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.
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1880s [ ] 1888 [ ] 1890s [ ] 1896 [ ] Alice Guy-Blaché – La Fée aux Choux Georges Méliès – Le Manoir du diable [ 2] 1898 [ ] Edwin S. Porter – The Cavalier's Dream 1900s [ ] 1901 [ ] Segundo de Chomón – Bajada de Montserrat 1907 [ ] Sidney Olcott – The Wooing of Miles Standish 1908 [ ] Louis Feuillade – L'Homme aimanté D. W. Griffith – The Adventures of Dollie 1909 [ ] Mack Sennett # – The Curtain Pole 1910s [ ]
1911 [ ] Oscar Apfel – The Wedding Bell Thomas H. Ince – Artful Kate 1912 [ ] Herbert Brenon – All for Her Christy Cabanne – Life of Villa Michael Curtiz – Utolsó bohém, Az Francis Ford – The Post Telegrapher J. Farrell MacDonald – The Worth of a Man Wallace Reid – The Tribal Law Victor Sjöström – Ett hemligt giftermål Maurice Tourneur – Jean la Poudre Robert Wiene – Die Waffen der Jugend 1913 [ ] Wallace Beery – Kitty's Knight Frank Borzage – The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine Hobart Bosworth – The Sea Wolf Jack Conway † – The Old Armchair Carmine Gallone – Il bacio di Cirano King Vidor – Hurricane in Galveston Raoul Walsh – The Pseudo Prodigal 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 – The Gringo Rex Ingram – The Symphony of Souls George Irving – The Jungle Alexander Korda – Orhaz a Karpatokban Robert Z. Leonard – The Master Key Frank Lloyd – The Law of His Kind John M. Stahl – A Boy and the Law William Desmond Taylor – The Smouldering Spark
1915 [ ] Roscoe Arbuckle – Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco Richard Boleslavsky – Ty yeshcho ne umesh lyubit Charles Brabin – Vanity Fair Tod Browning – The Lucky Transfer Lon Chaney – The Stool Pigeon Harry Davenport – The Island of Regeneration Alan Hale – The Passing Storm Frank Reicher – The Clue Hal Roach – Willie Runs the Park William A. Seiter – The Honeymoon Roll 1916 [ ] Francis X. Bushman – In the Diplomatic Service Alfred E. Green – The Temptation of Adam 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 – The Girl, Glory John S. Robertson – Baby Mine Wesley Ruggles † – For France 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 † – The White Lie Zoltan Korda – Károly bakák 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 † – The Twins of Suffering Creek Sam Wood – Double Speed 1921 [ ] William Dieterle – Der Mensch am Wege Gregory La Cava † – His Nibs John Gilbert – Love's Penalty Harry Houdini – The Soul of Bronze William K. Howard – Get Your Man Grover Jones – The Unknown Rowland V. Lee – Blind Hearts Edward Ludwig – Rip Van Winkle Leo McCarey – Society Secrets Albert S. Rogell – The Ranch Mystery 1922 [ ] Frank Capra – Fultah Fisher's Boarding House Irving Cummings – The Man from Hell's River Robert J. Flaherty – Nanook of the North Alexander Hall – A Game of Craft Rupert Hughes – The Wall Flower Frank Tuttle – The Cradle Buster 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 – De Nuestras Pampas Buster Keaton – Three Ages Kenji Mizoguchi – Ai ni yomigaru hi Dudley Murphy † – High Speed Lee Berthold Viertel – Nana 1924 [ ] Tay Garnett – Fast Break Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – The Adventures of Oktyabrina Jean Renoir – Backbiters 1925 [ ] Clyde Bruckman – Cowboys Cry for It Jean Cocteau – Jean Cocteau fait du Cinema 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 – Chasing the Chaser 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 – The Whistler 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 – One Hour of Love Mervyn LeRoy – No Place To Go Yasujirō Ozu – Zange no Yaiba 1928 [ ] Norman Z. McLeod – Taking a Chance Norman Taurog † – Lucky Boy 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 [ ] Luis Buñuel † – L'Age d'Or [ 3] Lloyd Corrigan – Follow Thru George Cukor – Grumpy Howard Hughes – Hell's Angels Sidney Lanfield – Cheer Up and Smile Ray McCarey – Two Plus Fours Lowell Sherman † – Lawful Larceny Robert Siodmak – People on Sunday Jean Vigo – À propos de Nice James Whale – Journey's End 1931 [ ] William Dieterle – The Last Flight Peter Godfrey – Down River