Directorial Debut

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'' in 1933 or his experimental short film ''The Hearts of Age'' in 1934. Often these early works were not intended for commercial release either by intent, such as film school projects or inability to find distribution.

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, Norman Jewison, 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 videos from the early 1980s, this gave another avenue for directors to hone their skills. Notable directors whose early work was in music videos include David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, and Spike Jonze.

The following symbols indicate where a director has worked in another medium prior to directing commercially.

♦ Indicates where a director has created other earlier works for television

# Indicates when a director's earlier work is uncredited

† Indicates when a director's earlier work has not been released in cinemas, for example film school productions, short films or music videos.

Refer to individual entries for further detail.

1880s

1887

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

1890s

1896

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

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''
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1923

* Adrian Brunel – ''The Man Without Desire''
* William Dieterle – ''Der Mensch am Wege''
* Sergei Eisenstein – ''Glumov's Diary''
* Sessue Hayakawa – ''La Bataille† – ''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''Co-directed with Robert N. Bradbury
* 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''
* Ivar Johansson – '' The Realm of the Rye''
* 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''
* 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† – '
* 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†Credited as Detlef Sierck – '' 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''
* 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''
* 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''Co-directed with Anthony Hankey
* Vincent Sherman – '' The Return of Doctor X''

1940s

1940

* Joseph Barbera and William Hanna# – ''Puss Gets the Boot''
* 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''
* Roberto Rossellini† – '' The White Ship''
* 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 – '' The Moon and Sixpence''
* Anthony Mann♦ – ''Dr. Broadway''
* Joseph M. Newman – '' Northwest Rangers''
* Manoel de Oliveira† – ''Aniki-Bóbó''
* Powell and Pressburger – '' One of Our Aircraft Is Missing''

1943

* Robert Bresson – ''Angels of the Streets''
* William Castle – '' Klondike Kate''
* Delmer Daves – '' Destination Tokyo''
* Maya Deren – '' Meshes of the Afternoon''
* Jack Kinney – ''Saludos Amigos''
* Akira Kurosawa – '' Sanshiro Sugata''
* Frank Launder – ''Millions Like Us''
* Vincente Minnelli# – '' Cabin in the Sky''
* Dudley Nichols – '' Government Girl''
* 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''Co-directed with Gunther von Fritsch

1945

* K. Asif – ''Phool''
* Mel Ferrer – ''The Girl of the Limberlost''
* Elia Kazan† – '' A Tree Grows in Brooklyn''
* George Seaton – '' Diamond Horseshoe''
* Don Siegel – ''Star in the Night''
* William C. Thomas – ''Midnight Manhunt''
* Hal Walker – '' Out of This World''

1946

* Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – '' Dharti Ke Lal''
* Chetan Anand – '' Neecha Nagar''
* Ingmar Bergman – '' Crisis''
* John Berry – '' Miss Susie Slagle's''
* Richard Fleischer† – ''Child of Divorce''
* Robert Hamer# – ''Pink String and Sealing Wax''
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz – '' Dragonwyck''
* William D. Russell† – '' Our Hearts Were Growing Up''
* John Sturges – '' The Man Who Dared''
* Peter Ustinov – '' School for Secrets''
* Charles Walters – '' Ziegfeld Follies''
* Terence Young – '' Theirs Is the Glory''Co-directed with Brian Desmond Hurst

1947

* Robert Alton – '' Merton of the Movies''
* Ken Annakin† – '' Holiday Camp''
* Roy Ward Baker – ''The October Man''
* Martin Gabel – '' The Lost Moment''
* Kon Ichikawa – ''A Thousand and One Nights with Toho''
* Robert Montgomery – '' Lady in the Lake''
* Rudolph Maté and Don Hartman – '' It Had to Be You''
* Robert Rossen – ''Johnny O'Clock''
* Derek N. Twist – ''The End of the River''

1948

* László Benedek# – '' The Kissing Bandit''
* Terence Fisher – '' A Song for Tomorrow''
* Jack Gage – ''The Velvet Touch''
* Raj Kapoor – '' Aag''
* Richard Quine – '' Leather Gloves''
* Nicholas Ray – '' They Live by Night''
* 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''Co-directed with Robert Jordan Hill
* Ida Lupino – '' Never Fear''
* Alexander Mackendrick – '' Whisky Galore!''
* Jean-Pierre Melville† – ''Le Silence de la Mer''
* Arne Skouen – '' Gategutter''
* Emlyn Williams – '' The Last Days of Dolwyn''

1950s

1950

* Michelangelo Antonioni† – ''Cronaca di un amore''
* Richard Brooks – '' Crisis''
* Youssef Chahine – ''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''
* Don Chaffey – '' Skid Kids''
* Jesse Hibbs† – '' The All American''
* Stanley Kubrick† – ''Fear and Desire''
* Francis D. Lyon♦ – '' Crazylegs''
* Dick Powell – '' Split Second''
* Emeric Pressburger – '' Twice Upon a Time''
* Ed Wood♦ – '' Glen or Glenda''

1954

* 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''
* Dennis O'Keefe – '' The Diamond''
* Sergei Parajanov† – '' Andriesh''Co-directed with Yakov Bazelyan
* 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 – '' Swamp Women''
* Hubert Cornfield† – '' Sudden Danger''
* Blake Edwards – '' Bring Your Smile Along''
* José Ferrer – ''The Cockleshell Heroes''
* Bert I. Gordon  – ''King Dinosaur''
* Stanley Kramer – '' Not as a Stranger''
* Charles Laughton – '' The Night of the Hunter''
* Burt Lancaster – ''The Kentuckian (1955 film), The Kentuckian''
* Delbert Mann – ''Marty (film), Marty''
* Ray Milland – ''A Man Alone (film), 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 (1956 film), 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 (1957 film), The Delinquents''
* James B. Clark (director), James B. Clark♦ – ''Under Fire (1957 film), Under Fire''
* Clive Donner – ''The Secret Place (film), The Secret Place''
* Anselmo Duarte – ''Absolutamente Certo''
* Arthur Hiller♦ – ''The Careless Years''
* Sidney Lumet♦ – ''12 Angry Men (1957 film), 12 Angry Men''
* Robert Mulligan♦ – ''Fear Strikes Out''
* Art Napoleon (film director), Art Napoleon – ''Man on the Prowl (film), Man on the Prowl''
* Martin Ritt – ''Edge of the City''
* Franco Zeffirelli – ''Camping (1957 film), Camping''

1958

* Gabriel Axel♦ – ''The Girls Are Willing''
* Jack Cardiff† – ''Intent to Kill (1958 film), Intent to Kill''
* Claude Chabrol – ''Le Beau Serge''
* Robert Clarke – ''The Hideous Sun Demon''
* Michel Deville – ''Une balle dans le canon''
* Herschel Daugherty♦ – ''The Light in the Forest (film), The Light in the Forest''
* Henry Ephron – ''Sing Boy Sing (film), Sing Boy Sing''
* Shōhei Imamura – ''Stolen Desire''
* Wojciech Has† – ''Petla''
* Irvin Kershner – ''Stakeout on Dope Street''
* Louis Malle – ''Elevator to the Gallows''
* José Mojica Marins – ''Adventurer's Fate''
* George Pal – ''Tom Thumb (film), Tom Thumb''
* Arthur Penn♦ – ''The Left Handed Gun''
* Anthony Quinn – ''The Buccaneer (1958 film), The Buccaneer''
* Karel Reisz† – ''We Are the Lambeth Boys''
* Bernhard Wicki – ''Warum Sind Sie Gegen Uns?''

1959

* John Cassavetes – ''Shadows (1959 film), Shadows''
* Jack Clayton† – ''Room at the Top (1959 film), 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 (1959 film), Look Back in Anger''
* Éric Rohmer† – ''Le Signe du lion''
* François Truffaut – ''The 400 Blows''

1960s

1960

* Mario Bava – ''Black Sunday (1960 film), Black Sunday''
* Herbert J. Leder – ''Pretty Boy Floyd (film), Pretty Boy Floyd''
* Jerry Lewis – ''The Bellboy''
* Walter Matthau – ''Gangster Story''
* Jacques Rivette – ''Paris Belongs to Us''
* Stuart Rosenberg♦ – ''Murder, Inc. (1960 film), Murder, Inc.''
* Masahiro Shinoda – ''One-Way Ticket for Love''
* Jean-Luc Godard† – ''À bout de souffle''
* John Wayne – ''The Alamo (1960 film), The Alamo''
* Mel Welles – ''Code of Silence (1960 film), Code of Silence''
* Michael Winner – ''Shoot to Kill (1960 film), Shoot to Kill''
* Yoji Yamada – ''Zero no shôten''
* Yoshishige Yoshida – ''Rokudenashi''

1961

* Luis Alcoriza – ''Young People (1961 film), Los jóvenes''
* William Alland – ''Look in Any Window''
* Marlon Brando – ''One-Eyed Jacks''
* Jack Couffer - ''Nikki, Wild Dog of the North''
* Jacques Demy† – ''Lola (1961 film), Lola''
* Richard Donner♦ – ''X-15 (film), X-15''
* Bryan Forbes – ''Whistle Down the Wind (film), Whistle Down the Wind''
* Kinji Fukasaku – ''Hakuchu no buraikan''
* Greg Garrison♦ – ''Hey, Let's Twist!''
* Susumu Hani† – ''Bad Boys (1961 film), 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 (film), The Colossus of Rhodes''
* Pier Paolo Pasolini – ''Accattone''
* Halit Refiğ† – ''Yasak Aşk''
* Don Taylor (American filmmaker), Don Taylor – ''Everything's Ducky''

1962

* Bernardo Bertolucci – ''La commare secca''
* Alain Cavalier – ''Le combat dans l'île''
* George Roy Hill – ''Period of Adjustment (film), Period of Adjustment''
* 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 (film), A Kind of Loving''
* Vilgot Sjöman – ''The Mistress (1962 film), The Mistress''
* Andrei Tarkovsky† – ''Ivan's Childhood''
* Hiroshi Teshigahara – ''Pitfall (1962 film), Pitfall''

1963

* Lindsay Anderson – ''This Sporting Life''
* Gower Champion♦ – ''My Six Loves''
* Francis Ford Coppola†# – ''Dementia 13''
* George Englund♦ – ''The Ugly American (film), The Ugly American''
* Forugh Farrokhzad – ''The House Is Black''
* James Ivory – ''The Householder''
* Jack O'Connell (filmmaker), Jack O'Connell – ''Greenwich Village Story''
* Ken Russell†♦ – ''French Dressing (1964 film), French Dressing''
* Franklin J. Schaffner♦ – ''The Stripper (film), The Stripper''
* Peter Tewksbury♦ – ''Sunday in New York''
* Peter Yates – ''Summer Holiday (1963 film), Summer Holiday''
* Bud Yorkin♦ – ''Come Blow Your Horn (film), Come Blow Your Horn''

1964

* Jack Curtis (voice actor), Jack Curtis – ''The Flesh Eaters (film), The Flesh Eaters''
* Miloš Forman† – ''Black Peter (film), Black Peter''
* Samuel Goldwyn Jr. – ''The Young Lovers (1964 film), The Young Lovers''
* Philip Kaufman – ''Goldstein (film), 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''
* 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 (film), 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 – ''Die, 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 (film), Walkover''
* Robert Sparr♦ – ''A Swingin' Summer''
* K. Viswanath – ''Aatma Gowravam''

1966

* Woody Allen – ''What's Up, Tiger Lily?''
* Hy Averback♦ – ''Chamber of Horrors (1966 film), Chamber of Horrors''
* Jules Bass – ''The Daydreamer (film), The Daydreamer''
* Paul Bogart♦ – ''The Three Sisters (1966 film), The Three Sisters''
* Ian Curteis♦ – ''The Projected Man''
* Marguerite Duras – ''La musica''
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder – ''Der Stadtstreicher''
* Yasuharu Hasebe – ''Black Tight Killers''
* William Klein (photographer), William Klein – ''Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?''
* Alexander Kluge – ''Yesterday Girl''
* David Lane (director), 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? (film), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''
* Lucian Pintilie – ''Sunday at Six''
* Ousmane Sembene – ''Borom Sarret''
* Volker Schlöndorff† – ''Der Junge Törless''

1967

* Bob Clark† – ''She-Man (film), She-Man''
* Albert Finney – ''Charlie Bubbles''
* William Friedkin♦ – ''Good Times (film), Good Times''
* Philippe Garrel† – ''Marie for Memory''
* David Greene (director), David Greene♦ – ''The Shuttered Room''
* Anthony Harvey♦ – ''Dutchman (film), Dutchman''
* Toshiya Fujita (director), 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 (film), Enter Laughing''
* Mark Rydell – ''The Fox (1967 film), The Fox''
* Melvin Van Peebles† – ''The Story of a Three-Day Pass''
* Michael Verhoeven – ''The Dance of Death (1967 film), The Dance of Death''

1968

* Kevin Billington♦ – ''Interlude (1968 film), Interlude''
* Noel Black†♦ – ''Pretty Poison (film), Pretty Poison''
* Peter Bogdanovich♦Credited as Derek Thomas – ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women''
* Mel Brooks – ''The Producers (1968 film), The Producers''
* Jacques Charon – ''A Flea in Her Ear (film), A Flea in Her Ear''
* Brian De Palma† – ''Murder a la Mod''
* Werner Herzog† – ''Signs of Life (1968 film), Signs of Life''
* Alejandro Jodorowsky† – ''Fando y Lis''
* Peter Medak – ''Negatives (1968 film), Negatives''
* Paul Newman – ''Rachel, Rachel''
* Melvin Van Peebles† – ''The Story of a Three-Day Pass''
* George A. Romero† – ''Night of the Living Dead''
* Raúl Ruiz (director), 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♦ – ''A Great Big Thing''
* Bob Rafelson – ''Head (film), 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 (1969 film), Stereo''
* Bob Fosse – ''Sweet Charity (film), Sweet Charity''
* Piers Haggard♦ – ''I Can't... I Can't''
* Tobe Hooper† – ''Eggshells (film), Eggshells''
* Dennis Hopper – ''Easy Rider''
* Peter R. Hunt'' – On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film), On Her Majesty's Secret Service''
* Charles Jarrott♦ – ''Anne of the Thousand Days''
* Paul Mazursky – ''Bob & Carol & 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 (film director), Michael Ritchie – ''Downhill Racer''
* Herbert Ross – ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film), Goodbye, Mr. Chips''
* Paul Williams (director), Paul Williams† – ''Out of It (film), Out of It''

1970s

1970

* Theodoros Angelopoulos – ''Reconstitution (1970 film), Reconstitution''
* Dario Argento – ''The Bird with the Crystal Plumage''
* Hal Ashby – ''The Landlord''
* Rajinder Singh Bedi – ''Dastak (1970 film), Dastak''
* James Bridges – ''The Baby Maker''
* Gilbert Cates♦ – ''I Never Sang for My Father''
* Ossie Davis – ''Cotton Comes to Harlem''
* Richard A. Colla† – ''Zigzag (1970 film), Zigzag''
* Sean S. Cunningham – ''The Art of Marriage''
* William A. Fraker – ''Monte Walsh (1970), Monte Walsh''
* Alan Gibson (director), Alan Gibson♦ – ''Crescendo (1970 film), Crescendo''
* Chuck Jones - ''The Phantom Tollbooth (film), The Phantom Tollbooth''Co-directed with Abe Levitow
* Lionel Jeffries – ''The Railway Children (1970 film), The Railway Children''
* Leonard Kastle – ''The Honeymoon Killers''
* Barbara Loden – ''Wanda (film), Wanda''
* Burgess Meredith – ''The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go''
* Vic Morrow♦ – ''A Man Called Sledge''
* Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell  – ''Performance (film), Performance''
* Robert Scheerer♦ – ''Adam at 6 A.M.''
* Arthur Allan Seidelman – ''Hercules in New York''
* Wim Wenders – ''Summer in the City (film), Summer in the City''

