List of directorial debuts

Pre–1876

1874

• Pierre Janssen – ''Passage de Vénus''

1876–1925

1878

• Eadweard Muybridge – ''The Horse in Motion''

1887

• Louis Le Prince – ''Man Walking Around a Corner''

1889

• William Kennedy Dickson – Monkeyshines
• William Friese-Greene – ''Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses''

1892

• Émile Reynaud – ''Un bon bock''

1894

• Alexander Black – ''Miss Jerry''

1896

• Alice Guy-Blaché – La Fée aux Choux
• Georges Méliès – ''Le Manoir du diable''

1898

• Edwin S. Porter – ''The Cavalier's Dream''

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''

1911

• Oscar Apfel – The Wedding Bell
• Thomas H. Ince – Artful Kate
• Lois Weber –''A Heroine of 76''

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
• Dadasaheb Phalke - Raja Harishchandra
• King Vidor – Hurricane in Galveston
• Raoul Walsh – ''The Pseudo Prodigal''

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 – Passing Storm">Passing (film)">Passing Storm
• Frank Reicher – Clue (1915 film)|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 – ''Land of Long Shadows">Land (2021 film)">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''

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

• Gregory La Cava† – His Nibs
• William Dieterle – Der Mensch am Wege
• 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† – Speed Lee">Speed (1994 film)">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''

1926–1975

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
• 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
• Alfred L. Werker – The Pioneer Scout
• Tim Whelan – ''Adam's Apple''

1929

• Lionel Barrymore – Madame X
• John Cromwell – Close Harmony
• Dorothy Davenport – Linda
• 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
• Norman Taurog – ''Lucky Boy''

1930

• Luis Buñuel† – L'Age d'Or
• Lloyd Corrigan – Follow Thru
• George Cukor – Grumpy
• Howard Hughes – Hell's Angels
• Sidney Lanfield – Up and Smile">Up (2009 film)">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† –
• 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

• Edward Dmytryk – The Hawk
• W. C. Fields# – Man on the Flying Trapeze
• James W. Horne – Bonnie Scotland
• Mehboob Khan – Judgement of Allah
• Yuan Muzhi – Scenes of City Life
• Carol Reed – It Happened in Paris
• Douglas Sirk† – The Girl from the Marsh Croft
• Jacques Tati – ''Gai dimanche''

1936

• Lew Ayres – Hearts in Bondage
• John Brahm† – Broken Blossoms
• William Clemens – Hunt (1936 film)|Man Hunt]
• Norman Foster – I Cover Chinatown
• 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
• William Cottrell, David Hand, Larry Morey and Perce Pearce - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Giacomo Gentilomo – Sinfonia di Roma
• Roy Kellino – Concerning Mr. Martin
• Julio Saraceni – Noches de carnaval
• Harold D. Schuster – Wings of the Morning
• S. Sylvan Simon – A Girl with Ideas
• 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
• Vincent Sherman – ''The Return of Doctor X''

1940

• James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe Jr., T. Hee, Norman Ferguson and Wilfred Jackson - Fantasia
• Joseph Barbera and William Hanna# – Puss Gets the Boot
• Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen - Pinocchio
• Morgan (director)|William Morgan] - Bowery Boy
• Vittorio De Sica – Rose scarlatte
• Preston Sturges – ''The Great McGinty''

1941

• Jules Dassin – The Tell-Tale Heart
• John Huston – The Maltese Falcon
• Jean Negulesco – Singapore Woman
• Irving Rapper – Shining Victory
• George Sidney† – Free and Easy
• Ted Tetzlaff – World Premiere
• Orson Welles† – Citizen Kane
• Spencer Williams – ''The Blood of Jesus''

1942

• Henri-Georges Clouzot – The Murderer Lives at Number 21
• 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 – Moon and Sixpence (film)|The Moon and Sixpence]
• Anthony Mann♦ – Dr. Broadway
• Joseph M. Newman – Northwest Rangers
• Manoel de Oliveira† – Aniki-Bóbó
• Emeric 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
• Roy Rowland†# – A Stranger in Town
• 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
• Clifford Odets – None But the Lonely Heart
• Laurence Olivier – Henry V
• Helmut Weiss† – The Punch Bowl
• Robert Wise – ''The Curse of the Cat People''

1945

• K. Asif – Phool
• Mel Ferrer – The Girl of the Limberlost
• Phillip Ford - The Tiger Woman
• 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
• Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Joshua Meador and Bob Cormack - Make Mine Music
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Dragonwyck
• William D. Russell† – Our Hearts Were Growing Up
• John Sturges – The Man Who Dared
• Peter Ustinov – School for Secrets
• Charles Walters – Ziegfeld Follies
• Terence Young – ''Theirs Is the Glory''

1947

• Robert Alton – Merton of the Movies
• Ken Annakin† – Camp (film)|Holiday Camp]
• Roy Ward Baker – The October Man
• Martin Gabel – The Lost Moment
• Kon Ichikawa – A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
• Rudolph Maté and Don Hartman – You (1947 film)|It Had to Be You]
• 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
• Bretaigne Windust – ''Winter Meeting''

1949

• Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly – On the Town
• Sam Fuller – I Shot Jesse James
• John Guillermin – High Jinks in Society
• 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''

1950

• Michelangelo Antonioni† – Cronaca di un amore
• Richard Brooks – Crisis
• Youssef Chahine – Baba Amin
• 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 – ''Kanli Feryat''

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 – My Son's Youth
• 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
• Peter Brook – The Beggar's Opera
• Don Chaffey – Kids (film)|Skid Kids]
• Jesse Hibbs† – The All American
• Eugène Lourié – The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
• Phil Tucker – Robot Monster
• Stanley Kubrick† – Fear and Desire
• Francis D. Lyon♦ – Crazylegs
• Dick Powell – Split Second
• Ed Wood♦ – ''Glen or Glenda''

1954

• Abner Biberman – The Golden Mistress
• James Wong Howe† – Go, Man, Go!
• Nunnally Johnson – Night People
• Edmond O'Brien and Howard W. Koch – Shield for Murder
• Richard Carlson – Riders to the Stars
• Dennis O'Keefe – The Diamond
• Herbert L. Strock# – Gog
• Sergei Parajanov† – Andriesh
• Yves Robert – Les hommes ne pensent qu'à ça
• Tapan Sinha – Ankush
• Agnès Varda – ''La Pointe Courte''

1955

• Hall Bartlett – Unchained
• Earl Bellamy♦ – Seminole Uprising
• Roger Corman – Five Guns West
• 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
• Burt Lancaster – The Kentuckian
• Delbert Mann – Marty
• Ray Milland – A Man Alone
• Satyajit Ray – Pather Panchali
• Mrinal Sen – Raat Bhore
• Don Sharp – The Stolen Airliner
• Melville Shavelson – The Seven Little Foys
• Andrzej Wajda† – A Generation
• Cornel Wilde – ''Storm Fear''

1956

• Joseph Anthony – The Rainmaker
• Valentine Davies – The Benny Goodman Story
• Leonid Gaidai – A Weary Road
• Charles F. Haas♦ – Star in the Dust
• Andrew V. McLaglen – Man in the Vault
• Claude Sautet – Bonjour Sourire!
• Alex Segal♦ – Ransom!
• Seijun Suzuki – Minato no kanpai: Shôri o waga te ni
• Daniel Taradash – Storm Center
• Samuel A. Taylor – ''The Monte Carlo Story''

1957

• Robert Altman†♦ – The Delinquents
• James B. Clark♦ – Under Fire
• Clive Donner – The Secret Place
• Anselmo Duarte – Absolutamente Certo
• John Frankenheimer♦ – The Young Stranger
• Sidney Lumet♦ – 12 Angry Men
• Robert Mulligan♦ – Fear Strikes Out
• Art Napoleon – Man on the Prowl
• Martin Ritt – Edge of the City
• Franco Zeffirelli – ''Camping''

1958

• Gabriel Axel♦ – The Girls Are Willing
• Jack Cardiff† – Intent to Kill
• Claude Chabrol – Le Beau Serge
• Herschel Daugherty♦ – The Light in the Forest
• Michel Deville – Une balle dans le canon
• Wojciech Has† – Petla
• Shōhei Imamura – Stolen Desire
• Miklós Jancsó - The Bells Have Gone to Rome
• Irvin Kershner – Stakeout on Dope Street
• Louis Malle – Elevator to the Gallows
• José Mojica Marins – Adventurer's Fate
• George Pal - Tom Thumb
• Quentin Lawrence - The Trollenberg Terror
• Arthur Penn♦ – The Left Handed Gun
• Anthony Quinn – The Buccaneer
• Karel Reisz† – We Are the Lambeth Boys
• Bernhard Wicki – ''Warum Sind Sie Gegen Uns?''

