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This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release . Many film makers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of Twelfth Night The Hearts of Age
Subsequently, many directors learnt their trade in the medium of television as it became popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Notable directors who did their first directorial work in this medium include Robert Altman , Sidney Lumet , and Alfonso Cuarón . As commercial television advertising became more cinematic in the 1960s and 1970s, many directors early work was in this medium, including directors such as Alan Parker and Ridley Scott . With the success of MTV and the popularity of music video from the early 1980s, this gave another avenue for directors to hone their skills. Notable directors whose early work was in music videos include David Fincher , Jonathan Glazer , Michel Gondry , and Spike Jonze .
The following symbols indicate where a director has worked in another medium prior to directing commercially.
♦ Indicates where a director has created other earlier works for television
# Indicates when a director's earlier work is uncredited
† Indicates when a director's earlier work has not been released in cinemas, for example film school productions, short films or music videos.
Refer to individual entries for further detail.
1880s [ ] 1888 [ ] Louis Le Prince – Roundhay Garden Scene [1] 1890s [ ] 1896 [ ] 1898 [ ] 1900s [ ] 1901 [ ] 1907 [ ] 1908 [ ] Louis Feuillade – D. W. Griffith – The Adventures of Dollie 1909 [ ] Mack Sennett # – The Curtain Pole 1910s [ ]
1911 [ ] Oscar Apfel – Thomas H. Ince – Artful Kate 1912 [ ] Herbert Brenon – Christy Cabanne – Life of Villa Michael Curtiz – Utolsó bohém, Az Francis Ford – J. Farrell MacDonald – The Worth of a Man Wallace Reid – Victor Sjöström – Ett hemligt giftermål Maurice Tourneur – Jean la Poudre Robert Wiene – Die Waffen der Jugend 1913 [ ] Wallace Beery – Frank Borzage – The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine Hobart Bosworth – The Sea Wolf Jack Conway † – Carmine Gallone – Il bacio di Cirano King Vidor – Hurricane in Galveston Raoul Walsh – Dadasaheb Phalke - Raja Harishchandra 1914 [ ] Charlie Chaplin – Twenty Minutes of Love Donald Crisp – Her Father's Silent Partner Cecil B. DeMille – The Squaw Man Allan Dwan – The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch William S. Hart – Rex Ingram – George Irving – The Jungle Alexander Korda – Orhaz a Karpatokban Robert Z. Leonard – The Master Key Frank Lloyd – John M. Stahl – William Desmond Taylor –
1915 [ ] Roscoe Arbuckle – Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco Richard Boleslavsky – Charles Brabin – Vanity Fair Tod Browning – The Lucky Transfer Lon Chaney – The Stool Pigeon Harry Davenport – Alan Hale – Frank Reicher – Hal Roach – Willie Runs the Park William A. Seiter – 1916 [ ] Francis X. Bushman – Alfred E. Green – Oliver Hardy – Bungles Lands a Job Rex Ingram – The Great Problem Rupert Julian – Naked Hearts Ernst Lubitsch – Shoe Palace Pinkus George Marshall – Love's Lariat Fred Niblo – Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 1917 [ ] John Ford – The Tornado Lambert Hillyer – An Even Break Harold Lloyd – Over the Fence Roy William Neill – John S. Robertson – Baby Mine Wesley Ruggles † – W. S. Van Dyke – The Land of Long Shadows 1918 [ ] James Cruze – Too Many Millions Douglas Fairbanks – Arizona Dave Fleischer – Out of the Inkwell Howard C. Hickman † – Zoltan Korda – Wallace Worsley – An Alien Enemy 1919 [ ] Carl Theodor Dreyer – The President Victor Fleming – When the Clouds Roll By Max Fleischer – The Tantalizing Fly Fritz Lang – Halbblut Oscar Micheaux – The Homesteader F. W. Murnau – The Boy in Blue Gustav von Seyffertitz – The Secret Garden Erich von Stroheim – Blind Husbands
1920s [ ]
1920 [ ] Clarence Brown – The Great Redeemer Erle C. Kenton – Down on the Farm Reinhold Schünzel – Der Graf von Cagliostro Edward Sedgwick – Fantomas William A. Wellman † – Sam Wood – Double Speed 1921 [ ] William Dieterle – Der Mensch am Wege Gregory La Cava † – His Nibs John Gilbert – Love's Penalty Harry Houdini – William K. Howard – Grover Jones – Rowland V. Lee – Blind Hearts Edward Ludwig – Rip Van Winkle Leo McCarey – Society Secrets Albert S. Rogell – 1922 [ ] 1923 [ ] Adrian Brunel – The Man Without Desire William Dieterle – Der Mensch am Wege Sergei Eisenstein – Glumov's Diary Sessue Hayakawa – La Bataille Seymour Hicks † – Always Tell Your Wife Julio Irigoyen – Buster Keaton – Three Ages Kenji Mizoguchi – Dudley Murphy † – Berthold Viertel – 1924 [ ] Tay Garnett – Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – The Adventures of Oktyabrina Jean Renoir – 1925 [ ] Clyde Bruckman – Cowboys Cry for It Jean Cocteau – Roy Del Ruth † – Eve's Lover Sergei Eisenstein † – Strike Edmund Goulding – Sun-Up Alfred Hitchcock – The Pleasure Garden Walter Lang – The Red Kimono Stan Laurel – Lewis Milestone † – Seven Sinners Paul Sloane – Too Many Kisses Josef von Sternberg – The Salvation Hunters A. Edward Sutherland – Coming Through Herbert Wilcox – Chu-Chin-Chow
1926 [ ] Howard Hawks – The Road to Glory Miles Mander – Archie Mayo † – Money Talks Ray Taylor – Fighting with Buffalo Bill Edgar G. Ulmer # – The Border Sheriff [nb 1] William Wyler † – Lazy Lightning 1927 [ ] Anthony Asquith – Shooting Stars Lloyd Bacon – The Heart of Maryland David Butler – High School Hero Robert Florey – Mervyn LeRoy – No Place to Go Yasujirō Ozu – 1928 [ ] Norman Z. McLeod – Norman Taurog † – Alfred L. Werker – The Pioneer Scout Tim Whelan – Adam's Apple 1929 [ ] Lionel Barrymore – Madame X John Cromwell – Close Harmony Martin Frič – Father Vojtech Rouben Mamoulian – Applause Robert Milton – The Dummy Elliott Nugent # – Wise Girls Edgar Selwyn – The Girl in the Show Alf Sjöberg – Den starkaste
1930s [ ]