1971

* Alan Arkin† – ''Little Murders''
* George P. Cosmatos – ''Sin (1971 film), Sin''
* Clint Eastwood – ''Play Misty for Me''
* John Erman♦ – ''Making It (film), Making It''
* Peter Fonda – ''The Hired Hand''
* James Frawley♦ – ''The Christian Licorice Store''
* Stephen Frears – ''Gumshoe (film), 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 (film), A New Leaf''
* Russ Mayberry♦ – ''The Jesus Trip''
* Jack Nicholson – ''Drive, He Said''
* Stewart Raffill – ''The Tender Warrior''
* Ivan Reitman† – ''Foxy Lady (film), Foxy Lady''
* Steven Hilliard Stern – ''B.S. I Love You''
* Dalton Trumbo – ''Johnny Got His Gun (film), Johnny Got His Gun''
* Lawrence Turman – ''The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker''
* Paul Verhoeven – ''Business Is Business (film), Business Is Business''
* Peter Weir†♦ – ''Homesdale''
* Chatrichalerm Yugala – ''Out of the Darkness (1971 film), 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 (film), Fritz the Cat''
* Paul Bartel† – ''Private Parts (1972 film), Private Parts''
* Bruce Beresford – ''The Adventures of Barry McKenzie''
* Robert Benton – ''Bad Company (1972 film), Bad Company''
* Larry Cohen – ''Bone (1972 film), Bone''
* Jackie Cooper♦ – ''Stand Up and Be Counted''
* Wes Craven – ''The Last House on the Left (1972 film), The Last House on the Left''
* Bill Douglas† – ''My Childhood (film), My Childhood''
* Daryl Duke♦ – ''Payday (1972 film), Payday''
* Adoor Gopalakrishnan – ''Swayamvaram (1972 film), Swayamvaram''
* Larry Hagman♦ – ''Beware! The Blob''
* David Hemmings – ''Running Scared (1972 film), Running Scared''
* Perry Henzel – ''The Harder They Come''
* Charlton Heston – ''Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film), Antony and Cleopatra''
* Bruce Lee – ''The Way of the Dragon''
* Djibril Diop Mambéty – ''Touki Bouki''
* Gary Nelson (director), Gary Nelson♦ – ''Molly and Lawless John''
* Gordon Parks Jr. – ''Super Fly (1972 film), Super Fly''
* Arnold Perl – ''Malcolm X (1972 film), Malcolm X''
* Lee Philips – ''Getting Away from It All''
* Sidney Poitier – ''Buck and the Preacher''
* Michael Schultz♦ – ''Together for Days''
* George C. Scott – ''Rage (1972 film), Rage''
* Kumar Shahani – ''Maya Darpan''
* John Waters (filmmaker), John Waters† – ''Pink Flamingos''
* Clyde Ware – ''No Drums, No Bugles''

1973

* Hector Babenco – ''O Fabuloso Fittipaldi''
* Shyam Benegal♦ – ''Ankur (film), Ankur''
* Ricou Browning♦ – ''Salty (film), Salty''
* Martin Campbell – ''The Sex Thief''
* Joe D'Amato# – ''Death Smiles on a Murderer''
* Philip D'Antoni – ''The Seven-Ups''
* William Dear† – ''Nymph (1973 film), Nymph''
* Kirk Douglas – ''Scalawag (film), Scalawag''
* Charles K. Eastman – ''The All-American Boy (film), The All-American Boy''
* Haile Gerima† – ''Child of Resistance''
* Curtis Hanson – ''Sweet Kill''
* Robin Hardy (film director), Robin Hardy –''The Wicker Man''
* Anna Karina – ''Vivre ensemble''
* Abbas Kiarostami† – ''The Experience (film), The Experience''
* John Landis – ''Schlock (film), Schlock''
* Mark L. Lester† – ''Steel Arena (film), Steel Arena''
* Terrence Malick† – ''Badlands (film), Badlands''
* John Milius† – ''Dillinger (1973 film), Dillinger''
* Sohrab Shahid-Saless♦ – ''A Simple Event''
* Jeannot Szwarc♦ – ''Extreme Close-Up (film), Extreme Close-Up''
* John Woo – ''Fist to Fist''
* Howard Zieff – ''Slither (1973 film), Slither''

1974

* Paul Annett♦ – ''The Beast Must Die (1974 film), The Beast Must Die''
* G. Aravindan – ''Uttarayanam''
* Arizal (director), Arizal♦ – ''Senyum dan Tangis''
* John Byrum – ''Inserts (film), Inserts''
* Joe Camp – ''Benji (1974 film), Benji''
* John Carpenter† – ''Dark Star (film), Dark Star''
* Michael Cimino – ''Thunderbolt and Lightfoot''
* Jonathan Demme – ''Caged Heat''
* Peter Hyams♦ – ''Busting''
* Richard Loncraine♦† – ''Slade in Flame''
* Jerry London♦ – ''Goodnight Jackie''
* Nikita Mikhalkov† – ''At Home Among Strangers''
* Ariane Mnouchkine – ''1789 (film), 1789''
* Alan Ormsby – ''Deranged (1974 film), Deranged''
* Wolfgang Petersen†♦ – ''One or the Other of Us''
* Steven Spielberg†♦ – ''The Sugarland Express''
* Oliver Stone† – ''Seizure (film), 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 – ''La Chair de l'orchidée, The Flesh of the Orchid''
* Souleymane Cissé (film director), Souleymane Ciss醠– ''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''
* Scott Hicks (director), Scott Hicks† – ''Down the Wind''
* Walter Hill (director), Walter Hill – ''Hard Times (1975 film), Hard Times''
* Shirley MacLaine – ''The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir''
* Nikos Nikolaidis† – ''Evrydiki BA 2O37''
* Joan Micklin Silver† – ''Hester Street (film), 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 (1975 film), Abduction''

1976

* Allan Arkush† and Joe Dante† – ''Hollywood Boulevard (1976 film), 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''
* Martha Coolidge† – ''Not a Pretty Picture''
* Neal Israel – ''Tunnel Vision (1976 film), Tunnel Vision''Co-directed with Bradley R. Swirnoff
* Derek Jarman – ''Sebastiane''
* Krzysztof Kieślowski†♦ – ''Personnel (film), Personnel''
* Patrice Leconte† – ''Les vécés étaient fermés de l'interieur''
* Jeff Lieberman† – ''Squirm''
* Robert Moore (director), Robert Moore♦ – ''Murder by Death''
* Alan Parker†♦ – ''Bugsy Malone''
* Michael Pressman – ''The Great Texas Dynamite Chase''
* Burt Reynolds♦ – ''Gator (film), Gator''
* Fred Schepisi† – ''The Devil's Playground (1976 film), The Devil's Playground''
* George Schlatter♦ – ''Norman... Is That You?''
* Kartal Tibet – ''Tosun Paşa''

1977

* Joseph Brooks (songwriter), Joseph Brooks# – ''You Light Up My Life (film), You Light Up My Life''
* Valie Export – ''Invisible Adversaries, Unsichtbare Gegner''
* Marty Feldman♦ – ''The Last Remake of Beau Geste''
* Ron Howard† – ''Grand Theft Auto (film), Grand Theft Auto''
* Girish Kasaravalli – ''Ghatashraddha''
* Diane Kurys – ''Peppermint Soda''
* David Lynch† – ''Eraserhead''
* Phil Roman† – ''Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown''Co-directed with Bill Melendez
* Gregory Nava† – ''The Confessions of Amans (film), The Confessions of Amans''
* Hal Needham – ''Smokey and the Bandit''
* Chris Noonan – ''Bulls (film), Bulls''
* Phillip Noyce† – ''Backroads (1977 film), Backroads''
* Nobuhiko Obayashi† – ''House (1977 film), House''
* Ridley Scott†♦ – ''The Duellists''
* Béla Tarr† – ''Családi tűzfészek''
* Fred Wolf (animator), Fred Wolf - ''The Mouse and His Child (film), The Mouse and his Child''

1978

* Muzaffar Ali – ''Gaman''
* Bille August – ''Honning måne''
* Warren Beatty and Buck Henry – ''Heaven Can Wait (1978 film), Heaven Can Wait''
* Charles Burnett (director), Charles Burnett† – ''Killer of Sheep''
* Buddhadeb Dasgupta† – ''Dooratwa''
* Robert Klane – ''Thank God It's Friday (film), Thank God It's Friday''
* Randal Kleiser♦ – ''Grease (film), Grease''
* Richard Marquand – ''The Legacy (1978 film), The Legacy''
* Leiji Matsumoto♦ – ''Captain Harlock: Mystery of the Arcadia''Co-directed with Rintaro
* Anthony Minghella – ''A Little Like Drowning''
* Errol Morris – ''Gates of Heaven''
* Steve Rash – ''The Buddy Holly Story''
* Fred Olen Ray# – ''The Brain Leeches''
* Joan Rivers – ''Rabbit Test (film), Rabbit Test''
* Paul Schrader – ''Blue Collar (film), Blue Collar''
* Alexander Sokurov† – ''The Lonely Voice of Man''
* Sylvester Stallone – ''Paradise Alley''
* James Toback – ''Fingers (1978 film), Fingers''
* Jane Wagner – ''Moment by Moment''
* Meir Zarchi – ''I Spit on Your Grave''
* Robert Zemeckis† – ''I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film), I Wanna Hold Your Hand''

1979

* Carroll Ballard – ''The Black Stallion (film), The Black Stallion''
* Martin Brest† – ''Going in Style''
* Albert Brooks♦ – ''Real Life (1979 film), Real Life''
* Jackie Chan – ''The Fearless Hyena''Co-directed with Kenneth Tsang
* Alan Clarke – ''Scum (film), Scum''
* Abel Ferrara† – ''The Driller Killer''
* Goutam Ghose† – ''Maabhoomi''
* Tsui Hark – ''The Butterfly Murders''
* Agnieszka Holland†♦ – ''Provincial Actors''
* Ann Hui♦ – ''The Secret (1979 film), The Secret''
* Leon Ichaso – ''El Super''
* George Miller (filmmaker), George Miller – ''Mad Max (film), 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 (film), Snapshot''

1980s

1980

* Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker – ''Airplane!''
* Pedro Almodóvar† – ''Pepi, Luci, Bom''
* Chuck Barris – ''The Gong Show Movie''
* Walter Bernstein – ''Little Miss Marker (1980 film), 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 (1980 film), That Sinking Feeling''
* Peter Greenaway† – ''The Falls (1980 film), The Falls''
* Robert Greenwald – ''Xanadu (film), Xanadu''
* Taylor Hackford♦† – ''The Idolmaker''
* Jim Jarmusch – ''Permanent Vacation (1980 film), Permanent Vacation''
* Art Linson – ''Where the Buffalo Roam''
* Adrian Lyne† – ''Foxes (film), Foxes''
* Mike Newell (director), Mike Newell♦ – ''The Awakening (1980 film), The Awakening''
* Harold Ramis – ''Caddyshack''
* Robert Redford – ''Ordinary People''
* Jay Sandrich♦ – ''Seems Like Old Times (film), 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 (film), Windows''

1981

* Alan Alda♦ – ''The Four Seasons (1981 film), The Four Seasons''
* Andrew Bergman – ''So Fine (film), So Fine''
* Kathryn Bigelow† and Monty Montgomery (producer), Monty Montgomery – ''The Loveless''
* Peter Bonerz♦ – ''Nobody's Perfekt''
* John Glen (director), John Glen† – ''For Your Eyes Only (film), For Your Eyes Only''
* Steve Gordon (director), Steve Gordon♦ – ''Arthur (1981 film), Arthur''
* Jim Henson†♦ – ''The Great Muppet Caper''
* Hugh Hudson† – ''Chariots of Fire''
* Glenn Jordan♦ – ''Only When I Laugh (film), Only When I Laugh''
* Lawrence Kasdan – ''Body Heat''
* Mika Kaurismäki – ''The Liar (1981 film), The Liar''
* Uli Edel – ''Christiane F. (film), Christiane F.''
* Vadim Glowna – ''Desperado City''
* Howard R. Cohen – ''Saturday the 14th''
* Jean-Jacques Beineix – ''Diva (1981 film), Diva''
* Ed Bianchi, Edward Bianchi – ''The Fan (1981 film), The Fan''
* Nettie Peña – ''Home Sweet Home (1981 film), Home Sweet Home''
* Juan Miñón and Miguel Ángel Trujillo – ''Kargus''
* Jandhyala – ''Mudda Mandaram''
* Graham Baker (director), Graham Baker – ''Omen III: The Final Conflict''
* Zoran Tadić – ''Rhythm of a Crime''
* Michael Herz (producer), Michael Herz – ''Waitress!''
* Emir Kusturica†♦ – ''Do You Remember Dolly Bell?''
* Michael Mann (director), Michael Mann†♦ – ''Thief (film), Thief''
* Ron Mann† – ''Imagine the Sound''
* Steve Miner – ''Friday the 13th Part 2''
* Sam Raimi† – ''The Evil Dead''
* Rick Rosenthal – ''Halloween II (1981 film), Halloween II''
* Oz Scott – ''Bustin' Loose (film), Bustin' Loose''
* Joel Schumacher♦ – ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman''
* Penelope Spheeris† – ''The Decline of Western Civilization''
* David Steinberg – ''Paternity (film), Paternity''

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† – ''The Angel (1982 film), The Angel''
* James Cameron† – ''Piranha II: The Spawning''
* Nick Castle – ''Tag: The Assassination Game''
* Roger Christian (filmmaker), Roger Christian – ''The Sender''
* Graeme Clifford†♦ – ''Frances (film), Frances''
* Caleb Deschanel† – ''The Escape Artist''
* Richard Elfman – ''Forbidden Zone''
* Stuart Gillard – ''Paradise (1982 film), Paradise''
* Amy Heckerling† – ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High''
* Tim Hunter (director), Tim Hunter – ''Tex (film), Tex''
* Amy Holden Jones – ''The Slumber Party Massacre''
* Neil Jordan – ''Angel (1982 Irish film), Angel''
* John Laing (director), John Laing – ''Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1982 film), Beyond Reasonable Doubt''
* Barry Levinson♦ – ''Diner (1982 film), Diner''
* Aaron Lipstadt – ''Android (film), Android''
* Garry Marshall♦ – ''Young Doctors in Love''
* Frank Oz – ''The Dark Crystal''
* Albert Pyun – ''The Sword and the Sorcerer''
* Susan Seidelman† – ''Smithereens (film), Smithereens''
* Robert Towne – ''Personal Best (film), Personal Best''
* David S. Ward – ''Cannery Row (film), Cannery Row''
* Edward Yang – ''Guang yin de gu shi''
* Ronny Yu – ''The Postman Strikes Back''
* Corey Yuen – ''Ninja in the Dragon's Den''

1983

* Joe Alves – ''Jaws 3-D''
* Roberto Benigni – ''Tu mi turbi''
* Luc Besson† – ''Le Dernier Combat''
* Paul Brickman – ''Risky Business''
* James L. Brooks – ''Terms of Endearment''
* Claudio Caligari – ''Toxic Love''
* Michael Chapman (cinematographer), Michael Chapman – ''All the Right Moves (film), All the Right Moves''
* Robert Dalva – ''The Black Stallion Returns''
* Mel Damski – ''Yellowbeard''
* Pál Erdöss – ''The Princess (1983 film), The Princess''
* Sam Firstenberg – ''One More Chance (1983 film), One More Chance''
* John Herzfeld – ''Two of a Kind (1983 film), Two of a Kind''
* Robert Hiltzik – ''Sleepaway Camp''
* Robert Jiras – ''I Am the Cheese (film), I Am the Cheese''
* Shekhar Kapur – ''Masoom (1983 film), Masoom''
* Aki Kaurismäki – ''Crime and Punishment (1983 film), Crime and Punishment''
* David Kendall (director), David Kendall – ''Luggage of the Gods!''
* Jackie Kong – ''The Being''
* Kiyoshi Kurosawa – ''Kandagawa Pervert Wars''
* Mohsen Makhmalbaf – ''Tobeh Nosuh''
* Robert Mandel – ''Independence Day (1983 film), Independence Day''
* Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas (actor), Dave Thomas – ''Strange Brew''
* Mamoru Oshii♦ – ''Urusei Yatsura: Only You''
* Euzhan Palcy – ''Sugar Cane Alley''
* Michael Radford† – ''Another Time, Another Place (1983 film), Another Time, Another Place''
* Mani Ratnam – ''Pallavi Anu Pallavi''
* Sandip Ray – ''Phatik Chand (film), Phatik Chand''
* Mark Rosman – ''The House on Sorority Row''
* Tony Scott† – ''The Hunger (1983 film), The Hunger''
* James Signorelli – ''Easy Money (1983 film), Easy Money''
* Ching Siu-tung – ''Duel to the Death''
* Barbra Streisand – ''Yentl (film), Yentl''
* David Worth (cinematographer), David Worth – ''Warrior of the Lost World''
* Yevgeny Yevtushenko – ''Kindergarten (1983 film), Kindergarten''