1959

• John Cassavetes – Shadows
• Yash Chopra – Dhool Ka Phool
• Les Clark, Eric Larson and Wolfgang Reitherman – Sleeping Beauty
• 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 – Ostorzhno: poshlost
• 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''

1960

• Mario Bava – Black Sunday
• Jean-Luc Godard† – À bout de souffle
• 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
• 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 - Dog of the North">Dog (2022 film)">Dog of the North
• Tad Danielewski - The Big Wave
• 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
• Halit Refiğ† – Yasak Aşk
• 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
• Gerald Potterton – My Financial Career
• John Schlesinger – A Kind of Loving
• 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 – House Is Black">House (1977 film)">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
• Manfred R. Köhler - Coffin from Hong Kong
• Larry Peerce – One Potato, Two Potato
• Glauber Rocha† – Black God, White Devil
• Ettore Scola† – Se permettete parliamo di donne
• 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
• Steve Cochran – Tell Me in the Sunlight
• Fred Coe♦ – A Thousand Clowns
• John Derek – Nightmare in the Sun
• Costa-Gavras – The Sleeping Car Murders
• Ebrahim Golestan† – Brick and Mirror
• Daniel Haller – Monster, Die!">Monster (2018 film)">Monster, Die!
• Dušan Makavejev† – Covek nije tica
• 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
• István Szabó - Age of Illusions
• Jan Troell - 4x4
• 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
• 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
• 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†♦ – Poison (film)|Pretty Poison]
• Peter Bogdanovich♦ – Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
• Mel Brooks – The Producers
• Jacques Charon – A Flea in Her Ear
• Brian De Palma† – Murder a la Mod
• George Dunning – Submarine (film)|Yellow Submarine]
• Werner Herzog† – Signs of Life
• Alejandro Jodorowsky† – Fando y Lis
• Peter Medak – Negatives
• Paul Newman – Rachel, Rachel
• Bob Rafelson – Head
• George A. Romero† – Night of the Living Dead
• Raúl Ruiz† – Three Sad Tigers
• Joseph Sargent† – The Hell with Heroes
• Martin Scorsese† – Who's That Knocking at My Door
• Fernando Solanas† – The Hour of the Furnaces
• Isao Takahata – Prince of the Sun">Prince (musician)">Prince of the Sun
• Eric Till - ''Hot Millions''

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
• Peter R. Hunt – On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• Charles Jarrott♦ – Anne of the Thousand Days
• Paul Mazursky – Ted & Alice">Ted (film)">Ted & Alice
• 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''

1970

• Theodoros Angelopoulos – Reconstitution
• Dario Argento – The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• Hal Ashby – The Landlord
• Rajinder Singh Bedi – Dastak
• James Bridges – The Baby Maker
• Lino Brocka – Wanted: Perfect Mother
• Gilbert Cates♦ – I Never Sang for My Father
• Richard A. Colla† – Zigzag
• George P. Cosmatos – The Beloved
• Sean S. Cunningham – The Art of Marriage
• Ossie Davis – Cotton Comes to Harlem
• William A. Fraker – Monte Walsh
• Alan Gibson♦ – Crescendo
• Lionel Jeffries – The Railway Children
• Chuck Jones - The Phantom Tollbooth
• Leonard Kastle – The Honeymoon Killers
• Barbara Loden – Wanda
• Vic Morrow♦ – A Man Called Sledge
• Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell – Performance
• Robert Scheerer♦ – Adam at 6 A.M.
• Wim Wenders – ''Summer in the City''

1971

• Alan Arkin† – Little Murders
• George P. Cosmatos – Sin
• Clint Eastwood – Play Misty for Me
• John Erman♦ – Making It
• Peter Fonda – The Hired Hand
• James Frawley♦ – The Christian Licorice Store
• Stephen Frears – Gumshoe
• John D. Hancock - Let's Scare Jessica to Death
• Mike Hodges♦ – Get Carter
• Mike Leigh – Bleak Moments
• Jack Lemmon – Kotch
• George Lucas† – THX 1138
• Elaine May – A New Leaf
• Russ Mayberry♦ – The Jesus Trip
• Jack Nicholson – Drive, He Said
• Stewart Raffill – The Tender Warrior
• Ivan Reitman† – Foxy Lady
• Steven Hilliard Stern – B.S. I Love You
• Dalton Trumbo – Johnny Got His Gun
• Lawrence Turman – The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
• Paul Verhoeven – Business Is Business
• Peter Weir†♦ – Homesdale
• Chatrichalerm Yugala – Out of the Darkness
• Claude Zidi – ''Les Bidasses en folie''

1972

• Chantal Akerman† – Hôtel Monterey
• Michael Apted♦ – The Triple Echo
• Ralph Bakshi†♦ – Fritz the Cat
• Paul Bartel† – Private Parts
• Bruce Beresford – The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
• Robert Benton – Bad Company
• Larry Cohen – Bone
• Jackie Cooper♦ – Stand Up and Be Counted
• Wes Craven – The Last House on the Left
• Bill Douglas† – My Childhood
• Daryl Duke♦ – Payday
• Adoor Gopalakrishnan† – Swayamvaram
• Larry Hagman♦ – Beware! The Blob
• David Hemmings – Running Scared
• Perry Henzel – The Harder They Come
• Charlton Heston – Antony and Cleopatra
• Bruce Lee – The Way of the Dragon
• Djibril Diop Mambéty – Touki Bouki
• Gary Nelson♦ – Molly and Lawless John
• Gordon Parks Jr. – Super Fly
• Arnold Perl – Malcolm X
• Lee Philips – Getting Away from It All
• Sidney Poitier – Buck and the Preacher
• Michael Schultz♦ – Together for Days
• George C. Scott – Rage
• Kumar Shahani – Maya Darpan
• John Waters† – Pink Flamingos
• Clyde Ware – ''No Drums, No Bugles''

1973

• Hector Babenco – O Fabuloso Fittipaldi
• Shyam Benegal♦ – Ankur
• Ricou Browning♦ – Salty
• Martin Campbell – The Sex Thief
• Georg Fenady – Terror in the Wax Museum
• Joe D'Amato# – Death Smiles on a Murderer
• Philip D'Antoni – The Seven-Ups
• William Dear† – Nymph
• Kirk Douglas – Scalawag
• Charles K. Eastman – The All-American Boy
• Haile Gerima† – Child of Resistance
• Curtis Hanson – Sweet Kill
• Robin Hardy –The Wicker Man
• Anna Karina – Vivre ensemble
• Abbas Kiarostami† – The Experience
• John Landis – Schlock
• Mark L. Lester – Steel Arena
• Terrence Malick† – Badlands
• John Milius† – Dillinger
• August Nichols">August (1996 film)">August Nichols and Iwao Takamoto - Charlotte’s Web
• Sohrab Shahid-Saless♦ – A Simple Event
• Jeannot Szwarc♦ – Extreme Close-Up
• John Woo – Fist to Fist
• Howard Zieff – ''Slither''

1974

• Paul Annett♦ – The Beast Must Die
• G. Aravindan – Uttarayanam
• Arizal♦ – Senyum dan Tangis
• John Byrum – Inserts
• Joe Camp – Benji
• John Carpenter – Dark Star
• Michael Cimino – Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• Jonathan Demme – Caged Heat
• Scott Hicks – The Wanderer
• Peter Hyams♦ – Our Time
• John Korty - Silense
• Richard Loncraine - Slade in Flame
• Nikita Mikhalkov† – At Home Among Strangers
• Ariane Mnouchkine – 1789
• Alan Ormsby – Deranged
• Wolfgang Petersen†♦ – Einer von uns beiden
• Steven Spielberg†♦ – The Sugarland Express
• Oliver Stone† – Seizure
• Charles Swenson - Down and Dirty Duck
• Bertrand Tavernier – The Clockmaker
• Lewis Teague♦ – Dirty O'Neil
• Thierry Zéno† – ''Vase de Noces''

