| 100% | JANECAMPION | 11 | New Zealand-born director whose 1993 film "The Piano" won three Oscars: 2 wds. |
| 47% | JAMESCAMERON | 12 | Filmmaker who won three Oscars (Best Picture, Director, and Film Editing) for 1997's "Titanic": 2 wds. |
| 44% | PETERJACKSON | 12 | Filmmaker who won three Oscars (Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay) for 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King": 2 wds. |
| 41% | INGRIDBERGMAN | 13 | Actress who won three Oscars, for "Gaslight," "Anastasia," and "Murder on the Orient Express": 2 wds. |
| 40% | GEORGEMILLER | 12 | Director whose birthday it is today, who directed the 1979 film "Mad Max": 2 wds. |
| 37% | JACKNICHOLSON | 13 | Actor who won three Oscars, for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Terms of Endearment," and "As Good as It Gets": 2 wds. |
| 36% | HOLLYHUNTER | 11 | Best Actress Oscar winner for her role in the 1993 film "The Piano" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | JAMESLBROOKS | 12 | He won the Best Director Oscar for the first film he directed, 1983's "Terms of Endearment": 3 wds. |
| 36% | JANECAMPION | 11 | Woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar for 1993's "The Piano": 2 wds. |
| 34% | TAIKAWAITITI | 12 | New Zealand actor/filmmaker who codirected "What We Do in the Shadows": 2 wds. |
| 34% | JOELCOEN | 8 | Oscar-winning writer/director whose first film project without his brother is "The Tragedy of Macbeth" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | ALFONSOCUARON | 13 | Mexico-born director who won an Oscar for "Gravity": 2 wds. |
| 34% | WALTERBRENNAN | 13 | "The Real McCoys" actor who won three Oscars, for "Come and Get It," "Kentucky," and "The Westerner": 2 wds. |
| 33% | THEHURTLOCKER | 13 | Oscar-winning film whose Oscar-winning director is spelled out by the letters cutting the circled Oscar-winning directors |
| 33% | MARTINSCORSESE | 14 | New Hollywood director who won an Oscar for "The Departed," and is the most-nominated director alive in terms of Oscars: 2 wds. |
| 33% | TAIKAWAITITI | 12 | "Jojo Rabbit" director who was born in New Zealand in 1975: 2 wds. |
| 33% | JAMESLBROOKS | 12 | Filmmaker who won three Oscars (Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay) for 1983's "Terms of Endearment": 3 wds. |
| 32% | JACKIESLATER | 12 | Pro Football Hall of Famer whose son Matthew has won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots (2 wds.) |
| 32% | INGMARBERGMAN | 13 | Oscar-winning director born in 1918 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | PANSLABYRINTH | 13 | 2006 Guillermo del Toro dark fantasy film set in Spain that won three Oscars: 2 wds. |
| 32% | WILMARUDOLPH | 12 | US track-and-field star who won three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics: 2 wds. |
| 32% | JONATHANDEMME | 13 | Director of the Oscar-winning psychological thriller film, "The Silence of the Lambs": 2 wds. |
| 32% | SCHINDLERSLIST | 14 | 1993 film for which 46-Across won a Grammy Award and an Oscar (2 wds.) |
| 32% | QUIETMAN | 8 | The —, 1952 comedy-drama film for which John Ford won a Best Director Oscar |
| 32% | DARATORRES | 10 | American swimmer who won three silver medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics at age 41: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ALFONSOCUARON | 13 | Best Director Oscar winner for the 2018 film "Roma": 2 wds. |
| 31% | MIKENICHOLS | 11 | New Hollywood director of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" who won the Best Director Oscar for his second film, "The Graduate": 2 wds. |
| 31% | VICTORFLEMING | 13 | Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 |
| 31% | JUDAS | 5 | "___ and the Black Messiah," film starring Daniel Kaluuya that won 2 Oscars in 2021 |
| 31% | ZHANGYIMOU | 10 | Chinese film director whose movies include "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers": 2 wds. |