List of directorial debuts

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 filmmakers 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 learned their trade in the medium of television as it became popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Notable directors who did their first directorial work in this medium include Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, and Alfonso Cuarón. As commercial television advertising became more cinematic in the 1960s and 1970s, many directors early work was in this medium, including directors such as Alan Parker and Ridley Scott. With the success of MTV and the popularity of music 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.

1887

 * Louis Le Prince – Man Walking Around a Corner

1896

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

1898

 * Edwin S. Porter – The Cavalier's Dream

1901

 * Segundo de Chomón – Bajada de Montserrat

1907

 * Sidney Olcott – The Wooing of Miles Standish

1908

 * Louis Feuillade – L'Homme aimanté
 * D. W. Griffith – The Adventures of Dollie

1909

 * Mack Sennett – The Curtain Pole

1911

 * Oscar Apfel – The Wedding Bell
 * Thomas H. Ince – Artful Kate

1912

 * Herbert Brenon – All for Her
 * Christy Cabanne – Life of Villa
 * Michael Curtiz – Utolsó bohém, Az
 * Francis Ford – The Post Telegrapher
 * J. Farrell MacDonald – The Worth of a Man
 * Wallace Reid – The Tribal Law
 * Victor Sjöström – Ett hemligt giftermål
 * Maurice Tourneur – Jean la Poudre
 * Robert Wiene – Die Waffen der Jugend

1913

 * Wallace Beery – Kitty's Knight
 * Frank Borzage – The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
 * Hobart Bosworth – The Sea Wolf
 * Jack Conway† – The Old Armchair
 * Carmine Gallone – Il bacio di Cirano
 * Dadasaheb Phalke - Raja Harishchandra
 * King Vidor – Hurricane in Galveston
 * Raoul Walsh – The Pseudo Prodigal

1914

 * Charlie Chaplin – Twenty Minutes of Love
 * Donald Crisp – Her Father's Silent Partner
 * Cecil B. DeMille – The Squaw Man
 * Allan Dwan – The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch
 * William S. Hart – The Gringo
 * Rex Ingram – The Symphony of Souls
 * George Irving – The Jungle
 * Alexander Korda – Orhaz a Karpatokban
 * Robert Z. Leonard – The Master Key
 * Frank Lloyd – The Law of His Kind
 * John M. Stahl – A Boy and the Law
 * William Desmond Taylor – The Smouldering Spark

1915

 * Roscoe Arbuckle – Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
 * Richard Boleslavsky – Ty yeshcho ne umesh lyubit
 * Charles Brabin – Vanity Fair
 * Tod Browning – The Lucky Transfer
 * Lon Chaney – The Stool Pigeon
 * Harry Davenport – The Island of Regeneration
 * Alan Hale – 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

1920

 * Clarence Brown – The Great Redeemer
 * Erle C. Kenton – Down on the Farm
 * Reinhold Schünzel – Der Graf von Cagliostro
 * Edward Sedgwick – Fantomas
 * William A. Wellman† – The Twins of Suffering Creek
 * Sam Wood – Double Speed

1921

 * Gregory La Cava† – His Nibs
 * William Dieterle – Der Mensch am Wege
 * John Gilbert – Love's Penalty
 * Harry Houdini – The Soul of Bronze
 * William K. Howard – Get Your Man
 * Grover Jones – The Unknown
 * Rowland V. Lee – Blind Hearts
 * Edward Ludwig – Rip Van Winkle
 * Leo McCarey – Society Secrets
 * Albert S. Rogell – The Ranch Mystery

1922

 * Frank Capra – Fultah Fisher's Boarding House
 * Irving Cummings – The Man from Hell's River
 * Robert J. Flaherty – Nanook of the North
 * Alexander Hall – A Game of Craft
 * Rupert Hughes – The Wall Flower
 * Frank Tuttle – The Cradle Buster

1923

 * Adrian Brunel – The Man Without Desire
 * William Dieterle – Der Mensch am Wege
 * Sergei Eisenstein – Glumov's Diary
 * Sessue Hayakawa – La Bataille
 * Seymour Hicks† – Always Tell Your Wife
 * Julio Irigoyen – De Nuestras Pampas
 * Buster Keaton – Three Ages
 * Kenji Mizoguchi – Ai ni yomigaru hi
 * Dudley Murphy† – 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
 * 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
 * Dorothy Davenport – Linda
 * Martin Frič – Father Vojtech
 * Rouben Mamoulian – Applause
 * Robert Milton – The Dummy
 * Elliott Nugent# – Wise Girls
 * Edgar Selwyn – The Girl in the Show
 * Alf Sjöberg – Den starkaste

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† – Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour
 * Stuart Walker – The Secret Call

1932

 * Thorold Dickinson – The First Mrs. Fraser
 * Karl Freund – The Mummy
 * Henry Hathaway – Heritage of the Desert
 * William Keighley – The Match King
 * Henry Koster – Thea Roland
 * Edwin L. Marin – The Death Kiss
 * Irving Pichel – The Most Dangerous Game
 * John Rawlins – High Society
 * Herbert Selpin – Chauffeur Antoinette
 * Robert Stevenson – Happy Ever After

1933

 * Busby Berkeley – She Had to Say Yes
 * Fei Mu – Night in the City
 * Mitchell Leisen – Cradle Song
 * Marcel Pagnol† – Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier
 * George Stevens† – A Divorce Courtship
 * Charles Vidor – Sensation Hunters
 * Bernard Vorhaus – The Ghost Camera

1934

 * Charles Barton – Wagon Wheels
 * Cedric Gibbons – Tarzan and His Mate
 * Brian Desmond Hurst – The Tell-Tale Heart
 * John Farrow – The Spectacle Maker
 * Arthur Lubin – A Successful Failure
 * Mario Mattoli – Tempo Massimo
 * Alice O'Fredericks – Ud i den kolde sne
 * Billy Wilder – Mauvaise Graine
 * Harold Young - Leave It to Blanche

1935

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

1936

 * Lew Ayres – Hearts in Bondage
 * John Brahm† – Broken Blossoms
 * William Clemens – Man Hunt
 * Norman Foster – I Cover Chinatown
 * Stuart Heisler – Straight from the Shoulder
 * Buck Jones – For the Service
 * Gregory Ratoff – Sins of Man
 * Wells Root – The Bold Caballero

1937

 * Vijay Bhatt – Khwab Ki Duniya
 * William Cottrell, David Hand, Larry Morey and Perce Pearce - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
 * Giacomo Gentilomo – Sinfonia di Roma
 * Roy Kellino – Concerning Mr. Martin
 * Julio Saraceni – Noches de carnaval
 * Harold D. Schuster – Wings of the Morning
 * S. Sylvan Simon – A Girl with Ideas
 * William Witney – The Painted Stallion

