| 100% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner for 2012 that was based on a CIA operation |
| 43% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a 2017 book |
| 42% | GIGI | 4 | 1958 Best Picture winner based on a Colette novel |
| 40% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a book with the subtitle Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century |
| 40% | ARGO | 4 | Film about a fake CIA mission that received the Best Picture Oscar for 2012 |
| 39% | SHORT | 5 | "The Big ___" (2015 film that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar) |
| 38% | OLIVER | 6 | 1968 musical based on an 18-/41-Across novel, winner of the Oscar for Best Picture |
| 38% | THEBIGSHORT | 11 | 2015 financial dramedy starring 20-Across that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar (3 wds.) |
| 37% | THEIMPOSSIBLE | 13 | A 2012 disaster drama based on a 2004 Tsunami survivor, for which Naomi Watts was nominated for an Oscar: 2 wds. |
| 37% | PLATOON | 7 | Best Picture winner that was banned in Vietnam |
| 37% | LOLITA | 6 | 1997 film starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith that is based on a Nabokov novel |
| 37% | HAMELIN | 7 | "The Pied Piper of ___," poem written by Robert Browning that is based on a folktale |
| 36% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner based on events of 1979-80 |
| 36% | CATS | 4 | Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 creation that was based on a T.S. Eliot poetry collection |
| 36% | ALIENS | 6 | "Cowboys & ___," 2011 Daniel Craig movie that is based on a graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg |
| 36% | RAINMAN | 7 | Best Picture winner based on the life of Kim Peek |
| 36% | BIGLITTLELIES | 13 | HBO drama series starring Reese Witherspoon that was based on a bestselling Liane Moriarty novel: 3 wds. |
| 36% | MASK | 4 | "The ___," 1994 Jim Carrey movie that is based on a comic book series by Dark Horse Comics |
| 36% | SAINT | 5 | "___ Joan," play written in 1923 by George Bernard Shaw that is based on a legendary French heroine |
| 36% | DENNIS | 6 | "___ the Menace," 1993 live-action film starring Mason Gamble that is based on a popular comic strip |
| 36% | CHICAGO | 7 | Only Best Picture Oscar winner based on a Broadway musical since the 1960s |
| 36% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner based on the memoir "The Master of Disguise" |
| 36% | RATEDG | 6 | Like "Oliver!" (the only Best Picture winner that is) |
| 35% | DICE | 4 | Cubes that may be blown on for good luck in a casino |
| 35% | ADOGSTALE | 9 | "Hachi: ___," movie starring Richard Gere that is based on a true story of a dog named Hachiko: 3 wds. |
| 35% | RUINS | 5 | "Adam ___ Everything," TV show starring Adam Conover that is based on a CollegeHumor web series of the same name |
| 35% | ARGO | 4 | Ben Affleck-directed Best Picture winner about a hostage-escape operation |
| 35% | GOAL | 4 | "Next ___ Wins," sports comedy film directed by Taika Waititi that is based on a 2014 documentary of the same name |
| 35% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture based on a hostage crisis |
| 34% | RAY | 3 | 2004 biopic that was a Best Picture nominee |