| MENDES | Formerly with the Donmar Warehouse, an Academy Award-winning director of films including Road to Perdition, Skyfall and the forthcoming 1917 (6) |
| WAJDA | Polish award winning director of "The Promised Land" and "Samson," Andrzej ___ |
| AVADUVERNAY | Award-winning director of "Selma" |
| CAPRA | Multi-Oscar-winning director of films including It Happened One Night and It's a Wonderful Life (5) |
| SOFIA | - Coppola, Oscar-winning director of films including 2003's Lost in Translation (5) |
| SCORSESE | Academy Award-winning director whose 1974 crime drama Mean Streets was the first of many collaborations with Robert De Niro (8) |
| ELIA | Academy award-winning director Kazan |
| CLINT | Legendary actor and Academy Award-winning director, _ Eastwood (5) |
| FREE | Born -; based on a book by Joy Adamson, an Academy Award-winning film set in Kenya about Elsa the lioness (4) |
| PURPLERAIN | Prince film with an Academy Award-winning soundtrack |
| GANDHI | Mahatma -; Indian nationalist and spiritual leader portrayed by Ben Kingsley in an Academy Award-winning film (6) |
| REBECCA | Novel by Daphne du Maurier that was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940 (7) |
| JOHATHAN | And 13 Oscar-winning director of the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs (8,5) |
| BILLYWILDER | Oscar-winning director of the films The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Apartment (1960) (5,6) |
| CAMPION | Oscar-winning director of The Piano and The Power Of The Dog, Jane - - - (7) |
| BENEKING | Formerly with The Drifters, he had a No 1 hit with "Stand By Me" (3-1-4) |
| TSOTSI | Athol Fugard novel adapted as an Academy Award-winning film |
| MILOSFORMAN | Oscar-winning director of the films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
| ELIAKAZAN | 1998 Academy Honorary Award-winning director |
| KEITHJARRETT | Pennsylvania-born jazz pianist formerly with the Charles Lloyd Quartet (5,7) |
