| FELLINI | Film director who made La Dolce Vita (7) |
| KUBRICK | Film director who made The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and 2001: A Space Odyssey (7) |
| CAROLREED | English film director who made the 1968 film musical Oliver! (5,4) |
| CAPRA | Frank, US film director who made the 1946 classic Christmas film It's A Wonderful Life (5) |
| HODGES | Mike, English film director who made the 1971 gangster film Get Carter (6) |
| KENLOACH | Much-lauded British film director who made I, Daniel Blake (3,5) |
| FRIEDKIN | William, US film director who made The Exorcist in 1973 (8) |
| ANG | Taiwanese-US film director who made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (3,3) |
| LEE | Taiwanese-US film director who made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (3,3) |
| ROEG | Nicolas ___ , English film director who made Don't Look Now and Performance, d. 2018 (4) |
| RICHARD | First name of the director who made the movie often screened on October 2nd |
| SENNETT | Mack, US. film director who produced many silent films for the Keystone Company (7) |
| USTINOV | Surname of the knighted actor, writer and film director, who published the autobiography Dear Me (7) |
| CAMERON | Oscar-winning film director who piloted a submersible to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in 2012 (7) |
| SNYDER | Zack, director who made his feature film debut with the 2004 film Dawn Of The Dead (6) |
| MICHAELPOWELL | Director who made Peeping Tom (7,6) |
| SCORSESE | Martin, U.S. director who made the 2014 black comedy film The Wolf Of Wall Street (8) |
| SIRJOHNGIELGUD | English actor and director who made notable appearances as Wolsey in Henry VIII, Gayev in The Cherry Orchard, etc. (3,4,7) |
| ANTONIONI | Italian director who made 1966's Blow-up, Michelangelo --------- (9) |
| SAMMENDES | British stage and screen director who made Skyfall |