Michael Powell – Two Crowded Hours Otto Preminger – The Great Love Jacques Tourneur † – Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour [fr ] Stuart Walker – The Secret Call 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 – Chauffeur Antoinette 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 † – Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier George Stevens † – A Divorce Courtship 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 – Judgement of Allah 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 – Sinfonia di Roma 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 – Noches de carnaval 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 – Pete Roleum and his Cousins 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] Jack Kinney - Dumbo 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 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 – Le Nave Biance Luchino Visconti – Ossessione Fred M. Wilcox – Lassie Come Home 1944 [ ] René Clément † – Paris sous la botte Charles Crichton – For Those in Peril Lewis Gilbert – Sailors Do Care 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 Clyde Geronimi - The Three Caballeros 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 Joshua Meador - 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 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 [ ] 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 – One-Way Ticket for Love Jean-Luc Godard † – À bout de souffle John Wayne – The Alamo Mel Welles – Code of Silence Michael Winner – Shoot to Kill Yoji Yamada – Zero no shôten Yoshishige Yoshida – Rokudenashi 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 – Hakuchu No Buraikan Greg Garrison ♦ – Hey, Let's Twist! Susumu Hani † – Bad Boys Andrei Konchalovsky – The Boy and the Pigeon 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 – Le combat dans l'île 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 [ ] 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 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 † – Covek nije tica 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 [ ] Woody Allen – What's Up, Tiger Lily? Hy Averback ♦ – Chamber of Horrors Jules Bass - The Daydreamer Paul Bogart ♦ – The Three Sisters Bob Clark – The Emperor's New Clothes Marguerite Duras – La musica Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Der Stadtstreicher Yasuharu Hasebe – Black Tight Killers William Klein – Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? Alexander Kluge – Yesterday Girl David Lane ♦ – Thunderbirds Are Go Mariano Laurenti – Il vostro super agente Flit Darius Mehrjui – Diamond 33 John Milius – Marcello, I'm So Bored Mickey Moore – Paradise, Hawaiian Style Mike Nichols – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Lucian Pintilie – Sunday at Six Ousmane Sembene – Borom Sarret Volker Schlöndorff † – Der Junge Törless 1967 [ ] Albert Finney – Charlie Bubbles William Friedkin – Good Times Philippe Garrel † – Marie for Memory David Greene ♦ – The Shuttered Room Anthony Harvey ♦ – Dutchman Toshiya Fujita – Hikō shōnen: Hinode no sakebi 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 † – Lördagen den 5.10 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 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 † – Opera Prima Nancy Walker ♦ – Can't Stop the Music Gordon Willis – Windows Jerry Zucker , Jim Abrahams & David Zucker – Airplane! [ 10] 1981 [ ] 1982 [ ] Jahnu Barua † – Aparoopa Richard Benjamin ♦ – My Favorite Year Khairy Beshara ♦ – Bloody Destinies 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 – Guang yin de gu shi 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 – Tobeh Nosuh 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 [ ] 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 Gus Van Sant †♦ – Mala Noche Terry Zwigoff – Louie Bluie
