| Director Weir | 13 |
| Director Welles | 15 |
| Director Wenders | 16 |
| Director Wertmüller | 22 |
| Director Wertmuller, et al | 26 |
| Director who cowrote "Giant Steps to Change the World" | 64 |
| Director who doesn't build wooden toilets | 45 |
| Director who had to have "Life of Pi" explained to him over and over before he agreed to adapt it? | 108 |
| Director who puts a creative stamp on a film | 44 |
| Director who won three Oscars | 29 |
| Director who's been around the block a few times? | 53 |
| Director whose last film was 1990's "Stanley & Iris" | 70 |
| Director whose work has been nominated for 123 Academy Awards | 61 |
| Director with 21 Tonys | 22 |
| Director with a distinctive style | 33 |
| Director with a unique style | 28 |
| Director with complete control over a film | 42 |
| Director with three Best Foreign Film Oscars | 44 |
| Director with three Oscars | 26 |
| Director Woody | 14 |
| Director Zach | 13 |
| Director Zeffirelli | 19 |
| Director __ B. DeMille | 22 |
| Director __ Lee | 15 |
| Director ___ C. Kenton | 22 |
| Director ___ Lee | 16 |
| Director ___ Stroheim | 21 |
| Director's "Done with this segment!" | 50 |
| Director's "Start!" | 33 |
| Director's "start" | 32 |
| Director's "Stop!" | 32 |
| Director's admonition | 25 |
| Director's alternative to a dolly | 37 |
| Director's call | 19 |
| Director's challenge | 24 |
| Director's command | 22 |
| Director's concern | 22 |
| Director's cry | 18 |
| Director's cry to an underactor? | 36 |
| Director's cry, on the set | 30 |
| Director's cutoff | 21 |
| Director's directees | 24 |
| Director's direction | 24 |
| Director's directive | 24 |
| Director's directive, perhaps | 33 |
| Director's do-over | 22 |
| Director's do-overs | 23 |
| Director's dream | 20 |
| Director's edit of a war film with a more adorable treaty-signing scene? | 76 |
| Director's electrician | 26 |
| Director's fear | 19 |
| Director's first name | 25 |
| Director's frantic cry | 26 |
| Director's headache | 23 |
| Director's instruction | 26 |
| Director's milieu | 21 |
| Director's opposite | 23 |
| Director's option | 21 |
| Director's order | 20 |
| Director's place | 20 |
| Director's prerogative | 26 |
| Director's race | 19 |
| Director's right | 20 |
| Director's role, at times | 29 |
| Director's role, often | 26 |
| Director's second try | 25 |
| Director's shoot | 20 |
| Director's shout | 20 |
| Director's shout on the set of a zombie movie? | 50 |
| Director's soundtrack instruction | 37 |
| Director's trio | 19 |
| Director's unit | 19 |
| Director's word | 19 |
| Director's workplace | 24 |
| Director, writer and actor in "The Woman in Red," 1984 | 64 |
| Director-actor Brooks | 21 |
| Director-author Kazan | 21 |
| Director-dramatist | 18 |
| Director-producer Roger's attention? | 40 |
| Director-turned-disco singer? | 29 |
| Director-type | 13 |
| Director/ screenwriter Penn | 27 |
| Director/actor Braff of "Garden State" | 48 |
| Director/choreographer Bob of "All That Jazz" | 55 |
| Director/choreographer of "Gold Diggers of 1935" | 58 |
| Director/poet? | 14 |
| Director/writer Ephron | 22 |
| Director? | 9 |
| Directorial demand | 18 |
| Directorial phrase | 18 |
| Directories | 11 |
| Directors | 9 |
| Directors Ang and Spike | 23 |
| Directors are ___ | 17 |
| Directors at a square dance | 27 |
| Directors at the construction site? | 35 |
| Directors Ethan and Joel | 24 |
| Directors Ferrara and Gance | 27 |
| Directors in charge of downsizing? | 34 |
| Directors Mendes and Peckinpah | 30 |