1975

• Jean-Claude Brisseau – La croisee des chemins
• Patrice Chéreau – The Flesh of the Orchid
• Souleymane Cissé† – The Young Girl
• John Duigan – The Firm Man
• Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones – Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Lasse Hallström♦ – A Guy and a Gal
• Walter Hill – Hard Times
• Shirley MacLaine – The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
• Nikos Nikolaidis† – Evrydiki BA 2O37
• Joan Micklin Silver† – Hester Street
• Helma Sanders-Brahms – Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand
• Margarethe von Trotta♦† – The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
• Gene Wilder – The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
• Joseph Zito – ''Abduction''

1976–2025

1976

• Cüneyt Arkın – Deli Şahin
• Allan Arkush† and Joe Dante† – Hollywood Boulevard
• Jean-Jacques Annaud – Black and White in Color
• John Badham♦ – The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
• Catherine Breillat – A Real Young Girl
• Dyan Cannon – Number One
• Martha Coolidge† – Not a Pretty Picture
• Neal Israel – Tunnel Vision
• Derek Jarman – Sebastiane
• Krzysztof Kieślowski†♦ – Personnel
• Patrice Leconte† – Les vécés étaient fermés de l'interieur
• Jeff Lieberman† – Squirm
• Robert Moore♦ – Murder by Death
• Alan Parker†♦ – Bugsy Malone
• Michael Pressman – The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
• Burt Reynolds♦ – Gator
• Fred Schepisi† – The Devil's Playground
• George Schlatter♦ – Norman... Is That You?
• Kartal Tibet – ''Tosun Paşa''

1977

• Joseph Brooks# – My Life (film)|You Light Up My Life]
• Coluche – Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine
• Atom Egoyan – Lust of a Eunuch
• Valie Export – Unsichtbare Gegner
• Marty Feldman♦ – The Last Remake of Beau Geste
• Ron Howard† – Grand Theft Auto
• Jed Johnson – Bad
• Girish Kasaravalli – Ghatashraddha
• Diane Kurys – Peppermint Soda
• I. Robert Levy – Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?
• John Lounsbery - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• David Lynch† – Eraserhead
• Gregory Nava† – The Confessions of Amans
• Hal Needham – Smokey and the Bandit
• Chris Noonan – Bulls
• Phillip Noyce† – Backroads
• Nobuhiko Obayashi† – House
• Phil Roman† – Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
• Ridley Scott†♦ – The Duellists
• Art Stevens - The Rescuers
• Béla Tarr† – Családi tűzfészek
• Fred Wolf - ''The Mouse and his Child''

1978

• Lou Adler – Up in Smoke
• Muzaffar Ali – Gaman
• Bille August – Honning måne
• Warren Beatty and Buck Henry – Heaven Can Wait
• Charles Burnett† – Killer of Sheep
• Buddhadeb Dasgupta† – Dooratwa
• Robert Klane – Friday (film)|Thank God It's Friday]
• Randal Kleiser♦ – Grease
• Severino "Nonoy" Marcelo♦† – Tadhana
• Richard Marquand – The Legacy
• Leiji Matsumoto♦ – Captain Harlock: Mystery of the Arcadia
• Errol Morris – Gates of Heaven
• Steve Rash – The Buddy Holly Story
• Joan Rivers – Rabbit Test
• Martin Rosen - Watership Down
• Paul Schrader – Blue Collar
• Alexander Sokurov† – The Lonely Voice of Man
• Sylvester Stallone – Paradise Alley
• James Toback – Fingers
• Jane Wagner – Moment by Moment
• Meir Zarchi – I Spit on Your Grave
• Robert Zemeckis† – ''I Wanna Hold Your Hand''

1979

• Carroll Ballard – The Black Stallion
• Martin Brest† – Going in Style
• Albert Brooks♦ – Real Life
• Jackie Chan – The Fearless Hyena
• Alan Clarke – Scum
• Abel Ferrara† – The Driller Killer
• Goutam Ghose† – Maabhoomi
• Tsui Hark – The Butterfly Murders
• Agnieszka Holland†♦ – Provincial Actors
• Ann Hui♦ – The Secret
• Leon Ichaso – El Super
• George Miller – Mad Max
• Hayao Miyazaki♦ – The Castle of Cagliostro
• Russell Mulcahy – Derek and Clive Get the Horn
• George Peppard – Five Days from Home
• Chris Petit – Radio On
• Julien Temple – The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
• Joan Tewkesbury – Old Boyfriends
• Simon Wincer♦ – ''Snapshot''

1980

• Marilou Diaz-Abaya – Tanikala
• Pedro Almodóvar –Pepi, Luci, Bom
• 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
• Tommy Chong – Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
• Rob Cohen – Circle of Friends">Circle (2015 film)">Circle of Friends
• Bill Forsyth – That Sinking Feeling
• Peter Greenaway† – The Falls
• Robert Greenwald – Xanadu
• Taylor Hackford♦† – The Idolmaker
• Jim Jarmusch – Vacation (1980 film)|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!''

1981

• Alan Alda♦ – The Four Seasons
• Graham Baker – Omen III: The Final Conflict
• Jean-Jacques Beineix – Diva
• Andrew Bergman – So Fine
• Ted Berman and Richard Rich - The Fox and the Hound
• Edward Bianchi – The Fan
• Kathryn Bigelow† and Monty Montgomery – The Loveless
• Peter Bonerz♦ – Nobody's Perfekt
• Howard R. Cohen – Saturday the 14th
• Francis Delia – Nightdreams
• Uli Edel – Christiane F.
• John Glen† – For Your Eyes Only
• Vadim Glowna – Desperado City
• Steve Gordon♦ – Arthur
• Jim Henson†♦ – The Great Muppet Caper
• Michael Herz – Waitress!
• Hugh Hudson† – Chariots of Fire
• Jandhyala – Mudda Mandaram
• Glenn Jordan♦ – Only When I Laugh
• Lawrence Kasdan – Body Heat
• Mika Kaurismäki – The Liar
• Emir Kusturica†♦ – Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
• Michael Mann†♦ – Thief
• Ron Mann† – Imagine the Sound
• Steve Miner – Friday the 13th Part 2
• Juan Miñón and Miguel Ángel Trujillo – Kargus
• Nettie Peña – Home Sweet Home
• Sam Raimi† – The Evil Dead
• Rick Rosenthal – Halloween II
• Joel Schumacher♦ – The Incredible Shrinking Woman
• Oz Scott – Bustin' Loose
• Penelope Spheeris† – The Decline of Western Civilization
• Zoran Tadić – ''Rhythm of a Crime''

1982

• Jahnu Barua† – Aparoopa
• Richard Benjamin♦ – My Favorite Year
• Khairy Beshara♦ – Bloody Destinies
• Patricia Birch♦ – Grease 2
• Don Bluth† –The Secret of NIMH
• Patrick Bokanowski† – Angel (1982 film)|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
• Don Gronquist – Unhinged
• Amy Heckerling† – Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Amy Holden Jones – The Slumber Party Massacre
• Tim Hunter – Tex
• Neil Jordan – Angel
• John Laing – Beyond Reasonable Doubt
• Barry Levinson – Diner
• 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
• Claudio Caligari – Toxic Love
• Michael Chapman – All the Right Moves
• Robert Dalva – The Black Stallion Returns
• Mel Damski – Yellowbeard
• Pál Erdöss – The Princess
• Sam Firstenberg – One More Chance
• John Herzfeld – Two of a Kind
• Robert Hiltzik – Sleepaway Camp
• Robert Jiras – I Am the Cheese
• Shekhar Kapur – Masoom
• Aki Kaurismäki – Crime and Punishment
• David Kendall – Luggage of the Gods!
• Jackie Kong – The Being
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Kandagawa Pervert Wars
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Tobeh Nosuh
• Robert Mandel – Independence Day
• Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas – Strange Brew
• Mamoru Oshii♦ – Urusei Yatsura: Only You
• Euzhan Palcy – Sugar Cane Alley
• Michael Radford† – Another Time, Another Place
• Mani Ratnam – Pallavi Anu Pallavi
• Sandip Ray – Phatik Chand
• Mark Rosman – The House on Sorority Row
• Tony Scott† – Hunger (1983 film)|The Hunger]
• James Signorelli – Easy Money
• Ching Siu-tung – Duel to the Death
• Barbra Streisand – Yentl
• David Worth – Warrior of the Lost World
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko – ''Kindergarten''

