There is a total of 27432 clues beginning with be
- Best Picture of 1951, with "An"
- Best Picture of 1954
- Best Picture of 1954 [see 17-Across]
- Best Picture of 1955
- Best Picture of 1958
- Best Picture of 1958, and a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Best Picture of 1960, with "The"
- Best Picture of 1963
- Best Picture of 1964
- Best Picture of 1965
- Best Picture of 1965, and a hint to the ends of 18-, 23-, 50- and 59-Across
- Best Picture of 1968
- Best Picture of 1969, as of 11/01/09?
- Best Picture of 1970
- Best Picture of 1971, with "The"
- Best Picture of 1976
- Best Picture of 1977
- Best Picture of 1978, to a baby?
- Best picture of 1980
- Best Picture of 1981
- Best Picture of 1982
- Best Picture of 1984
- Best Picture of 1986
- Best Picture of 1987
- Best Picture of 1988
- Best Picture of 1989
- Best Picture of 1992
- Best Picture of 1995
- Best Picture of 1996, with "The"
- Best Picture of 1997
- Best Picture of 1999
- Best Picture of 2000
- Best Picture of 2002
- Best Picture of 2005
- Best Picture of 2012
- Best Picture of 2013
- Best Picture of 2021
- Best Picture or Broadway musical
- Best Picture Oscar film for 2012
- Best Picture Oscar nominee directed by Ava DuVernay
- Best Picture Oscar nominee of 2010
- Best Picture Oscar nominee that lost to "The English Patient"
- Best Picture Oscar winner
- Best picture Oscar winner with The
- Best Picture Oscar winner after "Million Dollar Baby"
- Best Picture Oscar winner before "Ben-Hur"
- Best Picture Oscar winner before "Casablanca"
- Best Picture Oscar winner for '79
- Best Picture Oscar winner set in Iran
- Best Picture Oscar winner, 1996
- Best Picture partly adapted from a CIA operative's book
- Best Picture set in Iran
- Best Picture subject nine inches shorter than the actor who portrayed him
- Best Picture the year after "Gone With the Wind"
- Best Picture title locale the year after the West Side
- Best Picture winner "Out of ___"
- Best Picture winner about a Bronx butcher
- Best Picture winner adapted from a Colette novel
- Best Picture winner after "The Artist"
- Best Picture winner announced by Michelle Obama
- Best Picture winner based on an Edna Ferber novel
- Best Picture winner based on events of 1979-80
- Best Picture winner between "Forrest Gump" and "The English Patient"
- Best Picture winner directed by Ben Affleck
- Best Picture winner from 1976
- Best Picture winner from France
- Best Picture winner in 2013
- Best Picture winner of 1940
- Best Picture winner of 1958
- Best Picture winner of 1965 … or a description of the ends of 17-, 30- and 45-?
- Best Picture winner of 1976
- Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have
- Best Picture winner over "Life of Pi"
- Best Picture winner set in 1-Across
- Best Picture winner set in Iran
- Best Picture winner set in Paris
- Best Picture winner set in Tehran
- Best Picture winner that becomes an earlier Best Picture nominee when an “F” is added to the front
- Best Picture winner that was banned in Vietnam
- Best Picture winner, 1976
- Best Picture winner, 1977
- Best Picture, 1928-29
- Best Picture, 1943
- Best Picture, 1948
- Best Picture, 1949
- Best Picture, 1955
- Best Picture, 1958
- Best Picture, 1959
- Best Picture, 1960
- Best Picture, 1965
- Best Picture, 1968
- Best Picture, 1970
- Best Picture, 1974 (with The)
- Best Picture, 1976
- Best Picture, 1978 (with The)
- Best Picture, 1980
- Best Picture, 1981
- Best Picture-nominated 2011 film based on a children's book
- Best pie makers
- Best pitcher