100% | NOMINEE | 7 | One praised in an Oscar winner's speech, maybe |
44% | THANK | 5 | Word in an Oscar acceptance speech |
44% | THANK | 5 | Name-check in an Oscar speech |
42% | AGENT | 5 | Recipient of thanks in an Oscars acceptance speech |
42% | AGENT | 5 | Representative who may be thanked in an Oscar speech |
40% | LOREN | 5 | 1961 Oscar winner in an Italian-language role |
40% | THANK | 5 | Do an Oscar winner's job |
39% | SEALVELOPE | 10 | It contains an Oscar winner's name |
39% | TILDASWINTON | 12 | "Michael Clayton" Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner who plays The Ancient One in Marvel's "Doctor Strange" (2 wds.) |
38% | HUSBAND | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote about An Ideal one in 1895 |
37% | FOSSE | 5 | Winner of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony in 1973 |
37% | COLINFIRTH | 10 | Oscar winner for "The King's Speech" |
36% | SPEECH | 6 | Acceptance ___ (one delivered by an Oscar winner, say) |
36% | ALLAH | 5 | One praised in Mecca |
36% | ITEM | 4 | One of 10 in an express checkout lane, maybe |
36% | GEORGECLOONEY | 13 | "Syriana" Oscar winner who was honored with an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018 (2 wds.) |
35% | SEANPENN | 8 | Oscar winner who made his debut in an episode of Little House on the Prairie directed by his father |
35% | OVERTHE | 7 | 1975 Oscar winner: One Flew __ Cuckoo's Nest |
35% | NICOLEKIDMAN | 12 | "The Hours" Oscar winner who was honored with an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2024 (2 wds.) |
35% | JULIEANDREWS | 12 | "Mary Poppins" Oscar winner who was honored with an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022 (2 wds.) |
35% | BMOVIE | 6 | An Oscar winner it isn't |
35% | ERA | 3 | One's time in office, maybe |
35% | PLANE | 5 | One in an airline's fleet |
35% | ELEVES | 6 | Ones in an instituteur's care |
35% | OATER | 5 | One of an old drive-in double feature, maybe |
35% | OBE | 3 | Judi Dench, '98 Oscar winner for "Shakespeare in Love", had also received one of these in '70 (abbr.) |
34% | DOC | 3 | One who's an -ologist, maybe |
34% | TIN | 3 | Metal in an Oscar statuette |
34% | FIRTH | 5 | Colin who won an Oscar for "The King's Speech" |
34% | ACHY | 4 | Like one's arm after an injection, maybe |