1984

• Alejandro Agresti† – La Neutrónica explotó en Burzaco
• Steve Barron† – Electric Dreams
• John Carl Buechler† – The Dungeonmaster
• Léos Carax – Boy Meets Girl
• Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – Blood Simple
• Alex Cox - Repo Man
• Gérard Depardieu – Le tartuffe
• Roland Emmerich† – The Noah's Ark Principle
• James Foley – Reckless
• Herb Gardner – The Goodbye People
• Brian Gilbert – The Frog Prince
• John Hughes – Sixteen Candles
• Juzo Itami – The Funeral
• Roland Joffé♦ – The Killing Fields
• Chen Kaige – Yellow Earth
• Marek Kanievska - Another Country
• Yoshiaki Kawajiri – Lensman
• Fritz Kiersch – Children of the Corn
• Ken Kwapis♦ – The Beniker Gang
• Albert Magnoli† – Purple Rain
• Luis Mandoki – Motel
• Leonard Nimoy♦ – Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Rob Reiner♦ – This Is Spinal Tap
• W. D. Richter – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Valeria Sarmiento – Notre mariage
• Charles Shyer – Irreconcilable Differences
• Gene Taft – Blame It on the Night
• Ruud van Hemert – Army Brats
• Lars von Trier† – The Element of Crime
• Peter Webb – Give My Regards to Broad Street
• Hugh Wilson†♦ – Police Academy
• Roger Young – ''Lassiter''

1985

• Dodo Abashidze – The Legend of Suram Fortress
• Dan Attias – Silver Bullet
• Hal Barwood† – Warning Sign
• Jonathan R. Betuel – My Science Project
• George Bowers – Private Resort
• Tim Burton†♦ – Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• John Cherry – Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam
• Joyce Chopra† – Smooth Talk
• Rod Daniel♦ – Teen Wolf
• Stuart Gordon♦ – Re-Animator
• Lisa Gottlieb – Just One of the Guys
• Stephen Gyllenhaal – Certain Fury
• Savage Steve Holland – Better Off Dead
• Tom Holland – Fright Night
• Huang Jianxin – The Black Cannon Incident
• Amos Kollek – Goodbye, New York
• Stanley Kwan – Women
• Ricky Lau – Mr. Vampire
• Dwight H. Little – The Secret War">The Secret (1979 film)">The Secret War
• Jonathan Lynn – Clue
• Alan Metter – Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• Walter Murch – Return to Oz
• Francesco Nuti – Casablanca, Casablanca
• James Orr – Breaking All the Rules
• Mark Romanek – Static
• Gus Van Sant†♦ – Mala Noche
• Arna Selznick – The Care Bears Movie
• Alan Sharp – Little Treasure
• Howard Storm♦ – Once Bitten
• Fina Torres – Oriana
• Will Vinton – The Adventures of Mark Twain
• Terry Zwigoff – ''Louie Bluie''

1986

• David Anspaugh – Hoosiers
• Olivier Assayas† – Disorder
• David Byrne† – True Stories
• Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson†, David Michener and John Musker – The Great Mouse Detective
• Jeffrey Delman – Deadtime Stories
• Howard Deutch† – Pretty in Pink
• Peter Faiman♦ – Crocodile Dundee
• Paul Michael Glaser†♦ – Band of the Hand
• Vítor Gonçalves – A Girl In Summer
• Renny Harlin†♦ – Born American
• Stephen Herek – Critters
• Connie Kaiserman – My Little Girl
• Stephen King – Maximum Overdrive
• Jerry Kramer – Modern Girls
• Spike Lee† – She's Gotta Have It
• Sondra Locke – Ratboy
• Penny Marshall♦ – Jumpin' Jack Flash
• John McNaughton† – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• John McTiernan – Nomads
• Michael Parks – The Return of Josey Wales
• Anthony Perkins – Psycho III
• Maurice Phillips – The American Way
• Prince† – Under the Cherry Moon
• Bruce Robinson – Withnail and I
• 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
• Ziggy Steinberg – The Boss' Wife
• Giuseppe Tornatore – The Professor
• Agustí Villaronga† – Tras el cristal
• Edward Zwick – ''Last Night (1986 film)|About Last Night...]''

1987

• Allison Anders – Border Radio
• Emile Ardolino♦ – Dirty Dancing
• Jeff Bleckner♦ – White Water Summer
• Deborah Brock – Slumber Party Massacre II
• Chris Columbus – Adventures in Babysitting
• Bill Condon – Sister, Sister
• Danny DeVito†♦ – Throw Momma from the Train
• Nigel Dick† – P.I. Private Investigations
• Jim Drake† – Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
• Emilio Estevez – Wisdom
• Steve Gomer† – Sweet Lorraine
• Flora Gomes – Mortu Nega
• Michael Gornick†♦ – Creepshow 2
• Tamar Simon Hoffs† – The Allnighter
• Peter Jackson† – Bad Taste
• Phil Joanou† – Three O'Clock High
• Diane Keaton – Heaven
• Mary Lambert† – Siesta
• Luis Llosa Urquidi – Hour of the Assassin
• David Mamet – House of Games
• Cheech Marin – Born in East L.A.
• Jerry Rees – Brave Little Toaster">Brave (2012 film)">Brave Little Toaster
• Max Reid – Wild Thing
• Phil Alden Robinson – In the Mood
• Chuck Russell – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• Jay Russell – The End of the Line
• John Stockwell – Undercover
• Robert Townsend – Hollywood Shuffle
• Zhang Yimou – ''Red Sorghum''

1988

• Greg Beeman♦ – License to Drive
• Glenn Gordon Caron – Clean and Sober
• Stephen Chiodo – Killer Klowns from Outer Space
• Christopher Coppola – Dracula's Widow
• John Cornell – Crocodile Dundee II
• Gregory Dark† – Dead Man Walking
• Claire Denis – Chocolat
• Robert Englund – 976-EVIL
• Reha Erdem – Oh, Moon!
• Bran Ferren – Funny
• Mike Figgis♦ – Stormy Monday
• Andrew Fleming – Bad Dreams
• Mick Garris♦ – Critters 2: The Main Course
• Daniel Goldberg – Feds
• Keith Gordon – Chocolate War (film)|The Chocolate War]
• Bob Hoskins – The Raggedy Rawney
• Annabel Jankel†♦ and Rocky Morton†♦ – D.O.A.
• Kenneth Johnson – Short Circuit 2
• Shaji N. Karun – Piravi
• Beeban Kidron – Vroom
• Fran Rubel Kuzui – Tokyo Pop
• John Lafia – The Blue Iguana
• Peter MacDonald – Rambo III
• Guy Maddin† – Tales from the Gimli Hospital
• Ramón Menéndez – Stand and Deliver
• Chris Menges – A World Apart
• Mira Nair†♦ – Salaam Bombay!
• Yousry Nasrallah – Summer Thefts
• Donald Petrie♦ – Mystic Pizza
• Tina Rathborne♦ – Zelly and Me
• Bernard Rose – Paperhouse
• Skip Schoolnik – Hide and Go Shriek
• George Scribner – Oliver & Company
• Ron Shelton – Bull Durham
• Gary Sinise – Miles from Home
• Jan Švankmajer† – Alice
• Ernest Thompson – 1969
• Michael Toshiyuki Uno†♦ – The Wash
• Aisling Walsh† – Joyriders
• Keenen Ivory Wayans – I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
• Charles Winkler – You Talkin' to Me?
• Henry Winkler♦ – Memories of Me
• Terence H. Winkless – The Nest
• Stan Winston – Pumpkinhead
• Wong Kar-wai – ''Wong Gok Ka Moon''