1938

 * Leslie Howard – Pygmalion
 * Erich Pommer – Vessel of Wrath
 * George Waggner – Western Trails
 * Mario Zampi – 13 Men and a Gun

1939

 * Ricardo Cortez – Inside Story
 * Harold Huth – Hell's Cargo
 * Joseph Losey – Pete Roleum and his Cousins
 * Leslie Norman – Too Dangerous to Live
 * Vincent Sherman – The Return of Doctor X

1940

 * James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe Jr., T. Hee, Norman Ferguson and Wilfred Jackson - Fantasia
 * Joseph Barbera and William Hanna# – Puss Gets the Boot
 * Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen - Pinocchio
 * William Morgan - Bowery Boy
 * Vittorio De Sica – Rose scarlatte
 * Preston Sturges – The Great McGinty

1941

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

1942

 * Henri-Georges Clouzot – The Murderer Lives at Number 21
 * Noël Coward and David Lean# – In Which We Serve
 * Basil Dearden♦ and Will Hay – The Black Sheep of Whitehall
 * Michael Gordon – Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
 * Will Hay – The Black Sheep of Whitehall
 * Charles Lederer – Fingers at the Window
 * Albert Lewin – The Moon and Sixpence
 * Anthony Mann♦ – Dr. Broadway
 * Joseph M. Newman – Northwest Rangers
 * Manoel de Oliveira† – Aniki-Bóbó
 * Emeric Pressburger – One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

1943

 * Robert Bresson – Angels of the Streets
 * William Castle – Klondike Kate
 * Delmer Daves – Destination Tokyo
 * Maya Deren – Meshes of the Afternoon
 * Akira Kurosawa – Sanshiro Sugata
 * Frank Launder – Millions Like Us
 * Vincente Minnelli# – Cabin in the Sky
 * Dudley Nichols – Government Girl
 * Roberto Rossellini – Le Nave Biance
 * Luchino Visconti – Ossessione
 * Fred M. Wilcox – Lassie Come Home

1944

 * René Clément† – Paris sous la botte
 * Charles Crichton – For Those in Peril
 * Lewis Gilbert – Sailors Do Care
 * James V. Kern – The Doughgirls
 * Laurence Olivier – Henry V
 * Helmut Weiss† – The Punch Bowl
 * Robert Wise – The Curse of the Cat People

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
 * Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Joshua Meador and Bob Cormack - Make Mine Music
 * Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Dragonwyck
 * William D. Russell† – Our Hearts Were Growing Up
 * John Sturges – The Man Who Dared
 * Peter Ustinov – School for Secrets
 * Charles Walters – Ziegfeld Follies
 * Terence Young – Theirs Is the Glory

1947

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

1948

 * László Benedek# – The Kissing Bandit
 * Terence Fisher – A Song for Tomorrow
 * Jack Gage – The Velvet Touch
 * Raj Kapoor – Aag
 * Richard Quine – Leather Gloves
 * Nicholas Ray – They Live by Night
 * Bretaigne Windust – Winter Meeting

1949

 * Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly – On the Town
 * Sam Fuller – I Shot Jesse James
 * John Guillermin – High Jinks in Society
 * Ida Lupino – Never Fear
 * Alexander Mackendrick – Whisky Galore!
 * Jean-Pierre Melville† – Le Silence de la Mer
 * Arne Skouen – Gategutter
 * Emlyn Williams – The Last Days of Dolwyn

1950

 * Michelangelo Antonioni† – Cronaca di un amore
 * Richard Brooks – Crisis
 * Youssef Chahine – Baba Amin
 * Adolfo Celi – Caiçara
 * Federico Fellini – Variety Lights
 * Burgess Meredith – The Man on the Eiffel Tower
 * Joseph Pevney – Shakedown
 * J. Lee Thompson – Murder Without Crime
 * Atif Yilmaz – Kanli Feryat

1951

 * Guru Dutt – Baazi
 * Harold F. Kress† – The Painted Hills
 * Peter Lorre – The Lost One
 * Christian Nyby – The Thing from Another World
 * Robert Parrish – Cry Danger
 * Russell Rouse – The Well
 * Kaneto Shindo – Story of a Beloved Wife
 * Charles Marquis Warren – Little Big Horn

1952

 * Ritwik Ghatak – Chinnamul
 * Guy Hamilton – The Ringer
 * Paul Henreid – For Men Only
 * Harry Horner – Red Planet Mars
 * Ken Hughes – Wide Boy
 * Nathan H. Juran – The Black Castle
 * Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Gromada
 * Masaki Kobayashi – My Son's Youth
 * Noel Langley – The Pickwick Papers
 * Arnold Laven – Without Warning!
 * Chris Marker – Olympia 52
 * Frank Tashlin† – The First Time

1953

 * Robert Aldrich♦ – Big Leaguer
 * Jack Arnold – Girls in the Night
 * Peter Brook – The Beggar's Opera
 * Don Chaffey – 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
 * 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
 * Delbert Mann – Marty
 * Ray Milland – A Man Alone
 * Satyajit Ray – Pather Panchali
 * Mrinal Sen – Raat Bhore
 * Don Sharp – The Stolen Airliner
 * Melville Shavelson – The Seven Little Foys
 * Andrzej Wajda† – A Generation
 * Cornel Wilde – Storm Fear

1956

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

1957

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

1958

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

1959

 * John Cassavetes – Shadows
 * Yash Chopra – Dhool Ka Phool
 * Les Clark, Eric Larson and Wolfgang Reitherman – Sleeping Beauty
 * Jack Clayton† – Room at the Top
 * Georges Franju† – Head Against the Wall
 * Sidney J. Furie – A Dangerous Age
 * Monte Hellman – Beast from Haunted Cave
 * Ray Kellogg – The Killer Shrews
 * Elen Klimov – Ostorzhno: poshlost
 * Nagisa Oshima – A Town of Love and Hope
 * Joel Rapp – High School Big Shot
 * Alain Resnais – Hiroshima, Mon Amour
 * Tony Richardson♦ – Look Back in Anger
 * Éric Rohmer† – Le Signe du lion
 * François Truffaut – The 400 Blows

1960

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

1961

 * Luis Alcoriza – Los jóvenes
 * William Alland – Look in Any Window
 * Marlon Brando – One-Eyed Jacks
 * Jack Couffer - Nikki, Wild Dog of the North
 * Jacques Demy† – Lola
 * Richard Donner♦ – X-15
 * Bryan Forbes – Whistle Down the Wind
 * Kinji Fukasaku – Hakuchu no buraikan
 * Greg Garrison♦ – Hey, Let's Twist!
 * Susumu Hani† – Bad Boys
 * Andrei Konchalovsky – The Boy and the Pigeon
 * Buzz Kulik♦ – The Explosive Generation
 * Claude Lelouch – Le propre de l'homme
 * Sergio Leone# – The Colossus of Rhodes
 * Pier Paolo Pasolini – Accattone
 * Halit Refiğ† – Yasak Aşk
 * Don Taylor – Everything's Ducky

