |
| 29% | BASTILLE | 8 | Band with the album "Bad Blood" that was a first-time Grammy nominee for Best New Artist |
| 29% | MAHARISHI | 9 | Title that translates to "great sage" |