1989

• Meiert Avis† – Far from Home
• Sooraj R. Barjatya – Maine Pyar Kiya
• Jeff Blyth – Cheetah
• Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
• 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...
• John Dahl – Kill Me Again
• Carl Franklin† – Nowhere to Run
• Paul Greengrass♦ – Resurrected
• Gary David Goldberg – Dad
• Gary Goldman and Dan Kuenster – All Dogs Go to Heaven
• Wendell B. Harris Jr. – Chameleon Street
• Michael Haneke♦ – The Seventh Continent
• Rob Hedden – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
• James Issac – The Horror Show
• Joe Johnston – Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• Takeshi Kitano – Violent Cop
• 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† – Ride (film)|Let It Ride]
• Eric Red† – Cohen and Tate
• 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
• Robert Sigl – Laurin
• 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
• Joseph Vilsmaier – Autumn Milk
• Chris Walas – The Fly II
• Gary Winick – Curfew
• Joel Zwick♦ – ''Second Sight''

1990

• Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel – The Rescuers Down Under
• Benny Chan – A Moment of Romance
• Richard Correll – Ski Patrol
• Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves
• Manny Coto – Playroom
• Dennis Dugan♦ – Problem Child
• David Elfick – Harbour Beat
• Michael Fields – Bright Angel
• Howard Franklin and Bill Murray – Quick Change
• Shankar–Ganesh – Jagathalaprathapan
• Nicole Garcia – Every Other Weekend
• John Harrison†♦ – Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
• Bob Hathcock♦† – DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
• Reginald Hudlin† – House Party
• James Keach – False Identity
• Indra Kumar – Dil
• Sheldon Lettich – Lionheart
• Caroline Link†♦ – Sommertage
• Frank Marshall – Arachnophobia
• Joji Matsuoka† – Batāshi Kingyo
• Sally Mattison – Slumber Party Massacre III
• James D. Parriott – Heart Condition
• Michele Placido – Pummarò
• Jay Roach – Zoo Radio
• Tom Ropelewski – Madhouse
• Sergio Rubini – The Station
• Rajkumar Santoshi – Ghayal
• Tom Savini – Night of the Living Dead
• Lone Scherfig♦ – Kaj's fødselsdag
• V. Sekhar – Neengalum Herothan
• John Patrick Shanley – Joe Versus the Volcano
• Martin Sheen – Cadence
• Sangeeth Sivan – Vyooham
• Whit Stillman – Metropolitan
• Jon Turteltaub – Think Big
• Zdeněk Tyc – Vojtech, Called the Orphan
• Ron Underwood†♦ – Tremors
• Vasanth – Keladi Kannmanii
• 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
• Topper Carew – Talkin' Dirty After Dark
• 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
• Jaco Van Dormael♦ – Toto the Hero
• Christian Duguay – Scanners II: The New Order
• Bill Duke†♦ – Rage in Harlem (film)|A Rage in Harlem]
• Jodie Foster – Little Man Tate
• Randall Fried – Heaven Is a Playground
• George Gallo – 29th Street
• Bobcat Goldthwait – Shakes the Clown
• Bryan Gordon† – Career Opportunities
• 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
• 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
• Barry Sonnenfeld – The Addams Family
• Rachel Talalay – Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
• Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise – Beauty and the Beast
• Joseph Vásquez – Hangin' with the Homeboys
• 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
• Mike Binder – Crossing the Bridge
• Uwe Boll – German Fried Movie
• Craig Bolotin† – That Night
• Park Chan-wook – The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream
• Billy Crystal – Mr. Saturday Night
• Tamra Davis† – Guncrazy
• Ernest Dickerson – Juice
• Nora Ephron – This Is My Life
• 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
• Bill Kroyer† – FernGully: The Last Rainforest
• Dale Launer - 9 (film)|Love Potion No. 9]
• Ang Lee – Pushing Hands
• Eugene Levy – Once Upon a Crime
• Baz Luhrmann – Strictly Ballroom
• Les Mayfield♦† – Encino Man
• Randall Miller♦† – Class Act
• Edward James Olmos♦ – American Me
• Kenny Ortega†♦ – Newsies
• Jafar Panahi† – The Friend
• Charlie Peters – Passed Away
• 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 – Bebe's Kids
• Quentin Tarantino† – Reservoir Dogs
• Betty Thomas♦ – Only You
• Tsai Ming-liang♦ – Rebels of the Neon God
• John Turturro – Mac
• David Twohy – ''Timescape''

1993

• Daniel Alfredson†♦ – The Man on the Balcony
• Gary O. Bennett – Rain Without Thunder
• 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
• David Mickey Evans – The Sandlot
• Morgan Freeman – Bopha!
• E. Max Frye – Amos & Andrew
• Mel Gibson – The Man Without a Face
• Charles Grosvenor – Once Upon a Forest
• 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
• Bruce Joel Rubin – My Life
• Mikael Salomon – A Far Off Place
• Don Scardino♦ – Me and Veronica
• Henry Selick† – The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Dominic Sena† – Kalifornia
• Alan Shapiro - The Crush
• Bryan Singer† – Public Access
• 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
• Richard Williams† – Thief and the Cobbler">Thief (film)">Thief and the Cobbler
• Alex Winter and Tom Stern - Freaked
• Wang Xiaoshuai – The Days
• Steven Zaillian – Searching for Bobby Fischer
• Ralph Zondag and Dick Zondag - ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story''

1994

• Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff† – Lion King">Lion (2016 film)">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
• Hart Bochner – PCU
• Danny Boyle♦ – Shallow Grave
• Stephen Chow – King of Destruction
• Julie Cypher† – Teresa's Tattoo
• Frank Darabont♦ – The Shawshank Redemption
• Jan de Bont – Speed
• Peter Farrelly – Dumb and Dumber
• James Gray – Little Odessa
• Anthony Michael Hall – Hail Caesar
• P. J. Hogan† – Muriel's Wedding
• George Huang – Swimming with Sharks
• Maurice Hunt - The Pagemaster
• Nicholas Hytner – The Madness of King George
• Patrick Keiller† – London
• Olivia M. Lamasan♦ – Maalaala Mo Kaya: The Movie
• 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
• Jeff Pollack – Above the Rim
• Jonathan Prince♦ – Camp Nowhere
• Kelly Reichardt – River of Grass
• Adam Resnick – Cabin Boy
• John Roberts – War of the Buttons
• 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
• Ben Stiller♦† – Reality Bites
• Lee Tamahori†♦ – Once Were Warriors
• Caroline Thompson – Black Beauty
• Sam Weisman♦ – ''D2: The Mighty Ducks''

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!
• Noah Baumbach – Kicking and Screaming
• Michael Bay† – Bad Boys
• Larry Bishop – Mad Dog Time
• Icíar Bollaín†♦ – Hola, ¿estás sola?
• Joshua Brand – A Pyromaniac's Love Story
• Steven Brill – Heavyweights
• Stephen Chbosky – The Four Corners of Nowhere
• Aditya Chopra – Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
• Larry Clark – Kids
• Art Clokey – Gumby: The Movie
• Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow - Monster Mash
• Frank Coraci – Murdered Innocence
• Gary Fleder♦ – Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
• Marc Forster – Loungers
• John Fortenberry♦ – Jury Duty
• David Frankel♦ – Miami Rhapsody
• Christophe Gans† – Crying Freeman
• Lesli Linka Glatter†♦ – Now and Then
• Eric Goldberg - Pocahontas
• F. Gary Gray† – Friday
• Scott Kalvert – The Basketball Diaries
• Hirokazu Koreeda – Maborosi
• Robert Kurtzman – The Demolitionist
• John Lasseter† – Toy Story
• Kevin Lima – A Goofy Movie
• Robert Longo† – Johnny Mnemonic
• James Mangold – Heavy
• Daisy von Scherler Mayer – Party Girl
• Melanie Mayron♦ – The Baby-Sitters Club
• Rebecca Miller – Angela
• Tab Murphy – Last of the Dogmen
• 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
• Rick Stevenson – Magic in the Water
• Wesley Strick – The Tie That Binds
• Alan Taylor†♦ – Palookaville
• Andy Tennant♦ – It Takes Two
• Forest Whitaker♦ – Waiting to Exhale
• Gregory Widen♦ – The Prophecy
• Charles Herman-Wurmfeld – Fanci's Persuasion
• Lou Ye – ''Weekend Lover''