1930 [ ] 1931 [ ] 1932 [ ] Thorold Dickinson – The First Mrs. Fraser Karl Freund – The Mummy Henry Hathaway – Heritage of the Desert William Keighley – The Match King Henry Koster – Thea Roland Edwin L. Marin – The Death Kiss Irving Pichel – The Most Dangerous Game John Rawlins – High Society Herbert Selpin – Robert Stevenson – Happy Ever After 1933 [ ] Busby Berkeley – She Had to Say Yes Fei Mu – Night in the City Mitchell Leisen – Cradle Song Marcel Pagnol † – George Stevens † – Charles Vidor – Sensation Hunters Bernard Vorhaus – The Ghost Camera 1934 [ ] Charles Barton – Wagon Wheels Cedric Gibbons – Tarzan and His Mate Brian Desmond Hurst – The Tell-Tale Heart John Farrow – The Spectacle Maker Arthur Lubin – A Successful Failure Mario Mattoli – Tempo Massimo Alice O'Fredericks – Ud i den kolde sne Billy Wilder – Mauvaise Graine Harold Young - Leave It to Blanche
1935 [ ] W. C. Fields #;– Man on the Flying Trapeze Edward Dmytryk – The Hawk James W. Horne – Bonnie Scotland Mehboob Khan – Yuan Muzhi – Scenes of City Life Carol Reed – It Happened in Paris Douglas Sirk †[nb 2] The Girl from the Marsh Croft Jacques Tati – Gai dimanche 1936 [ ] Lew Ayres – Hearts in Bondage John Brahm † – Broken Blossoms William Clemens – Man Hunt Norman Foster – I Cover Chinatown William Hanna #- To Spring Stuart Heisler - Straight from the Shoulder Buck Jones – For the Service Gregory Ratoff – Sins of Man Wells Root – The Bold Caballero 1937 [ ] Vijay Bhatt – Khwab Ki Duniya Giacomo Gentilomo – David Hand - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Roy Kellino – Concerning Mr. Martin Harold D. Schuster – Wings of the Morning S. Sylvan Simon – A Girl with Ideas Julio Saraceni – William Witney – The Painted Stallion 1938 [ ] Leslie Howard – Pygmalion Erich Pommer – Vessel of Wrath George Waggner – Western Trails Mario Zampi – 13 Men and a Gun 1939 [ ] Ricardo Cortez – Inside Story Harold Huth – Hell's Cargo Joseph Losey – Leslie Norman – Too Dangerous to Live [nb 3] Vincent Sherman – The Return of Doctor X
1940s [ ]
1940 [ ] Joseph Barbera and William Hanna # – Puss Gets the Boot James Algar , Samuel Armstrong, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe Jr., T. Hee , Norman Ferguson and Wilfred Jackson - Fantasia [nb 4] Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen - Pinocchio William Morgan - Bowery Boy Vittorio De Sica – Rose scarlatte Preston Sturges – The Great McGinty [3] 1941 [ ] Jules Dassin – The Tell-Tale Heart John Huston – The Maltese Falcon [4] [5] Jean Negulesco – Singapore Woman Irving Rapper – Shining Victory George Sidney † – Free and Easy Ted Tetzlaff – World Premiere Orson Welles † – Citizen Kane [6] Spencer Williams – The Blood of Jesus 1942 [ ] Henri-Georges Clouzot – The Murderer Lives at Number 21 [7] Noël Coward and David Lean # – In Which We Serve Basil Dearden ♦ and Will Hay – The Black Sheep of Whitehall Michael Gordon – Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood Will Hay – The Black Sheep of Whitehall Charles Lederer – Fingers at the Window Albert Lewin – The Moon and Sixpence Anthony Mann ♦ – Dr. Broadway Joseph M. Newman – Northwest Rangers Manoel de Oliveira † – Aniki-Bóbó Powell and Pressburger – One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1943 [ ] Robert Bresson – Angels of the Streets William Castle – Klondike Kate Delmer Daves – Destination Tokyo Maya Deren – Meshes of the Afternoon Akira Kurosawa – Sanshiro Sugata Frank Launder – Millions Like Us Vincente Minnelli # – Cabin in the Sky Dudley Nichols – Government Girl Roberto Rossellini – Luchino Visconti – Ossessione Fred M. Wilcox – Lassie Come Home 1944 [ ] René Clément † – Charles Crichton – For Those in Peril Lewis Gilbert – James V. Kern – The Doughgirls Laurence Olivier – Henry V Helmut Weiss † – The Punch Bowl Robert Wise – The Curse of the Cat People [nb 5] 1945 [ ] K. Asif – Phool Mel Ferrer – The Girl of the Limberlost Elia Kazan † – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn George Seaton – Diamond Horseshoe Don Siegel – Star in the Night William C. Thomas – Midnight Manhunt Hal Walker – Out of This World
1946 [ ] Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Dharti Ke Lal Chetan Anand – Neecha Nagar Ingmar Bergman – Crisis John Berry – Miss Susie Slagle's Richard Fleischer † – Child of Divorce Robert Hamer # – Pink String and Sealing Wax Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Dragonwyck William D. Russell † – Our Hearts Were Growing Up Clyde Geronimi , Jack Kinney , Joshua Meador and Bob Cormack - Make Mine Music John Sturges – The Man Who Dared Peter Ustinov – School for Secrets Charles Walters – Ziegfeld Follies Terence Young – Theirs Is the Glory [nb 6] 1947 [ ] Robert Alton – Merton of the Movies Ken Annakin † – Holiday Camp Roy Ward Baker – The October Man Martin Gabel – The Lost Moment Kon Ichikawa – A Thousand and One Nights with Toho Robert Montgomery – Lady in the Lake Rudolph Maté and Don Hartman – It Had to Be You Robert Rossen – Johnny O'Clock Derek N. Twist – The End of the River 1948 [ ] László Benedek # – The Kissing Bandit Terence Fisher – A Song for Tomorrow Jack Gage – The Velvet Touch Raj Kapoor – Aag Richard Quine – Leather Gloves Nicholas Ray – They Live by Night [5] Bretaigne Windust – Winter Meeting 1949 [ ] Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly – On the Town [8] Sam Fuller – I Shot Jesse James John Guillermin – High Jinks in Society [nb 7] Ida Lupino – Never Fear Alexander Mackendrick – Whisky Galore! Jean-Pierre Melville † – Le Silence de la Mer Arne Skouen – Gategutter Emlyn Williams – The Last Days of Dolwyn
1950s [ ]