1984

* Alejandro Agresti† – ''La Neutrónica explotó en Burzaco''
* Steve Barron† – ''Electric Dreams (film), Electric Dreams''
* John Carl Buechler† – ''The Dungeonmaster''
* Coen brothers, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – ''Blood Simple''
* Alex Cox† – ''Repo Man (film), Repo Man''
* Léos Carax – ''Boy Meets Girl (1984 film), Boy Meets Girl''
* Gérard Depardieu – ''Le tartuffe''
* Roland Emmerich† – ''The Noah's Ark Principle''
* Atom Egoyan† – ''Next of Kin (1984 film), Next of Kin''
* James Foley (director), James Foley – ''Reckless (1984 film), Reckless''
* Herb Gardner – ''The Goodbye People (film), The Goodbye People''
* John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes – ''Sixteen Candles''
* Juzo Itami – ''The Funeral (1984 film), The Funeral''
* Roland Joffé♦ – ''The Killing Fields (film), The Killing Fields''
* Charles Shyer – ''Irreconcilable Differences''
* Chen Kaige – ''Yellow Earth''
* Gene Taft – ''Blame It on the Night''
* Yoshiaki Kawajiri – ''Lensman (anime), Lensman''
* Fritz Kiersch – ''Children of the Corn (1984 film), Children of the Corn''
* Ken Kwapis♦ – ''The Beniker Gang''
* Albert Magnoli† – ''Purple Rain (film), Purple Rain''
* Marek Kanievska - ''Another Country (1984 film), Another Country''
* Luis Mandoki† – ''Motel (1984 film), 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 – ''Notfdhhfdre mariage''
* Ruud van Hemert – ''Army Brats''
* Brian Gilbert (director), Brian Gilbert – ''The Frog Prince (1984 film), The Frog Prince''
* Roger Young (director), Roger Young – ''Lassiter (film), Lassiter''
* Lars von Trier† – ''The Element of Crime''
* Hugh Wilson (director), Hugh Wilson†♦ – ''Police Academy (film), Police Academy''

1985

* Dodo Abashidze – ''The Legend of Suram Fortress''
* Dan Attias – ''Silver Bullet (film), Silver Bullet''
* Hal Barwood† – ''Warning Sign (film), Warning Sign''
* George Bowers (filmmaker), George Bowers – ''Private Resort''
* Tim Burton†♦ – ''Pee-wee's Big Adventure''
* John R. Cherry III – ''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 (film), Better Off Dead''
* Tom Holland (filmmaker), Tom Holland – ''Fright Night''
* Huang Jianxin – ''The Black Cannon Incident''
* Amos Kollek – ''Goodbye, New York''
* Stanley Kwan – ''Women (1985 film), Women''
* Dwight H. Little – ''KGB: The Secret War''
* Jonathan Lynn – ''Clue (film), Clue''
* Alan Metter – ''Girls Just Want to Have Fun (film), Girls Just Want to Have Fun''
* Walter Murch – ''Return to Oz''
* Francesco Nuti – ''Casablanca, Casablanca''
* David Nutter – ''Cease Fire (1985 film), Cease Fire''
* James Orr (filmmaker), James Orr – ''Breaking All the Rules (film), Breaking All the Rules''
* Mark Romanek – ''Static (1985 film), Static''
* Arna Selznick – ''The Care Bears Movie''
* Alan Sharp – ''Little Treasure''
* Howard Storm (director), Howard Storm♦ – ''Once Bitten (1985 film), Once Bitten''
* Fina Torres – ''Oriana (film), Oriana''
* Gus Van Sant†♦ – ''Mala Noche''
* Will Vinton – ''The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film), The Adventures of Mark Twain''
* Terry Zwigoff – ''Louie Bluie''

1986

* David Anspaugh – ''Hoosiers (film), Hoosiers''
* Olivier Assayas† – ''Disorder (1986 film), Disorder''
* David Byrne† – ''True Stories (film), True 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 (film), Critters''
* Stephen King – ''Maximum Overdrive''
* Spike Lee† – ''She's Gotta Have It''
* Sondra Locke – ''Ratboy''
* Jim Mallon – ''Blood Hook''
* Penny Marshall♦ – ''Jumpin' Jack Flash (film), Jumpin' Jack Flash''
* John McNaughton† – ''Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer''
* John McTiernan – ''Nomads (1986 film), Nomads''
* Michael Parks – ''The Return of Josey Wales''
* Anthony Perkins – ''Psycho III''
* Prince (musician), Prince† – ''Under the Cherry Moon''
* Bruce Robinson – ''Withnail and I''
* Joe Roth – ''Streets of Gold (film), Streets of Gold''
* Dale Schott – ''The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation''
* David Seltzer♦ – ''Lucas (film), Lucas''
* Charles Martin Smith – ''Trick or Treat (1986 film), Trick or Treat''
* Shion Sono† – ''Man's Flower Road''
* Giuseppe Tornatore – ''Il camorrista''
* Ziggy Steinberg – ''The Boss' Wife''
* Agustí Villaronga† – ''Tras el cristal''
* Edward Zwick♦† – ''About Last Night (1986 film), About Last Night...''

1987

* Allison Anders – ''Border Radio''
* Emile Ardolino♦ – ''Dirty Dancing''
* Jeff Bleckner♦ – ''White Water Summer''
* Deborah Brock (director), Deborah Brock – ''Slumber Party Massacre II''
* Chris Columbus (filmmaker), Chris Columbus – ''Adventures in Babysitting''
* Bill Condon – ''Sister, Sister (1987 film), Sister, Sister''
* Danny DeVito†♦ – ''Throw Momma from the Train''
* Nigel Dick† – ''P.I. Private Investigations''
* Emilio Estevez – ''Wisdom (film), Wisdom''
* Bob Giraldi† – ''Hiding Out''
* Steve Gomer† – ''Sweet Lorraine (film), Sweet Lorraine''
* Flora Gomes – ''Mortu Nega''
* Michael Gornick†♦ – ''Creepshow 2''
* Michael Gottlieb (director), Michael Gottlieb†♦ – ''Mannequin (1987 film), Mannequin''
* Tamar Simon Hoffs† – ''The Allnighter (film), The Allnighter''
* Stephen Hopkins (director), Stephen Hopkins†♦ – ''Dangerous Game (1987 film), Dangerous Game''
* Phil Joanou† – ''Three O'Clock High''
* Diane Keaton† – ''Heaven (1987 film), Heaven''
* Peter Jackson† – ''Bad Taste''
* Mary Lambert (director), Mary Lambert† – ''Siesta (film), Siesta''
* Luis Llosa, Luis Llosa Urquidi – ''Hour of the Assassin (1987 film), Hour of the Assassin''
* David Mamet – ''House of Games''
* Cheech Marin – ''Born in East L.A. (film), Born in East L.A.''
* Jerry Rees – ''The Brave Little Toaster''
* Max Reid† – ''Wild Thing (film), Wild Thing''
* Phil Alden Robinson – ''In the Mood (film), In the Mood''
* Jay Russell – ''End of the Line (1987 film), The End of the Line''
* John Stockwell (actor), John Stockwell – ''Under Cover (1987 film), Under Cover''
* Robert Townsend (actor), Robert Townsend – ''Hollywood Shuffle''
* Paul Weiland† – ''Leonard Part 6''
* Charles Winkler – ''You Talkin' to Me? (film), You Talkin' to Me?''
* Zhang Yimou – ''Red Sorghum (film), Red Sorghum''

1988

* Greg Beeman♦ – ''License to Drive''
* Donald P. Bellisario♦ – ''Last Rites (1988 film), Last Rites''
* Glenn Gordon Caron – ''Clean and Sober''
* Christopher Coppola – ''Dracula's Widow''
* John Cornell – ''Crocodile Dundee II''
* Gregory Dark† – ''Dead Man Walking (1988 film), Dead Man Walking''
* Claire Denis – ''Chocolat (1988 film), Chocolat''
* Reha Erdem – ''Oh, Moon!''
* Robert Englund – ''976-EVIL''
* Bran Ferren – ''Funny''
* Mike Figgis♦ – ''Stormy Monday (film), Stormy Monday''
* Andrew Fleming – ''Bad Dreams (film), Bad Dreams''
* Mick Garris♦ – ''Critters 2: The Main Course''
* Terence H. Winkless – ''The Nest (1988 film), The Nest''
* George Scribner – ''Oliver & Company''
* Keith Gordon – ''The Chocolate War (film), The Chocolate War''
* Bob Hoskins – ''The Raggedy Rawney''
* Annabel Jankel†♦ and Rocky Morton†♦ – ''D.O.A. (1988 film), D.O.A.''
* Shaji N. Karun – ''Piravi''
* Ben Lewin†♦ – ''Georgia (1988 film), Georgia''
* John Lafia – ''The Blue Iguana''
* Michael Lehmann† – ''Heathers''
* Richard Linklater† – ''It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books''
* Guy Maddin† – ''Tales from the Gimli Hospital''
* Ramón Menéndez – ''Stand and Deliver''
* Chris Menges – ''A World Apart (film), A World Apart''
* Mira Nair†♦ – ''Salaam Bombay!''
* Yousry Nasrallah – ''Summer Thefts''
* Donald Petrie♦ – ''Mystic Pizza''
* Tina Rathborne♦ – ''Zelly and Me''
* Bernard Rose (director), Bernard Rose – ''Paperhouse (film), Paperhouse''
* Gary Sinise – ''Miles from Home''
* Kenneth Johnson (filmmaker), Kenneth Johnson – ''Short Circuit 2''
* Jan Švankmajer† – ''Alice (1988 film), Alice''
* Skip Schoolnik – ''Hide and Go Shriek''
* Ernest Thompson – ''1969 (film), 1969''
* Michael Toshiyuki Uno†♦ – ''The Wash (1988 film), The Wash''
* Aisling Walsh† – ''Joyriders (film), Joyriders''
* Keenen Ivory Wayans – ''I'm Gonna Git You Sucka''
* Henry Winkler♦ – ''Memories of Me''
* Wong Kar-wai – ''As Tears Go By (film), Wong Gok Ka Moon''

1989

* Meiert Avis† – ''Far from Home (1989 film), Far from Home''
* Bob Balaban♦ – ''Parents (1989 film), Parents''
* Sooraj R. Barjatya – ''Maine Pyar Kiya''
* Kenneth Branagh – ''Henry V (1989 film), Henry V''
* Jane Campion†♦ – ''Sweetie (1989 film), Sweetie''
* Michael Caton-Jones†♦ – ''Scandal (1989 film), Scandal''
* 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 (1989 film), Nowhere to Run''
* Paul Greengrass♦ – ''Resurrected (film), Resurrected''
* Robert Sigl – ''Laurin''
* Gary David Goldberg – ''Dad (1989 film), Dad''
* Wendell B. Harris Jr. – ''Chameleon Street''
* Michael Haneke♦ – ''The Seventh Continent (1989 film), 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''
* Charles T. Kanganis – ''Deadly Breed''
* Takeshi Kitano – ''Violent Cop (1989 film), Violent Cop''
* Brett Leonard – ''The Dead Pit''
* Chris Walas – ''The Fly II''
* Sean McNamara (director), Sean McNamara – ''Hollywood Chaos''
* Tahmineh Milani – ''Children of Divorce (1989 film), Children of Divorce''
* Michael Moore – ''Roger & Me''
* Jonathan Mostow† – ''Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers''
* John Murlowski – ''Return of the Family Man''
* 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 (film), Let It Ride''
* Eric Red† – ''Cohen and Tate''
* Junji Sakamoto – ''Dotsuitarunen''
* Victor Salva – ''Clownhouse''
* Nancy Savoca – ''True Love (1989 film), True Love''
* Thomas Schlamme♦† – ''Miss Firecracker''
* William Shatner – ''Star Trek V: The Final Frontier''
* Jim Sheridan – ''My Left Foot (film), 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 (1989 film), Catch Me If You Can''
* Ann Turner (director), Ann Turner – ''Celia (1989 film), Celia''
* Joseph Vilsmaier – ''Autumn Milk''
* Gary Winick – ''Curfew (1989 film), Curfew''
* Joel Zwick♦ – ''Second Sight (film), Second Sight''

1990s

1990

* Dyan Cannon† – ''The End of Innocence (film), The End of Innocence''
* Kevin Costner – ''Dances with Wolves''
* Manny Coto – ''Playroom (film), Playroom''
* Dennis Dugan♦ – ''Problem Child (film), Problem Child''
* David Elfick – ''Harbour Beat''
* Howard Franklin and Bill Murray – ''Quick Change''
* John Harrison (director), John Harrison†♦ – ''Tales from the Darkside: The Movie''
* Bob Hathcock♦† – ''DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp''
* Reginald Hudlin† – ''House Party (film), House Party''
* Caroline Link†♦ – ''Sommertage''
* Sheldon Lettich – ''Lionheart (1990 film), Lionheart''
* James Keach – ''False Identity''
* Nicole Garcia – ''Every Other Weekend (film), Every Other Weekend''
* Michael Fields – ''Bright Angel''
* Benny Chan (filmmaker), Benny Chan – ''A Moment of Romance''
* V. Sekhar – ''Neengalum Herothan''
* Sangeeth Sivan – ''Vyooham''
* Rich Correll, Richard Correll♦ – ''Ski Patrol (1990 film), Ski Patrol''
* Shankar–Ganesh – ''Jagathalaprathapan (1990 film), Jagathalaprathapan''
* Indra Kumar – ''Dil (1990 film), Dil''
* Rajkumar Santoshi – ''Ghayal (1990 film), Ghayal''
* Frank Marshall (filmmaker), Frank Marshall – ''Arachnophobia (film), Arachnophobia''
* Joji Matsuoka† – ''Batāshi Kingyo''
* Michele Placido – ''Pummarò''
* Sally Mattison – ''Slumber Party Massacre III''
* James D. Parriott – ''Heart Condition (film), Heart Condition''
* Jay Roach – ''Zoo Radio''Co-directed with Jesse Wells
* Tom Ropelewski – ''Madhouse (1990 film), Madhouse''
* Sergio Rubini – ''The Station (1990 film), The Station''
* Lone Scherfig♦ – ''Kaj's fødselsdag''
* John Patrick Shanley – ''Joe Versus the Volcano''
* Martin Sheen – ''Cadence (film), Cadence''
* Whit Stillman – ''Metropolitan (1990 film), Metropolitan''
* Jon Turteltaub – ''Think Big (film), Think Big''
* Zdeněk Tyc – ''Vojtech, Called the Orphan''
* Ron Underwood†♦ – ''Tremors (1990 film), Tremors''
* Vasanth – ''Keladi Kannmanii''
* Thomas Vinterberg – ''Sneblind''
* Michael Winterbottom♦ – ''Forget About Me''
* Zhang Yuan (director), Zhang Yuan† – ''Mama (1990 film), Mama''

