Possible Clues:

• Winner of screenwriting Oscars for the three quoted films
• Possibly deal with money bypassing the works director
• 'Match Point' writer/director
• ''Manhattan'' and four others
• Director of Ground Hog Day cutting corner in Jersey?
• ''Play It Again, Sam'' star
• Who wrote 'It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens'
• A LEWD LOONY, all mixed up
• Film maker's day off in product of 27, say