| KATHRYN | The first woman to win a 4 for best director (2009) (7,7) |
| BIGELOW | The first woman to win a 4 for best director (2009) |
| LAND | 2021 winner of the 4 for best film (9) |
| NOMAD | 2021 winner of the 4 for best film (9) |
| DISABUSING | Dicky is bad, being a 4 for setting right (10) |
| VIADUCT | Going over the channel, make up a four for bridge (7) |
| KATHRYNBIGELOW | First woman to win a best director Oscar, for the 2009 war film The Hurt Locker |
| CHIEFEXECUTIVE | I brought in cook to perform about 4 for boss (5,9) |
| YENTL | 1983 movie for which Barbra Streisand became the only woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Director |
| ZHAO | Who recently became only the second woman to win the Oscar for Best Director? (4) |
| MARIECURIE | The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only woman to have won it twice (for Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911) (5,5) |
| IRENE | This chemist and her husband received the 1935 Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity; she is also the daughter of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (first name only) |
| CHLOEZHAO | *Asian American who became only the second woman to win the Oscar for Best Director |
| EDITH | Forename of the novelist Wharton who drew inspiration from her experiences within the elite circles of New York's high society during the Gilded Age, becoming the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize ( |
| JANECAMPION | Kiwi who is only the third woman to win a Best Director Oscar (4,7) |
| CARDIB | First woman to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album as a solo artist |
| ANG | ___ Lee first Asian to win the Oscar for Best Director |
| BONG | --- Joon Ho, winner of the Academy Award for Best Director for the 2020 film Parasite (4) |
| HURTLOCKER | Movie with the first female winner of the Oscar for Best Director, with "The" |
| LAGERLOF | Swedish author of the children's classic The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature (8) |