1991

* Jon Avnet♦ – ''Fried Green Tomatoes''
* Dan Aykroyd – ''Nothing but Trouble (1991 film), 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 (1991 film), Delicatessen''
* Carlos Carrera† – ''La mujer de Benjamín''
* Topper Carew – ''Talkin' Dirty After Dark''
* Peter Chelsom† – ''Hear My Song''
* Rich Christiano – ''The Appointment (film), The Appointment''
* Bud Cort – ''Ted & Venus''
* Alfonso Cuarón†♦ – ''Sólo Con Tu Pareja''
* Frank De Felitta♦ – ''Scissors (film), Scissors''
* Arnaud Desplechin – ''La Vie Des Morts''
* Tom DiCillo – ''Johnny Suede''
* Jaco Van Dormael♦ – ''Toto the Hero''
* Bill Duke†♦ – ''A Rage in Harlem (film), A Rage in Harlem''
* Jodie Foster – ''Little Man Tate''
* George Gallo – ''29th Street (film), 29th Street''
* Bobcat Goldthwait – ''Shakes the Clown''
* Bryan Gordon† – ''Career Opportunities (film), Career Opportunities''
* Todd Haynes† – ''Poison (film), Poison''
* Peter Hewitt (film director), Peter Hewitt† – ''Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey''
* Kevin Hooks♦ – ''Strictly Business (1991 film), Strictly Business''
* Jeffrey Hornaday♦† – ''Shout (film), Shout''
* David Kellogg† – ''Cool as Ice''
* Brian Levant♦ – ''Problem Child 2''
* Doug McHenry and George Jackson (producer), George Jackson – ''House Party 2''
* Deepa Mehta♦ – ''Sam & Me''
* Takashi Miike – ''Eyecatch Junction''
* Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells – ''An American Tail: Fievel Goes West''
* Garin Nugroho – ''Cinta dalam Sepotong Roti''
* Mario Van Peebles♦ – ''New Jack City''
* Sean Penn – ''The Indian Runner''
* Joseph Vásquez – ''The Bronx War''
* Frank Price#Personal, 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 (1991 film), The Addams Family''
* Rachel Talalay – ''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare''
* Prasanna Vithanage – ''Sisila Giniganee''
* Irwin Winkler – ''Guilty by Suspicion''

1992

* Rémy Belvaux†, André Bonzel† and Benoît Poelvoorde† – ''Man Bites Dog (film), Man Bites Dog''
* Mike Binder – ''Crossing the Bridge''
* Uwe Boll – ''German Fried Movie''Co-directed with Frank Lustig
* 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 (1992 film), Juice''
* Bill Kroyer† – ''FernGully: The Last Rainforest''
* Nora Ephron – ''This Is My Life (1992 film), This Is My Life''
* David Fincher† – ''Alien 3''
* Dale Launer - ''Love Potion No. 9 (film), Love Potion No. 9''
* Rituparno Ghosh – ''Hirer Angti''
* Arne Glimcher – ''The Mambo Kings''
* Beeban Kidron† – ''Used People''
* Leslie Harris (director), 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 (film), Pushing Hands''
* Baz Luhrmann – ''Strictly Ballroom''
* Alison Maclean♦† – ''Crush (1992 film), Crush''
* Les Mayfield♦† – ''Encino Man''
* Randall Miller♦† – ''Class Act''
* Tsai Ming-liang♦ – ''Rebels of the Neon God''
* Edward James Olmos♦ – ''American Me''
* Kenny Ortega†♦ – ''Newsies''
* Jafar Panahi† – ''The Friend (1992 film), The Friend''
* Tim Robbins – ''Bob Roberts''
* Robert Rodriguez† – ''El Mariachi''
* Damon Santostefano† – ''Severed Ties (film), Severed Ties''
* M. Night Shyamalan – ''Praying with Anger''
* Bruce W. Smith – ''Bébé's Kids''
* Quentin Tarantino† – ''Reservoir Dogs''
* Betty Thomas♦ – ''Only You (1992 film), Only You''
* John Turturro – ''Mac (film), Mac''

1993

* Daniel Alfredson†♦ – ''The Man on the Balcony (film), The Man on the Balcony''
* Marco Brambilla – ''Demolition Man (film), Demolition Man''
* Thomas Carter (director), Thomas Carter♦ – ''Swing Kids (1993 film), 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 (film), 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''
* Bruce Joel Rubin – ''My Life (film), My Life''
* Mel Gibson – ''The Man Without a Face''
* Richard Williams (animator), Richard Williams† – ''The Thief and the Cobbler''
* Paul Haggis♦† – ''Red Hot (film), Red Hot''
* Fraser Clarke Heston♦† – ''Needful Things (film), Needful Things''
* Hughes brothers, Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes† – ''Menace II Society''
* Nicholas Kazan♦ – ''Dream Lover (1993 film), Dream Lover''
* John Madden (director), John Madden♦ – ''Ethan Frome (film), Ethan Frome''
* Radu Mihăileanu† – ''Trahir''
* Gary O. Bennett – ''Rain Without Thunder''
* 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''
* Alan Shapiro (director), Alan Shapiro♦ – ''The Crush (1993 film), The Crush''
* Bryan Singer† – ''Public Access (film), Public Access''
* Daniel Stern (actor), Daniel Stern♦ – ''Rookie of the Year (film), 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 (1993 film), Calendar Girl''
* Alex Winter and Tom Stern (director), Tom Stern – ''Freaked''
* Wang Xiaoshuai – ''The Days (1993 film), The Days''
* Steven Zaillian – ''Searching for Bobby Fischer''

1994

* Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff† – ''The Lion King''
* Paul W. S. Anderson – ''Shopping (1994 film), Shopping''
* Jacques Audiard – ''See How They Fall, Regarde les hommes tomber''
* Roger Avary – ''Killing Zoe''
* Timur Bekmambetov♦ – ''Peshavar Waltz''
* Adam Bernstein† – ''It's Pat''
* Danny Boyle♦ – ''Shallow Grave (1994 film), Shallow Grave''
* Stephen Chow – ''King of Destruction''
* Julie Cypher† – ''Teresa's Tattoo''
* Frank Darabont♦ – ''The Shawshank Redemption''
* Jan de Bont – ''Speed (1994 film), Speed''
* Peter Farrelly – ''Dumb and Dumber''
* James Gray (film director), James Gray – ''Little Odessa (film), Little Odessa''
* Anthony Michael Hall – ''Hail Caesar (1994 film), Hail Caesar''
* P. J. Hogan† – ''Muriel's Wedding''
* George Huang (director), George Huang – ''Swimming with Sharks''
* Nicholas Hytner – ''The Madness of King George''
* Patrick Keiller† – ''London (1992 film), London''
* Doug Liman – ''Getting In''
* Hart Bochner – ''PCU (film), PCU''
* Darnell Martin† – ''I Like It Like That (film), I Like It Like That''
* Takashi Miike† – ''Daisan no gokudō''
* Jessie Nelson (filmmaker), Jessie Nelson† – ''Corrina, Corrina (film), 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''
* David O. Russell† – ''Spanking the Monkey''
* Steven Seagal – ''On Deadly Ground''
* Peter Segal♦ – ''Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, Naked Gun : The Final Insult''
* Tom Shadyac♦ – ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective''
* Kevin Smith† – ''Clerks (1994 film), Clerks''
* Ben Stiller♦† – ''Reality Bites''
* Lee Tamahori†♦ – ''Once Were Warriors (film), Once Were Warriors''
* Caroline Thompson – ''Black Beauty (1994 film), Black Beauty''
* Rupert Wainwright†♦ – ''Blank Check (film), Blank Check''
* Sam Weisman♦ – ''D2: The Mighty Ducks''

1995

* Tomas Alfredson♦ – ''Bert: The Last Virgin''
* Debbie Allen♦ – ''Out-of-Sync''
* Jason Alexander♦ – ''For Better or Worse (film), For Better or Worse''
* Brad Anderson (director), Brad Anderson – ''Frankenstein's Planet of Monsters!''
* Noah Baumbach – ''Kicking and Screaming (1995 film), Kicking and Screaming''
* Michael Bay† – ''Bad Boys (1995 film), Bad Boys''
* Larry Bishop – ''Mad Dog Time''
* Icíar Bollaín†♦ – ''Hola, ¿estás sola?''
* Steven Brill (filmmaker), Steven Brill – ''Heavyweights''
* Stephen Chbosky – ''The Four Corners of Nowhere''
* John Fortenberry♦ – ''Jury Duty (film), Jury Duty''
* Larry Clark – ''Kids (film), Kids''
* Frank Coraci – ''Murdered Innocence''
* Joel Cohen (writer), Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow – ''Monster Mash (1995 film), Monster Mash''
* Rick Stevenson – ''Magic in the Water''
* Gary Fleder♦ – ''Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead''
* Marc Forster – ''Loungers''
* Lesli Linka Glatter†♦ – ''Now and Then (film), Now and Then''
* F. Gary Gray† – ''Friday (1995 film), Friday''
* Charles Herman-Wurmfeld – ''Fanci's Persuasion''
* Scott Kalvert† – ''The Basketball Diaries (film), The Basketball Diaries''
* Hirokazu Koreeda♦ – ''Maborosi''
* John Lasseter† – ''Toy Story''
* Kevin Lima – ''A Goofy Movie''
* Robert Longo† – ''Johnny Mnemonic (film), Johnny Mnemonic''
* James Mangold – ''Heavy (film), Heavy''
* Daisy von Scherler Mayer – ''Party Girl (1995 film), Party Girl''
* Melanie Mayron♦ – ''The Baby-Sitters Club (film), The Baby-Sitters Club''
* Rebecca Miller – ''Angela (1995 film), Angela''
* Gavin O'Connor (director), Gavin O'Connor† – ''Comfortably Numb (film), Comfortably Numb''
* Steve Oedekerk† – ''Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls''
* Oliver Parker – ''Othello (1995 film), Othello''
* Jean-François Richet – ''État des lieux''
* Brian Robbins – ''The Show (1995 film), The Show''
* Joaquim Sapinho – ''Haircut (film), Haircut''
* Hans-Christian Schmid†♦ – ''After Five in the Forest Primeval, Nach Fünf im Urwald''
* Holly Goldberg Sloan – ''The Big Green''
* Bryan Spicer♦ – ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie''
* Brad Silberling†♦ – ''Casper (film), Casper''
* Wesley Strick – ''The Tie That Binds (1995 film), The Tie That Binds''
* Andy Tennant♦ – ''It Takes Two (1995 film), It Takes Two''
* Forest Whitaker♦ – ''Waiting to Exhale''
* Gregory Widen♦ – ''The Prophecy''
* Edgar Wright† – ''A Fistful of Fingers''
* Lou Ye – ''Weekend Lover''

1996

* Alejandro Amenábar – ''Tesis''
* Paul Thomas Anderson† – ''Hard Eight (film), Hard Eight''
* Wes Anderson† – ''Bottle Rocket''
* Imanol Arias – ''Un asunto privado''
* Kevin Bacon – ''Losing Chase''
* Paris Barclay† – ''Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood''
* Steve Buscemi – ''Trees Lounge''
* Stuart Baird – ''Executive Decision''
* Jason Bloom (director), Jason Bloom† – ''Bio-Dome''
* Matthew Bright – ''Freeway (1996 film), Freeway''
* Matthew Broderick – ''Infinity (film), Infinity''
* Nick Cassavetes – ''Unhook the Stars''
* Jay Chandrasekhar – ''Puddle Cruiser''
* R. J. Cutler – ''A Perfect Candidate''Co-directed with David Van Taylor
* Seth Michael Donsky – ''Twisted (1996 film), Twisted''
* Cheryl Dunye† – ''The Watermelon Woman''
* David R. Ellis – ''Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco''
* Bobby Farrelly – ''Kingpin (1996 film), Kingpin''Co-directed with Peter Farrelly
* Jonathan Frakes♦ – ''Star Trek: First Contact''
* Terry George – ''Some Mother's Son''
* Michael Goldenberg – ''Bed of Roses (1996 film), Bed of Roses''
* Zeka Laplaine, Jose Zeka Laplaine† – ''Macadam Tribu''
* Tom Hanks♦ – ''That Thing You Do!''
* Mary Harron♦ – ''I Shot Andy Warhol''
* Gregory Hoblit♦ – ''Primal Fear (film), Primal Fear''
* Nicole Holofcener† – ''Walking and Talking''
* Anthony Hopkins – ''August (1996 film), August''
* Adam Coleman Howard – ''Dead Girl (film), Dead Girl''
* Bronwen Hughes† – ''Harriet the Spy (film), Harriet the Spy''
* Anjelica Huston – ''Bastard Out of Carolina (film), Bastard Out of Carolina''
* Mike Judge†♦ – ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America''
* David Koepp† – ''The Trigger Effect''
* Ki-duk Kim†♦ – ''Crocodile (1996 film), Crocodile''
* Martin Lawrence – ''A Thin Line Between Love and Hate''
* Quentin Lee† – ''Flow (1996 film), Flow''
* Danny Leiner† – ''Layin' Low''
* Kevin Macdonald (director), Kevin Macdonald♦ – ''Chaplin's Goliath''
* Nelson McCormick (director), Nelson McCormick♦ – ''For Which He Stands''
* Douglas McGrath – ''Emma (1996 theatrical film), Emma''
* Shane Meadows† – ''Small Time''
* Greg Mottola – ''The Daytrippers''
* Niels Arden Oplev† – ''Portland (film), Portland''
* Al Pacino – ''Looking for Richard''
* Alexander Payne† – ''Citizen Ruth''
* John Putch† – ''Alone in the Woods''
* Krishna Rao (director), Krishna Rao – ''Crossworlds''
* Matt Reeves† – ''The Pallbearer''
* Sabu (director), Sabu – ''Dangan Runner''
* Arlene Sanford♦ – ''A Very Brady Sequel''
* John Schultz (director), John Schultz – ''Bandwagon (film), Bandwagon''
* Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci – ''Big Night''
* Adrienne Shelly† – ''Sudden Manhattan''
* Daryush Shokof – ''Seven Servants''
* Kevin Spacey† – ''Albino Alligator''
* Nicolas Winding Refn – ''Pusher (1996 film), Pusher''
* Billy Bob Thornton – ''Sling Blade (film), Sling Blade''
* The Wachowskis – ''Bound (1996 film), Bound''

1997

* Miguel Arteta – ''Star Maps (film), Star Maps''
* William Brent Bell – ''Sparkle and Charm''
* Andy Cadiff♦ – ''Leave It to Beaver (film), Leave It to Beaver''
* Peter Cattaneo – ''The Full Monty''
* Dean Cundey – ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves''
* Vondie Curtis-Hall – ''Gridlock'd''
* Johnny Depp♦ – ''The Brave (film), The Brave''
* Mark Dindal – ''Cats Don't Dance''
* Vin Diesel† – ''Strays (1997 film), Strays''
* Mark A.Z. Dippé – ''Spawn (1997 film), Spawn''
* Bruno Dumont – ''La vie de Jésus''
* Bart Freundlich† – ''The Myth of Fingerprints''
* Vincent Gallo – ''Buffalo '66''
* Raja Gosnell – ''Home Alone 3''
* Peter Howitt – ''Sliding Doors''
* Nick Hurran♦ – ''Remember Me? (film), Remember Me?''
* Bob Koherr – ''Plump Fiction''
* Satoshi Kon – ''Perfect Blue''
* Paul Miller (TV director), Paul Miller♦ – ''The Pest (1997 film), The Pest''
* Harmony Korine – ''Gummo''
* Andrew Kötting† – ''Gallivant''
* Neil LaBute – ''In the Company of Men''
* Mimi Leder♦ – ''The Peacemaker (1997 film), The Peacemaker''
* Kasi Lemmons – ''Eve's Bayou''
* John R. Leonetti – ''Mortal Kombat: Annihilation''
* Shawn Levy† – ''Address Unknown (1997 film), Address Unknown''
* Justin Lin – ''Shopping for Fangs''Co-directed with Quentin Lee
* David Mirkin♦ – ''Romy and Michele's High School Reunion''
* Vincenzo Natali – ''Cube (1997 film), Cube''
* Andrew Niccol – ''Gattaca''
* William Nicholson (writer), William Nicholson♦ – ''Firelight''
* Cherie Nowlan† – ''Thank God He Met Lizzie''
* Peter O'Fallon♦ – ''Suicide Kings''
* Stephen Kessler (director), Stephen Kessler – ''Vegas Vacation''
* Gary Oldman – ''Nil by Mouth (film), Nil by Mouth''
* François Ozon† – ''Regarde la Mer''
* Mark Pellington†♦ – ''Going All the Way''
* Rafi Pitts† – ''The Fifth Season (1997 film), The Fifth Season''
* John Ridley – ''Cold Around the Heart''
* Brett Ratner† – ''Money Talks (1997 film), Money Talks''
* Tom Schulman – ''8 Heads in a Duffel Bag''
* Nick Searcy – ''Carolina Low''
* Jill Sprecher – ''Clockwatchers''
* Darren Stein† – ''Sparkler (film), Sparkler''
* Tim Story – ''One of Us Tripped''
* Kiefer Sutherland♦ – ''Truth or Consequences, N.M. (film), Truth or Consequences, N.M.''
* George Tillman Jr.† – ''Soul Food (film), Soul Food''
* Gore Verbinski† – ''MouseHunt (film), MouseHunt''
* Mark Waters (director), Mark Waters – ''The House of Yes''
* Simon West – ''Con Air''
* Scott Winant♦ – '''Til There Was You''
* Alex Zamm†♦ – ''Chairman of the Board (film), Chairman of the Board''
* Jia Zhangke† – ''Xiao Wu''