1950 [ ] Michelangelo Antonioni † – Cronaca di un amore Richard Brooks – Crisis Youssef Chahine – Adolfo Celi – Caiçara Federico Fellini – Variety Lights Burgess Meredith – The Man on the Eiffel Tower Joseph Pevney – Shakedown J. Lee Thompson – Murder Without Crime Atif Yilmaz – 1951 [ ] Guru Dutt – Baazi Harold F. Kress † – The Painted Hills Peter Lorre – The Lost One Christian Nyby – The Thing from Another World Robert Parrish – Cry Danger Russell Rouse – The Well Kaneto Shindo – Story of a Beloved Wife Charles Marquis Warren – Little Big Horn 1952 [ ] Ritwik Ghatak – Chinnamul Guy Hamilton – The Ringer Paul Henreid – For Men Only Harry Horner – Red Planet Mars Ken Hughes – Wide Boy Nathan H. Juran – The Black Castle Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Gromada Masaki Kobayashi – Noel Langley – The Pickwick Papers Arnold Laven – Without Warning! Chris Marker – Olympia 52 Frank Tashlin † – The First Time 1953 [ ] Robert Aldrich ♦ – Big Leaguer Jack Arnold – Girls in the Night Don Chaffey – Skid Kids Jesse Hibbs † – The All American Stanley Kubrick † – Fear and Desire Francis D. Lyon ♦ – Crazylegs Dick Powell – Split Second Emeric Pressburger – Twice Upon a Time Ed Wood ♦ – Glen or Glenda 1954 [ ] 1955 [ ] Hall Bartlett – Unchained Earl Bellamy ♦ – Seminole Uprising Roger Corman – Swamp Women Hubert Cornfield † – Sudden Danger Blake Edwards – Bring Your Smile Along José Ferrer – The Cockleshell Heroes Bert I. Gordon – King Dinosaur Stanley Kramer – Not as a Stranger Charles Laughton – The Night of the Hunter [4] [9] Burt Lancaster – The Kentuckian Delbert Mann – Marty Ray Milland – A Man Alone Satyajit Ray – Pather Panchali [3] Mrinal Sen – Raat Bhore Don Sharp – The Stolen Airliner Melville Shavelson – The Seven Little Foys Andrzej Wajda † – A Generation Cornel Wilde – Storm Fear
1956 [ ] 1957 [ ] Robert Altman †♦ – The Delinquents James B. Clark ♦ – Under Fire Clive Donner – The Secret Place Anselmo Duarte – Sidney Lumet ♦ – 12 Angry Men Robert Mulligan ♦ – Fear Strikes Out Art Napoleon – Man on the Prowl Martin Ritt – Edge of the City Franco Zeffirelli – 1958 [ ] Gabriel Axel ♦ – The Girls Are Willing Jack Cardiff † – Intent to Kill Claude Chabrol – Le Beau Serge Michel Deville – Une balle dans le canon Herschel Daugherty ♦ – The Light in the Forest Shōhei Imamura – Stolen Desire Wojciech Has † – Petla Irvin Kershner – Stakeout on Dope Street Louis Malle – Elevator to the Gallows José Mojica Marins – Adventurer's Fate Arthur Penn ♦ – The Left Handed Gun George Pal - Tom Thumb Anthony Quinn – The Buccaneer Karel Reisz † – We Are the Lambeth Boys Bernhard Wicki – 1959 [ ] John Cassavetes – Shadows [3] [4] Jack Clayton † – Room at the Top Georges Franju † – Head Against the Wall Sidney J. Furie – A Dangerous Age Monte Hellman – Beast from Haunted Cave Ray Kellogg – The Killer Shrews Elen Klimov – Nagisa Oshima – A Town of Love and Hope Joel Rapp – High School Big Shot Alain Resnais – Hiroshima, Mon Amour Tony Richardson ♦ – Look Back in Anger Éric Rohmer † – Le Signe du lion François Truffaut – The 400 Blows [4] [5]
1960s [ ]
1960 [ ] Mario Bava – Black Sunday Herbert J. Leder – Pretty Boy Floyd Jerry Lewis – The Bellboy Walter Matthau – Gangster Story Jacques Rivette – Paris Belongs to Us Stuart Rosenberg ♦ – Murder, Inc. Masahiro Shinoda – Jean-Luc Godard † – À bout de souffle John Wayne – The Alamo Mel Welles – Michael Winner – Shoot to Kill Yoji Yamada – Yoshishige Yoshida – 1961 [ ] Luis Alcoriza – Los jóvenes William Alland – Look in Any Window Marlon Brando – One-Eyed Jacks Jack Couffer - Nikki, Wild Dog of the North Jacques Demy † – Lola Richard Donner ♦ – X-15 Bryan Forbes – Whistle Down the Wind Kinji Fukasaku – Greg Garrison ♦ – Hey, Let's Twist! Susumu Hani † – Bad Boys Andrei Konchalovsky – Buzz Kulik ♦ – The Explosive Generation Claude Lelouch – Le propre de l'homme Sergio Leone # – The Colossus of Rhodes Pier Paolo Pasolini – Accattone [10] Halit Refiğ † – Yasak Aşk Wolfgang Reitherman - One Hundred and One Dalmatians Don Taylor – Everything's Ducky 1962 [ ] Bernardo Bertolucci – La commare secca Alain Cavalier – George Roy Hill – Period of Adjustment Arthur Hiller ♦ – This Rugged Land Norman Jewison ♦ – 40 Pounds of Trouble Richard Lester †♦ – It's Trad, Dad! Abe Levitow - Gay Purr-ee Frank Perry – David and Lisa Roman Polanski † – Knife in the Water [3] Gerald Potterton – My Financial Career John Schlesinger – A Kind of Loving [11] Vilgot Sjöman – The Mistress Andrei Tarkovsky † – Ivan's Childhood Hiroshi Teshigahara – Pitfall 1963 [ ] Lindsay Anderson – This Sporting Life Gower Champion ♦ – My Six Loves Francis Ford Coppola †# – Dementia 13 George Englund ♦ – The Ugly American Forugh Farrokhzad – The House Is Black James Ivory – The Householder Jack O'Connell – Greenwich Village Story Ken Russell †♦ – French Dressing Franklin J. Schaffner ♦ – The Stripper Peter Tewksbury ♦ – Sunday in New York Peter Yates – Summer Holiday Bud Yorkin ♦ – Come Blow Your Horn 1964 [ ] Jack Curtis – The Flesh Eaters Miloš Forman † – Black Peter Samuel Goldwyn Jr. – The Young Lovers Philip Kaufman – Goldstein Elem Klimov - Welcome, or No Trespassing Larry Peerce – One Potato, Two Potato Glauber Rocha † – Black God, White Devil Ettore Scola † – Se permettete parliamo di donne Steven Spielberg – Firelight Mel Stuart ♦ – Four Days in November 1965 [ ] Stephen C. Apostolof – Orgy of the Dead Bruno Bozzetto – West and Soda John Boorman ♦ – Catch Us If You Can Fred Coe ♦ – A Thousand Clowns John Derek – Nightmare in the Sun Costa-Gavras – The Sleeping Car Murders Ebrahim Golestan † – Brick and Mirror Daniel Haller – Die, Monster, Die! Dušan Makavejev † – Ernest Pintoff † – Harvey Middleman, Fireman Sydney Pollack ♦ – The Slender Thread Arthur Rankin Jr. – Willy McBean and His Magic Machine David Secter – Winter Kept Us Warm Elliot Silverstein – Cat Ballou Frank Sinatra – None but the Brave Jerzy Skolimowski ♦ – Walkover Robert Sparr ♦ – A Swingin' Summer Jan Troell - 4x4 [nb 9] K. Viswanath – Aatma Gowravam
