| BOYHOOD | Favourite to win the Best Picture Oscar at next month's Academy Awards. (7) |
| THREE | ___ Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, favourite to win the Best Picture Oscar this year (5) |
| ROCK | Who will host next month's Academy Awards? (4) |
| ABRAHAMSON | Which Irish director is up for an Oscar at next Sunday's Academy Awards? (10) |
| NHL | Sports org. recently told by the Czech goverment not to have Russian players at next month's Global Series games |
| REBECCA | Only Hitchcock film to win the Best Picture Oscar |
| BIGELOW | Kathryn _, first woman to win the Best Director Oscar (7) |
| RYLANCE | Which Englishman won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at the recent Academy Awards? (7) |
| NOMADLAND | This film, starring Frances McDormand, is the odds-on favourite to win Best Picture at this month's Academy Awards. (9) |
| GRAVITY | Film for which Alfonso Cuaron received a Best Director Oscar at the 2014 awards |
| PLUMMER | Oldest person to be nominated for an acting Oscar, at age 88 (7) |
| LAMPOON | Ridicule learner in the morning with Penny and Oscar at work (7) |
| WEBSITE | Case of wine, sandwiches, bubbly, bites at next stop (7) |
| WESTSIDESTORY | Film which in 1962 was the first of four musicals to win the Best Picture Oscar during the 1960s (4,4,5) |
| RATEDR | Like eight of the past ten films to win the Best Picture Oscar |
| AVOCADO | Fruity type of Cava drunk entertaining Oscar at party (7) |
| OCARINA | Son leaves Oscar at home with a ceramic instrument (7) |
| ABIGAIL | Was nominated for an Oscar at age 10, - Breslin (7) |
| ENTAILS | Demands some muesli at next retreat (7) |
| COMPETE | Come without favourite to try for the prize (7) |
