Across
- 5. Idealistic to the point of being impractical
- 6. Media mogul who built billion-dollar empire
- 9. Meta CEO who dropped out of Harvard
- 13. Layered traces of the past
- 14. Sharply biting in tone
- 15. Perfectionist who demanded 100+ takes
- 17. Microsoft founder turned philanthropist
- 20. Apple CEO who succeeded Steve Jobs
- 21. Stubbornly resistant to change
- 24. CODE, Censorship system that kept couples in separate beds
- 27. Godfather director who nearly went bankrupt
- 29. Israel's longest-serving prime minister
- 30. Jump cut inventor who died by assisted suicide
- 31. Cynical filmmaker who made Some Like It Hot
- 34. Florida's anti-woke governor
- 36. California governor with presidential ambitions
- 39. Prestigious French film festival with Palme d'Or
- 41. Second-term president who returned in 2024
- 42. Director who invented the summer blockbuster
- 44. German chancellor supporting Ukraine
- 47. Gradually and insidiously harmful
- 48. Strongly evocative of something
- 49. Eras Tour superstar dating an NFL tight end
- 50. Podcast host with massive male audience
Down
- 1. ERA, Jaws and Star Wars ushered this in
- 2. Taxi Driver director still making films at 81
- 3. Using very few words
- 4. France's youngest president in modern history
- 7. SAM, OpenAI CEO behind ChatGPT
- 8. Italy's first female prime minister
- 10. THEORY, French idea of director as author
- 11. Weinstein brothers' indie film empire
- 12. Former KGB agent ruling Russia for decades
- 16. Seven Samurai director who influenced Star Wars
- 18. Redford's indie film festival in Utah
- 19. ACTING, Strasberg's technique of emotional authenticity
- 22. Amazon founder who went to space
- 23. DECREE, 1948 ruling that broke up studio monopolies
- 25. Master of suspense with signature cameos
- 26. JOHN, Western director who won four Oscars
- 28. NEW WAVE, Truffaut and Godard's rebellious cinema movement
- 32. In-between state, neither here nor there
- 33. Oracle of Omaha still investing at 94
- 35. Glowing with intensity
- 37. Bubbly and full of energy
- 38. Overlapping dialogue pioneer of Nashville
- 40. Modern indie studio behind Everything Everywhere All at Once
- 43. Former Dutch PM now leading NATO
- 45. India's Hindu nationalist prime minister
- 46. Comedian turned wartime Ukrainian leader