| 100% | RATE | 4 | First-___ (best) |
| 100% | JANETGAYNOR | 11 | First Best Actress winner |
| 100% | EMIL | 4 | First Best Actor Jannings |
| 98% | EMIL | 4 | First Best Actor winner Jannings |
| 97% | GLAD | 4 | First good boy is happy |
| 96% | SHREK | 5 | First Best Animated Feature Oscar winner |
| 94% | LEMMON | 6 | First Best Actor/Supporting Actor Oscar winner |
| 90% | PSY | 3 | First well-known K-pop artist in America |
| 89% | WINGS | 5 | Oscar's first Best Picture (1927-28) |
| 88% | CHOICE | 6 | Best, first-class |
| 87% | EMIL | 4 | Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar |
| 86% | EVITA | 5 | First British Best Musical Tony winner |
| 84% | EMIL | 4 | Actor Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar |
| 84% | EMIL | 4 | Actor Jannings, winner of the first Best Actor Oscar |
| 84% | EMIL | 4 | Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar (1928) |
| 84% | WILLIAMAWELLMAN | 15 | Director of “Wings,” the first Best Picture winner [1896] |
| 84% | ROCKY | 5 | First sports movie to win Best Picture |
| 84% | ANG | 3 | First name of 2012's Best Director |
| 84% | BIGELOW | 7 | First female to win best director Oscar |
| 84% | BLACKPANTHER | 12 | First superhero film nominated for Best Picture |
| 82% | SHREK | 5 | Ogre protagonist of the first Best Animated Feature Oscar winner |
| 82% | BIGELOW | 7 | First woman to win Best Director Oscar, Kathryn __ |
| 82% | PARASITE | 8 | First foreign-language film to win Best Picture |
| 82% | EVITA | 5 | First British winner of the Best Musical Tony |
| 82% | KATHRYNBIGELOW | 14 | First woman to win a Best Director Oscar |
| 81% | ABLE | 4 | First word in the well-known Napoleonic palindrome |
| 81% | XXXXX | 5 | First words of a well-known "Walrus" song |
| 81% | DIAS | 4 | First to round the Cape of Good Hope |
| 80% | MEN | 3 | Wells' ''The First __ in the Moon'' |
| 80% | WINGS | 5 | 1927 drama starring Clara Bow; the first Best Picture Oscar winner |