1998

* Fatih Akın†♦ – ''Short Sharp Shock (film), Short Sharp Shock''
* Darren Aronofsky† – ''Pi (film), Pi''
* Matt Earl Beesley – ''Point Blank (1998 film), Point Blank''
* Peter Berg♦ – ''Very Bad Things''
* Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook† – ''Mulan (1998 film), Mulan''
* Troy Beyer – ''Let's Talk About Sex (film), Let's Talk About Sex''
* Steve Boyum – ''Meet the Deedles''
* Joe Carnahan – ''Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane''
* Niki Caro♦† – ''Memory & Desire''
* Frederik Du Chau – ''Quest for Camelot''
* Lisa Cholodenko† – ''High Art''
* Nuri Bilge Ceylan – ''Kasaba (1997 film), Kasaba''
* Joan Chen – ''Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl''
* Derek Cianfrance – ''Brother Tied''
* David Dobkin (director), David Dobkin† – ''Clay Pigeons''
* Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan – ''Can't Hardly Wait''
* 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 (director), Tony Kaye†♦ – ''American History X''
* Jake Kasdan† – ''Zero Effect''
* Igor Kovalyov♦† and Norton Virgien♦ – ''The Rugrats Movie''
* Nagesh Kukunoor – ''Hyderabad Blues''
* Larry David – ''Sour Grapes (1998 film), Sour Grapes''
* Paul McGuigan (filmmaker), Paul McGuigan – ''The Acid House (film), The Acid House''
* Samira Makhmalbaf – ''The Apple (1998 film), The Apple''
* Sean Mathias – ''Bent (1997 film), Bent''
* Des McAnuff – ''Cousin Bette (1998 film), Cousin Bette''
* Don McKellar† – ''Last Night (1998 film), Last Night''
* Olivier Megaton†♦ – ''Tout Morose''
* Michael Martin (director), Michael Martin† – ''I Got the Hook-Up''
* Fernando Meirelles†♦ – ''O Menino Maluquinho 2''
* Nancy Meyers – ''The Parent Trap (1998 film), The Parent Trap''
* Lukas Moodysson – ''Show Me Love (film), Show Me Love''
* Gaspar No醠– ''I Stand Alone (film), Seul contre tous''
* Christopher Nolan† – ''Following''
* Dean Parisot†♦ – ''Home Fries (film), Home Fries''
* Pat Proft – ''Wrongfully Accused''
* Guy Ritchie† – ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels''
* Craig Ross Jr. – ''Cappuccino (1998 film), Cappuccino''
* Gary Ross – ''Pleasantville (film), Pleasantville''
* Bob Saget†♦ – ''Dirty Work (1998 film), Dirty Work''
* Millicent Shelton†♦ – ''Ride (1998 film), Ride''
* Tony Singletary♦ – ''High Freakquency''
* Abderrahmane Sissako† – ''Life on Earth (film), Life on Earth''
* Kevin Rodney Sullivan♦ – ''How Stella Got Her Groove Back''
* John Terlesky – ''The Pandora Project''Co-directed with Jim Wynorski
* Toshiaki Toyoda – ''Pornostar (film), 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 (film), Belly''
* David Yates†♦ – ''The Tichborne Claimant (film), The Tichborne Claimant''

1999

* Jamie Babbit†♦ – ''But I'm a Cheerleader''
* Jaume Balagueró†♦ – ''The Nameless (film), The Nameless''
* Antonio Banderas – ''Crazy in Alabama''
* Brad Bird♦ – ''The Iron Giant''
* John Bruno (special effects), John Bruno† – ''Virus (1999 film), Virus''
* Tony Bui† – ''Three Seasons''
* Sofia Coppola† – ''The Virgin Suicides (film), The Virgin Suicides''
* Troy Duffy – ''The Boondock Saints''
* Jim Fall – ''Trick (1999 film), Trick''
* Hampton Fancher – ''The Minus Man''
* Rick Famuyiwa† – ''The Wood''
* Jeff Franklin♦ – ''Love Stinks (film), Love Stinks''
* Chris Buck – ''Tarzan (1999 film), Tarzan''Co-directed with Kevin Lima
* Tony Goldwyn – ''A Walk on the Moon''
* Luca Guadagnino – ''The Protagonists (1999 film), The Protagonists''
* Gary Halvorson♦ – ''The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland''
* Brian Helgeland – ''Payback (1999 film), Payback''
* Tim Hill (director), Tim Hill†♦ – ''Muppets from Space''
* Gavin Hood† – ''A Reasonable Man''
* Hugh Johnson (cinematographer), Hugh Johnson† – ''Chill Factor (film), 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''
* Michael Patrick Jann – ''Drop Dead Gorgeous (film), Drop Dead Gorgeous''
* Malcolm D. Lee – ''The Best Man (1999 film), The Best Man''
* Rod Lurie† – ''Deterrence (film), Deterrence''
* Theodore Melfi – ''Winding Roads (film), Winding Roads''
* Sam Mendes♦ – ''American Beauty (1999 film), American Beauty''
* Dave Meyers (director), Dave Meyers† – ''Foolish (film), Foolish''
* Mike Mitchell (director), Mike Mitchell†♦ – ''Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo''
* Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez (director), Eduardo Sánchez – ''The Blair Witch Project''
* Stanley Nelson Jr.† – ''The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords''
* Babak Payami – ''One More Day (1999 film), One More Day''
* Kimberly Peirce† – ''Boys Don't Cry (1999 film), Boys Don't Cry''
* Lynne Ramsay – ''Ratcatcher (film), Ratcatcher''
* Tim Roth – ''The War Zone''
* Shi Runjiu – ''A Beautiful New World''
* Sara Sugarman† – ''Mad Cows''
* S. J. Surya – ''Vaalee (1999 film), Vaali''
* Julie Taymor♦ – ''Titus (film), Titus''
* Pablo Trapero† – ''Crane World''
* Manuela Viegas – ''Gloria (1999 Portuguese film), Gloria''
* Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz (filmmaker), Paul Weitz – ''American Pie (film), American Pie''

2000s

2000

* Asia Argento♦ – ''Scarlet Diva''
* Britt Allcroft - ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad''
* Andrzej Bartkowiak† – ''Romeo Must Die''
* Greg Berlanti – ''The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy''
* Thomas Bezucha – ''Big Eden''
* Bong Joon-ho – ''Barking Dogs Never Bite''
* Craig Brewer – ''The Poor & Hungry''
* Steve Carr† – ''Next Friday''
* Stephen Daldry† – ''Billy Elliot''
* Scott Derrickson† – ''Hellraiser: Inferno''
* Tom Dey – ''Shanghai Noon''
* DJ Pooh – ''3 Strikes (film), 3 Strikes''
* Andrew Dominik – ''Chopper (film), Chopper''
* Bill Eagles♦ – ''Beautiful Creatures (2000 film), Beautiful Creatures''
* Jun Falkenstein – ''The Tigger Movie''
* Sally Field♦ – ''Beautiful (2000 film), Beautiful''
* Jonathan Glazer† – ''Sexy Beast''
* Courtney Solomon – ''Dungeons & Dragons (2000 film), Dungeons & Dragons''
* David Gordon Green – ''George Washington (film), George Washington''
* Jon Gunn – ''Mercy Streets''
* Alejandro González Iñárritu†♦ – ''Amores perros''
* Davis Guggenheim†♦ – ''Gossip (2000 American film), Gossip''
* Bonnie Hunt – ''Return to Me''
* Jack Johnson (musician), Jack Johnson – ''Thicker than Water (2000 film), Thicker than Water''Co-directed with The Malloys, Chris Malloy and Emmett Malloy
* Abdellatif Kechiche – ''La Faute à Voltaire''
* Janusz Kamiński – ''Lost Souls (2000 film), Lost Souls''
* Chris Koch♦ – ''Snow Day (film), Snow Day''
* Karyn Kusama – ''Girlfight''
* Baltasar Kormákur† – ''101 Reykjavík''
* Kenneth Lonergan – ''You Can Count on Me''
* Peter Lord† and Nick Park† – ''Chicken Run''
* Joe Mantegna – ''Lakeboat''
* McG† – ''Charlie's Angels (2000 film), Charlie's Angels''
* David McNally (director), David McNally – ''Coyote Ugly (film), Coyote Ugly''
* Christopher McQuarrie – ''The Way of the Gun''
* Nigel Cole – ''Saving Grace (2000 film), Saving Grace''
* Marzieh Meshkini – ''The Day I Became a Woman''
* Edward Norton – ''Keeping the Faith''
* Todd Phillips† – ''Road Trip (film), Road Trip''
* Shane O'Sullivan (filmmaker), Shane O'Sullivan – ''Second Generation (2000 film), Second Generation''
* Gina Prince-Bythewood† – ''Love & Basketball''
* Peyton Reed†♦ – ''Bring It On (film), Bring It On''
* Tarsem Singh† – ''The Cell (film), The Cell''
* Robert Vince – ''MVP: Most Valuable Primate''
* Apichatpong Weerasethakul† – ''Mysterious Object at Noon''
* Alexander Witt'' – Resident Evil: Apocalypse''
* James Wong (producer), James Wong – ''Final Destination''
* Kate Woods♦ – ''Looking for Alibrandi (film), Looking for Alibrandi''
* Ben Younger – ''Boiler Room (film), Boiler Room''

2001

* Andrew Adamson† and Vicky Jenson†♦ – ''Shrek''
* Lisandro Alonso – ''La Libertad (film), La Libertad''
* Adrian Caetano† – ''Bolivia (film), Bolivia''
* Wang Chao (director), Wang Chao – ''The Orphan of Anyang''
* Michael Cuesta – ''L.I.E. (film), 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 (2001 film), Made''
* Todd Field† – ''In the Bedroom''
* Joel Gallen♦ – ''Not Another Teen Movie''
* Lawrence Guterman† – ''Cats & Dogs''
* Michel Gondry† – ''Human Nature (2001 film), Human Nature''
* Dennie Gordon†♦ – ''Joe Dirt''
* Tom Green† – ''Freddy Got Fingered''
* Luke Greenfield† – ''The Animal (2001 film), The Animal''
* Oliver Hirschbiegel♦ – ''Das Experiment''
* Jeeva (director), Jeeva – ''12B''
* Asif Kapadia† – ''The Warrior (2001 British film), The Warrior''
* Semih Kaplanoğlu♦ – ''Herkes Kendi Evinde''
* Richard Kelly (director), Richard Kelly† – ''Donnie Darko''
* Yorgos Lanthimos†♦ – ''My Best Friend (2001 film), My Best Friend''
* Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming♦  – ''The Anniversary Party''
* Gonzalo López-Gallego†♦ – ''Nómadas''
* Gary Hardwick – ''The Brothers (2001 film), The Brothers''
* Christine Lahti† – ''My First Mister''
* Nick Love – ''Goodbye Charlie Bright''
* Robert Luketic† – ''Legally Blonde''
* The Malloys† – ''Out Cold (2001 film), Out Cold''
* Francine McDougall† – ''Sugar & Spice''
* Vanessa Middleton – ''30 Years to Life (2001 film), 30 Years to Life''
* John Cameron Mitchell – ''Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film), Hedwig and the Angry Inch''
* John Moore (director), John Moore† – ''Behind Enemy Lines (2001 film), Behind Enemy Lines''
* Bill Paxton† – ''Frailty (2001 film), Frailty''
* Pitof – ''Vidocq (2001 film), Vidocq''
* Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll – ''25 Watts''
* J. B. Rogers – ''Say It Isn't So (film), Say It Isn't So''
* Daniel Sackheim♦ – ''The Glass House (2001 film), The Glass House''
* Adam Shankman† – ''The Wedding Planner''
* Paolo Sorrentino – ''One Man Up''
* Chris Stokes (director), Chris Stokes† – ''House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute''
* Michael Tollin♦† – ''Summer Catch''
* David Wain†♦ – ''Wet Hot American Summer''
* Daniel Waters (screenwriter), Daniel Waters – ''Happy Campers (film), Happy Campers''

2002

* Jonas Åkerlund†♦ – ''Spun''
* Walt Becker – ''Van Wilder''
* Jeffrey Blitz – ''Spellbound (2002 film), Spellbound''
* Kevin Bray (director), Kevin Bray† – ''All About the Benjamins''
* Andrew Bujalski – ''Funny Ha Ha''
* Neil Burger – ''Interview with the Assassin''
* Nicolas Cage – ''Sonny (film), Sonny''
* Mort Nathan – ''Boat Trip (film), Boat Trip''
* Juan Carlos Fresnadillo† – ''Intacto''
* Stephen Fry – ''Bright Young Things (film), Bright Young Things''
* Paul Goldman (director), Paul Goldman† – ''Australian Rules (film), Australian Rules''
* Peter Care† – ''The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys''
* D. J. Caruso†♦ – ''The Salton Sea (2002 film), The Salton Sea''
* Chuan Lu – ''The Missing Gun''
* George Clooney – ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (film), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind''
* Mark Brown (screenwriter), Mark Brown – ''Two Can Play That Game (film), Two Can Play That Game''
* James Cox (director), James Cox† – ''Highway (2002 film), Highway''
* Damon Dash – ''Paper Soldiers''Co-directed with David Daniel
* Julie Delpy† – ''Looking for Jimmy''
* Bob Dolman – ''The Banger Sisters''
* Abbas Fahdel† – ''Back to Babylon (film), Back to Babylon''
* Juan Carlos Fresnadillo† – ''Intacto''
* Stephen Fry – ''Bright Young Things''
* Paul Goldman (director), Paul Goldman† – ''Australian Rules (film), Australian Rules''
* David S. Goyer – ''Zig Zag (2002 film), Zig Zag''
* Christophe Honor醠– ''Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard''
* Callie Khouri – ''Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood''
* Janez Lapajne – ''Rustling Landscapes''
* Michael Lembeck♦ – ''The Santa Clause 2''
* Louis Leterrier – ''The Transporter''Co-directed with Corey Yuen
* Julien Magnat† – ''Bloody Mallory''
* Sophie Marceau – ''Speak to Me of Love''
* Neil Marshall – ''Dog Soldiers (film), Dog Soldiers''
* Rob Marshall♦ – ''Chicago (2002 film), Chicago''
* Craig McCracken†♦ – ''The Powerpuff Girls Movie''
* Lucky McKee† – ''May (film), May''
* David Mackenzie (director), David Mackenzie†♦ – ''The Last Great Wilderness''
* Cristian Mungiu† – ''Occident (film), Occident''
* Dewey Nicks – ''Slackers (film), Slackers''
* José Padilha – ''Bus 174''
* Marcus Raboy† – ''Friday After Next''
* Carlos Reygadas† – ''Japón (film), Japan''
* Eli Roth – ''Cabin Fever (2002 film), Cabin Fever''
* Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge – ''Ice Age (2002 film), Ice Age''
* Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois – ''Lilo & Stitch''
* Robert Schwentke† – ''Tattoo (2002 film), Tattoo''
* Charles Stone III† – ''Drumline (film), Drumline''
* John Stainton♦ – ''The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course''
* Yen Tan – ''Happy Birthday (2002 film), Happy Birthday''
* Colin Trevorrow† – ''Reality Show (film), Reality Show''
* Jesse Vaughan♦† – ''Juwanna Mann''
* Denzel Washington – ''Antwone Fisher (film), Antwone Fisher''
* Lydia Zimmermann† and Isaac Pierre Racine† – ''Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino''

