| OCCIDENTAL | Fortuitous to get Oscar for a Western |
| PANTO | Long to get Oscar for dramatic entertainment (5) |
| BRANDO | Film star, type to get Oscar (6) |
| ESCARGOT | Snail movie to get Oscar (8) |
| EVENSO | Rocky VII to get Oscar nevertheless (4,2) |
| TARANTINO | Director books in to get Oscar after so long |
| PATHOS | Approach to get Oscar? Primarily suck feeling of sympathy (6) |
| CINCH | A girth for a western saddle; a firm grip or hold; a certainty; a doddle; or, a variant of the card game all-fours, also called double pedro or high five (5) |
| RON | Howard who won a Best Director Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind" |
| ADELE | First songwriter to win an Oscar for a James Bond theme |
| COTILLARD | Who in 2008 became the first actor/actress to win an Oscar for a performance in French? (9) |
| ASHCROFT | Who (Dame Peggy ___) won an Oscar for A Passage to India? (8) |
| LIVEANDLETDIE | Paul and Linda McCartney were nominated for an Oscar for a song in which Bond film? (4,3,3,3) |
| KIMHUNTER | American actress, born Janet Cole in 1922, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire (3,6) |
| APOLLO | Handsome young man may get Oscar after a ballot (6) |
| TOSCA | In the end, win Oscar for a musical work (5) |
| JULIAROBERTS | Actress who won an Oscar for a 2000 film (2) |
| NICOLEKIDMAN | Actress who won an Oscar for a 2002 film (2) |
| KLINE | Kevin who won an Oscar for "A Fish Called Wanda" |
| RANGE | Place for a western home? |