1966 [ ] 1967 [ ] Albert Finney – Charlie Bubbles William Friedkin – Good Times Philippe Garrel † – David Greene ♦ – The Shuttered Room Anthony Harvey ♦ – Dutchman Toshiya Fujita – Med Hondo – Soleil O Manoj Kumar – Upkar Ken Loach ♦ – Poor Cow [12] Howard Morris – Who's Minding the Mint? Carl Reiner – Enter Laughing Mark Rydell – The Fox Melvin Van Peebles † – The Story of a Three-Day Pass Michael Verhoeven – The Dance of Death 1968 [ ] Kevin Billington ♦ – Interlude Noel Black †♦ – Pretty Poison Peter Bogdanovich – Targets [8] Mel Brooks – The Producers [4] Jacques Charon – A Flea in Her Ear Brian De Palma † – Murder a la Mod Werner Herzog † – Signs of Life Alejandro Jodorowsky † – Fando y Lis Peter Medak – Negatives Paul Newman – Rachel, Rachel Melvin Van Peebles † – The Story of a Three-Day Pass George A. Romero † – Night of the Living Dead [4] [5] Raúl Ruiz † – Three Sad Tigers Martin Scorsese † – Who's That Knocking at My Door Fernando Solanas † – The Hour of the Furnaces Isao Takahata – Hols: Prince of the Sun Eric Till - Hot Millions Bob Rafelson – Head 1969 [ ] Roy Andersson † – Richard Attenborough – Oh! What a Lovely War Robert Alan Aurthur – The Lost Man John G. Avildsen † – Turn on to Love David Cronenberg † – Stereo Bob Fosse – Sweet Charity Piers Haggard ♦ – I Can't... I Can't Tobe Hooper † – Eggshells Dennis Hopper – Easy Rider [13] Peter R. Hunt – On Her Majesty's Secret Service Charles Jarrott ♦ – Anne of the Thousand Days Paul Mazursky – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice [13] Bill Melendez - A Boy Named Charlie Brown Anthony Newley – Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? Alan J. Pakula – The Sterile Cuckoo Gordon Parks † – The Learning Tree Barney Platts-Mills † – Bronco Bullfrog Michael Ritchie – Downhill Racer Herbert Ross – Goodbye, Mr. Chips Arthur Allan Seidelman – Hercules in New York Paul Williams † – Out of It
1970s [ ] 1980s [ ]
1980 [ ] Pedro Almodóvar † – Pepi, Luci, Bom [8] [12] Chuck Barris – The Gong Show Movie Walter Bernstein – Little Miss Marker Tony Bill – My Bodyguard William Peter Blatty – The Ninth Configuration James Caan – Hide in Plain Sight Rob Cohen – A Small Circle of Friends Bill Forsyth – That Sinking Feeling Peter Greenaway † – The Falls Robert Greenwald – Xanadu Taylor Hackford ♦† – The Idolmaker Jim Jarmusch – Permanent Vacation Art Linson – Where the Buffalo Roam Adrian Lyne † – Foxes Mike Newell ♦ – The Awakening Harold Ramis – Caddyshack Robert Redford – Ordinary People Jay Sandrich ♦ – Seems Like Old Times John Sayles – Return of the Secaucus 7 Roger Spottiswoode – Terror Train Fernando Trueba † – Nancy Walker ♦ – Can't Stop the Music Gordon Willis – Windows Jerry Zucker , Jim Abrahams & David Zucker – Airplane! [10] 1981 [ ] Alan Alda ♦ – The Four Seasons Andrew Bergman – So Fine Peter Bonerz ♦ – Nobody's Perfekt John Glen † – For Your Eyes Only Steve Gordon ♦ – Arthur Jim Henson †♦ – The Great Muppet Caper Hugh Hudson † – Chariots of Fire Glenn Jordan ♦ – Only When I Laugh Lawrence Kasdan – Body Heat [4] Aki Kaurismäki – The Saimaa Gesture Emir Kusturica †♦ – Do You Remember Dolly Bell? Michael Mann †♦ – Thief Steve Miner – Friday the 13th Part 2 Sam Raimi † – The Evil Dead [3] Ted Berman and Richard Rich -The Fox and the Hound Rick Rosenthal – Halloween II Oz Scott – Bustin' Loose Joel Schumacher ♦ – The Incredible Shrinking Woman Penelope Spheeris † – The Decline of Western Civilization Ron Mann † – Imagine the Sound 1982 [ ] Jahnu Barua † – Aparoopa Richard Benjamin ♦ – My Favorite Year Khairy Beshara ♦ – Kathryn Bigelow † and Monty Montgomery – The Loveless Patricia Birch ♦ – Grease 2 Don Bluth † –The Secret of NIMH Patrick Bokanowski † – The Angel James Cameron † – Piranha II: The Spawning Nick Castle – Tag: The Assassination Game Roger Christian – The Sender Graeme Clifford †♦ – Frances Caleb Deschanel † – The Escape Artist Richard Elfman – Forbidden Zone Stuart Gillard – Paradise Amy Heckerling † – Fast Times at Ridgemont High [11] Tim Hunter – Tex Amy Holden Jones – The Slumber Party Massacre Neil Jordan – Angel [12] John Laing – Beyond Reasonable Doubt Barry Levinson – Diner [8] [12] Aaron Lipstadt – Android Garry Marshall ♦ – Young Doctors in Love Frank Oz - The Dark Crystal Albert Pyun – The Sword and the Sorcerer Susan Seidelman † – Smithereens Ulrich Seidl † – The Prom Robert Towne – Personal Best David S. Ward – Cannery Row Edward Yang – Corey Yuen – Ninja in the Dragon's Den Ronny Yu – The Postman Strikes Back 1983 [ ] Joe Alves – Jaws 3-D Roberto Benigni – You Upset Me Luc Besson † – Le Dernier Combat Paul Brickman – Risky Business James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment Michael Chapman – All the Right Moves Shekhar Kapur – Masoom Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Kandagawa Pervert Wars Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Mamoru Oshii ♦ – Urusei Yatsura: Only You Michael Radford † – Another Time, Another Place Mani Ratnam – Pallavi Anu Pallavi Mark Rosman – The House on Sorority Row Tony Scott † – The Hunger Barbra Streisand – Yentl 1984 [ ] Alejandro Agresti † – Steve Barron † – Electric Dreams John Carl Buechler † – The Dungeonmaster Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – Blood Simple [4] [5] Alex Cox - Repo Man [8] Léos Carax – Boy Meets Girl Gérard Depardieu – Le tartuffe Roland Emmerich † – The Noah's Ark Principle James Foley – Reckless [11] Herb Gardner – The Goodbye People John Hughes – Sixteen Candles Juzo Itami – The Funeral Roland Joffé ♦ – The Killing Fields Charles Shyer – Irreconcilable Differences Chen Kaige – Yellow Earth Yoshiaki Kawajiri – Lensman Fritz Kiersch – Children of the Corn Ken Kwapis ♦ – The Beniker Gang Albert Magnoli † – Purple Rain Marek Kanievska - Another Country Luis Mandoki – Motel Leonard Nimoy ♦ – Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Rob Reiner ♦ – This Is Spinal Tap [4] [8] W. D. Richter – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Valeria Sarmiento – Lars von Trier † – The Element of Crime Hugh Wilson †♦ – Police Academy 1985 [ ] Dan Attias – Silver Bullet Dodo Abashidze – The Legend of Suram Fortress Hal Barwood † – Warning Sign Tim Burton †♦ – Pee-wee's Big Adventure [4] Joyce Chopra † – Smooth Talk Rod Daniel ♦ – Teen Wolf Stephen Gyllenhaal – Certain Fury Stuart Gordon ♦ – Re-Animator Savage Steve Holland – Better Off Dead Tom Holland – Fright Night Amos Kollek – Goodbye, New York Ken Kwapis ♦ – The Beniker Gang Dwight H. Little – KGB: The Secret War Howard Storm ♦ – Once Bitten Gus Van Sant †♦ – Mala Noche Terry Zwigoff – Louie Bluie