2003

* Yasmin Ahmad – ''Rabun''
* LeVar Burton♦ – ''Blizzard (2003 film), Blizzard''
* Reggie Rock Bythewood♦ – ''Biker Boyz''
* Larry Charles – ''Masked and Anonymous''
* Sylvain Chomet† – ''The Triplets of Belleville''
* Richard Curtis – ''Love Actually''
* Gareth Evans (director), Gareth Evans – ''Samurai Monogatari''
* Asghar Farhadi†♦ – ''Dancing in the Dust (2003 film), Dancing in the Dust''
* Paul Feig†♦ – ''I Am David (film), I Am David''
* Todd Graff – ''Camp (2003 film), Camp''
* Catherine Hardwicke – ''Thirteen (2003 film), Thirteen''
* John Robert Hoffman – ''Good Boy!''
* Paul Hunter (director), Paul Hunter† – ''Bulletproof Monk''
* Andrew Jarecki – ''Capturing the Friedmans''
* Guy Jenkin♦ – ''The Sleeping Dictionary''
* Patty Jenkins† – ''Monster (2003 film), Monster''
* Clark Johnson♦ – ''S.W.A.T. (film), S.W.A.T.''
* Alex Kendrick – ''Flywheel (film), Flywheel''
* Jonathan Liebesman† – ''Darkness Falls (2003 film), Darkness Falls''
* Li Yang (director), Li Yang – ''Blind Shaft''
* Greg Marcks† – ''11:14''
* Tom McCarthy (director), Tom McCarthy – ''The Station Agent''
* Linda Mendoza♦ – ''Chasing Papi''
* Glen Morgan – ''Willard (2003 film), Willard''
* Marcus Nispel† – ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre''
* Vadim Perelman – ''House of Sand and Fog (film), House of Sand and Fog''
* Billy Ray (screenwriter), Billy Ray – ''Shattered Glass (film), Shattered Glass''
* Chris Rock – ''Head of State (2003 film), Head of State''
* The Spierig Brothers† – ''Undead (film), Undead''
* Wang Bing (director), Wang Bing – ''Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks''
* Bo Welch – ''The Cat in the Hat (film), The Cat in the Hat''
* Tommy Wiseau – ''The Room (2003 film), The Room''
* Len Wiseman – ''Underworld (2003 film), Underworld''
* Bille Woodruff† – ''Honey (2003 film), Honey''
* Rob Zombie† – ''House of 1000 Corpses''

2004

* Sean Baker (film director), Sean Baker†  and Shih-Ching Tsou – ''Take Out (2004 film), Take Out''
* Zach Braff† – ''Garden State (film), Garden State''
* Tricia Brock (director), Tricia Brock† – ''Killer Diller (2004 film), Killer Diller''
* Shane Carruth – ''Primer (film), Primer''
* Henry Chan♦ – ''Gas (2004 film), Gas''
* Heitor Dhalia – ''Nina (2004 film), 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? (film), Who's Your Daddy?''
* Jenna Fischer – ''LolliLove''
* Debra Granik† – ''Down to the Bone (film), Down to the Bone''
* Jonathan Hensleigh – ''The Punisher (2004 film), The Punisher''
* Jared and Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess† – ''Napoleon Dynamite''
* Stephen Hillenburg♦† and Mark Osborne (filmmaker), Mark Osborne – ''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie''
* Tom Hooper (director), Tom Hooper♦ – ''Red Dust (2004 film), Red Dust''
* Liu Jiayin – ''Oxhide''
* Joseph Kahn (director), Joseph Kahn† – ''Torque (film), Torque''
* Dolph Lundgren – ''The Defender (2004 film), 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 (film), Sleepover''
* Chazz Palminteri – ''Noel (film), Noel''
* Vincent Paronnaud – ''Raging Blues''
* Angela Robinson (director), Angela Robinson† – ''D.E.B.S. (2004 film), D.E.B.S.''
* Ricky Schroder, Rick Schroder – ''Black Cloud''
* Makoto Shinkai – ''The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place''
* Cate Shortland♦ – ''Somersault (film), Somersault''
* Zack Snyder† – ''Dawn of the Dead (2004 film), Dawn of the Dead''
* Morgan Spurlock – ''Super Size Me''
* Jessy Terrero† – ''Soul Plane''
* Matthew Vaughn – ''Layer Cake (film), Layer Cake''
* Conrad Vernon – ''Shrek 2''
* James Wan† – ''Saw (2004 film), Saw''
* Edgar Wright† – ''Shaun of the Dead''
* Masaaki Yuasa† – ''Mind Game (film), Mind Game''
* Yaron Zilberman – ''Watermarks (film), Watermarks''

2005

* Lexi Alexander† – ''Green Street (film), Green Street''
* Judd Apatow♦ – ''The 40-Year-Old Virgin''
* Josh Appignanesi†♦ – ''Song of Songs (2006 film), Song of Songs''
* Géla Babluani – ''13 Tzameti''
* Ramin Bahrani – ''Man Push Cart''
* Corbin Bernsen – ''Carpool Guy''
* Rémi Bezançon† – ''Ma vie en l'air''
* Steve Bendelack – ''The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse''
* Shane Black – ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang''
* Bruce Campbell – ''Man with the Screaming Brain''
* Jaume Collet-Serra – ''House of Wax (2005 film), House of Wax''
* Lee Daniels – ''Shadowboxer''
* Polly Draper – ''The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie''
* Cory Edwards – ''Hoodwinked''
* Bang Eun-jin – ''Princess Aurora (film), Princess Aurora''
*James Franco – ''The Ape (2005 film), The Ape''
* John Gatins – ''Dreamer (2005 film), Dreamer''
* Richard E. Grant – ''Wah-Wah (film), Wah-Wah''
* Crispin Glover – ''What Is It?''
* Jeffrey W. Byrd†♦ – ''King's Ransom (film), King's Ransom''
* Darren Grant† – ''Diary of a Mad Black Woman''
* Vimukthi Jayasundara† – ''Sulanga Enu Pinisa''
* Garth Jennings† – ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''
* Rian Johnson† – ''Brick (film), 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 (film), Fateless''
* Francis Lawrence† – ''Constantine (film), Constantine''
* Mark Levin (director), Mark Levin – ''Little Manhattan''
* Claudia Llosa – ''Madeinusa''
* Vibeke Muasya†♦ – ''The Take-Away Bride''
* Frank Miller – ''Sin City (film), Sin City''Co-directed with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
* Ellen Perry♦ – ''The Fall of Fujimori''
* Oday Rasheed† – ''Underexposure (2005 film), Underexposure''
* John de Rantau♦ – ''Mencari Madonna''
* Jason Reitman† – ''Thank You for Smoking''
* Liev Schreiber – ''Everything Is Illuminated (film), Everything is Illuminated''
* Lee Shallat Chemel♦ – ''Greener Mountains''
* Michael Showalter – ''The Baxter''
* Marcos Siega† – ''Pretty Persuasion''
* Susan Stroman – ''The Producers (2005 film), The Producers''
* Tim Sullivan (director), Tim Sullivan – ''2001 Maniacs''
* Jeff Wadlow† – ''Cry Wolf (2005 film), Cry Wolf''
* Joss Whedon♦ – ''Serenity (2005 film), Serenity''
* Andrew Wilson (actor), Andrew Wilson and Luke Wilson – ''The Wendell Baker Story''
* Joe Wright†♦ – ''Pride & Prejudice (2005 film), Pride & Prejudice''

2006

* J. J. Abrams♦ – ''Mission: Impossible III''
* Joey Lauren Adams – ''Come Early Morning''
* Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, Elizabeth Allen† – ''Aquamarine (film), Aquamarine''
* Andrea Arnold† – ''Red Road (film), Red Road''
* Bryan Barber† – ''Idlewild (film), Idlewild''
* Jessica Bendinger – ''Stick It''
* David Bowers (director), David Bowers and Sam Fell – ''Flushed Away''
* Matthew O'Callaghan† – ''Curious George (film), Curious George''
* Ericson Core – ''Invincible (2006 film), Invincible''
* Allen Coulter♦ – ''Hollywoodland''
* Michael Damian†♦ – ''Hot Tamale''
* Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris† – ''Little Miss Sunshine''
* Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Ryan Fleck† – ''Half Nelson (film), Half Nelson''
* Anne Fletcher – ''Step Up (film), Step Up''
* Dominique Monféry† – ''Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure''
* Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer – ''Date Movie''
* Liz Friedlander† – ''Take the Lead''
* Jeff Garlin♦ – ''I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With''
* Susannah Grant♦ – ''Catch and Release (2006 film), Catch and Release''
* James Gunn♦† – ''Slither (2006 film), Slither''
* Sanaa Hamri†♦ – ''Something New (film), 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 (film), Monster House''
* So Yong Kim – ''In Between Days''
* Karey Kirkpatrick – ''Over the Hedge (film), Over the Hedge''Co-directed with Tim Johnson (film director), Tim Johnson
* Pablo Larraín – ''Fuga (film), Fuga''
* Jonathan Levine† – ''All the Boys Love Mandy Lane''
* Gorō Miyazaki – ''Tales from Earthsea (film), Tales from Earthsea''
* Ryan Murphy (writer), Ryan Murphy – ''Running with Scissors (film), Running with Scissors''
* Morgan O'Neill – ''Solo (2006 film), Solo''
* Neveldine/Taylor – ''Crank (film), Crank''
* Mark Palansky† – ''Penelope (2006 film), Penelope''
* Tyler Perry† – ''Madea's Family Reunion''
* Sarah Polley† – ''Away from Her''
* James Ponsoldt† – ''Off the Black''
* Jason Reitman† – ''Thank You for Smoking (film), Thank You for Smoking''
* Stevan Riley♦ – ''Blue Blood (2006 film), Blue Blood''
* Chris Robinson (director), Chris Robinson† – ''ATL (film), ATL''
* Joachim Rønning† and Espen Sandberg† – ''Bandidas''
* 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 (film), Hard Candy''
* T. R. Silambarasan† – ''Vallavan''
* Tom Vaughan (director), Tom Vaughan†♦ – ''Starter for 10 (film), Starter for 10''
* Steve Williams (animator), Steve "Spaz" Williams – ''The Wild''

2007

* Ben Affleck† – ''Gone Baby Gone''
* Stephen J. Anderson† – ''Meet the Robinsons''
* Juan Antonio Bayona – ''The Orphanage (2007 film), El Orfanato''
* Kevin Connolly (actor), Kevin Connolly – ''Gardener of Eden''
* Anton Corbijn† – ''Control (2007 film), Control''
* Gábor Csupó – ''Bridge to Terabithia (2007 film), Bridge to Terabithia''
* Michael Dougherty† – ''Trick 'r Treat''
* Fred Durst† – ''The Education of Charlie Banks''
* Quentin Dupieux†♦ – ''Steak (film), Steak''
* Alison Eastwood – ''Rails & Ties''
* Charles H. Ferguson – ''No End in Sight''
* Scott Frank – ''The Lookout (2007 film), The Lookout''
* Stephane Gauger – ''Owl and the Sparrow''
* Sarah Gavron†♦ – ''Brick Lane (2007 film), Brick Lane''
* Tony Gilroy – ''Michael Clayton (film), Michael Clayton''
* Seth Gordon†♦ – ''The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters''
* Mark Helfrich (film editor), Mark Helfrich – ''Good Luck Chuck''
* Helen Hunt♦ – ''Then She Found Me''
* Angelina Jolie – ''A Place in Time''
* Michael Katleman♦ – ''Primeval (film), Primeval''
* Nadine Labaki – ''Caramel (film), Caramel''
* Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis – ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters''
* Mary Stuart Masterson♦ – ''The Cake Eaters''
* Chris Miller (animator), Chris Miller and Raman Hui – ''Shrek the Third''
* Patricia Riggen† – ''Under the Same Moon''
* Marjane Satrapi – ''Persepolis (film), Persepolis''Co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud
* Jeremy Saulnier† – ''Murder Party''
* Fred Savage♦ – ''Daddy Day Camp''
* Akiva Schaffer†♦ – ''Hot Rod (2007 film), Hot Rod''
* Rob Schneider – ''Big Stan''
* David Schwimmer♦ – ''Run Fatboy Run''
* Cai Shangjun – ''The Red Awn''
* David Silverman (animator), David Silverman†♦ — ''The Simpsons Movie''
* Simon J. Smith – ''Bee Movie''
* Brothers Strause, Colin Strause and Greg Strause† – ''Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem''
* Justin Theroux – ''Dedication (film), Dedication''
* Jim Threapleton – ''Extraordinary Rendition (film), Extraordinary Rendition''
* Stuart Townsend – ''Battle in Seattle''
* David Wall (actor), David Wall – ''Noëlle (film), Noëlle''
* Taika Waititi† – ''Eagle vs Shark''
* Adam Wingard† – ''Home Sick''

2008

* Marc Abraham – ''Flash of Genius (film), Flash of Genius''
* Guillermo Arriaga† – ''The Burning Plain''
* Daniel Barnz† – ''Phoebe in Wonderland''
* Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden† – ''Sugar (2008 film), Sugar''Co-directed with Ryan Fleck
* Eric Brevig – ''Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 Hollywood film), Journey to the Center of the Earth''
* Fred Cavay醠– ''Anything for Her''
* Jon M. Chu† – ''Step Up 2: The Streets''
* Noel Clarke – ''Adulthood (film), Adulthood''
* Kirk DeMicco – ''Space Chimps''
* Elissa Down† – ''The Black Balloon (film), The Black Balloon''
* Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino – ''Horton Hears a Who! (film), Horton Hears a Who!''
* Diane English – ''The Women (2008 film), The Women''
* Sacha Gervasi – ''Anvil! The Story of Anvil''
* David Hackl – ''Saw V''
* Na Hong-jin – ''The Chaser (2008 film), The Chaser''
* Joanna Hogg♦ – ''Unrelated''
* Byron Howard and Chris Williams (director), Chris Williams† – ''Bolt (2008 film), Bolt''
* Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg – ''Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay''
* Barry Jenkins† – ''Medicine for Melancholy''
* Charlie Kaufman – ''Synecdoche, New York''
* Michael Patrick King♦ – ''Sex and the City (film), Sex and the City''
* Madonna – ''Filth and Wisdom''
* Michael McCullers† – ''Baby Mama (film), Baby Mama''
* Martin McDonagh† – ''In Bruges''
* Steve McQueen (director), Steve McQueen† – ''Hunger (2008 film), Hunger''
* David Oliveras – ''Watercolors (film), Watercolors''
* Nina Paley – ''Sita Sings the Blues''
* Marianna Palka – ''Good Dick''
* Lori Petty† – ''The Poker House''
* Johan Renck† – ''Downloading Nancy''
* Alex Rivera† – ''Sleep Dealer''
* Safdie brothers, Josh Safdie† – ''The Pleasure of Being Robbed''
* Steven Sebring – ''Patti Smith: Dream of Life''
* John Stevenson (director), John Stevenson – ''Kung Fu Panda''
* Tate Taylor† – ''Pretty Ugly People''
* James Watkins (director), James Watkins – ''Eden Lake''
* Sean Weathers – ''House of the Damned (1996 film), House of the Damned''
* George C. Wolfe♦ – ''Nights in Rodanthe''
* Rupert Wyatt† – ''The Escapist (2008 film), The Escapist''