1986 [ ] David Anspaugh – Hoosiers Olivier Assayas † – Disorder 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 † – Man's Flower Road 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 – Oh, Moon! Robert Englund – 976-EVIL 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 – Summer Thefts 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 † – Joyriders 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 † – Demasiado viejo para morir joven 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 – Children of Divorce 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 Reginald Hudlin † – House Party Caroline Link †♦ – Sommertage Frank Marshall – Arachnophobia Joji Matsuoka † – Batāshi Kingyo Bill Murray – Quick Change Michele Placido – Pummarò Jay Roach – Zoo Radio [ nb 16] Tom Ropelewski – Madhouse Lone Scherfig ♦ – Kaj's fødselsdag John Patrick Shanley – Joe Versus the Volcano Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel – The Rescuers Down Under Martin Sheen – Cadence Whit Stillman – Metropolitan Jon Turteltaub – Think Big Ron Underwood †♦ – Tremors Thomas Vinterberg – Sneblind 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 † – La mujer de Benjamín Peter Chelsom † – Hear My Song Rich Christiano – The Appointment Bud Cort – Ted & Venus Alfonso Cuarón †♦ – Sólo Con Tu Pareja Frank De Felitta ♦ – Scissors Arnaud Desplechin – La Vie Des Morts 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 David Kellogg † – 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 – German Fried Movie [ 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 † – The Friend Bill Plympton † – The Tune Tim Robbins – Bob Roberts Robert Rodriguez † – El Mariachi Damon Santostefano † – Severed Ties M. Night Shyamalan – Praying with Anger 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 † – Trahir 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 – King of Destruction 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 † – London Doug Liman – Getting In Darnell Martin † – I Like It Like That Takashi Miike † – Daisan no gokudō 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 – Frankenstein's Planet of Monsters! 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 – Loungers 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 – État des lieux 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 [ ] 1997 [ ] Miguel Arteta – Star Maps William Brent Bell – Sparkle and Charm Peter Cattaneo – The Full Monty Dean Cundey – Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves 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 – Life Sold Separately 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 † – The Fifth Season 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 † – Memory & Desire 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 – Brother Tied 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 – Wild Horses Antoine Fuqua † – The Replacement Killers Ice Cube † – The Players Club Wayne Isham † – 12 Bucks 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 †♦ – Tout Morose Fernando Meirelles †♦ – O Menino Maluquinho 2 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. – Cappuccino 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 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. † – The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords Babak Payami – One More Day Kimberly Peirce † – Boys Don't Cry [ 11] [ 20] Lynne Ramsay – Ratcatcher Tim Roth – The War Zone Shi Runjiu – A Beautiful New World Sara Sugarman † – Mad Cows S. J. Surya – Vaali Julie Taymor ♦ – Titus Pablo Trapero † – Crane World Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon – Toy Story 2 [ nb 24] Manuela Viegas – Gloria Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz – American Pie Ben Younger – Boiler Room [ 11] Jaume Balagueró - The Nameless
2000s [ ] 2010s [ ]