1996

• Alejandro Amenábar – Tesis
• Paul Thomas Anderson† – Hard Eight
• Wes Anderson – Bottle Rocket
• Imanol Arias — Un asunto privado
• Kevin Bacon – Losing Chase
• Stuart Baird – Executive Decision
• Paris Barclay† – Juice in the Hood">Juice (1992 film)">Juice in the Hood
• Jason Bloom† – Bio-Dome
• Matthew Bright – Freeway
• Matthew Broderick – Infinity
• Steve Buscemi – Trees Lounge
• Nick Cassavetes – Unhook the Stars
• Jay Chandrasekhar – Puddle Cruiser
• R. J. Cutler – A Perfect Candidate
• Tom DeCerchio – Celtic Pride
• Seth Michael Donsky – Twisted
• Cheryl Dunye† – The Watermelon Woman
• David R. Ellis – Bound II: Lost in San Francisco">Bound (1996 film)">Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
• Bobby Farrelly – Kingpin
• Jonathan Frakes♦ – Star Trek: First Contact
• Terry George – Some Mother's Son
• Michael Goldenberg – Bed of Roses
• 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
• Larry Leker and Paul Sabella – Heaven 2">Heaven (1987 film)">Heaven 2
• Kevin Macdonald♦ – Chaplin's Goliath
• Jim Mallon - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
• Nelson McCormick♦ – For Which He Stands
• 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† – Alone in the Woods
• Krishna Rao – Crossworlds
• Matt Reeves† – The Pallbearer
• Nicolas Winding Refn – Pusher
• Sabu – Dangan Runner
• 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
• Billy Bob Thornton – Sling Blade
• Gary J. Tunnicliffe – Within the Rock
• The Wachowskis – ''Bound''

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
• Vin Diesel† – Strays
• Mark Dindal – Cats Don't Dance
• Mark A.Z. Dippé – Spawn
• Bruno Dumont – La vie de Jésus
• Paul Feig – Life Sold Separately
• Vincent Gallo – Buffalo '66
• Raja Gosnell – Home Alone 3
• Peter Howitt – Sliding Doors
• Nick Hurran♦ – Remember Me?
• Stephen Kessler – Vegas Vacation
• Bob Koherr – Plump Fiction
• Satoshi Kon – Perfect Blue
• Harmony Korine – Gummo
• Andrew Kötting† – Gallivant
• Neil LaBute – In the Company of Men
• 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
• Paul Miller – The Pest
• David Mirkin♦ – Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
• Vincenzo Natali – Cube
• Andrew Niccol – Gattaca
• Darrin Stein – Sparkler
• William Nicholson♦ – Firelight
• Cherie Nowlan† – Thank God He Met Lizzie
• Peter O'Fallon♦ – Suicide Kings
• Gary Oldman – Nil by Mouth
• François Ozon† – Regarde la Mer
• Mark Pellington†♦ – Going All the Way
• Rafi Pitts† – The Fifth Season
• Brett Ratner† – Money Talks
• 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
• Scott Winant♦ – 'Til There Was You
• Theodore Witcher – Love Jones
• Jia Zhangke† – ''Xiao Wu''

1998

• Fatih Akın†♦ – Short Sharp Shock
• Darren Aronofsky† – Pi
• Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook – Mulan
• Matt Earl Beesley – Point Blank
• Peter Berg♦ – Bad Things">Andy Warhol's Bad">Bad Things
• 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
• Frederik Du Chau – Quest for Camelot
• Lisa Cholodenko† – High Art
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kasaba
• Joan Chen – Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
• Derek Cianfrance – Brother Tied
• Ice Cube† – The Players Club
• Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson - Antz
• Larry David – Sour Grapes
• 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
• Wayne Isham† – 12 Bucks
• Karan Johar – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
• Mark Steven Johnson – Simon Birch
• Tony Kaye†♦ – American History X
• Jake Kasdan† – Zero Effect
• Igor Kovalyov and Norton Virgien - The Rugrats Movie
• Nagesh Kukunoor – Hyderabad Blues
• Samira Makhmalbaf – The Apple
• Michael Martin – I Got the Hook-Up
• Sean Mathias – Bent
• Des McAnuff - Cousin Bette
• Paul McGuigan – The Acid House
• 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
• Christopher Nolan† – Following
• Dean Parisot†♦ – Home Fries
• Pat Proft – Wrongfully Accused
• Guy Ritchie† – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Craig Ross Jr. – Cappuccino
• Gary Ross – Pleasantville
• Bob Saget†♦ – Dirty Work
• Millicent Shelton†♦ – Ride
• Tony Singletary♦ – High Freakquency
• Abderrahmane Sissako† – Life on Earth
• Kevin Rodney Sullivan♦ – How Stella Got Her Groove Back
• John Terlesky – The Pandora Project
• Toshiaki Toyoda – Pornostar
• Denis Villeneuve† – August 32nd on Earth
• Randall Wallace – The [Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]
• Hype Williams† – Belly
• David Yates†♦ – ''The Tichborne Claimant''

1999

• Jamie Babbit†♦ – But I'm a Cheerleader
• Jaume Balagueró - The Nameless
• Antonio Banderas – Crazy in Alabama
• Mike Barker†♦ – Best Laid Plans
• Brad Bird♦ – The Iron Giant
• John Bruno† – Virus
• Chris Buck – Tarzan
• Tony Bui† – Three Seasons
• Sofia Coppola† – The Virgin Suicides
• Troy Duffy – The Boondock Saints
• Jim Fall – Trick
• Rick Famuyiwa† – The Wood
• Hampton Fancher – The Minus Man
• Jeff Franklin♦ – Love Stinks
• 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
• Mark Illsley – Happy, Texas
• Michael Patrick Jann – Drop Dead Gorgeous
• Hugh Johnson† – Chill Factor
• Spike Jonze† – Being John Malkovich
• 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
• Dave Meyers† – Foolish
• Mike Mitchell†♦ – Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
• Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez – The Blair Witch Project
• Stanley Nelson Jr.† – The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
• Babak Payami – One More Day
• Kimberly Peirce† – Boys Don't Cry
• Lynne Ramsay – Ratcatcher
• David Raynr – Trippin'
• Tim Roth – The War Zone
• Shi Runjiu – Beautiful New World">Beautiful (2000 film)">Beautiful New World
• Sara Sugarman† – Mad Cows
• S. J. Surya – Vaalee
• Julie Taymor♦ – Titus
• Pablo Trapero† – Crane World
• Manuela Viegas – Gloria
• Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz – American Pie
• Kevin Williamson – ''Teaching Mrs. Tingle''