2009

* Shane Acker† – ''9 (2009 animated film), 9''
* Drew Barrymore♦ – ''Whip It (film), Whip It''
* Peter Billingsley† – ''Couples Retreat''
* Neill Blomkamp† – ''District 9''
* Benny Boom† – ''Next Day Air''
* Damien Chazelle – ''Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench''
* Scott Cooper (director), Scott Cooper – ''Crazy Heart''
* Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore (comedian), Trevor Moore – ''Miss March''
* Matthew Crouch – ''The Cross (2009 film), The Cross''
* Juan Delancer – ''Trópico de Sangre''
* James DeMonaco – ''Staten Island''
* Xavier Dolan – ''I Killed My Mother''
* Adam Elliot† – ''Mary and Max''
* Shana Feste† – ''The Greatest (2009 film), The Greatest''
* Glenn Ficarra and John Requa – ''I Love You Phillip Morris''
* David Field (actor), David Field – ''The Combination (film), The Combination''
* Ruben Fleischer†♦ – ''Zombieland''
* Tom Ford – ''A Single Man''
* Thor Freudenthal† – ''Hotel for Dogs (film), Hotel for Dogs''
* Cary Joji Fukunaga† – ''Sin Nombre (2009 film), Sin Nombre''
* Ricky Gervais♦ – ''The Invention of Lying''Co-directed with Matthew Robinson (director), Matthew Robinson
* Will Gluck – ''Fired Up!''
* Kevin Greutert – ''Saw VI''
* Manish Gupta (director), Manish Gupta – ''The Stoneman Murders''
* Andrew Haigh♦ – ''Greek Pete''
* Melora Hardin – ''You (2009 film), You''
* Cheryl Hines – ''Serious Moonlight (2009 film), Serious Moonlight''
* Nathan Hope† – ''Elsewhere (2009 film), Elsewhere''
* Armando Iannucci♦ – ''In the Loop (film), In the Loop''
* Michael Imperioli† – ''The Hungry Ghosts''
* Craig Johnson (director), Craig Johnson – ''True Adolescents''
* Duncan Jones† – ''Moon (2009 film), Moon''
* Adam Kane†♦ – ''Formosa Betrayed (film), Formosa Betrayed''
* James Kerwin† – ''Yesterday Was a Lie''
* Paul King (director), Paul King♦ – ''Bunny and the Bull''
* Takeshi Koike♦ – ''Redline (2009 film), Redline''
* Kishore Kumar – ''Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam''
* Phil Lord and Chris Miller♦ – ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs''
* David Lowery (director), David Lowery† – ''St. Nick (film), St. Nick''
* Samuel Maoz – ''Lebanon (2009 film), Lebanon''
* Jodie Markell – ''The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond''
* Oren Moverman – ''The Messenger (2009 film), The Messenger''
* Shirin Neshat† – ''Women Without Men (2009 film), Women Without Men''
* Bob Peterson (filmmaker), Bob Peterson – ''Up (2009 film), Up''
* James Ricardo – ''Opie Gets Laid''
* Aaron Schneider – ''Get Low (film), Get Low''
* Steve Shill♦ – ''Obsessed (2009 film), Obsessed''
* Peter Strickland (director), Peter Strickland – ''Katalin Varga (film), Katalin Varga''
* Suseenthiran – ''Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu''
* Sooni Taraporevala – ''Little Zizou''
* Sam Taylor-Johnson, Sam Taylor-Wood† – ''Nowhere Boy''
* Mike Thurmeier† – ''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs''
* Mark Tonderai – ''Hush (2009 film), Hush''
* Phil Traill†♦ – ''All About Steve''
* Nia Vardalos – ''I Hate Valentine's Day''
* Malcolm Venville†♦ – ''44 Inch Chest''
* Damien Dante Wayans♦ – ''Dance Flick''
* Marc Webb† – ''500 Days of Summer''
* Jiang Wenli – ''Lan (film), Lan''
* Suzi Yoonessi – ''Dear Lemon Lima''
* Hoyt Yeatman – ''G-Force (film), G-Force''

2010s

2010

* Casey Affleck† – ''I'm Still Here (2010 film), I'm Still Here''
* Mo Ali – ''Shank (2010 film), Shank''
* Tim Allen♦ – ''Crazy on the Outside''
* Richard Ayoade† – ''Submarine (2010 film), Submarine''
* Banksy – ''Exit Through the Gift Shop''
* Samuel Bayer† – ''A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film), A Nightmare on Elm Street''
* Jim Cummings (filmmaker), Jim Cummings†  – ''No Floodwall Here''
* Pierre Coffin♦† and Chris Renaud (animator), Chris Renaud†  – ''Despicable Me (film), Despicable Me''
* Brendon Culliton – ''If I Should Fall''
* Vincent D'Onofrio† – ''Don't Go in the Woods (2010 film), Don't Go in the Woods''
* Gareth Edwards (director), Gareth Edwards♦† – ''Monsters (2010 film), Monsters''
* Nathan Greno – ''Tangled''
* Tom Harper (director), Tom Harper♦† – ''The Scouting Book for Boys''
* Tanya Hamilton† – ''Night Catches Us''
* Philip Seymour Hoffman – ''Jack Goes Boating (film), Jack Goes Boating''
* Rowan Joffé♦ – ''Brighton Rock (2010 film), Brighton Rock''
* Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman† – ''Catfish (film), Catfish''
* Larysa Kondracki – ''The Whistleblower''
* Joseph Kosinski – ''Tron: Legacy''
* Jason Croot – ''Le Fear''
* William Monahan – ''London Boulevard''
* David Michôd† – ''Animal Kingdom (film), Animal Kingdom''
* Ben Miller – ''Huge (film), Huge''
* Chris Morris (satirist), Chris Morris – ''Four Lions''
* Daisuke Namikawa – ''Wonderful World (2010 film), Wonderful World''
* Troy Nixey† – ''Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011 film), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark''
* Leland Orser – ''Morning (film), Morning''
* Brad Peyton† – ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore''
* Josh Radnor – ''happythankyoumoreplease''
* Julie Anne Robinson♦ – ''The Last Song (2010 film), The Last Song''
* Jim Field Smith† – ''She's Out of My League''
* Joann Sfar – ''Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life''
* Floria Sigismondi† – ''The Runaways (2010 film), The Runaways''
* Scott Stewart (director), Scott Stewart† – ''Legion (2010 film), Legion''
* Massy Tadjedin – ''Last Night (2010 film), Last Night''
* Leehom Wang – ''Love in Disguise''
* Hiromasa Yonebayashi – ''Arrietty, The Secret World of Arrietty''
* Tom Six – ''The Human Centipede (First Sequence)''
* Erik White† – ''Lottery Ticket (2010 film), Lottery Ticket''
* Max Winkler (director), Max Winkler† – ''Ceremony (film), Ceremony''

2011

* Salim Akil♦ – ''Jumping the Broom''
* Katie Aselton – ''The Freebie (film), The Freebie''
* James Bobin♦† – ''The Muppets (film), The Muppets''
* Mike Cahill (director), Mike Cahill – ''Another Earth''
* Cedric the Entertainer – ''Dance Fu''
* J. C. Chandor – ''Margin Call (film), Margin Call''
* Paddy Considine† – ''Tyrannosaur (film), Tyrannosaur''
* Joe Cornish (filmmaker), Joe Cornish♦† – ''Attack the Block''
* Alexandre Courtes – ''The Incident (2011 film), The Incident''
* Simon Curtis (filmmaker), Simon Curtis♦ – ''My Week with Marilyn''
* Sean Durkin† – ''Martha Marcy May Marlene''
* Vera Farmiga – ''Higher Ground (film), Higher Ground''
* Mike Flanagan (director), Mike Flanagan – ''Absentia (film), Absentia''
* Dexter Fletcher – ''Wild Bill (2011 film), Wild Bill''
* Evan Glodell – ''Bellflower (film), Bellflower''
* Famke Janssen – ''Bringing Up Bobby (2011 film), Bringing Up Bobby''
* Giddens Ko – ''You Are the Apple of My Eye''
* Justin Kurzel – ''The Snowtown Murders''
* Julia Leigh – ''Sleeping Beauty (2011 film), Sleeping Beauty''
* Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas (director), Calvin Thomas – ''Amy George''
* Niall MacCormick♦ – ''Albatross (2011 film), Albatross''
* Victoria Mahoney† – ''Yelling to the Sky''
* Artie Mandelberg♦ – ''Inside Out (2011 film), Inside Out''
* John Michael McDonagh – ''The Guard (2011 film), The Guard''
* Dermot Mulroney – ''Love, Wedding, Marriage''
* Nick Murphy (director), Nick Murphy♦ – ''The Awakening (2011 film), 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 (2011 film), Pariah''
* Keith Scholey – ''African Cats''Co-directed with Alastair Fothergill
* Sarah Smith (producer), Sarah Smith - ''Arthur Christmas''Co-directed with Barry Cook
* Taylor Sheridan† –''Vile (film), Vile''
* Jason Winer♦† – ''Arthur (2011 film), Arthur''
* Jennifer Yuh Nelson – ''Kung Fu Panda 2''

2012

* Rodney Ascher♦† – ''Room 237''
* Paolo Benetazzo† – ''Study (film), Study''
* Ciaran Foy – ''Citadel (film), Citadel''
* Drew Goddard – ''The Cabin in the Woods''
* Anthony Hemingway♦ – ''Red Tails''
* Don Hertzfeldt – ''It's Such a Beautiful Day (film), It's Such a Beautiful Day''
* Dustin Hoffman – ''Quartet (2012 film), Quartet''
* Peggy Holmes – ''Secret of the Wings''
* Nicholas Jarecki – ''Arbitrage (film), Arbitrage''
* Brian Klugman – ''The Words (film), The Words''
* Robert Lorenz – ''Trouble with the Curve''
* Seth MacFarlane♦† – ''Ted (film), Ted''
* Daigo Matsui – ''Afro Tanaka''
* Jason Moore (director), Jason Moore♦ – ''Pitch Perfect''
* Usher Morgan† – ''The Thought Exchange (film), The Thought Exchange''
* Jared Moshe – ''Dead Man's Burden''
* Alonso Mayo† – ''The Story of Luke''
* Rich Moore♦ – ''Wreck-It Ralph''
* Mamoru Nagano – ''Gothicmade''
* Nima Nourizadeh† – ''Project X (2012 film), Project X''
* Gabe Polsky – ''The Motel Life''
* Kazik Radwanski – ''Tower (2012 Canadian film), Tower''
* Peter Ramsey – ''Rise of the Guardians''
* Benjamin Renner – ''Ernest & Celestine''
* RZA† – ''The Man with the Iron Fists''
* Rupert Sanders† – ''Snow White and the Huntsman''
* Lorene Scafaria – ''Seeking a Friend for the End of the World''
* Josh Schwartz – ''Fun Size''
* Scott Speer† – ''Step Up Revolution''
* Genndy Tartakovsky♦ – ''Hotel Transylvania (film), Hotel Transylvania''
* Josh Trank♦ – ''Chronicle (film), Chronicle''
* Michael Whitton – ''Exit Strategy (film), Exit Strategy''
* Xu Zheng (actor), Xu Zheng – ''Lost in Thailand''
* Benh Zeitlin† – ''Beasts of the Southern Wild''

2013

* Fede Álvarez† – ''Evil Dead (2013 film), Evil Dead''
* Lake Bell† – ''In a World...''
* 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 (film), Sound City''
* Ryan Coogler† – ''Fruitvale Station''
* Ha Jung-woo – ''Fasten Your Seatbelt (film), Fasten Your Seatbelt''
* Jared and Jerusha Hess, Jerusha Hess – ''Austenland (film), Austenland''
* Eliza Hittman† – ''It Felt Like Love''
* Bilal Lashari – ''Waar''
* Michelle Latimer† – Alias (2013 film), ''Alias''
* Jennifer Lee (filmmaker), Jennifer Lee – ''Frozen (2013 film), Frozen''
* Sergio Monsalve – ''Jacinto Convit (film), Jacinto Convit''
* Andy Muschietti† – ''Mama (2013 film), Mama''
* Keanu Reeves – ''Man of Tai Chi''
* Dan Scanlon – ''Monsters University''
* Jill Soloway – ''Afternoon Delight (film), Afternoon Delight''
* David Soren (animator), David Soren♦† – ''Turbo (film), Turbo''
* Michael Tiddes† – ''A Haunted House''
* Jocelyn Towne – ''I Am I (film), I Am I''
* Zhao Wei† – ''So Young (film), So Young''

2014

* Ana Lily Amirpour – ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night''
* Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah†♦ – ''Image (2014 film), Image''
* Wes Ball† – ''The Maze Runner (film), The Maze Runner''
* Jason Bateman♦ – ''Bad Words (film), Bad Words''
* Paul Bettany – ''Shelter (2014 film), Shelter''
* James Ward Byrkit – ''Coherence (film), Coherence''
* Chen Sicheng – ''Beijing Love Story (film), Beijing Love Story''
* Nick Cheung – ''Ghost Rituals''
* Shawn Christensen – ''Before I Disappear''
* David Cross♦ – ''Hits (film), Hits''
* Chris Evans (actor), Chris Evans – ''Before We Go''
* Susanna Fogel♦ – ''Life Partners (film), Life Partners''
* Hitori Gekidan – ''A Bolt from the Blue (film), A Bolt from the Blue''
* Dan Gilroy – ''Nightcrawler (film), Nightcrawler''
* Akiva Goldsman♦ – ''Winter's Tale (film), Winter's Tale''
* Ryan Gosling  – ''Lost River (film), Lost River''
* Russell Crowe  – ''The Water Diviner''
* Dave Green (director), Dave Green†♦ – ''Earth to Echo''
* Jorge Gutierrez (animator), Jorge R. Gutierrez† – ''The Book of Life (2014 film), The Book of Life''
* Andy Hamilton♦ – ''What We Did on Our Holiday''Co-directed with Guy Jenkin
* Han Han – ''Duckweed (film), Duckweed''
* Simon Helberg – ''We'll Never Have Paris''Co-directed with Jocelyn Towne
* July Jung – ''A Girl at My Door''
* Chad Stahelski – ''John Wick (film), John Wick''
* Riley Stearns† – ''Faults (film), Faults''
* Jennifer Kent† – ''The Babadook''
* Peter Lepeniotis - ''The Nut Job''
* William H. Macy♦ – ''Rudderless''
* Adam MacDonald –''Backcountry''
* Charlie McDowell – ''The One I Love (film), The One I Love''
* Chris Messina – ''Alex of Venice''
* Wally Pfister – ''Transcendence (2014 film), Transcendence''
* Nabeel Qureshi (director), Nabeel Qureshi♦ – ''Na Maloom Afraad''
* Mark Raso† – ''Copenhagen (2014 film), Copenhagen''
* Tristram Shapeero♦† – ''Merry Friggin' Christmas''
* Gary Shore† – ''Dracula Untold''
* Justin Simien† – ''Dear White People''
* Jon Stewart – ''Rosewater (film), Rosewater''
* Robert Stromberg – ''Maleficent (film), Maleficent''
* Rob Thomas (writer), Rob Thomas♦ – ''Veronica Mars (film), Veronica Mars''
* Kazuo Umezu – ''Mother (2014 film), Mother''
* Jon Watts† – ''Clown (film), Clown''
* Gren Wells – ''The Road Within''
* Michael Williams (film director), Michael Williams – ''Ozland''

2015

* Natalie Portman† – ''A Tale of Love and Darkness (film), A Tale of Love and Darkness''
* Aleksander Bach – ''Hitman: Agent 47''
* Elizabeth Banks† – ''Pitch Perfect 2''
* Jawad Bashir – ''Maya (2015 Pakistani film), Maya''
* Natalie Bible' – ''Windsor Drive (film), Windsor Drive''
* Stephen Campanelli – ''Momentum (2015 film), Momentum''
* Don Cheadle♦ – ''Miles Ahead (film), Miles Ahead''
* Marya Cohn† – ''The Girl in the Book''
* Director X†♦ – ''Across the Line (2015 film), Across the Line''
* Stephen Dunn (director), Stephen Dunn† – ''Closet Monster (film), Closet Monster''
* Momina Duraid♦ – ''Bin Roye''
* Joel Edgerton† – ''The Gift (2015 American film), The Gift''
* Robert Eggers♦† – ''The Witch (2015 film), The Witch''
* Ray Gallardo† – ''Callejero''
* Alex Garland – ''Ex Machina (film), Ex Machina''
* Jonathan Goldstein (filmmaker), Jonathan Goldstein† and John Francis Daley† – ''Vacation (2015 film), Vacation''
* Anna Rose Holmer† – ''The Fits (film), The Fits''
* Marielle Heller – ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl''
* Dean Israelite†♦ – ''Project Almanac''
* Vahid Jalilvand – ''Wednesday, May 9''
* Yasir Jaswal – ''Jalaibee''
* Kahlil Joseph† – ''The Reflektor Tapes''
* Ariel Kleiman† – ''Partisan (film), Partisan''
* Luo Luo – ''The Last Women Standing''
* John Maclean (musician), John Maclean† – ''Slow West''
* Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul – ''The D Train''
* Reed Morano – ''Meadowland (film), Meadowland''
* Ilya Naishuller† – ''Hardcore Henry''
* László Nemes – ''Son of Saul''
* J. G. Quintel♦† – ''Regular Show: The Movie''
* R. Ravikumar – ''Indru Netru Naalai''
* Gary Rydstrom† – ''Strange Magic (film), Strange Magic''
* Amit Sharma – ''Tevar''
* Trey Edward Shults† – ''Krisha''
* Peter Sohn – ''The Good Dinosaur''
* Austin Stark† – ''The Runner (2015 film), The Runner''
* Alec Su – ''The Left Ear''
* Paul Tibbitt♦ – ''The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water''
* James Vanderbilt – ''Truth (2015 film), Truth''
* Ally Walker† – ''Sex, Death and Bowling''
* S. Craig Zahler – ''Bone Tomahawk''
* Chloé Zhao† – ''Songs My Brothers Taught Me''