1986 [ ] David Anspaugh – Hoosiers Olivier Assayas † – David Byrne † – True Stories Ron Clements , Burny Mattinson †, and John Musker – The Great Mouse Detective Jeffrey Delman – Deadtime Stories
Howard Deutch – Pretty in Pink Peter Faiman ♦ – "Crocodile" Dundee [14] Paul Michael Glaser †♦ – Band of the Hand Vítor Gonçalves – A Girl In Summer Renny Harlin †♦ – Born American Stephen Herek – Critters Stephen King – Maximum Overdrive Spike Lee † – She's Gotta Have It Sondra Locke – Ratboy Penny Marshall ♦ – Jumpin' Jack Flash John McNaughton † – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [11] John McTiernan – Nomads Michael Parks – The Return of Josey Wales Anthony Perkins – Psycho III Prince † – Under the Cherry Moon Bruce Robinson – Withnail and I Mark Romanek – Static Joe Roth – Streets of Gold Dale Schott – The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation David Seltzer ♦ – Lucas Charles Martin Smith – Trick or Treat Shion Sono † – Giuseppe Tornatore – Il camorrista Agustí Villaronga † – Tras el cristal Edward Zwick – About Last Night... [11] 1987 [ ] Allison Anders – Border Radio [12] Emile Ardolino ♦ – Dirty Dancing Jeff Bleckner ♦ – White Water Summer Chris Columbus – Adventures in Babysitting Bill Condon – Sister, Sister Danny DeVito †♦ – Throw Momma from the Train [13] Nigel Dick † – P.I. Private Investigations Emilio Estevez – Wisdom Flora Gomes – Mortu Nega Michael Gornick †♦ – Creepshow 2 Tamar Simon Hoffs † – The Allnighter Phil Joanou † – Three O'Clock High Diane Keaton – Heaven Peter Jackson † – Bad Taste Mary Lambert † – Siesta David Mamet – House of Games [4] Phil Alden Robinson – In the Mood Jay Russell – The End of the Line Robert Townsend – Hollywood Shuffle John Stockwell – Undercover Zhang Yimou – Red Sorghum 1988 [ ] Greg Beeman ♦ – License to Drive Christopher Coppola – Dracula's Widow John Cornell – Crocodile Dundee II Claire Denis – Chocolat Reha Erdem – Robert Englund – 976-EVIL Bran Ferren – Funny Mike Figgis ♦ – Stormy Monday [12] Andrew Fleming – Bad Dreams Mick Garris ♦ – Critters 2: The Main Course Terence H. Winkless – The Nest George Scribner – Oliver & Company Keith Gordon – The Chocolate War Bob Hoskins – The Raggedy Rawney Annabel Jankel †♦ and Rocky Morton †♦ – D.O.A. Shaji N. Karun – Piravi John Lafia – The Blue Iguana Guy Maddin † – Tales from the Gimli Hospital Ramón Menéndez – Stand and Deliver Chris Menges – A World Apart Mira Nair †♦ – Salaam Bombay! [12] Yousry Nasrallah – Donald Petrie ♦ – Mystic Pizza Tina Rathborne ♦ – Zelly and Me Bernard Rose – Paperhouse Gary Sinise – Miles from Home Jan Švankmajer † – Alice [3] Skip Schoolnik – Hide and Go Shriek Ernest Thompson – 1969 Michael Toshiyuki Uno †♦ – The Wash Aisling Walsh † – Keenen Ivory Wayans – I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Henry Winkler ♦ – Memories of Me Wong Kar-wai – Wong Gok Ka Moon 1989 [ ] Meiert Avis † – Far from Home Kenneth Branagh – Henry V Sooraj R. Barjatya – Maine Pyar Kiya Jane Campion †♦ – Sweetie Jeremiah S. Chechik – National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Isabel Coixet † – Pedro Costa – O Sangue Cameron Crowe – Say Anything... [15] John Dahl – Kill Me Again [11] Carl Franklin † – Nowhere to Run Paul Greengrass ♦ – Resurrected Robert Sigl – Laurin Gary David Goldberg – Dad Wendell B. Harris Jr. – Chameleon Street Michael Haneke ♦ – The Seventh Continent Joe Johnston – Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Takeshi Kitano – Violent Cop [13] Michael Lehmann † – Heathers Brett Leonard – The Dead Pit Richard Linklater – It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books Sean McNamara – Hollywood Chaos Tahmineh Milani – Michael Moore – Roger & Me Jonathan Mostow † – Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights David Peoples † – The Blood of Heroes Alex Proyas † – Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds Joe Pytka † – Let It Ride Junji Sakamoto – Dotsuitarunen Victor Salva – Clownhouse Nancy Savoca – True Love Thomas Schlamme ♦† – Miss Firecracker William Shatner – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot Mel Smith – The Tall Guy Steven Soderbergh † – Sex, Lies, and Videotape Todd Solondz † – Fear, Anxiety & Depression Stephen Sommers – Catch Me If You Can Ann Turner – Celia [13] Joseph Vilsmaier – Autumn Milk Gary Winick – Curfew Joel Zwick ♦ – Second Sight Eric Red † – Cohen and Tate Gary Goldman and Dan Kuenster – All Dogs Go to Heaven Rob Hedden – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
1990s [ ]
1990 [ ] Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves [14] Manny Coto – Playroom Dennis Dugan ♦ – Problem Child John Harrison †♦ – Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Bob Hathcock – DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
Reginald Hudlin † – House Party Caroline Link †♦ – Frank Marshall – Arachnophobia Joji Matsuoka † – Batāshi Kingyo Bill Murray – Quick Change Michele Placido – Pummarò Jay Roach – [nb 16] Tom Ropelewski – Madhouse Lone Scherfig ♦ – John Patrick Shanley – Joe Versus the Volcano and Mike Gabriel – The Rescuers Down Under
Martin Sheen – Cadence Whit Stillman – Metropolitan Jon Turteltaub – Think Big Ron Underwood †♦ – Tremors Thomas Vinterberg – Michael Winterbottom ♦ – Forget About Me Zhang Yuan † – Mama 1991 [ ] Jon Avnet ♦ – Fried Green Tomatoes Dan Aykroyd – Nothing but Trouble Marco Bechis † – Alambrado Jack Bender ♦ – Child's Play 3 Susanne Bier † – Freud flyttar hemifrån... Juan Jose Campanella – The Boy Who Cried Bitch Marc Caro ♦† and Jean-Pierre Jeunet † – Delicatessen Carlos Carrera † – Peter Chelsom † – Hear My Song Rich Christiano – Bud Cort – Ted & Venus Alfonso Cuarón †♦ – Sólo Con Tu Pareja Frank De Felitta ♦ – Scissors Arnaud Desplechin – Tom DiCillo – Johnny Suede [11] Jaco Van Dormael ♦ – Toto the Hero Bill Duke †♦ – A Rage in Harlem Jodie Foster – Little Man Tate George Gallo – 29th Street Bobcat Goldthwait – Shakes the Clown Bryan Gordon † – Career Opportunities Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise – Beauty and the Beast Todd Haynes † – Poison Peter Hewitt † – Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Kevin Hooks ♦ – Strictly Business Jeffrey Hornaday ♦† – Shout † – Cool as Ice
