| 100% | LIUCIXIN | 8 | Author who, in 2015, became the first Asian to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, for “The Three-Body Problem” |
| 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.) |
| 45% | 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.) |
| 45% | NKJEMISIN | 9 | First author to win a Hugo Award for every book in a trilogy |
| 45% | RAMIMALEK | 9 | Actor who became the first one of Egyptian heritage to win an Oscar for Best Actor in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 44% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | In 2017, she became the first woman to win two National Book Awards for fiction |
| 43% | NKJEMISIN | 9 | African-American sci-fi novelist who won three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel (3 wds.) |
| 43% | CARDI | 5 | ___ B, hip hop star who became the first female rapper to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album |
| 41% | AMERICANGODS | 12 | Novel by 39-Across that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel (2 wds.) |
| 41% | LOSEYOURSELF | 12 | First rap track to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song |
| 41% | SIDNEYPOITIER | 13 | First black person to win the Academy Award for Best Actor: 2 wds. |
| 41% | BEN | 3 | ___ Kingsley, actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "Gandhi" in 1982 |
| 40% | DOUGLAS | 7 | Michael ___, actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "Wall Street" in 1987 |
| 40% | HOFFMAN | 7 | Dustin ___, actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "Rain Man" in 1988 |
| 40% | LUISE | 5 | Rainer who was the first person to win two Academy Awards for acting |
| 40% | NIRO | 4 | Robert De ___, actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "Raging Bull" in 1980 |
| 40% | FONDA | 5 | Henry ___, actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "On Golden Pond" in 1981 |
| 40% | CHLOEZHAO | 9 | *Asian American who became only the second woman to win the Oscar for Best Director |
| 40% | ANG | 3 | ___ Lee, first Asian to win the Oscar for Best Director |
| 40% | NEWMAN | 6 | Paul ___, actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "The Color of Money" in 1986 |
| 40% | DANIEL | 6 | ___ Day-Lewis, actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "My Left Foot" in 1989 |
| 40% | JANNINGS | 8 | "The Last Command" actor Emil ___, who won the first Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 |
| 39% | HURT | 4 | William ___, actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie "Kiss of the Spider Woman" in 1985 |
| 39% | YOULLTHINKOFME | 14 | First song by 49-Across to win the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance (4 wds.) |
| 39% | ANG | 3 | Lee who was the first Asian to win a best-director Oscar |
| 39% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |
| 39% | PDJELICLARK | 11 | Writer whose "A Master of Djinn" won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2022 (3 wds.) |
| 39% | FRANK | 5 | ___ Borzage, film director who won the first Academy Award for the best director for "7th Heaven" in 1929 |
| 38% | RODDYRICCH | 10 | "The Box" rapper who won the BET Award for Best New Artist in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 38% | LOUISEPENNY | 11 | Canadian novelist who won the Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel five times (2 wds.) |