2016

* Wang Baoqiang – ''Buddies in India''
* Alessandro Carloni – ''Kung Fu Panda 3''
* Robert Carlyle♦ – ''The Legend of Barney Thomson''
* Eleanor Coppola† – ''Paris Can Wait''
* Kelly Fremon Craig† – ''The Edge of Seventeen''
* Garth Davis† – ''Lion (2016 film), Lion''
* Drew Fortier† – ''Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie''
* Katie Holmes – ''All We Had''
* Michelle Johnston – ''A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits''
* Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly – ''The Angry Birds Movie''
* Travis Knight (animator), Travis Knight – ''Kubo and the Two Strings''
* Gee Malik Linton†Credited as Declan Dale – ''Exposed (2016 film), Exposed''
* Avid Liongoren† – ''Saving Sally''
* Alice Lowe† – ''Prevenge''
* Ashley McKenzie (director), Ashley McKenzie† – ''Werewolf (2016 film), Werewolf''
* Tim Miller (director), Tim Miller – ''Deadpool (film), Deadpool''
* Bob Nelson (screenwriter), Bob Nelson – ''The Confirmation''
* Cedric Nicolas-Troyan† – ''The Huntsman: Winter's War''
* Tony Olmos† – ''South of 8''
* Asim Raza♦ – ''Ho Mann Jahaan''
* Matthew Ross (filmmaker), Matthew Ross† – ''Frank & Lola''
* David F. Sandberg♦† – ''Lights Out (2016 film), Lights Out''
* Luke Scott (director), Luke Scott♦† – ''Morgan (2016 film), Morgan''
* Jamal Shah – ''Revenge of the Worthless''
* Veena Sud♦† – ''The Salton Sea (2016 film), The Salton Sea''
* Doug Sweetland† – ''Storks (film), Storks''Co-directed with Nicholas Stoller
* Amber Tamblyn – ''Paint It Black (2016 film), Paint It Black''
* Richard Tanne – ''Southside with You''
* Greg Tiernan♦† – ''Sausage Party''Co-directed with Conrad Vernon
* Dan Trachtenberg♦† – ''10 Cloverfield Lane''

2017

* Ana Asensio – ''Most Beautiful Island''
* Jay Baruchel – ''Goon: Last of the Enforcers''
* Charlie Bean (animator), Charlie Bean and Paul Fisher & Bob Logan – ''The Lego Ninjago Movie''
* Antoine Bourges† – ''Fail to Appear''
* Dean Devlin♦ – ''Geostorm''
* Denise Di Novi♦ – ''Unforgettable (2017 film), Unforgettable''
* Brian Fee – ''Cars 3''
* Cory Finley – ''Thoroughbreds (2017 film), Thoroughbreds''
* Anna Foerster – ''Underworld: Blood Wars''
* Greta Gerwig† – ''Lady Bird (film), Lady Bird''
* Michael Gracey – ''The Greatest Showman''
* Jason Hall (screenwriter), Jason Hall – ''Thank You for Your Service (2017 film), Thank You for Your Service''
* Kathleen Hepburn – ''Never Steady, Never Still''
* 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 (2017 film), Home Again''
* Adrian Molina – ''Coco (2017 film), Coco'' Co-directed with Lee Unkrich
* Usama Mukwaya – ''Love Faces (film), Love Faces''
* Anthony Onah – ''The Price (2017 film), The Price''
* Jordan Peele – ''Get Out''
* Timothy Reckart – ''The Star (2017 film), The Star''
* Terry Ross† – ''Carving a Life''
* Andy Serkis – ''Breathe (2017 film), Breathe''
* Quinn Shephard† – ''Blame (2017 film), Blame''
* Aaron Sorkin – ''Molly's Game''
* Eric Stoltz♦† – ''Class Rank (film), Class Rank''
* Jessica M. Thompson – ''The Light of the Moon''
* Lea Thompson♦ – ''The Year of Spectacular Men''

2018

* Ari Aster† – ''Hereditary (film), Hereditary''
* Johan Bodell† – ''The Cabin''
* Bo Burnham† – ''Eighth Grade (film), Eighth Grade''
* Aneesh Chaganty† – ''Searching (film), Searching''
* Kay Cannon – ''Blockers (film), Blockers''
* Bradley Cooper – ''A Star Is Born (2018 film), A Star Is Born''
* Paul Dano – ''Wildlife (film), Wildlife''
* Steven S. DeKnight♦ – ''Pacific Rim Uprising''
* Carlos López Estrada – ''Blindspotting''
* Daniel Florenzano† – ''The Evil Rises''
* Nicolai Fuglsig – ''12 Strong''
* Karen Gillan† – ''The Party's Just Beginning''
* Heather Graham – ''Half Magic (film), Half Magic''
* Christian Gudegast – ''Den of Thieves (film), Den of Thieves''
* Jonah Hill† – ''Mid90s''
* Aaron Horvath – ''Teen Titans Go! to the Movies''
* Arunraja Kamaraj – ''Kanaa (film), Kanaa''
* Anthony Mandler† – ''Monster (2018 film), Monster''
* Scott Mosier – ''The Grinch (film), The Grinch''
* Mari Okada† – ''Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms''
* Alex Pettyfer† – ''Back Roads (2018 film), Back Roads''
* Boots Riley† – ''Sorry to Bother You (film), Sorry to Bother You''
* Christian Rivers – ''Mortal Engines (film), Mortal Engines''
* Jared Stern†♦ – ''Happy Anniversary (2018 film), Happy Anniversary''
* Jayson Thiessen♦ - ''My Little Pony: The Movie (2017 film), My Little Pony; The Movie''
* Jeff Tomsic†♦ – ''Tag (2018 film), Tag''
* Jonathan Watson (director), Jonathan Watson – '' Arizona (2018 film), Arizona''

2019

* Annabelle Attanasio – ''Mickey and the Bear''
* Andrea Berloff – ''The Kitchen (2019 film), The Kitchen''
* Robin Bissell – ''The Best of Enemies (2019 film), The Best of Enemies''
* Nick Bruno (film director), Nick Bruno and Troy Quane – ''Spies in Disguise''
* Matthew Michael Carnahan - Mosul (2019 action film), Mosul
* Michael Chaves♦† – ''The Curse of La Llorona''
* Monia Chokri – ''A Brother's Love''
* Josh Cooley† – ''Toy Story 4''
* Michael Angelo Covino† – ''The Climb (2019 film), The Climb''
* Gary Dauberman – ''Annabelle Comes Home''
* Roxann Dawson♦ – ''Breakthrough (2019 film), Breakthrough''
* Mati Diop – ''Atlantics''
* Lino DiSalvo – ''Playmobil: The Movie''
* Nora Fingscheidt – ''System Crasher''
* Micah Gallo† – ''Itsy Bitsy''
* Mike Gan†♦ – ''Burn (2019 film), Burn''
* Ravin Gandhi – ''100 Days to Live''
* Rachel Griffiths†♦ – ''Ride Like a Girl''
* Bryce Dallas Howard†♦ – ''Dads (film), Dads''
* Simon Kinberg – ''Dark Phoenix (film), Dark Phoenix''
* Sarah Lancaster – ''Josie & Jack''
* Van Ling – ''Cliffs of Freedom''
* Ladj Ly† – ''Les Misérables (2019 film), Les Misérables''
* Gail Mancuso♦ – ''A Dog's Journey (film), A Dog's Journey''
* Melina Matsoukas†♦ – ''Queen & Slim''
* William McGregor (director), William McGregor♦† – ''Gwen (film), Gwen''
* Carlo Mirabella Davis – ''Swallow (2019 film), Swallow''
* Adam Egypt Mortimer♦† – ''Daniel Isn't Real''
* Wagner Moura – ''Marighella (2019 film), Marighella''
* Shannon Murphy – ''Babyteeth (film), Babyteeth''
* Tyler Nilson† and Michael Schwartz (director), Michael Schwartz† – ''The Peanut Butter Falcon''
* Katharine O'Brien† – ''Lost Transmissions''
* Sergio Pablos  – ''Klaus (film), Klaus''
* Andrew Patterson (film director), Andrew Patterson† – ''The Vast of Night''
* Joe Penna♦† – ''Arctic (film), Arctic''
* Annie Silverstein – ''Bull (2019 film), Bull''
* Grant Sputore† – ''I Am Mother''
* Gene Stupnitsky† – ''Good Boys (film), Good Boys''
* Joe Talbot† - ''The Last Black Man in San Francisco''
* Emma Tammi – ''The Wind (2018 film), The Wind''
* Michael Tyburski† – ''The Sound of Silence (2019 film), The Sound of Silence''
* Viktor van der Valk – ''Nocturne (2019 film), Nocturne''
* Olivia Wilde† – ''Booksmart (film), Booksmart''
* Phillip Youmans – ''Burning Cane''

2020s

2020

* Max Barbakow – ''Palm Springs (2020 film), Palm Springs''
* Halle Berry – ''Bruised (film), Bruised''
* Harry Bradbeer♦ – ''Enola Holmes (film), Enola Holmes''
* Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz† – ''Antebellum (film), Antebellum''
* Brian Patrick Butler† – ''Friend of the World''
* Eric D. Cabello Diaz – ''El Camino de Xico''
* Dean Craig† – ''Love Wedding Repeat''
* Joel Crawford (film director), 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 (director), Will Forbes – ''John Henry (2020 film), John Henry''
* Jeff Fowler† – ''Sonic the Hedgehog (film), Sonic the Hedgehog''
* Edward Hall (director), Edward Hall♦† – ''Blithe Spirit (2020 film), Blithe Spirit''
* Sam Hargrave† – ''Extraction (2020 film), Extraction''
* Chris Henchy† – ''Impractical Jokers: The Movie''
* David Henrie† – ''This Is the Year''
* Natalie Erika James† – ''Relic (2020 film), Relic''
* Anthony Jerjen† – ''Inherit the Viper''
* Aneil Karia♦† – ''Surge (2020 British film), Surge''
* Glen Keane and John Kahrs – ''Over the Moon (2020 film), Over the Moon''
* Regina King♦† – ''One Night in Miami...''
* Natalie Krinsky – ''The Broken Hearts Gallery''
* Patrice Laliberté♦† – ''The Decline (film), The Decline''
* Andrew Lawrence (actor), Andrew Lawrence – ''The Office Mix-Up''
* Anthony Leone (filmmaker), Anthony Leone† – ''Hacksaw (film), Hacksaw''
* Rob Lodermeier – ''The Willoughbys''
* Viggo Mortensen – ''Falling (2020 film), Falling''
* Jekaterina Oertel – ''DAU. Natasha''
* Prentice Penny♦† – ''Uncorked (2020 film), Uncorcked''
* David Prior (director), David Prior† – ''The Empty Man (film), The Empty Man''
* Emma Seligman† – ''Shiva Baby''
* Remi Weekes♦ – ''His House''
* Autumn de Wilde† – ''Emma (2020 film), Emma''
* David S. F. Wilson† – ''Bloodshot (film), Bloodshot''
* Florian Zeller♦ – ''The Father (2020 film), The Father''

2021

* Justine Bateman† – ''Violet (2021 film), Violet''
* Ryan Bliss† – ''Alice Fades Away''
* Mika Boorem† – ''Hollywood.Con''
* Jonathan Butterell – ''Everybody's Talking About Jamie (film), Everybody's Talking About Jamie''
* Enrico Casarosa – ''Luca (2021 film), Luca''
* Ryan Crego♦ – ''Arlo the Alligator Boy''
* Bakhtyar Fatah♦ – ''09 (film), 09''
* Dean Fleischer-Camp† – ''Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021 film), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On''
* Hamish Grieve† – ''Rumble (2021 film), Rumble''
* Maggie Gyllenhaal♦ – ''The Lost Daughter (film), The Lost Daughter''
* Rebecca Hall – ''Passing (film), Passing''
* Lisa Joy♦ – ''Reminiscence (2021 film), Reminiscence''
* Fran Kranz  – ''Mass (2021 film), Mass''
* Simon McQuoid – ''Mortal Kombat (2021 film), Mortal Kombat''
* Brian Andrew Mendoza† – ''Sweet Girl (film), Sweet Girl''
* Marcos Mereles† – ''All Is Vanity (film), All Is Vanity''
* Lin-Manuel Miranda – ''Tick, Tick... Boom! (film), tick, tick... BOOM!''
* Dasha Nekrasova – ''The Scary of Sixty-First''
* Edson Oda – ''Nine Days (film), Nine Days''
* Megan Park† – ''The Fallout (film), The Fallout''
* Questlove† – ''Summer of Soul''
* Diana Ringo – ''Quarantine (2021 film), Quarantine''
* Alessandra de Rossi – ''My Amanda''
* Rodo Sayagues – ''Don't Breathe 2''
* Evan Spiliotopoulos – ''The Unholy (2021 film), The Unholy''
* Liesl Tommy♦ – ''Respect (2020 film), Respect''
* Mattson Tomlin – ''Mother/Android''
* Jude Weng – ''Finding 'Ohana''
* Robin Wright†♦ – ''Land (2021 film), Land''
* Carlson Young† – ''The Blazing World (film), The Blazing World''

2022

* Mayim Bialik† – ''As They Made Us''
* Loren Bouchard♦ and Bernard Derriman†♦ – ''The Bob's Burgers Movie''
* Reid Carolin and Channing Tatum – ''Dog (2022 film), Dog''
* Janeen Damian – ''Falling for Christmas''
* John C. Donkin – ''The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild''
* Jesse Eisenberg† – ''When You Finish Saving the World (film), When You Finish Saving the World''
* Tim Federle♦ – ''Better Nate Than Ever (film), Better Nate Than Ever''
* Tom George (director), Tom George♦ – ''See How They Run (2022 film), See How They Run''
* Michael Giacchino♦ – ''Werewolf by Night (TV special), Werewolf by Night''
* Mark Gustafson – ''Pinocchio (2022 animated film), Pinocchio''
* Alex Hardcastle♦ – ''Senior Year (2022 film), Senior Year''
* Lee Jung-jae – ''Hunt (film), Hunt''
* Charlotte Le Bon† – ''Falcon Lake (film), Falcon Lake''
* Gail Lerner†♦ – ''Cheaper by the Dozen (2022 film), Cheaper by the Dozen''
* Jennifer N. Linch† – ''Kung Fu Ghost''
* Pierre Perifel – ''The Bad Guys (film), The Bad Guys''
* J. J. Perry – ''Day Shift (film), Day Shift''
* Kyra Sedgwick♦ – ''Space Oddity (film), Space Oddity''
* Domee Shi† – ''Turning Red''
* Goran Stolevski† – ''You Won't Be Alone''
* Ian Tripp† and Ryan Schafer† – ''Everybody Dies by the End''

2023

* Kenya Barris♦ – ''You People''
* Nicholas Maggio† – ''American Metal''
* Michael B. Jordan – ''Creed III''
* Chris Stuckmann† – ''Shelby Oaks''
* Patrick Wilson (American actor), Patrick Wilson – ''Insidious: Fear the Dark''

2024

* S. J. Clarkson♦ – ''Madame Web (film), Madame Web''

Unknown

* Anna Kendrick – ''The Dating Game (film), The Dating Game
* Jonathan Krisel – Untitled ''Sesame Street'' film
* Minkyu Lee† – ''The Witch Boy''
* Kelly Marcel – ''Venom 3''
* Chris Pine – ''Poolman (film), Poolman''
* Taylor Swift† – TBA
* Zelda Williams† – ''Lisa Frankenstein''

See also

* List of cinematic firsts

Notes

References

{{Reflist, 30em

Directorial debut films,
Lists of film directors, Debut