| RUSSELLCROWE | New Zealand-born Academy Award-winning actor whose film roles include Maximus, Wendell 'Bud' White, Jack Aubrey, Inspector Javert and Jor-El (7,5) |
| GENEHACKMAN | Two-time Academy Award-winning actor whose movies include The French Connection and Mississippi Burning (4,7) |
| HANKS | Tom _, Oscar-winning actor whose films include 1993's Philadelphia (6) |
| ROTH | Academy Award-winning actor Tim ___, whose movies include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Rob Roy (4) |
| PHILIP | Academy Award-winning actor who played the title role in the movie Capote, and whose films include Doubt, Charlie Wilson's War, The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Boat That Rocked (6,7,7) |
| SEANPENN | Two-time Academy Award-winning actor for his roles in Mystic River and Milk (4,4) |
| NIVEN | English Academy Award-winning actor best known as Phileas Fogg in 'Around the World in Eighty Days', |
| JIMBROADBENT | academy award winning actor seen in The Iron Lady (3,9) |
| PECK | Academy Award winning actor who played Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, Gregory ... |
| DENIRO | Academy Award-winning actor, Robert _ _ (2,4) |
| LANGE | Academy Award-winning actor, Jessica ----- (5) |
| GIG | Academy Award-winning actor ___ Young |
| DICAPRIO | Academy Award-winning actor and environmentalist Leonardo ___ (8) |
| CAGEY | Secretive Academy Award-winning actor concealing name (5) |
| PAULNEWMAN | Oscar-winning actor whose wife was an Oscar-winning actress |
| ALDA | Multi-Emmy-winning actor whose first and last names start with the same two letters |
| BRANAGH | Award-winning actor and film director/producer born Belfast 1960 (7) |
| PESCI | Oscar-winning actor whose name is Italian for "fishes" |
| GEOFFREYRUSH | Academy, Tony and Emmy award- winning actor from Australia (8,4) |
| GIELGUD | Oscar-, Emmy-, Grammy- and Tony Award-winning actor remembered for his resonant voice and interpretations of Shakespearean characters (7) |