1962

 * Bernardo Bertolucci – La commare secca
 * Alain Cavalier – Le combat dans l'île
 * George Roy Hill – Period of Adjustment
 * Arthur Hiller♦ – This Rugged Land
 * Norman Jewison♦ – 40 Pounds of Trouble
 * Richard Lester†♦ – It's Trad, Dad!
 * Abe Levitow - Gay Purr-ee
 * Frank Perry – David and Lisa
 * Roman Polanski† – Knife in the Water
 * Gerald Potterton – My Financial Career
 * John Schlesinger – A Kind of Loving
 * Vilgot Sjöman – The Mistress
 * Andrei Tarkovsky† – Ivan's Childhood
 * Hiroshi Teshigahara – Pitfall

1963

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

1964

 * Jack Curtis – The Flesh Eaters
 * Miloš Forman† – Black Peter
 * Samuel Goldwyn Jr. – The Young Lovers
 * Philip Kaufman – Goldstein
 * Elem Klimov - Welcome, or No Trespassing
 * Larry Peerce – One Potato, Two Potato
 * Glauber Rocha† – Black God, White Devil
 * Ettore Scola† – Se permettete parliamo di donne
 * Mel Stuart♦ – Four Days in November

1965

 * Stephen C. Apostolof – Orgy of the Dead
 * Bruno Bozzetto – West and Soda
 * John Boorman♦ – Catch Us If You Can
 * Steve Cochran – Tell Me in the Sunlight
 * Fred Coe♦ – A Thousand Clowns
 * John Derek – Nightmare in the Sun
 * Costa-Gavras – The Sleeping Car Murders
 * Ebrahim Golestan† – Brick and Mirror
 * Daniel Haller – 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
 * Robert Sparr♦ – A Swingin' Summer
 * Jan Troell - 4x4
 * K. Viswanath – Aatma Gowravam

1966

 * Woody Allen – What's Up, Tiger Lily?
 * Hy Averback♦ – Chamber of Horrors
 * Jules Bass - The Daydreamer
 * Paul Bogart♦ – The Three Sisters
 * Bob Clark – The Emperor's New Clothes
 * Marguerite Duras – La musica
 * Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Der Stadtstreicher
 * Yasuharu Hasebe – Black Tight Killers
 * William Klein – Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
 * Alexander Kluge – Yesterday Girl
 * David Lane♦ – Thunderbirds Are Go
 * Mariano Laurenti – Il vostro super agente Flit
 * Darius Mehrjui – Diamond 33
 * Mickey Moore – Paradise, Hawaiian Style
 * Mike Nichols – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 * Lucian Pintilie – Sunday at Six
 * Ousmane Sembene – Borom Sarret
 * Volker Schlöndorff† – Der Junge Törless

1967

 * Albert Finney – Charlie Bubbles
 * William Friedkin♦ – Good Times
 * Philippe Garrel† – Marie for Memory
 * David Greene♦ – The Shuttered Room
 * Anthony Harvey♦ – Dutchman
 * Toshiya Fujita – Hikō shōnen: Hinode no sakebi
 * Med Hondo – Soleil O
 * Manoj Kumar – Upkar
 * Ken Loach♦ – Poor Cow
 * Howard Morris – Who's Minding the Mint?
 * Carl Reiner – Enter Laughing
 * Mark Rydell – The Fox
 * Melvin Van Peebles† – The Story of a Three-Day Pass
 * Michael Verhoeven – The Dance of Death

1968

 * Kevin Billington♦ – Interlude
 * Noel Black†♦ – Pretty Poison
 * Peter Bogdanovich♦ – Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
 * Mel Brooks – The Producers
 * Jacques Charon – A Flea in Her Ear
 * Brian De Palma† – Murder a la Mod
 * Werner Herzog† – Signs of Life
 * Alejandro Jodorowsky† – Fando y Lis
 * Peter Medak – Negatives
 * Paul Newman – Rachel, Rachel
 * Bob Rafelson – Head
 * George A. Romero† – Night of the Living Dead
 * Raúl Ruiz† – Three Sad Tigers
 * Joseph Sargent† – The Hell with Heroes
 * Martin Scorsese† – Who's That Knocking at My Door
 * Fernando Solanas† – The Hour of the Furnaces
 * Isao Takahata – Hols: Prince of the Sun
 * Eric Till - Hot Millions

1969

 * Roy Andersson† – Lördagen den 5.10
 * Richard Attenborough – Oh! What a Lovely War
 * Robert Alan Aurthur – The Lost Man
 * John G. Avildsen† – Turn on to Love
 * David Cronenberg† – Stereo
 * Bob Fosse – Sweet Charity
 * Piers Haggard♦ – I Can't... I Can't
 * Tobe Hooper† – Eggshells
 * Dennis Hopper – Easy Rider
 * Peter R. Hunt – On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 * Charles Jarrott♦ – Anne of the Thousand Days
 * Paul Mazursky – 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 – Downhill Racer
 * Herbert Ross – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
 * Arthur Allan Seidelman – Hercules in New York
 * Paul Williams† – Out of It

1970

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

1971

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

1972

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

1973

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

1974

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

1975

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

1976

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

1977

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

1978

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

1979

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

1980

 * Pedro Almodóvar† – Pepi, Luci, Bom
 * Chuck Barris – The Gong Show Movie
 * Walter Bernstein – Little Miss Marker
 * Tony Bill – My Bodyguard
 * William Peter Blatty – The Ninth Configuration
 * James Caan – Hide in Plain Sight
 * Tommy Chong – Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
 * Rob Cohen – A Small Circle of Friends
 * Bill Forsyth – That Sinking Feeling
 * Peter Greenaway† – The Falls
 * Robert Greenwald – Xanadu
 * Taylor Hackford♦† – The Idolmaker
 * Jim Jarmusch – Permanent Vacation
 * Art Linson – Where the Buffalo Roam
 * Adrian Lyne† – Foxes
 * Mike Newell♦ – The Awakening
 * Harold Ramis – Caddyshack
 * Robert Redford – Ordinary People
 * Jay Sandrich♦ – Seems Like Old Times
 * John Sayles – Return of the Secaucus 7
 * Roger Spottiswoode – Terror Train
 * Fernando Trueba† – Opera Prima
 * Nancy Walker♦ – Can't Stop the Music
 * Gordon Willis – Windows
 * Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams & David Zucker – Airplane!

