| 100% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner the year before "12 Years a Slave" |
| 82% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture Oscar winner the year before "12 Years a Slave" |
| 73% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture the year before "12 Years a Slave" |
| 67% | CODA | 4 | Best Picture winner the year before "Everything Everywhere All at Once" |
| 67% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture before "12 Years a Slave" |
| 66% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture Oscar winner between "The Artist" and "12 Years a Slave" |
| 65% | BIRDMAN | 7 | Best Picture winner between "12 Years a Slave" and "Spotlight" |
| 59% | NYONGO | 6 | Lupita —, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for 12 Years a Slave |
| 56% | SOLOMONNORTHUP | 14 | Author of the 1853 memoir "Twelve Years a Slave," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| 55% | SLAVE | 5 | "12 Years a ___" (recent Best Picture Oscar winner) |
| 52% | ARGO | 4 | It won the Best Picture Oscar two years before "Birdman" |
| 51% | LUPITANYONGO | 12 | "12 Years a Slave" Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner who plays Nakia in Marvel's "Black Panther" (2 wds.) |
| 51% | SLAVE | 5 | "12 Years a ___" (Best Picture winner) |
| 51% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner at the 2013 Oscars, or a brand of cornstarch |
| 50% | EJIOFOR | 7 | Chiwetel —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for 12 Years a Slave |
| 50% | BEST | 4 | ___ Picture (Academy Award won by "12 Years a Slave") |
| 49% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture Oscar winner the year after "The Artist" |
| 48% | ARGO | 4 | Besides "Gigi," the only Best Picture winner with a four-letter name |
| 48% | YEARS | 5 | "12 ___ a Slave" (Best Picture Oscar winner in 2014) |
| 48% | CHIWETELEJIOFOR | 15 | Best Actor nominee for "12 Years a Slave" |
| 48% | NYONGO | 6 | "12 Years a Slave" Oscar winner Lupita __ |
| 48% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner whose name rhymes with a Coen brothers film set in the Midwest |
| 48% | GALADRIEL | 9 | Role for Cate Blanchett in a Best Picture winner of the two-thousands |
| 47% | STEVEMCQUEEN | 12 | "Bullitt" star, or the director of "12 Years a Slave": 2 wds. |
| 47% | HANNIBAL | 8 | 2001 movie that was a sequel to the 1991 Best Picture winner "The Silence of the Lambs" |
| 47% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a book with the subtitle Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century |
| 46% | SCARLETT | 8 | 1994 miniseries that was a sequel to the 1939 Best Picture winner "Gone With the Wind" |
| 46% | THEEVENINGSTAR | 14 | 1996 movie that was a sequel to the 1983 Best Picture winner "Terms of Endearment": 3 wds. |
| 46% | CHICAGO | 7 | Only Best Picture Oscar winner based on a Broadway musical since the 1960s |
| 45% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner with the line "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" |