| SYDNEYPOLLACK | US film director who won a Best Director Oscar for the 1985 film Out of Africa (6,7) |
| GODS | Hit film out of Africa in the Eighties, The ... Must Be Crazy |
| SIDDFINCH | Pitcher with a 168-mph fastball dreamed up by George Plimpton for the 1985 April Fools' Day issue of |
| BROOKS | American actor/ writer/director who won a 9 across (surname) (6) |
| ROBERTREDFORD | He won the Best Director Oscar for the first film he directed, 1980's "Ordinary People" |
| NORMANJEWISON | Film director who won Oscars for In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, and Moonstruck |
| INGMARBERGMAN | Swedish film director who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Fanny and Alexander (6,7) |
| SPIELBERG | Steven, U.S. film director who won his first Best Director Oscar for the 1993 film Schindler's List (9) |
| CLINTEASTWOOD | Actor/director who won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby (5,8) |
| MILOSFORMAN | Czech film maker who won a Best Director Oscar for the 1975 film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (5,6) |
| ALFONSOCUARON | First Mexican to win the Best Director Oscar (for "Gravity"): 2 wds. |
| EASTWOOD | Clint ___, U.S. actor who won a Best Director Oscar for the 2004 film Million Dollar Baby (8) |
| WARRENBEATTY | American actor and filmmaker who won a Best Director Oscar for the 1981 film Reds (6,6) |
| AKIRAKUROSAWA | Director of the 1985 film Ran |
| CHRISTOPHER | Filmmaker who won the Best Director Oscar for the 2023 film Oppenheimer (11,5) |
| NOLAN | Filmmaker who won the Best Director Oscar for the 2023 film Oppenheimer (11,5) |
| JAMESLBROOKS | He won the Best Director Oscar for the first film he directed, 1983's "Terms of Endearment" |
| FRANK | ___ Borzage film director who won the first Academy Award for the best director for 7th Heaven in 1929 |
| WES | Anderson who was nominated for the Best Director Oscar for "The Grand Budapest Hotel" |
| OLIVERSTONE | Winner of the Best Director Oscar for the 1986 film Platoon (6,5) |