1981

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

1982

 * Jahnu Barua† – Aparoopa
 * Richard Benjamin♦ – My Favorite Year
 * Khairy Beshara♦ – Bloody Destinies
 * Patricia Birch♦ – Grease 2
 * Don Bluth† –The Secret of NIMH
 * Patrick Bokanowski† – The Angel
 * James Cameron† – Piranha II: The Spawning
 * Nick Castle – Tag: The Assassination Game
 * Roger Christian – The Sender
 * Graeme Clifford†♦ – Frances
 * Caleb Deschanel† – The Escape Artist
 * Richard Elfman – Forbidden Zone
 * Stuart Gillard – Paradise
 * Amy Heckerling† – Fast Times at Ridgemont High
 * Amy Holden Jones – The Slumber Party Massacre
 * Tim Hunter – Tex
 * Neil Jordan – Angel
 * John Laing – Beyond Reasonable Doubt
 * Barry Levinson – Diner
 * Aaron Lipstadt – Android
 * Garry Marshall♦ – Young Doctors in Love
 * Frank Oz - The Dark Crystal
 * Albert Pyun – The Sword and the Sorcerer
 * Susan Seidelman† – Smithereens
 * Ulrich Seidl† – The Prom
 * Robert Towne – Personal Best
 * David S. Ward – Cannery Row
 * Edward Yang – Guang yin de gu shi
 * Corey Yuen – Ninja in the Dragon's Den
 * Ronny Yu – The Postman Strikes Back

1983

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

1984

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

1985

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

1986

 * David Anspaugh – Hoosiers
 * Olivier Assayas† – Disorder
 * David Byrne† – True Stories
 * Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson†, David Michener and John Musker – The Great Mouse Detective
 * Jeffrey Delman – Deadtime Stories
 * Howard Deutch† – Pretty in Pink
 * Peter Faiman♦ – Crocodile Dundee
 * Paul Michael Glaser†♦ – Band of the Hand
 * Vítor Gonçalves – A Girl In Summer
 * Renny Harlin†♦ – Born American
 * Stephen Herek – Critters
 * Connie Kaiserman – My Little Girl
 * Stephen King – Maximum Overdrive
 * Jerry Kramer – Modern Girls
 * Spike Lee† – She's Gotta Have It
 * Sondra Locke – Ratboy
 * Penny Marshall♦ – Jumpin' Jack Flash
 * John McNaughton† – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
 * John McTiernan – Nomads
 * Michael Parks – The Return of Josey Wales
 * Anthony Perkins – Psycho III
 * Maurice Phillips – The American Way
 * Prince† – Under the Cherry Moon
 * Bruce Robinson – Withnail and I
 * Joe Roth – Streets of Gold
 * Dale Schott – The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
 * David Seltzer♦ – Lucas
 * Charles Martin Smith – Trick or Treat
 * Shion Sono† – Man's Flower Road
 * Ziggy Steinberg – The Boss' Wife
 * Giuseppe Tornatore – Il camorrista
 * Agustí Villaronga† – Tras el cristal
 * Edward Zwick – About Last Night...

1987

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

1988

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

1989

 * Meiert Avis† – Far from Home
 * Sooraj R. Barjatya – Maine Pyar Kiya
 * Jeff Blyth – Cheetah
 * Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
 * Jane Campion†♦ – Sweetie
 * Jeremiah S. Chechik – National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
 * Isabel Coixet† – Demasiado viejo para morir joven
 * Pedro Costa – O Sangue
 * Cameron Crowe – Say Anything...
 * John Dahl – Kill Me Again
 * Carl Franklin† – Nowhere to Run
 * Paul Greengrass♦ – Resurrected
 * Gary David Goldberg – Dad
 * Gary Goldman and Dan Kuenster – All Dogs Go to Heaven
 * Wendell B. Harris Jr. – Chameleon Street
 * Michael Haneke♦ – The Seventh Continent
 * Rob Hedden – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
 * James Issac – The Horror Show
 * Joe Johnston – Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
 * Charles T. Kanganis – Deadly Breed
 * Takeshi Kitano – Violent Cop
 * Michael Lehmann† – Heathers
 * Brett Leonard – The Dead Pit
 * Richard Linklater – It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
 * Sean McNamara – Hollywood Chaos
 * Tahmineh Milani – Children of Divorce
 * Michael Moore – Roger & Me
 * Jonathan Mostow† – Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers
 * Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights
 * David Peoples† – The Blood of Heroes
 * Alex Proyas† – Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
 * Joe Pytka† – Let It Ride
 * Eric Red† – Cohen and Tate
 * Junji Sakamoto – Dotsuitarunen
 * Victor Salva – Clownhouse
 * Nancy Savoca – True Love
 * Thomas Schlamme♦† – Miss Firecracker
 * William Shatner – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
 * Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot
 * Robert Sigl – Laurin
 * Mel Smith – The Tall Guy
 * Steven Soderbergh† – Sex, Lies, and Videotape
 * Todd Solondz† – Fear, Anxiety & Depression
 * Stephen Sommers – Catch Me If You Can
 * Ann Turner – Celia
 * Joseph Vilsmaier – Autumn Milk
 * Chris Walas – The Fly II
 * Gary Winick – Curfew
 * Joel Zwick♦ – Second Sight

1990

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

1991

 * Jon Avnet♦ – Fried Green Tomatoes
 * Dan Aykroyd – Nothing but Trouble
 * Marco Bechis† – Alambrado
 * Jack Bender♦ – Child's Play 3
 * Susanne Bier† – Freud flyttar hemifrån...
 * Juan Jose Campanella – The Boy Who Cried Bitch
 * Topper Carew – Talkin' Dirty After Dark
 * Marc Caro♦† and Jean-Pierre Jeunet† – Delicatessen
 * Carlos Carrera† – La mujer de Benjamín
 * Peter Chelsom† – Hear My Song
 * Rich Christiano – The Appointment
 * Bud Cort – Ted & Venus
 * Alfonso Cuarón†♦ – Sólo Con Tu Pareja
 * Frank De Felitta♦ – Scissors
 * Arnaud Desplechin – La Vie Des Morts
 * Tom DiCillo – Johnny Suede
 * Jaco Van Dormael♦ – Toto the Hero
 * Bill Duke†♦ – A Rage in Harlem
 * Jodie Foster – Little Man Tate
 * Randall Fried – Heaven Is a Playground
 * George Gallo – 29th Street
 * Bobcat Goldthwait – Shakes the Clown
 * Bryan Gordon† – Career Opportunities
 * Todd Haynes† – Poison
 * Peter Hewitt† – Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
 * Kevin Hooks♦ – Strictly Business
 * Jeffrey Hornaday♦† – Shout
 * David Kellogg† – Cool as Ice
 * Brian Levant♦ – Problem Child 2
 * Doug McHenry and George Jackson – House Party 2
 * Deepa Mehta♦ – Sam & Me
 * Takashi Miike – Eyecatch Junction
 * Anthony Minghella – Truly, Madly, Deeply
 * Garin Nugroho – Cinta dalam Sepotong Roti
 * Mario Van Peebles♦ – New Jack City
 * Sean Penn – The Indian Runner
 * David Price – Son of Darkness: To Die For II
 * Matty Rich – Straight Out of Brooklyn
 * Walter Salles – A Grande Arte
 * John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood
 * Barry Sonnenfeld – The Addams Family
 * Rachel Talalay – Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
 * Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise – Beauty and the Beast
 * Joseph Vásquez – Hangin' with the Homeboys
 * Prasanna Vithanage – Sisila Giniganee
 * Simon Wells and Phil Nibbelink – An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
 * Irwin Winkler – Guilty by Suspicion

