| ROBERTOROSSELLINI | Italian director noted for his 1945 film Rome, Open City (7,10) |
| ALDO | Fabrizi of 1945's "Rome, Open City" |
| RICHARDWRIGHT | His 1945 autobiography is titled "Black Boy" (2 wds.) |
| EPILOG | Two records one in Rome opens and one in Washington concludes (6) |
| ALFRED | Film director noted for his camera work and for his "walk-ons" in his own films (6,9) |
| HITCHCOCK | Film director noted for his camera work and for his "walkons" in his own films (6,9) |
| NANNI | ____ Moretti, Italian film director noted for his 2002 film The Son's Room (5) |
| INGMAR | ____ Bergman, Swedish film director noted for his 1957 film The Seventh Seal (6) |
| ROHMER | Eric, French New Wave film director noted for his 1986 film The Green Ray (6) |
| KUROSAWA | Akira, Japanese film director noted for his film Seven Samurai (8) |
| OPHULS | Max, film director noted for his 1957 film Lola Montes, about a dancer (6) |
| GUADAGNINO | Luca, film director noted for his 2017 film Call Me By Your Name (10) |
| ZEFFIRELLI | Franco -; Italian film director noted for his 1968 dramatisation of Romeo and Juliet and Brother Sun, Sister Moon (10) |
| BESSON | Luc, French director noted for his 1997 sci-fi film The Fifth Element (6) |
| WILDER | Billy, director noted for his 1959 film Some Like It Hot (6) |
| WIMWENDERS | German director noted for his 1984 film Paris, Texas starring Harry Dean Stanton (3,7) |
| FRIEDKIN | William, director noted for his 1974 film The Exorcist (8) |
| MILOSFORMAN | Czech director noted for his film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (5,6) |
| CRONENBERG | David _ Canadian director noted for his film 'Crash' (10) |
| EISENSTEIN | Sergei _ director noted for his 1925 film 'Battleship Potemkin' (10) |
