| LENNYBRUCE | 1974 57-Across role (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination) |
| CARLBERNSTEIN | 1976 57-Across role (for which he received a BAFTA Best Actor nomination) |
| DEPP | He received a Best Actor nomination for playing 1-Across in 2004 |
| ZEROMOSTEL | Previous portrayer of 57 Across' role in 46 Across |
| MITTY | Walter ___ (57-Across role) |
| WATERSTON | Sam ___, American actor who a received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Killing Fields |
| LAURENCE | Actor, born Zvi Mosheh Skikne in Lithuania in 1928. 12 Actor, born Zvi Mosheh Skikne in Lithuania in 1928,who received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Roomat the Top (8,6) |
| HARVEY | Actor, born Zvi Mosheh Skikne in Lithuania in 1928. 12 Actor, born Zvi Mosheh Skikne in Lithuania in 1928,who received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Roomat the Top (8,6) |
| STARMAN | 1984 John Carpenter film for which Jeff Bridges received a Best Actor Oscar nomination |
| THETURNINGPOINT | 1977 film for which he received an Oscar nomination, playing someone much like himself |
| EASYRIDER | The 1969 film for which Jack Nicholson received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination (4,5) |
| ANNA | _ Christie, Eugene O'neill play for which he received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (4) |
| DEAN | Actor known for his work in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and the first to receive a posthumous Best Actor Oscar nomination (last name only) (4) |
| OPUS | "Mr. Holland's ___," 1995 film for which Richard Dreyfuss received a Best Actor nomination |
| GODSANDMONSTERS | Movie for which Ian McKellen received a Best Actor nomination |
| IAMSAM | 2001 drama for which Sean Penn received a Best Actor nomination |
| ARROWSMITH | Sinclair Lewis novel for which he received (but declined) the Pulitzer Prize |
| DOCTORZHIVAGO | Novel by Boris Pasternak for which he received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,7) |
| BIG | Movie for which Tom Hanks earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination |
| MIDLOTHIAN | In the Old Testament he received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (10) |