2010 [ ] Casey Affleck – I'm Still Here Mo Ali – Shank Tim Allen ♦ – Crazy on the Outside Richard Ayoade † – Submarine [ 25] Banksy – Exit Through the Gift Shop Samuel Bayer † – A Nightmare on Elm Street Jim Cummings † – No Floodwall Here Pierre Coffin ♦† and Chris Renaud † – Despicable Me Brendon Culliton – If I Should Fall Vincent D'Onofrio – Don't Go in the Woods Gareth Edwards ♦† – Monsters Nathan Greno – Tangled Tom Harper ♦† – The Scouting Book for Boys Tanya Hamilton † – Night Catches Us Philip Seymour Hoffman – Jack Goes Boating Rowan Joffé ♦ – Brighton Rock Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman † – Catfish Larysa Kondracki – The Whistleblower [ 14] Joseph Kosinski – Tron: Legacy Jason Croot – Le Fear William Monahan – London Boulevard David Michôd † – Animal Kingdom Ben Miller – Huge Chris Morris – Four Lions Daisuke Namikawa – Wonderful World Troy Nixey † – Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Brad Peyton † – Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore Josh Radnor – happythankyoumoreplease Julie Anne Robinson ♦ – The Last Song Jim Field Smith † – She's Out of My League Joann Sfar – Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Floria Sigismondi † – The Runaways Scott Stewart † – Legion Massy Tadjedin – Last Night Leehom Wang – Love in Disguise Hiromasa Yonebayashi – The Secret World of Arrietty Tom Six – The Human Centipede (First Sequence) Erik White † – Lottery Ticket Max Winkler † – Ceremony 2011 [ ] Salim Akil ♦ – Jumping the Broom James Bobin ♦† – The Muppets Mike Cahill – Another Earth Cedric the Entertainer – Dance Fu J. C. Chandor – Margin Call Paddy Considine † – Tyrannosaur Joe Cornish ♦† – Attack the Block [ 26] Alexandre Courtes – The Incident Simon Curtis ♦ – My Week with Marilyn Sean Durkin † – Martha Marcy May Marlene Vera Farmiga – Higher Ground Mike Flanagan – Absentia Dexter Fletcher – Wild Bill Evan Glodell – Bellflower [ 14] Famke Janssen – Bringing Up Bobby Giddens Ko – You Are the Apple of My Eye Justin Kurzel – The Snowtown Murders Julia Leigh – Sleeping Beauty Brad Lewis – Cars 2 [ nb 37] Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas – Amy George Niall MacCormick ♦ – Albatross Victoria Mahoney † – Yelling to the Sky John Michael McDonagh – The Guard Dermot Mulroney – Love, Wedding, Marriage Nick Murphy ♦ – The Awakening George Nolfi – The Adjustment Bureau Ben Palmer ♦† – The Inbetweeners Movie Alex Ross Perry † – The Color Wheel Michael Rapaport ♦ – Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Dee Rees † – Pariah Keith Scholey – African Cats [ nb 38] Sarah Smith - Arthur Christmas [ nb 39] Taylor Sheridan † –Vile Jason Winer ♦† – Arthur Jennifer Yuh Nelson – Kung Fu Panda 2 2012 [ ] 2013 [ ] Fede Alvarez † – Evil Dead Stuart Blumberg – Thanks for Sharing Lawrie Brewster † – Lord of Tears Cal Brunker - Escape from Planet Earth Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Maggie Carey † – The To Do List Nat Faxon and Jim Rash – The Way, Way Back Naomi Foner – Very Good Girls Liz W. Garcia – The Lifeguard Simple Gogoi – Tumi Jodi Kuwa Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen – This Is the End Joseph Gordon-Levitt † – Don Jon Dave Grohl † – Sound City Ryan Coogler † – Fruitvale Station Ha Jung-woo – Fasten Your Seatbelt Jerusha Hess – Austenland Eliza Hittman † – It Felt Like Love Bilal Lashari – Waar Michelle Latimer † – Alias Jennifer Lee – Frozen Andy Muschietti † – Mama Keanu Reeves – Man of Tai Chi Carl Rinsch † – 47 Ronin Dan Scanlon – Monsters University Jill Soloway – Afternoon Delight David Soren ♦† – Turbo Michael Tiddes † – A Haunted House Jocelyn Towne – I Am I Zhao Wei † – So Young 2014 [ ] Ana Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Wes Ball † – The Maze Runner Jason Bateman ♦ – Bad Words Paul Bettany – Shelter James Ward Byrkit – Coherence Chen Sicheng – Beijing Love Story Nick Cheung – Ghost Rituals Shawn Christensen – Before I Disappear David Cross ♦ – Hits Chris Evans – Before We Go Susanna Fogel ♦ – Life Partners Hitori Gekidan – A Bolt from the Blue Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler Akiva Goldsman ♦ – Winter's Tale Ryan Gosling – Lost River Russell Crowe – The Water Diviner Dave Green - Earth to Echo Jorge R. Gutierrez † – The Book of Life Andy Hamilton ♦ – What We Did on Our Holiday [ nb 41] Han Han – Duckweed [ 27] Simon Helberg – We'll Never Have Paris [ nb 42] July Jung – A Girl at My Door Chad Stahelski – John Wick Riley Stearns – Faults Jennifer Kent † – The Babadook Peter Lepeniotis - The Nut Job William H. Macy ♦ – Rudderless Charlie McDowell – The One I Love Chris Messina – Alex of Venice Wally Pfister – Transcendence Nabeel Qureshi ♦ – Na Maloom Afraad Mark Raso † – Copenhagen Tristram Shapeero ♦† – Merry Friggin' Christmas Gary Shore † – Dracula Untold Justin Simien † – Dear White People Jon Stewart – Rosewater Robert Stromberg – Maleficent Rob Thomas ♦ – Veronica Mars Kazuo Umezu – Mother Jon Watts † – Clown Gren Wells – The Road Within Michael Williams – Ozland