1992

 * Rémy Belvaux†, André Bonzel† and Benoît Poelvoorde† – Man Bites Dog
 * Mike Binder – Crossing the Bridge
 * Uwe Boll – German Fried Movie
 * Craig Bolotin† – That Night
 * Park Chan-wook – The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream
 * Billy Crystal – Mr. Saturday Night
 * Tamra Davis† – Guncrazy
 * Ernest Dickerson – Juice
 * Nora Ephron – This Is My Life
 * David Fincher† – Alien³
 * Rituparno Ghosh - Hirer Angti
 * Arne Glimcher – The Mambo Kings
 * Leslie Harris – Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
 * Brian Henson – The Muppet Christmas Carol
 * Mark Herman† – Blame It on the Bellboy
 * Bill Kroyer† – FernGully: The Last Rainforest
 * Dale Launer - Love Potion No. 9
 * Ang Lee – Pushing Hands
 * Eugene Levy – Once Upon a Crime
 * Baz Luhrmann – Strictly Ballroom
 * Les Mayfield♦† – Encino Man
 * Randall Miller♦† – Class Act
 * Edward James Olmos♦ – American Me
 * Kenny Ortega†♦ – Newsies
 * Jafar Panahi† – The Friend
 * Charlie Peters – Passed Away
 * Bill Plympton† – The Tune
 * Tim Robbins – Bob Roberts
 * Robert Rodriguez† – El Mariachi
 * Damon Santostefano† – Severed Ties
 * M. Night Shyamalan – Praying with Anger
 * Bruce W. Smith – Bebe's Kids
 * Quentin Tarantino† – Reservoir Dogs
 * Betty Thomas♦ – Only You
 * Tsai Ming-liang♦ – Rebels of the Neon God
 * John Turturro – Mac

1993

 * Daniel Alfredson†♦ – The Man on the Balcony
 * Gary O. Bennett – Rain Without Thunder
 * Marco Brambilla – Demolition Man
 * Thomas Carter♦ – Swing Kids
 * Gurinder Chadha♦† – Bhaji on the Beach
 * Rusty Cundieff – Fear of a Black Hat
 * Robert De Niro – A Bronx Tale
 * Guillermo del Toro† – Cronos
 * Ted Demme♦† – Who's the Man?
 * Duwayne Dunham – Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
 * David Mickey Evans – The Sandlot
 * Morgan Freeman – Bopha!
 * E. Max Frye – Amos & Andrew
 * Mel Gibson – The Man Without a Face
 * Charles Grosvenor – Once Upon a Forest
 * Paul Haggis♦† – Red Hot
 * Fraser Clarke Heston♦† – Needful Things
 * Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes† – Menace II Society
 * Nicholas Kazan♦ – Dream Lover
 * John Madden♦ – Ethan Frome
 * Radu Mihăileanu† – Trahir
 * Trey Parker† – Cannibal! The Musical
 * Bruce Joel Rubin – My Life
 * Mikael Salomon – A Far Off Place
 * Don Scardino♦ – Me and Veronica
 * Henry Selick† – The Nightmare Before Christmas
 * Dominic Sena† – Kalifornia
 * Alan Shapiro - The Crush
 * Bryan Singer† – Public Access
 * Daniel Stern♦ – Rookie of the Year
 * Stephen Surjik†♦ – Wayne's World 2
 * Tran Anh Hung† – The Scent of Green Papaya
 * Tom Tykwer† – Deadly Maria
 * John Whitesell♦ – Calendar Girl
 * Richard Williams† – The Thief and the Cobbler
 * Alex Winter and Tom Stern - Freaked
 * Wang Xiaoshuai – The Days
 * Steven Zaillian – Searching for Bobby Fischer
 * Ralph Zondag and Dick Zondag - We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

1994

 * Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff† – The Lion King
 * Paul W. S. Anderson – Shopping
 * Jacques Audiard – Regarde les hommes tomber
 * Roger Avary – Killing Zoe
 * Timur Bekmambetov♦ – Peshavar Waltz
 * Adam Bernstein† – It's Pat
 * Hart Bochner – PCU
 * Danny Boyle♦ – Shallow Grave
 * Stephen Chow – King of Destruction
 * Julie Cypher† – Teresa's Tattoo
 * Frank Darabont♦ – The Shawshank Redemption
 * Jan de Bont – Speed
 * Peter Farrelly – Dumb and Dumber
 * James Gray – Little Odessa
 * Anthony Michael Hall – Hail Caesar
 * P. J. Hogan† – Muriel's Wedding
 * George Huang – Swimming with Sharks
 * Maurice Hunt - The Pagemaster
 * Nicholas Hytner – The Madness of King George
 * Patrick Keiller† – London
 * Doug Liman – Getting In
 * Darnell Martin† – I Like It Like That
 * Takashi Miike† – Daisan no gokudō
 * Jessie Nelson† – Corrina, Corrina
 * John Pasquin♦ – The Santa Clause
 * Jeff Pollack – Above the Rim
 * Jonathan Prince♦ – Camp Nowhere
 * Kelly Reichardt – River of Grass
 * Adam Resnick – Cabin Boy
 * John Roberts – War of the Buttons
 * David O. Russell† – Spanking the Monkey
 * Steven Seagal – On Deadly Ground
 * Peter Segal♦ – Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
 * Tom Shadyac♦ – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
 * Kevin Smith† – Clerks
 * Ben Stiller♦† – Reality Bites
 * Lee Tamahori†♦ – Once Were Warriors
 * Caroline Thompson – Black Beauty
 * Sam Weisman♦ – D2: The Mighty Ducks

