| 100% | TAR | 3 | 2022 Best Picture nominee about a disgraced conductor |
| 60% | BABE | 4 | Best Picture nominee about a pig |
| 58% | BLACKSWAN | 9 | 2011 Best Picture nominee about a ballet production |
| 56% | DUNE | 4 | 2022 Best Picture nominee set on a desert planet |
| 56% | CODA | 4 | 2022 Best Picture nominee with a mostly deaf cast |
| 56% | CODA | 4 | 2022 Best Picture winner about a mostly deaf family |
| 52% | CODA | 4 | 2022 Best Picture Oscar winner about a singer with a deaf family |
| 51% | TAR | 3 | 2023 Best Picture nominee starring Cate Blanchett as a famous conductor |
| 49% | DRIVE | 5 | ___ My Car (2022 Best Picture nominee about an actor and his chauffeur) |
| 47% | TAR | 3 | 2022 Best Picture nominee set largely in Berlin |
| 47% | ARRIVAL | 7 | 2016 Best Picture nominee about aliens |
| 47% | ARRIVAL | 7 | 2017 Best Picture Oscar nominee based on a Ted Chiang novella about aliens and linguistics |
| 46% | DUNKIRK | 7 | 2018 Best Picture nominee about an evacuation |
| 45% | MARTY | 5 | Best Picture winner about a Bronx butcher |
| 44% | VENUS | 5 | Williams portrayed in the 2022 Best Picture nominee "King Richard" |
| 43% | ILPOSTINO | 9 | 1994 Best Picture nominee about Pablo Neruda's friendship with his mailman |
| 42% | JUNO | 4 | 2007 Best Picture nominee with a mythological name |
| 42% | SELMA | 5 | 2014 Best Picture nominee depicting a famous march |
| 42% | BRAVERHEAT | 10 | Best Picture about a less cowardly police force? |
| 41% | FORESTGRUMP | 11 | Best Picture about a curmudgeon living in the woods? |
| 41% | ALLEY | 5 | "Nightmare ___" (2022 Best Picture nominee) |
| 41% | HER | 3 | 2013 Best Picture nominee in which a main character isn't human |
| 41% | BEERHUNTER | 10 | Best Picture adaptation about ... a search for the perfect brew, with "The"? |
| 41% | HER | 3 | 2013 Best Picture nominee with a major unseen female character |
| 40% | TAR | 3 | 2022 Todd Field film about a conductor |
| 39% | MINARI | 6 | 2021 Best Picture nominee with a title that loosely translates to "water celery" |
| 39% | ROCKY | 5 | 1976 film about a boxer that won the Best Picture Oscar |
| 39% | FIELDOFDREAMS | 13 | 1989 Best Picture nominee ... with a hint to 20-, 24-/27- and 32-/37-Across |
| 38% | PARASITE | 8 | 2020 Best Picture nominee that begins with a son lying his way into an English-tutoring job |
| 37% | THELONGEST | 10 | 1962 war film, a 1963 Best Picture Oscar nominee, about the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy |