Related Clues:

• Oscar category word
• With 'in' and 25-Down, blue ribbon earner
• Top footballer once
• Brief letter closing
• Start of the title for every Oscar
• Annual Car and Driver list
• Word before friend or seller
• __ in Show: dog prize
• Better superlative
• Ideal, as a scenario
• Conferred with footballer needing to be paid off?
• Awards show superlative
• Worst sort of defeat
• George -, footballer
• Worst, or just the opposite?