1995

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

1996

 * Alejandro Amenábar – Tesis
 * Paul Thomas Anderson† – Hard Eight
 * Wes Anderson – Bottle Rocket
 * Imanol Arias — Un asunto privado
 * Kevin Bacon – Losing Chase
 * Stuart Baird – Executive Decision
 * Paris Barclay† – Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
 * Jason Bloom† – Bio-Dome
 * Matthew Bright – Freeway
 * Matthew Broderick – Infinity
 * Steve Buscemi – Trees Lounge
 * Nick Cassavetes – Unhook the Stars
 * Jay Chandrasekhar – Puddle Cruiser
 * R. J. Cutler – A Perfect Candidate
 * Tom DeCerchio – Celtic Pride
 * Seth Michael Donsky – Twisted
 * Cheryl Dunye† – The Watermelon Woman
 * David R. Ellis – Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
 * Bobby Farrelly – Kingpin
 * Jonathan Frakes♦ – Star Trek: First Contact
 * Terry George – Some Mother's Son
 * Michael Goldenberg – Bed of Roses
 * Jose Zeka Laplaine† – Macadam Tribu
 * Tom Hanks♦ – That Thing You Do!
 * Mary Harron♦ – I Shot Andy Warhol
 * Gregory Hoblit♦ – Primal Fear
 * Nicole Holofcener† – Walking and Talking
 * Anthony Hopkins – August
 * Adam Coleman Howard – Dead Girl
 * Bronwen Hughes† – Harriet the Spy
 * Anjelica Huston – Bastard Out of Carolina
 * Mike Judge†♦ – Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
 * David Koepp† – The Trigger Effect
 * Ki-duk Kim†♦ – Crocodile
 * Martin Lawrence – A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
 * Quentin Lee† – Flow
 * Danny Leiner† – Layin' Low
 * Larry Leker and Paul Sabella – All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
 * Kevin Macdonald♦ – Chaplin's Goliath
 * Jim Mallon - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
 * Nelson McCormick♦ – For Which He Stands
 * Douglas McGrath – Emma
 * Shane Meadows† – Small Time
 * Greg Mottola – The Daytrippers
 * Niels Arden Oplev† – Portland
 * Al Pacino – Looking for Richard
 * Alexander Payne – Citizen Ruth
 * John Putch† – Alone in the Woods
 * Krishna Rao – Crossworlds
 * Matt Reeves† – The Pallbearer
 * Nicolas Winding Refn – Pusher
 * Sabu – Dangan Runner
 * Arlene Sanford♦ – A Very Brady Sequel
 * John Schultz – Bandwagon
 * Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci – Big Night
 * Adrienne Shelly† – Sudden Manhattan
 * Daryush Shokof – Seven Servants
 * Kevin Spacey† – Albino Alligator
 * Billy Bob Thornton – Sling Blade
 * The Wachowskis – Bound

1997

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

1998

 * Fatih Akın†♦ – Short Sharp Shock
 * Darren Aronofsky† – Pi
 * Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook – Mulan
 * Matt Earl Beesley – Point Blank
 * Peter Berg♦ – Very Bad Things
 * Troy Beyer – Let's Talk About Sex
 * Steve Boyum – Meet the Deedles
 * Joe Carnahan – Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane
 * Niki Caro† – Memory & Desire
 * Brenda Chapman and Steve Hickner - The Prince of Egypt
 * Frederik Du Chau – Quest for Camelot
 * Lisa Cholodenko† – High Art
 * Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kasaba
 * Joan Chen – Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
 * Derek Cianfrance – Brother Tied
 * Ice Cube† – The Players Club
 * Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson - Antz
 * Larry David – Sour Grapes
 * David Dobkin† – Clay Pigeons
 * Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan – Can't Hardly Wait
 * Soleil Moon Frye and Meeno Peluce – Wild Horses
 * Antoine Fuqua† – The Replacement Killers
 * Wayne Isham† – 12 Bucks
 * Karan Johar – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
 * Mark Steven Johnson – Simon Birch
 * Tony Kaye†♦ – American History X
 * Jake Kasdan† – Zero Effect
 * Igor Kovalyov and Norton Virgien - The Rugrats Movie
 * Nagesh Kukunoor – Hyderabad Blues
 * Samira Makhmalbaf – The Apple
 * Michael Martin – I Got the Hook-Up
 * Sean Mathias – Bent
 * Des McAnuff - Cousin Bette
 * Paul McGuigan – The Acid House
 * Don McKellar† – Last Night
 * Olivier Megaton†♦ – Tout Morose
 * Fernando Meirelles†♦ – O Menino Maluquinho 2
 * Nancy Meyers – The Parent Trap
 * Lukas Moodysson – Show Me Love
 * Gaspar Noé† – Seul contre tous
 * Christopher Nolan† – Following
 * Dean Parisot†♦ – Home Fries
 * Pat Proft – Wrongfully Accused
 * Guy Ritchie† – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
 * Craig Ross Jr. – Cappuccino
 * Gary Ross – Pleasantville
 * Bob Saget†♦ – Dirty Work
 * Millicent Shelton†♦ – Ride
 * Tony Singletary♦ – High Freakquency
 * Abderrahmane Sissako† – Life on Earth
 * Kevin Rodney Sullivan♦ – How Stella Got Her Groove Back
 * John Terlesky – The Pandora Project
 * Toshiaki Toyoda – Pornostar
 * Denis Villeneuve† – August 32nd on Earth
 * Randall Wallace – The Man in the Iron Mask
 * Hype Williams† – Belly
 * David Yates†♦ – The Tichborne Claimant

1999

 * Jamie Babbit†♦ – But I'm a Cheerleader
 * Jaume Balagueró - The Nameless
 * Antonio Banderas – Crazy in Alabama
 * Mike Barker†♦ – Best Laid Plans
 * Brad Bird♦ – The Iron Giant
 * John Bruno† – Virus
 * Chris Buck – Tarzan
 * Tony Bui† – Three Seasons
 * Sofia Coppola† – The Virgin Suicides
 * Troy Duffy – The Boondock Saints
 * Jim Fall – Trick
 * Rick Famuyiwa† – The Wood
 * Hampton Fancher – The Minus Man
 * Jeff Franklin♦ – Love Stinks
 * Tony Goldwyn – A Walk on the Moon
 * Luca Guadagnino – The Protagonists
 * Don Hahn, Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi and Francis Glebas - Fantasia 2000
 * Gary Halvorson♦ – The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
 * Brian Helgeland – Payback
 * Tim Hill†♦ – Muppets from Space
 * Gavin Hood† – A Reasonable Man
 * Mark Illsley – Happy, Texas
 * Michael Patrick Jann – Drop Dead Gorgeous
 * Hugh Johnson† – Chill Factor
 * Spike Jonze† – Being John Malkovich
 * Maurice Joyce - Doug's 1st Movie
 * Gil Junger♦ – 10 Things I Hate About You
 * Clare Kilner† – Janice Beard
 * Roger Kumble – Cruel Intentions
 * Paul Lazarus♦ – Seven Girlfriends
 * Malcolm D. Lee – The Best Man
 * Rod Lurie† – Deterrence
 * Theodore Melfi – Winding Roads
 * Sam Mendes♦ – American Beauty
 * Dave Meyers† – Foolish
 * Mike Mitchell†♦ – Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
 * Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez – The Blair Witch Project
 * Stanley Nelson Jr.† – The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
 * Babak Payami – One More Day
 * Kimberly Peirce† – Boys Don't Cry
 * Lynne Ramsay – Ratcatcher
 * David Raynr – Trippin'
 * Tim Roth – The War Zone
 * Shi Runjiu – A Beautiful New World
 * Sara Sugarman† – Mad Cows
 * S. J. Surya – Vaali
 * Julie Taymor♦ – Titus
 * Pablo Trapero† – Crane World
 * Manuela Viegas – Gloria
 * Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz – American Pie
 * Kevin Williamson – Teaching Mrs. Tingle

