| SCORSESE | Martin ___, Oscar-winning US film director (8) |
| OLIVER | ___ Stone, Oscar-winning US film director known for his political documentary films (6) |
| MOORE | Julianne _, Oscar-winning US actress (5) |
| FRIEDKIN | William, US film director who made The Exorcist in 1973 (8) |
| BERKELEY | Busby --------, US film director and musical choreographer (8) |
| CHARLTON | Academy Award winning US actor ___ Heston, whose movies include Planet Of The Apes, El Cid and BenHur (8) |
| FAULKNER | Nobel-winning US author of The Sound and the Fury |
| ANDERSON | US film director whose films include The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel (8) |
| JOHNFORD | Late great US film director known for his westerns (4,4) |
| DENIRO | Robert -, Oscar-winning US actor |
| EMMA | Oscar-winning US actress, ... Stone |
| SANDRA | ___ Bullock, Oscar-winning US actor (6) |
| RENEE | Double Oscar-winning US actress, ____ Zellweger (5) |
| REGINA | ___ King, Oscar-winning US actress (6) |
| MARYSTEENBURGEN | Oscar-winning US actress married to actor Ted Danson since 1995 (4,11) |
| SYDNEYPOLLACK | US film director who won a Best Director Oscar for the 1985 film Out of Africa (6,7) |
| DAVIDMAMET | Pulitzer Prize-winning US playwright, screenwriter and film director whose works include Speed-the-plow (1988) |
| STONE | Surname shared by US film director and US actress (5) |
| REDFORD | US actor embarrassed beside US film director (7) |
| CLINTEASTWOOD | Academy Award-winning US filmmaker and actor who starred in the films Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider and Heartbreak Ridge (5,8) |