2015 [ ] Natalie Portman – A Tale of Love and Darkness Aleksander Bach – Hitman: Agent 47 Elizabeth Banks – Pitch Perfect 2 Mark Burton and Richard Starzak - Shaun the Sheep Movie Jonathan Goldstein † and John Francis Daley † – Vacation Jawad Bashir – Maya Natalie Bible' – Windsor Drive Stephen Campanelli – Momentum Ronnie del Carmen – Inside Out [ nb 43] Don Cheadle ♦ – Miles Ahead Marya Cohn † – The Girl in the Book Momina Duraid ♦ – Bin Roye Joel Edgerton † – The Gift Robert Eggers ♦† – The Witch Alex Garland – Ex Machina Anna Rose Holmer † – The Fits Dean Israelite ♦† – Project Almanac Vahid Jalilvand – Wednesday, May 9 Yasir Jaswal – Jalaibee Kahlil Joseph † – The Reflektor Tapes Ariel Kleiman † – Partisan Luo Luo – The Last Women Standing John Maclean † – Slow West Jarrad Paul – The D Train Reed Morano – Meadowland László Nemes – Son of Saul J. G. Quintel ♦† – Regular Show: The Movie R. Ravikumar – Indru Netru Naalai Gary Rydstrom - Strange Magic Ari Sandel - The DUFF Amit Sharma – Tevar Trey Edward Shults † – Krisha Peter Sohn – The Good Dinosaur Austin Stark † – The Runner Alec Su – The Left Ear Paul Tibbitt ♦ – The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water James Vanderbilt – Truth S. Craig Zahler – Bone Tomahawk Stephen Dunn † – Closet Monster Ilya Naishuller † – Hardcore Henry 2016 [ ] Alessandro Carloni – Kung Fu Panda 3 Robert Carlyle ♦ – The Legend of Barney Thomson Yarrow Cheney † – The Secret Life of Pets Kelly Fremon Craig † – The Edge of Seventeen Garth Davis † – Lion Walt Dohrn ♦† – Trolls [ nb 44] Drew Fortier † – Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie Katie Holmes – All We Had Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly – The Angry Birds Movie Travis Knight – Kubo and the Two Strings Gee Malik Linton [ nb 45] Exposed Christophe Lourdelet – Sing [ nb 46]
Alice Lowe † – Prevenge Angus MacLane ♦† – Finding Dory [ nb 47] Ashley McKenzie † – Werewolf Tim Miller – Deadpool Bob Nelson – The Confirmation Cedric Nicolas-Troyan † – The Huntsman: Winter's War Asim Raza ♦ – Ho Mann Jahaan Matthew Ross † – Frank & Lola David F. Sandberg ♦† – Lights Out Luke Scott ♦† – Morgan Jamal Shah – Revenge of the Worthless Veena Sud ♦† – The Salton Sea Doug Sweetland † – Storks [ nb 48] Amber Tamblyn – Paint It Black Richard Tanne – Southside with You Greg Tiernan ♦† – Sausage Party [ nb 49] Dan Trachtenberg ♦† – 10 Cloverfield Lane Wang Baoqiang – Buddies in India 2017 [ ] Ana Asensio – Most Beautiful Island Jay Baruchel – Goon: Last of the Enforcers Charlie Bean ♦†, Paul Fisher & Bob Logan – The Lego Ninjago Movie Dean Devlin ♦ – Geostorm Denise Di Novi ♦ – Unforgettable Brian Fee – Cars 3 Cory Finley – Thoroughbreds Anna Foerster – Underworld: Blood Wars Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird Michael Gracey – The Greatest Showman Jason Hall – Thank You for Your Service Eric Guillon - Despicable Me 3
Taran Killam – Killing Gunther Brie Larson – Unicorn Store David Leitch #† – Atomic Blonde Taron Lexton† – In Search of Fellini
Dave McCary ♦† – Brigsby Bear Chris McKay – The Lego Batman Movie Hallie Meyers-Shyer – Home Again Adrian Molina – Coco [ nb 50] Usama Mukwaya – Love Faces Jordan Peele – Get Out Timothy Reckart – The Star Andy Serkis – Breathe Quinn Shephard † – Blame Aaron Sorkin – Molly's Game Jessica M. Thompson – The Light of the Moon Antoine Bourges † – Fail to Appear 2018 [ ] Ari Aster † – Hereditary Bo Burnham † – Eighth Grade Aneesh Chaganty † – Searching Kay Cannon – Blockers Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born Paul Dano – Wildlife Steven S. DeKnight ♦ – Pacific Rim Uprising Carlos López Estrada – Blindspotting Nicolai Fuglsig – 12 Strong Karen Gillan † – The Party's Just