2000

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

2001

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

2002

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

2003

 * Yasmin Ahmad – Rabun
 * Nimród Antal† – Kontroll
 * Wang Bing – Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
 * LeVar Burton♦ – Blizzard
 * Reggie Rock Bythewood♦ – Biker Boyz
 * Larry Charles – Masked and Anonymous
 * Sylvain Chomet† – The Triplets of Belleville
 * Richard Curtis – Love Actually
 * Gareth Evans – Samurai Monogatari
 * John Eng - Rugrats Go Wild
 * Asghar Farhadi†♦ – Dancing in the Dust
 * Patrick Gilmore - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
 * Todd Graff – Camp
 * Catherine Hardwicke – Thirteen
 * John Robert Hoffman - Good Boy!
 * Paul Hunter† – Bulletproof Monk
 * Andrew Jarecki – Capturing the Friedmans
 * Guy Jenkin♦ – The Sleeping Dictionary
 * Patty Jenkins† – Monster
 * Clark Johnson♦ – S.W.A.T.
 * Alex Kendrick – Flywheel
 * Jonathan Liebesman† – Darkness Falls
 * Li Yang – Blind Shaft
 * Greg Marcks† – 11:14
 * Tom McCarthy – The Station Agent
 * Linda Mendoza♦ – Chasing Papi
 * Glen Morgan – Willard
 * Marcus Nispel† – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 * Vadim Perelman – House of Sand and Fog
 * Kyle Rankin† – The Battle of Shaker Heights
 * Billy Ray – Shattered Glass
 * Chris Rock – Head of State
 * The Spierig Brothers† – Undead
 * Andrew Stanton♦† – Finding Nemo
 * Steve Trenbirth – The Jungle Book 2
 * Robert Walker and Aaron Blaise - Brother Bear
 * Bo Welch – The Cat in the Hat
 * Tommy Wiseau – The Room
 * Len Wiseman – Underworld
 * Bille Woodruff† – Honey
 * Rob Zombie† – House of 1000 Corpses

2004

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

2005

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

2006

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

2007

 * Marc Abraham – Flash of Genius
 * Ben Affleck† – Gone Baby Gone
 * Stephen J. Anderson† – Meet the Robinsons
 * Juan Antonio Bayona – El Orfanato
 * Ash Brannon – Surf's Up
 * Anton Corbijn† – Control
 * Rodrigo Cortés† – The Contestant
 * Gábor Csupó – Bridge to Terabithia
 * Michael Dougherty† – Trick 'r Treat
 * Fred Durst† – The Education of Charlie Banks
 * Quentin Dupieux†♦ – Steak
 * Alison Eastwood – Rails & Ties
 * Charles H. Ferguson – No End in Sight
 * Scott Frank – The Lookout
 * Stephane Gauger – Owl and the Sparrow
 * Sarah Gavron†♦ – Brick Lane
 * Craig Gillespie† – Mr. Woodcock
 * Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
 * Seth Gordon†♦ – The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
 * Mark Helfrich – Good Luck Chuck
 * Helen Hunt♦ – Then She Found Me
 * Angelina Jolie – A Place in Time
 * Michael Katleman♦ – Primeval
 * Nadine Labaki – Caramel
 * Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis – Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
 * Mary Stuart Masterson♦ – The Cake Eaters
 * Chris Miller – Shrek the Third
 * Jan Pinkava – Ratatouille
 * Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
 * Jeremy Saulnier† – Murder Party
 * Fred Savage♦ – Daddy Day Camp
 * Akiva Schaffer†♦ – Hot Rod
 * Rob Schneider – Big Stan
 * David Schwimmer – Run Fatboy Run
 * Cai Shangjun – The Red Awn
 * David Silverman†♦ — The Simpsons Movie
 * Simon J. Smith – Bee Movie
 * Will Speck and Josh Gordon – Blades of Glory
 * Colin Strause and Greg Strause† – Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
 * Justin Theroux – Dedication
 * Patricia Riggen† – Under the Same Moon
 * Deon Taylor – Dead Tone
 * Jim Threapleton – Extraordinary Rendition
 * Stuart Townsend – Battle in Seattle
 * Dylan Verrechia – Tijuana Makes Me Happy
 * David Wall – Noëlle
 * Taika Waititi† – Eagle vs Shark
 * Adam Wingard† – Home Sick
 * Tommy Wirkola† – Kill Buljo
 * Craig Zobel† – Great World of Sound

2008

 * Kent Alterman – Semi-Pro
 * Guillermo Arriaga† – The Burning Plain
 * Daniel Barnz† – Phoebe in Wonderland
 * Bryan Bertino – The Strangers
 * Eric Brevig – Journey to the Center of the Earth
 * Anna Boden† – Sugar
 * Antonio Campos† – Afterschool
 * Fred Cavayé† – Anything for Her
 * Jon M. Chu† – Step Up 2: The Streets
 * Noel Clarke – Adulthood
 * Kirk DeMicco – Space Chimps
 * Elissa Down† – The Black Balloon
 * Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino – Horton Hears a Who!
 * Diane English – The Women
 * Sacha Gervasi – Anvil! The Story of Anvil
 * David Hackl – Saw V
 * Joanna Hogg♦ – Unrelated
 * Byron Howard and Chris Williams† – 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
 * Tony Leondis - Igor
 * Madonna – Filth and Wisdom
 * Michael McCullers† – Baby Mama
 * Martin McDonagh† – In Bruges
 * Steve McQueen† – Hunger
 * Na Hong-jin – The Chaser
 * David Oliveras – Watercolors
 * Nina Paley – Sita Sings the Blues
 * Marianna Palka – Good Dick
 * Lori Petty† – The Poker House
 * Johan Renck† – Downloading Nancy
 * Alex Rivera† – Sleep Dealer
 * Josh Safdie† – The Pleasure of Being Robbed
 * Marco Schnabel - The Love Guru
 * Steven Sebring – Patti Smith: Dream of Life
 * Ben Stassen – Fly Me to the Moon
 * Robert Stevenhagen – The Tale of Despereaux
 * John Stevenson – Kung Fu Panda
 * Nicholas Stoller♦ – Forgetting Sarah Marshall
 * Tate Taylor† – Pretty Ugly People
 * James Watkins – Eden Lake
 * Sean Weathers – House of the Damned
 * George C. Wolfe – Nights in Rodanthe
 * Rupert Wyatt† – The Escapist

