| CAPRA | Academy Award-winning director who became an army major during World War II |
| DANNY | Boyle, Oscar-winning director who shot Yesterday scenes in Gorleston (5) |
| ROBERT | ___ Benton Oscar-winning director who directed the 1994 film Nobody's Fool |
| MENDES | Formerly with the Donmar Warehouse, an Academy Award-winning director of films including Road to Perdition, Skyfall and the forthcoming 1917 (6) |
| CLINT | Legendary actor and Academy Award-winning director, _ Eastwood (5) |
| ELIA | Academy award-winning director Kazan |
| SCORSESE | Academy Award-winning director whose 1974 crime drama Mean Streets was the first of many collaborations with Robert De Niro (8) |
| AUDIE | ___ Murphy, most decorated US combat soldier of World War II, who became an actor after the war (5) |
| MEADE | George ?, Union Army Major General in the American Civil War who defeated Robert E Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 (5) |
| KYMMARSH | Presenter and actress who married army Major Scott Ratcliff (3,5) |
| ELIAKAZAN | 1998 Academy Honorary Award-winning director |
| VILLENEUVE | Four time (2001, 10, 11, 14) Gemini Award winning director Denis |
| EGOYAN | Two time (1995, 97) Gemini Award winning director Atom |
| CRONENBERG | Five time (1984, 89, 92, 96, 2003) Gemini Award winning director David |
| RONHOWARD | Happy Days actor who became an Oscar-winning director |
| DAMIANLEWIS | British actor who played US Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (6,5) |
| KUNUK | 2002 Gemini Award winning director Zacharias |
| POLLEY | 2008 Gemini Award winning director Sarah |
| AVADUVERNAY | Award-winning director of "Selma" |
| LTCOL | Army major's superior (abbr.) |