Beginning Heather Graham – Half Magic Christian Gudegast – Den of Thieves Jonah Hill † – Mid90s Aaron Horvath – Teen Titans Go! to the Movies Phil Johnston † – Ralph Breaks the Internet [ nb 51] Scott Mosier – The Grinch Mari Okada † – Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse [ nb 52] Alex Pettyfer † – Back Roads Boots Riley † – Sorry to Bother You Christian Rivers – Mortal Engines Jeff Tomsic †♦ – Tag Arunraja Kamaraj – Kanaa Jonathan Watson – Arizona (2018 film) 2019 [ ] Dianna Agron †, Justin Franklin, Daniel Lwowski†♦, and Gabriela Tscherniak†♦ – Berlin, I Love You [ nb 53] Mike Ahern and Edna Loughman – Extra Ordinary
Annabelle Attanasio – Mickey and the Bear Will Becher and Richard Phelan – A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Andrea Berloff – The Kitchen Robin Bissell – The Best of Enemies
Dylan Brown – Wonder Park
Nick Bruno and Troy Quane – Spies in Disguise Matthew Michael Carnahan - Mosul Michael Chaves ♦† – The Curse of La Llorona Monia Chokri – A Brother's Love Josh Cooley † – Toy Story 4 Michael Angelo Covino – The Climb
Gary Dauberman – Annabelle Comes Home Jonathan del Val – The Secret Life of Pets 2 [ nb 54]
Mati Diop – Atlantics Lino DiSalvo – Playmobil: The Movie Nora Fingscheidt – System Crasher Micah Gallo† – Itsy Bitsy
Mike Gan – Burn
Rachel Griffiths † – Ride Like a Girl Simon Kinberg – Dark Phoenix Van Ling – Cliffs of Freedom Ladj Ly – Les Misérables
Melina Matsoukas ♦† – Queen & Slim William McGregor ♦† – Gwen Carlo Mirabella Davis – Swallow
Adam Egypt Mortimer♦† – Daniel Isn't Real
Wagner Moura – Marighella Shannon Murphy – Babyteeth
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz† – The Peanut Butter Falcon
Katharine O'Brien † – Lost Transmissions Andrew Patterson † – The Vast of Night Joe Penna ♦† – Arctic Annie Silverstein – Bull
Gene Stupnitsky † – Good Boys Joe Talbot † - The Last Black Man in San Francisco Emma Tammi – The Wind
Michael Tyburski † – The Sound of Silence Thurop Van Orman and John Rice – The Angry Birds Movie 2 Viktor van der Valk – Nocturne
Olivia Wilde † – Booksmart Phillip Youmans – Burning Cane Sergio Pablos – Klaus
2020s [ ]
2020 [ ] Max Barbakow – Palm Springs
Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz† – Antebellum
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 55] David Prior† – The Empty Man
Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe† – Connected
Emma Seligman † – Shiva Baby Liesl Tommy ♦ – Respect Remi Weekes♦ – His House
Autumn de Wilde † – Emma David S. F. Wilson – Bloodshot
Florian Zeller ♦ – The Father 2021 [ ] Elaine Bogan and Ennio Torresan♦ – Spirit Untamed
Loren Bouchard ♦ – Bob's Burgers: The Movie 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 Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon - Hotel Transylvania 4
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
Rodo Sayagues – Don't Breathe 2 Jude Weng – Finding 'Ohana 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
Chris Williams # – The Sea Beast
Unknown [ ] Minkyu Lee – The Witch Boy 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
↑ Co-directed with John Lasseter
↑ Co-directed with Jim Wynorski
↑ Co-directed with Kevin Lima
↑ Co-directed with John Lasseter
↑ Co-directed with David Silverman
↑ Co-directed with Corey Yuen
↑ Co-directed with Ryan Fleck
↑ Co-directed with Tim Burton
↑ Co-directed with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
↑ Co-directed with Roger Allers
↑ Co-directed with Tim Johnson
↑ Co-directed with John Lasseter
↑ Co-directed with Brad Bird
↑ Co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud
↑ Co-directed with Matthew Robinson
↑ Co-directed with Pete Docter
↑ Co-directed with John Lasseter
↑ Co-directed with Alastair Fothergill
↑ Co-directed with Barry Cook
↑ Co-directed with Chris Renaud
↑ Co-directed with Guy Jenkin
↑ Co-directed with Jocelyn Towne
↑ Co-directed with Pete Docter
↑ 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 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
↑ Co-directed with Chris Renaud
↑ Co-directed with Pete Docter
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