Brian Levant ♦ – Problem Child 2 Doug McHenry and George Jackson – House Party 2 Deepa Mehta ♦ – Sam & Me Takashi Miike – Eyecatch Junction Anthony Minghella – Truly, Madly, Deeply [12] Garin Nugroho – Cinta dalam Sepotong Roti Mario Van Peebles ♦ – New Jack City Sean Penn – The Indian Runner David Price – Son of Darkness: To Die For II Matty Rich – Straight Out of Brooklyn Walter Salles – A Grande Arte John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood [15] Barry Sonnenfeld – The Addams Family [11] Rachel Talalay – Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare Prasanna Vithanage – Sisila Giniganee Simon Wells and Phil Nibbelink – An American Tail: Fievel Goes West Irwin Winkler – Guilty by Suspicion 1992 [ ] Rémy Belvaux †, André Bonzel † and Benoît Poelvoorde † – Man Bites Dog [8] Mike Binder – Crossing the Bridge Uwe Boll – [nb 17] Craig Bolotin † – That Night Park Chan-wook – The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream Billy Crystal – Mr. Saturday Night Tamra Davis † – Guncrazy [11] Ernest Dickerson – Juice Nora Ephron – This Is My Life David M. Evans # – The Sandlot David Fincher † – Alien³ Rituparno Ghosh - Hirer Angti Arne Glimcher – The Mambo Kings Leslie Harris – Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. Brian Henson – The Muppet Christmas Carol Mark Herman † – Blame It on the Bellboy Ang Lee – Pushing Hands [12] Baz Luhrmann – Strictly Ballroom Les Mayfield ♦† – Encino Man Randall Miller ♦† – Class Act Edward James Olmos ♦ – American Me Kenny Ortega †♦ – Newsies Jafar Panahi † – Bill Plympton † – The Tune Tim Robbins – Bob Roberts Robert Rodriguez † – El Mariachi Damon Santostefano † – Severed Ties M. Night Shyamalan – Praying with Anger Bruce W. Smith - Bébé's Kids Quentin Tarantino † – Reservoir Dogs [3] [4] Betty Thomas ♦ – Only You Tsai Ming-liang ♦ – Rebels of the Neon God John Turturro – Mac 1993 [ ] Daniel Alfredson †♦ – The Man on the Balcony Marco Brambilla – Demolition Man Thomas Carter ♦ – Swing Kids Gurinder Chadha ♦† – Bhaji on the Beach Rusty Cundieff – Fear of a Black Hat Robert De Niro – A Bronx Tale Guillermo del Toro † – Cronos Ted Demme ♦† – Who's the Man? Duwayne Dunham – Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Morgan Freeman – Bopha! E. Max Frye – Amos & Andrew Mel Gibson – The Man Without a Face Richard Williams † – The Thief and the Cobbler Paul Haggis ♦† – Red Hot Fraser Clarke Heston ♦† – Needful Things Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes † – Menace II Society Nicholas Kazan ♦ – Dream Lover John Madden ♦ – Ethan Frome Radu Mihăileanu † – Trey Parker † – Cannibal! The Musical Mikael Salomon – A Far Off Place Don Scardino ♦ – Me and Veronica Henry Selick † – The Nightmare Before Christmas Dominic Sena † – Kalifornia Bryan Singer † – Public Access [4] Daniel Stern ♦ – Rookie of the Year Stephen Surjik ♦ – Wayne's World 2 Tran Anh Hung † – The Scent of Green Papaya Tom Tykwer † – Deadly Maria John Whitesell ♦ – Calendar Girl Alex Winter and Tom Stern - Freaked Wang Xiaoshuai – The Days Steven Zaillian – Searching for Bobby Fischer Ralph Zondag - We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story 1994 [ ] Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff † – The Lion King Paul W. S. Anderson – Shopping Jacques Audiard – Regarde les hommes tomber Roger Avary – Killing Zoe Timur Bekmambetov ♦ – Peshavar Waltz Adam Bernstein † – It's Pat Danny Boyle ♦ – Shallow Grave Stephen Chow – Julie Cypher † – Teresa's Tattoo Frank Darabont ♦ – The Shawshank Redemption [15] Jan de Bont – Speed Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly – Dumb and Dumber [11] James Gray – Little Odessa Anthony Michael Hall – Hail Caesar P. J. Hogan † – Muriel's Wedding [12] George Huang – Swimming with Sharks Nicholas Hytner – The Madness of King George Maurice Hunt - The Pagemaster Patrick Keiller † – Doug Liman – Getting In Darnell Martin † – I Like It Like That Takashi Miike † – Jessie Nelson † – Corrina, Corrina John Pasquin ♦ – The Santa Clause [14] Jeff Pollack – Above the Rim Kelly Reichardt – River of Grass Adam Resnick – Cabin Boy David O. Russell † – Spanking the Monkey Steven Seagal – On Deadly Ground Peter Segal ♦ – Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult Tom Shadyac ♦ – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Kevin Smith † – Clerks [12] Ben Stiller ♦† – Reality Bites Lee Tamahori †♦ – Once Were Warriors Caroline Thompson - Black Beauty 1995 [ ] Tomas Alfredson ♦ – Bert: The Last Virgin Debbie Allen ♦ – Out-of-Sync Jason Alexander ♦ – For Better or Worse Brad Anderson – Kevin Lima – A Goofy Movie Noah Baumbach – Kicking and Screaming Michael Bay † – Bad Boys Larry Bishop – Mad Dog Time Icíar Bollaín †♦ – Hola, ¿estás sola? Steven Brill – Heavyweights Stephen Chbosky – The Four Corners of Nowhere Larry Clark – Kids [13] Frank Coraci – Murdered Innocence Gary Fleder ♦ – Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead Marc Forster – Lesli Linka Glatter †♦ – Now and Then Eric Goldberg - Pocahontas [nb 18] F. Gary Gray † – Friday Hirokazu Koreeda ♦ – Maborosi John Lasseter † – Toy Story Robert Longo † – Johnny Mnemonic James Mangold – Heavy [12] Daisy von Scherler Mayer – Party Girl Melanie Mayron ♦ – The Baby-Sitters Club Rebecca Miller – Angela Gavin O'Connor † – Comfortably Numb Steve Oedekerk † – Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Oliver Parker – Othello Jean-François Richet – Brian Robbins – The Show Joaquim Sapinho – Haircut Hans-Christian Schmid †♦ – Nach Fünf im Urwald Holly Goldberg Sloan – The Big Green Bryan Spicer ♦ – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Brad Silberling †♦ – Casper Andy Tennant ♦ – It Takes Two Forest Whitaker ♦ – Waiting to Exhale Gregory Widen ♦️ – The Prophecy Lou Ye – Weekend Lover