2000

• Asia Argento♦ – Scarlet Diva
• Britt Allcroft - Thomas and the Magic Railroad
• Andrzej Bartkowiak† – Romeo Must Die
• Stig Bergqvist and Paul Demeyer - Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
• Greg Berlanti – The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
• Thomas Bezucha – Big Eden
• Bong Joon-ho – Barking Dogs Never Bite
• Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul - The Road to El Dorado
• Craig Brewer – The Poor & Hungry
• Steve Carr† – Next Friday
• Nigel Cole – Saving Grace
• Stephen Daldry† – Billy Elliot
• Scott Derrickson – Hellraiser: Inferno
• Tom Dey – Shanghai Noon
• Andrew Dominik – Chopper
• Bill Eagles♦ – Beautiful Creatures
• Jun Falkenstein – The Tigger Movie
• Sally Field♦ – Beautiful
• Jonathan Glazer† – Sexy Beast
• David Gordon Green – George Washington
• Davis Guggenheim†♦ – Gossip
• Jon Gunn – Mercy Streets
• Alejandro González Iñárritu†♦ – Amores perros
• Bonnie Hunt – Return to Me
• Jack Johnson, Chris Malloy and Emmett Malloy – Thicker than Water
• Abdellatif Kechiche – La Faute à Voltaire
• Janusz Kamiński – Lost Souls
• Chris Koch♦ – Snow Day
• Baltasar Kormákur† – 101 Reykjavík
• Karyn Kusama – Girlfight
• Janez Lapajne – Rustling Landscapes/Šelestenje
• Eric Leighton - Dinosaur
• Kenneth Lonergan – You Can Count on Me
• Peter Lord† and Nick Park† – Chicken Run
• Joe Mantegna – Lakeboat
• McG† – Charlie's Angels
• David McNally – Coyote Ugly
• Christopher McQuarrie – The Way of the Gun
• Marzieh Meshkini – The Day I Became a Woman
• Brian Nissen - The Scarecrow
• Edward Norton – Keeping the Faith
• Shane O'Sullivan – Second Generation
• Todd Phillips – Road Trip
• DJ Pooh – 3 Strikes
• Gina Prince-Bythewood† – Love & Basketball
• Peyton Reed†♦ – Bring It On
• Tarsem Singh† – The Cell
• Courtney Solomon – Dungeons & Dragons
• Robert Vince – MVP: Most Valuable Primate
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul† – Mysterious Object at Noon
• Alexander Witt – Resident Evil: Apocalypse
• James Wong – Final Destination
• Kate Woods♦ – Looking for Alibrandi
• Takashi Yamazaki† – Juvenile
• Ben Younger – ''Boiler Room''

2001

• Andrew Adamson† and Vicky Jenson†♦ – Shrek
• Farhan Akhtar – Dil Chahta Hai
• Lisandro Alonso – La Libertad
• Darren Lynn Bousman – Identity Lost
• Adrian Caetano† – Bolivia
• Wang Chao – The Orphan of Anyang
• Michael Cuesta – L.I.E.
• Jeff Daniels – Escanaba in da Moonlight
• John A. Davis†♦ – Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Pete Docter† – Monsters, Inc.
• Jesse Dylan† – How High
• Jon Favreau♦ – Made
• Todd Field† – In the Bedroom
• Joel Gallen♦ – Not Another Teen Movie
• Lawrence Guterman† – Cats & Dogs
• Michel Gondry† – Human Nature
• Dennie Gordon†♦ – Joe Dirt
• Tom Green† – Freddy Got Fingered
• Gary Hardwick – The Brothers
• Ethan Hawke† – Chelsea Walls
• Blair Hayes – Bubble Boy
• Oliver Hirschbiegel♦ – Das Experiment
• Jeeva – 12B
• Asif Kapadia† – The Warrior
• Semih Kaplanoğlu♦ – Herkes Kendi Evinde
• Richard Kelly† – Donnie Darko
• Piet Kroon and Tom Sito - Osmosis Jones
• Christine Lahti† – My First Mister
• Yorgos Lanthimos†♦ – My Best Friend
• Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming♦ – The Anniversary Party
• Gonzalo López-Gallego†♦ – Nómadas
• Nick Love – Goodbye Charlie Bright
• Robert Luketic† – Legally Blonde
• Francine McDougall† – Sugar & Spice
• Vanessa Middleton – 30 Years to Life
• John Cameron Mitchell – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• John Moore† – Behind Enemy Lines
• Terry L. Noss - The Trumpet of the Swan
• Bill Paxton† – Frailty
• Pitof – Vidocq
• Gregory Poitier – Tomcats
• S. S. Rajamouli – Student No: 1
• Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll – 25 Watts
• J. B. Rogers – Say It Isn't So
• Motonori Sakakibara and Hironobu Sakaguchi – Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
• Adam Shankman† – The Wedding Planner
• Chuck Sheetz – Recess: School's Out
• Anubhav Sinha†♦ – Tum Bin
• Paolo Sorrentino – One Man Up
• Chris Stokes† – House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute
• Michael Tollin♦† – Summer Catch
• David Wain†♦ – Wet Hot American Summer
• Daniel Waters – Happy Campers
• Ric Roman Waugh† – ''Shadows (2001 film)|In the Shadows]''

2002

• Jonas Åkerlund†♦ – Spun
• Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook – Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
• Walt Becker – National Lampoon's Van Wilder
• Perry Andelin Blake – The Master of Disguise
• Jeffrey Blitz – Spellbound
• Kevin Bray† – All About the Benjamins
• Mark Brown – Two Can Play That Game
• Robin Budd and Donovan Cook – Return to Never Land
• Andrew Bujalski – Funny Ha Ha
• Neil Burger – Interview with the Assassin
• Nicolas Cage – Sonny
• Peter Care† – The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
• D. J. Caruso†♦ – The Salton Sea
• Chuan Lu – The Missing Gun
• George Clooney – Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• James Cox† – Highway
• Damon Dash – Paper Soldiers
• Bob Dolman – The Banger Sisters
• Abbas Fahdel† – Back to Babylon
• Juan Carlos Fresnadillo† – Intacto
• Stephen Fry – Bright Young Things
• Paul Goldman† – Australian Rules
• David S. Goyer – Zig Zag
• David Gumpel – Kermit's Swamp Years
• John Lee Hancock†♦ – The Rookie
• Peter Hastings – The Country Bears
• Christophe Honoré† – Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard
• Seth Kearsley – Eight Crazy Nights
• Callie Khouri – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
• Janez Lapajne – Rustling Landscapes
• Michael Lembeck♦ – The Santa Clause 2
• Louis Leterrier – The Transporter
• David Mackenzie†♦ – The Last Great Wilderness
• Julien Magnat† – Bloody Mallory
• Cathy Malkasian and Jeff McGrath - The Wild Thornberrys Movie
• Sophie Marceau – Speak to Me of Love
• Neil Marshall – Dog Soldiers
• Rob Marshall♦ – Chicago
• Craig McCracken – The Powerpuff Girls Movie
• Lucky McKee† – May
• Cristian Mungiu† – Occident
• Mark Mylod♦ – Ali G Indahouse
• Mort Nathan – Boat Trip
• Dewey Nicks – Slackers
• José Padilha – Bus 174
• Marcus Raboy† – Friday After Next
• Carlos Reygadas† – Japan
• Eli Roth – Cabin Fever
• Anthony and Joe Russo† – Welcome to Collinwood
• Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois – Lilo & Stitch
• Robert Schwentke† – Tattoo
• John Stainton† – Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course">Crocodile (1996 film)">Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
• Charles Stone III† – Drumline
• Yen Tan – Happy Birthday
• Jeff Tremaine♦† – Jackass: The Movie
• Tuck Tucker - Hey Arnold!: The Movie
• Colin Trevorrow† – Reality Show
• Jesse Vaughan - Juwanna Mann
• Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki - Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
• Denzel Washington – Antwone Fisher
• Chris Wedge – Ice Age
• Lydia Zimmermann† and Isaac Pierre Racine† – ''Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino''

2003

• Yasmin Ahmad – Rabun
• Nimród Antal† – Kontroll
• Wang Bing – Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
• LeVar Burton♦ – Blizzard
• Reggie Rock Bythewood♦ – Biker Boyz
• Larry Charles – Masked and Anonymous
• Sylvain Chomet† – The Triplets of Belleville
• Richard Curtis – Love Actually
• Gareth Evans – Samurai Monogatari
• John Eng - Rugrats Go Wild
• Asghar Farhadi†♦ – Dancing in the Dust
• Patrick Gilmore - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
• Todd Graff – Camp
• Catherine Hardwicke – Thirteen
• John Robert Hoffman - Good Boy!
• Paul Hunter† – Bulletproof Monk
• Andrew Jarecki – Capturing the Friedmans
• Guy Jenkin♦ – The Sleeping Dictionary
• Patty Jenkins† – Monster
• Clark Johnson♦ – S.W.A.T.
• Alex Kendrick – Flywheel
• Jonathan Liebesman† – Darkness Falls
• Li Yang – Blind Shaft
• Greg Marcks† – 11:14
• Tom McCarthy – The Station Agent
• Linda Mendoza♦ – Chasing Papi
• Glen Morgan – Willard
• Marcus Nispel† – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Vadim Perelman – House of Sand and Fog
• Kyle Rankin† – The Battle of Shaker Heights
• Billy Ray – Shattered Glass
• Chris Rock – Head of State
• The Spierig Brothers† – Undead
• Andrew Stanton♦† – Finding Nemo
• Steve Trenbirth – The Jungle Book 2
• Robert Walker and Aaron Blaise - Brother Bear
• Peter Webber - Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Bo Welch – The Cat in the Hat
• Tommy Wiseau – The Room
• Len Wiseman – Underworld
• Bille Woodruff† – Honey
• Rob Zombie† – ''House of 1000 Corpses''

