| REVENANT | With "The": In¡rritu won his second of two consecutive Best Director awards in 2015 for this drama set in 19th-century Dakota Territory |
| HANKS | Winner of two consecutive Best Actor Oscars |
| JOELMCHALE | "The Great Indoors" actor who hosted the ESPY Awards in 2015: 2 wds. |
| EARP | Role that won Costner his second of three Worst Actor Razzie Awards |
| OSCAR | Best director award / 1983 crime drama ... |
| SPENCERTRACY | 20th-Century American actor who won two consecutive Best Actor Oscars, for Captains Courageous and Boys Town (7,5) |
| BABEL | Mexican director Alejandro Gonz¡lez In¡rritu turns 60 today; he earned his first Best Director nomination for this 2006 drama |
| MANBOOKERPRIZE | Award won by Marlon James, in 2015, for "A Brief History of Seven Killings" |
| PRINCEFIELDER | Rangers designated hitter who won the MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award in 2015: 2 wds. |
| CANTERBURYTALES | Story collection (with "The") in which the surnames in the starred answers are characters |
| COLSONWHITEHEAD | Novelist who won his second Pulitzer in four years, the most recent for "The Nickel Boys" |
| RUDYGOBERT | Jazz center who won his second consecutive Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2019: 2 wds. |
| KAWHILEONARD | Clippers small forward who won his second consecutive Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2016: 2 wds. |
| MCAT | Exam with a Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills section beginning in 2015, for short |
| SMOKEYROBINSON | The Tears of a Clown singer who received the BET Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015: 2 wds. |
| LASTPOST | In the British Army, the second of two bugle calls signalling the end of the day, originally sounded after a duty officer's inspection of a camp (4,4) |
| MCINTYRE | Drew ___ , ring name of the Scottish professional wrestler who won his second WWE title in 2020 (8) |
| VITO | ___ Corleone (role for which Marlon Brando won his second Oscar for Best Actor) |
| ADRIENBRODY | American actor who recently won his second Best Actor Oscar for The Brutalist (6,5) |
| THEWEDDINGFEAST | Name that has been used for both of two consecutive parables in Luke 14 |