1996 [ ] Alejandro Amenábar – Tesis Paul Thomas Anderson † – Hard Eight [15] Wes Anderson – Bottle Rocket [4] [8] Paris Barclay † – Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood Steve Buscemi – Trees Lounge [12] Kevin Bacon – Losing Chase [16] Stuart Baird – Executive Decision Jason Bloom † – Bio-Dome Matthew Bright – Freeway Matthew Broderick – Infinity Nick Cassavetes – Unhook the Stars Jay Chandrasekhar – Puddle Cruiser R. J. Cutler – A Perfect Candidate [nb 19] Seth Michael Donsky – Twisted Cheryl Dunye † – The Watermelon Woman David R. Ellis – Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco Jonathan Frakes ♦ – Star Trek: First Contact Terry George – Some Mother's Son Michael Goldenberg – Bed of Roses Steve Gomer - Sunset Park Jose Zeka Laplaine † – Macadam Tribu Tom Hanks ♦ – That Thing You Do! Mary Harron ♦ – I Shot Andy Warhol Gregory Hoblit ♦ – Primal Fear Nicole Holofcener † – Walking and Talking Anthony Hopkins – August Adam Coleman Howard – Dead Girl Bronwen Hughes † – Harriet the Spy Anjelica Huston – Bastard Out of Carolina Mike Judge †♦ – Beavis and Butt-Head Do America David Koepp † – The Trigger Effect Ki-duk Kim †♦ – Crocodile Martin Lawrence – A Thin Line Between Love and Hate Quentin Lee † – Flow Danny Leiner † – Layin' Low Kevin Macdonald ♦ – Jim Mallon - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Nelson McCormick ♦ – Douglas McGrath – Emma Shane Meadows † – Small Time Greg Mottola – The Daytrippers Niels Arden Oplev † – Portland Al Pacino – Looking for Richard Alexander Payne – Citizen Ruth John Putch † – Krishna Rao – Crossworlds Matt Reeves † – The Pallbearer Sabu – Dangan Runner [17] Arlene Sanford ♦ – A Very Brady Sequel John Schultz – Bandwagon Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci – Big Night Adrienne Shelly † – Sudden Manhattan Daryush Shokof – Seven Servants Kevin Spacey † – Albino Alligator Nicolas Winding Refn – Pusher Billy Bob Thornton – Sling Blade [4] The Wachowskis – Bound Imanol Arias — Un asunto privado [18] 1997 [ ] Miguel Arteta – Star Maps William Brent Bell – Peter Cattaneo – The Full Monty Vondie Curtis-Hall – Gridlock'd Johnny Depp ♦ – The Brave Mark Dindal – Cats Don't Dance Vin Diesel † – Strays Mark A.Z. Dippé – Spawn Bruno Dumont – La vie de Jésus Paul Feig – Vincent Gallo – Buffalo '66 [10] Raja Gosnell – Home Alone 3 Peter Howitt – Sliding Doors Nick Hurran ♦ – Remember Me? Bob Koherr – Plump Fiction Satoshi Kon – Perfect Blue Harmony Korine – Gummo Andrew Kötting † – Gallivant Neil LaBute – In the Company of Men [11] Mimi Leder ♦ – The Peacemaker Kasi Lemmons – Eve's Bayou John R. Leonetti – Mortal Kombat: Annihilation Shawn Levy – Just in Time Justin Lin – Shopping for Fangs [nb 20] David Mirkin ♦ – Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Vincenzo Natali – Cube [11] Andrew Niccol – Gattaca William Nicholson ♦ – Firelight Cherie Nowlan † – Thank God He Met Lizzie Peter O'Fallon ♦ – Suicide Kings Gary Oldman – Nil by Mouth [12] François Ozon † – Regarde la Mer Mark Pellington †♦ – Going All the Way Rafi Pitts † – Brett Ratner † – Money Talks [11] Tom Schulman – 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag Jill Sprecher – Clockwatchers Tim Story – One of Us Tripped Kiefer Sutherland ♦ – Truth or Consequences, N.M. George Tillman Jr. † – Soul Food Gore Verbinski † – MouseHunt Mark Waters – The House of Yes Simon West – Con Air Jia Zhangke † – Xiao Wu 1998 [ ] Fatih Akın †♦ – Short Sharp Shock Darren Aronofsky † – Pi Bob Saget †♦ – Dirty Work Matt Earl Beesley – Point Blank Peter Berg – Very Bad Things Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook – Mulan Troy Beyer – Let's Talk About Sex Steve Boyum – Meet the Deedles Joe Carnahan – Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane Niki Caro † – Brenda Chapman and Steve Hickner – The Prince of Egypt Lisa Cholodenko † – High Art Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kasaba Joan Chen – Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl Derek Cianfrance – Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson – Antz David Dobkin † – Clay Pigeons Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan – Can't Hardly Wait Soleil Moon Frye and Meeno Peluce – Antoine Fuqua † – The Replacement Killers Ice Cube † – The Players Club Wayne Isham † – Karan Johar – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Mark Steven Johnson – Simon Birch Tony Kaye †♦ – American History X Jake Kasdan † – Zero Effect [11] Igor Kovalyov & Norton Virgien - The Rugrats Movie Nagesh Kukunoor – Hyderabad Blues Paul McGuigan – The Acid House Samira Makhmalbaf – The Apple Sean Mathias – Bent Des McAnuff - Cousin Bette Ewan McGregor – Tube Tales Don McKellar † – Last Night Olivier Megaton †♦ – Fernando Meirelles †♦ – Nancy Meyers – The Parent Trap Lukas Moodysson – Show Me Love Gaspar Noé † – Seul contre tous [8] Christopher Nolan † – Following Dean Parisot †♦ – Home Fries Guy Ritchie † – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Craig Ross Jr. – Gary Ross – Pleasantville Millicent Shelton †♦ – Ride Tony Singletary ♦ – High Freakquency Abderrahmane Sissako † – Life on Earth Andrew Stanton – A Bug's Life [nb 21] Kevin Rodney Sullivan ♦ – How Stella Got Her Groove Back John Terlesky – The Pandora Project [nb 22] Toshiaki Toyoda – Pornostar Denis Villeneuve † – August 32nd on Earth Randall Wallace – The Man in the Iron Mask Hype Williams † – Belly David Yates †♦ – The Tichborne Claimant 1999 [ ] Jamie Babbit †♦ – But I'm a Cheerleader Antonio Banderas – Crazy in Alabama Brad Bird ♦ – The Iron Giant John Bruno † – Virus Tony Bui † – Three Seasons Sofia Coppola † – The Virgin Suicides [19] Troy Duffy – The Boondock Saints Jim Fall – Trick Hampton Fancher – The Minus Man Rick Famuyiwa † – The Wood Jeff Franklin ♦ – Love Stinks Chris Buck – Tarzan [nb 23] Tony Goldwyn – A Walk on the Moon Luca Guadagnino – The Protagonists Don Hahn , Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi and Francis Glebas - Fantasia 2000 [nb 24] Gary Halvorson ♦ – The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland Brian Helgeland – Payback Tim Hill †♦ – Muppets from Space Gavin Hood † – A Reasonable Man Hugh Johnson † – Chill Factor Spike Jonze † – Being John Malkovich [4] [20] Maurice Joyce - Doug's 1st Movie Gil Junger ♦ – 10 Things I Hate About You Clare Kilner † – Janice Beard Roger Kumble – Cruel Intentions Paul Lazarus ♦ – Seven Girlfriends Malcolm D. Lee – The Best Man Rod Lurie † – Deterrence Theodore Melfi – Winding Roads Sam Mendes ♦ – American Beauty [15] [20] Dave Meyers † – Foolish Mike Mitchell †♦ – Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez – The Blair Witch Project [14] Stanley Nelson Jr. † – Babak Payami – Kimberly Peirce † – Boys Don't Cry [11] [20] Lynne Ramsay – Ratcatcher Tim Roth – The War Zone Shi Runjiu – A Beautiful New World Sara Sugarman † – S. J. Surya – Vaali Julie Taymor ♦ – Titus Pablo Trapero † – Crane World Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon – Toy Story 2 [nb 21] Manuela Viegas – Gloria Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz – American Pie Ben Younger – Boiler Room [11] Jaume Balagueró - The Nameless
2000s [ ] 2010s [ ] 2020s [ ]
2020 [ ] Max Barbakow – Palm Springs
Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz† – Antebellum
Brian Patrick Butler† – Friend of the World
Eric D. Cabello Diaz – El Camino de Xico
Dean Craig † – Love Wedding Repeat Joel Crawford † – The Croods: A New Age Jack Danini† – Ode to Passion
Emerald Fennell † – Promising Young Woman Michael Fimognari † – To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You Will Forbes – John Henry
Jeff Fowler † – Sonic the Hedgehog Edward Hall ♦† – Blithe Spirit Sam Hargrave † – Extraction Chris Henchy † – Impractical Jokers: The Movie Natalie Erika James† – Relic
Anthony Jerjen† – Inherit the Viper
Aneil Karia♦† – Surge
Glen Keane and John Kahrs – Over the Moon Natalie Krinsky – The Broken Hearts Gallery
Patrice Laliberté ♦† – The Decline Rob Lodermeier – The Willoughbys
Viggo Mortensen – Falling Jekaterina Oertel – DAU. Natasha
Prentice Penny♦† – Uncorcked
Kemp Powers – Soul [nb 37] David Prior† – The Empty Man
Emma Seligman † – Shiva Baby Remi Weekes♦ – His House
Autumn de Wilde † – Emma David S. F. Wilson – Bloodshot
Florian Zeller ♦ – The Father 2021 [ ] Edson Oda – Nine Days
Elaine Bogan and Ennio Torresan♦ – Spirit Untamed
Paul Briggs and John Ripa – Raya and the Last Dragon Jonathan Butterell – Everybody's Talking About Jamie Reid Carolin and Channing Tatum – Dog Enrico Casarosa – Luca Ryan Crego♦ – Arlo the Alligator Boy
Bakhtyar Fatah♦ – 09
Mark Gustafson - Pinocchio
Rebecca Hall – Passing Brandon Jeffords – Vivo
Lisa Joy ♦ – Reminiscence Johane Matte, Francisco Ruiz Velasco and Andrew L. Schmidt - Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
PJ McCabe – The Beta Test [28]
Simon McQuoid – Mortal Kombat Brian Andrew Mendoza† – Sweet Girl
Mike Rianda - The Mitchells vs. the Machines Alessandra de Rossi – My Amanda Rodo Sayagues – Don't Breathe 2 Evan Spiliotopoulos – The Unholy Liesl Tommy ♦ – Respect Jude Weng – Finding 'Ohana Robin Wright †♦ – Land Steve Yamamoto – Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild 2022 [ ] Hamish Grieve† – Rumble
Michael B. Jordan – Creed III Jonathan Krisel ♦† – Untitled Sesame Street Domee Shi - Turning Red Pierre Perifel - The Bad Guys Matt Stawski – Monster Mash
Loren Bouchard – The Bob's Burgers Movie
Unknown [ ] Monique Chanderton – The Gunwoman
Minkyu Lee – The Witch Boy
Alyce Tzue – Steps
Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon – Hotel Transylvania: Transformania See also [ ] Notes [ ]
^ Co-directed with Robert N. Bradbury
^ As Detlef Sierck
^ Co-directed with Anthony Hankey
^ Co-directed with Hamilton Luske , Ben Sharpsteen and David D. Hand
^ Co-directed with Gunther von Fritsch
^ Co-directed with Brian Desmond Hurst
^ Co-directed with Robert Jordan Hill
^ Co-directed with Yakov Bazelyan
^ Directed segment Interlude in the Marshland
^ Co-directed with Abe Levitow
^ Co-directed with Bradley R. Swirnoff
^ Co-directed with Wolfgang Reitherman
^ Co-directed with Bill Melendez
^ Co-directed with Rintaro
^ Co-directed with Kenneth Tsang
^ Co-directed with Jesse Wells
^ Co-directed with Frank Lustig
^ Co-directed with Mike Gabriel
^ Co-directed with David Van Taylor
^ Co-directed with Quentin Lee
^ Jump up to: a b c d Co-directed with John Lasseter
^ Co-directed with Jim Wynorski
^ Co-directed with Kevin Lima
^ Co-directed with Eric Goldberg , Pixote Hunt , James Algar and Hendel Butoy
^ Co-directed with Lee Unkrich and David Silverman
^ Co-directed with Corey Yuen
^ Co-directed with Ryan Fleck
^ Co-directed with Nick Park
^ Co-directed with Tim Burton
^ Co-directed with Eric Darnell
^ Co-directed with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
^ Co-directed with Roger Allers
^ Co-directed with Tim Johnson
^ Co-directed with Brad Bird
^ Co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud
^ Co-directed with Matthew Robinson
^ Jump up to: a b c Co-directed with Pete Docter
^ Co-directed with Alastair Fothergill
^ Co-directed with Barry Cook
^ Jump up to: a b c Co-directed with Chris Renaud
^ Co-directed with Peter Lord
^ Co-directed with Guy Jenkin
^ Co-directed with Jocelyn Towne
^ Co-directed with Mike Mitchell
^ As Declan Dale
^ Co-directed with Garth Jennings
^ Co-directed with Andrew Stanton
^ Co-directed with Nicholas Stoller
^ Co-directed with Conrad Vernon
^ Co-directed with Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda
^ Co-directed with Lee Unkrich
^ Co-directed with Rich Moore
^ Co-directed with Peter Ramsey
^ Co-directed with Peter Chelsom , Fernando Eimbcke , Dennis Gansel , Dani Levy , Josef Rusnak , Til Schweiger , Massy Tadjedin
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