2004

• Sean Baker† and Shih-Ching Tsou - Take Out
• Timothy Björklund - Teacher's Pet
• Zach Braff† – Garden State
• Tricia Brock† – Killer Diller
• Shane Carruth – Primer
• Henry Chan♦ – Gas
• Heitor Dhalia – Nina
• Saul Dibb♦ – Bullet Boy
• Charles S. Dutton♦ – Against the Ropes
• Christopher Erskin† – Johnson Family Vacation
• Daniel Espinosa† – Babylon Disease
• Jacob Aaron Estes – Mean Creek
• Ismaël Ferroukhi♦ – Le Grand Voyage
• Andy Fickman – Who's Your Daddy?
• Will Finn and John Sanford - Home on the Range
• Jenna Fischer – LolliLove
• Debra Granik† – Bone (film)|Down to the Bone]
• Jonathan Hensleigh – The Punisher
• Jared Hess† – Napoleon Dynamite
• Stephen Hillenburg♦† – The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
• Tom Hooper♦ – Red Dust
• Liu Jiayin – Oxhide
• Joseph Kahn† – Torque
• Rob Letterman – Shark Tale
• Dolph Lundgren – The Defender
• Don Mancini – Seed of Chucky
• Joshua Marston – Maria Full of Grace
• Adam McKay♦ – Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Pierre Morel – District B13
• Tan Chui Mui – A Tree in Tanjung Malim
• Joe Nussbaum† – Sleepover
• Ruben Östlund† – The Guitar Mongoloid
• Chazz Palminteri – Noel
• Vincent Paronnaud – Raging Blues
• Angela Robinson† – D.E.B.S.
• Rick Schroder – Black Cloud
• Makoto Shinkai – Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place
• Cate Shortland♦ – Somersault
• Zack Snyder† – Dawn of the Dead
• Morgan Spurlock – Super Size Me
• Jessy Terrero† – Soul Plane
• Matthew Vaughn – Layer Cake
• Conrad Vernon – Shrek 2
• James Wan – Saw
• Edgar Wright† – Shaun of the Dead
• Masaaki Yuasa† – Mind Game
• Yaron Zilberman – ''Watermarks''

2005

• Vivek Agnihotri♦ – Chocolate
• Lexi Alexander† – Green Street
• Judd Apatow♦ – The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Josh Appignanesi†♦ – Song of Songs
• Géla Babluani – 13 Tzameti
• Ramin Bahrani – Man Push Cart
• Steve Bendelack – The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
• Rémi Bezançon† – Ma vie en l'air
• Shane Black – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Anna Boden† – Young Rebel
• Steve Box – Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Jeffrey W. Byrd†♦ – King's Ransom
• Bruce Campbell – Man with the Screaming Brain
• Gary Chapman – Valiant
• Jaume Collet-Serra – House of Wax
• Lee Daniels – Shadowboxer
• Polly Draper – The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
• Cory Edwards – Hoodwinked
• Bang Eun-jin – Princess Aurora
• Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin – Little Manhattan
• John Gatins - Dreamer
• Crispin Glover – What Is It?
• Richard E. Grant – Wah-Wah
• Darren Grant† – Diary of a Mad Black Woman
• Luc Jacquet - March of the Penguins
• Vimukthi Jayasundara† – Sulanga Enu Pinisa
• Garth Jennings† – The [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
• Mike Johnson - Corpse Bride
• Rian Johnson† – Brick
• Tommy Lee Jones – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• Miranda July – Me and You and Everyone We Know
• Marc Klasfeld† – The L.A. Riot Spectacular
• Lajos Koltai – Fateless
• Francis Lawrence† – Constantine
• Claudia Llosa – Madeinusa
• Tom McGrath – Madagascar
• Brillante Mendoza - The Masseur
• Bennett Miller - Capote
• Frank Miller – Sin City
• Frank Nissen - Pooh's Heffalump Movie
• Ellen Perry♦ – The Fall of Fujimori
• Steven Quale† – Aliens of the Deep
• John de Rantau♦ – Mencari Madonna
• Oday Rasheed† – Underexposure
• James Ricardo – Opie Gets Laid
• Liev Schreiber – Everything is Illuminated
• Lee Shallat-Chemel♦ – Greener Mountains
• Michael Showalter – The Baxter
• Marcos Siega† – Pretty Persuasion
• Joshua Michael Stern – Neverwas
• Susan Stroman – The Producers
• Tim Sullivan – 2001 Maniacs
• Jeff Wadlow† – Cry_Wolf
• Ti West† – The Roost
• Joss Whedon♦ – Serenity
• Andrew Wilson and Luke Wilson – The Wendell Baker Story
• Joe Wright†♦ – ''Pride & Prejudice''

2006

• J. J. Abrams♦ – Mission: Impossible III
• Joey Lauren Adams – Come Early Morning
• Elizabeth Allen† – Aquamarine
• Andrea Arnold† – Red Road
• Doug Atchison – Akeelah and the Bee
• Bryan Barber† – Idlewild
• Jessica Bendinger – Stick It
• Paul J. Bolger – Happily N'Ever After
• David Bowers and Sam Fell – Flushed Away
• Laurie Collyer – Sherrybaby
• Trent Cooper† – Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
• Ericson Core – Invincible
• Allen Coulter♦ – Hollywoodland
• Jill Culton and Anthony Stacchi – Open Season
• Michael Damian†♦ – Hot Tamale
• Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris† – Little Miss Sunshine
• Ryan Fleck – Half Nelson
• Anne Fletcher – Step Up
• Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer – Date Movie
• Liz Friedlander† – Take the Lead
• Jeff Garlin♦ – I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
• James Gartner – Glory Road
• Susannah Grant† – Catch and Release
• Adam Green† – Hatchet
• James Gunn#†♦ – Slither
• Sanaa Hamri†♦ – Something New
• Michel Hazanavicius†♦ – OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – The Lives of Others
• Jody Hill – The Foot Fist Way
• Gil Kenan† – Monster House
• So Yong Kim – In Between Days
• Karey Kirkpatrick – Over the Hedge
• Pablo Larraín – Fuga
• Jonathan Levine† – All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
• Jun Lana – Gigil
• Liam Lynch♦ – Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
• Kevin Macdonald The Last King of Scotland
• Gorō Miyazaki – Tales from Earthsea
• Dominique Monfery - Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure
• Ryan Murphy – Scissors (film)|Running with Scissors]
• Matthew O'Callaghan† – Curious George
• Morgan O'Neill – Solo
• Neveldine/Taylor – Crank
• Mark Palansky† – Penelope
• Tyler Perry† – Madea's Family Reunion
• Brian Pimental – Bambi II
• Sarah Polley† – Away from Her
• James Ponsoldt† – Off the Black
• Joe Ranft – Cars
• Christopher Reeve, Daniel St. Pierre and Colin Brady – Everyone's Hero
• Jason Reitman† – Thank You for Smoking
• Stevan Riley♦ – Blue Blood
• Chris Robinson† – ATL
• Joachim Rønning† and Espen Sandberg† – Bandidas
• Carlos Saldanha – Ice Age: The Meltdown
• Ari Sandel† – Wild West Comedy Show: [30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland]
• Lynn Shelton† – We Go Way Back
• David Slade† – Hard Candy
• T. R. Silambarasan† – Vallavan
• Joachim Trier† – Reprise
• Tom Vaughan†♦ – Starter for 10
• Steve "Spaz" Williams – ''The Wild''