2009

 * Shane Acker† – 9
 * Zoya Akhtar – Luck by Chance
 * Drew Barrymore – 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 – Crazy Heart
 * Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore – Miss March
 * Matthew Crouch – 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
 * Glenn Ficarra and John Requa – I Love You Phillip Morris
 * David Field – The Combination
 * Ruben Fleischer†♦ – Zombieland
 * Tom Ford – A Single Man
 * Thor Freudenthal† – Hotel for Dogs
 * Cary Joji Fukunaga† – Sin Nombre
 * Ricky Gervais♦ – The Invention of Lying
 * Will Gluck – Fired Up!
 * Kevin Greutert – Saw VI
 * Manish Gupta – The Stoneman Murders
 * Andrew Haigh♦ – Greek Pete
 * Melora Hardin – You
 * Cheryl Hines – Serious Moonlight
 * Armando Iannucci♦ – In the Loop
 * Michael Imperioli† – The Hungry Ghosts
 * Craig Johnson – True Adolescents
 * Duncan Jones† – Moon
 * Adam Kane†♦ – Formosa Betrayed
 * James Kerwin† – Yesterday Was a Lie
 * Paul King♦ – Bunny and the Bull
 * Takeshi Koike♦ – Redline
 * Kishore Kumar – Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam
 * Phil Lord and Chris Miller♦ – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
 * Scott Mann†♦ – The Tournament
 * Samuel Maoz – Lebanon
 * Jodie Markell – The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
 * Oren Moverman – The Messenger
 * Ayan Mukerji – Wake Up Sid
 * Shirin Neshat† – Women Without Men
 * Bob Peterson – Up
 * James Ricardo – Opie Gets Laid
 * Aaron Schneider – Get Low
 * Steve Shill♦ – Obsessed
 * Peter Strickland – Katalin Varga
 * Suseenthiran – Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu
 * Sooni Taraporevala – Little Zizou
 * Sam Taylor-Wood† – Nowhere Boy
 * Mark Tonderai – 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
 * Ben Wheatley†♦ – Down Terrace
 * Suzi Yoonessi – Dear Lemon Lima
 * Hoyt Yeatman – G-Force

2010

 * Casey Affleck – I'm Still Here
 * Mo Ali – Shank
 * Tim Allen♦ – Crazy on the Outside
 * Richard Ayoade† – Submarine
 * Banksy – Exit Through the Gift Shop
 * Samuel Bayer† – A Nightmare on Elm Street
 * Jim Cummings† – No Floodwall Here
 * Pierre Coffin♦† and Chris Renaud† – Despicable Me
 * Jason Croot – Le Fear
 * Brendon Culliton – If I Should Fall
 * Vincent D'Onofrio – Don't Go in the Woods
 * Gareth Edwards♦† – Monsters
 * Nathan Greno – Tangled
 * Tom Harper♦† – The Scouting Book for Boys
 * Tanya Hamilton† – Night Catches Us
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman – Jack Goes Boating
 * Rowan Joffé♦ – Brighton Rock
 * Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman† – Catfish
 * Larysa Kondracki – The Whistleblower
 * Joseph Kosinski – Tron: Legacy
 * William Monahan – London Boulevard
 * David Michôd† – Animal Kingdom
 * Ben Miller – Huge
 * Chris Morris – Four Lions
 * Daisuke Namikawa – Wonderful World
 * Troy Nixey† – Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
 * Brad Peyton† – Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
 * Josh Radnor – happythankyoumoreplease
 * Daina Reid♦† – I Love You Too
 * Julie Anne Robinson♦ – The Last Song
 * Jim Field Smith† – She's Out of My League
 * Joann Sfar – Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
 * Floria Sigismondi† – The Runaways
 * Jonathan Sobol† – A Beginner's Guide to Endings
 * Maneesh Sharma –  Wedding Planners
 * Scott Stewart† – Legion
 * Massy Tadjedin – Last Night
 * Leehom Wang – Love in Disguise
 * Hiromasa Yonebayashi – The Secret World of Arrietty
 * Tom Six – The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
 * Lee Unkrich – Toy Story 3
 * John Wells♦ – The Company Men
 * Erik White† – Lottery Ticket
 * Max Winkler† – Ceremony

2011

 * Salim Akil♦ – Jumping the Broom
 * James Bobin♦† – The Muppets
 * Mike Cahill – Another Earth
 * Cedric the Entertainer – Dance Fu
 * J. C. Chandor – Margin Call
 * Paddy Considine† – Tyrannosaur
 * Joe Cornish♦† – Attack the Block
 * Alexandre Courtes – The Incident
 * Simon Curtis♦ – My Week with Marilyn
 * Mike Disa – Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
 * Sean Durkin† – Martha Marcy May Marlene
 * Fabrice Eboué – Case départ
 * Vera Farmiga – Higher Ground
 * Mike Flanagan – Absentia
 * Dexter Fletcher – Wild Bill
 * Evan Glodell – Bellflower
 * Don Hall - Winnie the Pooh
 * Famke Janssen – Bringing Up Bobby
 * Giddens Ko – You Are the Apple of My Eye
 * Justin Kurzel – The Snowtown Murders
 * Julia Leigh – Sleeping Beauty
 * Brad Lewis – Cars 2
 * Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas – Amy George
 * Niall MacCormick♦ – Albatross
 * Victoria Mahoney† – Yelling to the Sky
 * John Michael McDonagh – The Guard
 * Dermot Mulroney – Love, Wedding, Marriage
 * Nick Murphy♦ – The Awakening
 * George Nolfi – The Adjustment Bureau
 * Ben Palmer♦† – The Inbetweeners Movie
 * Alex Ross Perry† – The Color Wheel
 * Michael Rapaport♦ – Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
 * Dee Rees† – Pariah
 * Keith Scholey – African Cats
 * Sarah Smith - Arthur Christmas
 * Taylor Sheridan† –Vile
 * Jason Winer♦† – Arthur
 * Jennifer Yuh Nelson – Kung Fu Panda 2

2012

 * Mark Andrews and Steve Purcell – Brave
 * Rodney Ascher♦† – Room 237
 * Kyle Balda – The Lorax
 * Paolo Benetazzo† – Study
 * Chris Butler – ParaNorman
 * Ciaran Foy – Citadel
 * Drew Goddard – The Cabin in the Woods
 * Adrian Grünberg – Get the Gringo
 * Anthony Hemingway♦ – Red Tails
 * Don Hertzfeldt – It's Such a Beautiful Day
 * Dustin Hoffman – Quartet
 * Peggy Holmes – Secret of the Wings
 * Nicholas Jarecki – Arbitrage
 * Brian Klugman – The Words
 * Robert Lorenz – Trouble with the Curve
 * Seth MacFarlane♦† – Ted
 * Daigo Matsui – Afro Tanaka
 * Jason Moore♦ – Pitch Perfect
 * Usher Morgan† – The Thought Exchange
 * Alonso Mayo† – The Story of Luke
 * Rich Moore♦ – Wreck-It Ralph
 * Mamoru Nagano – Gothicmade
 * Jeff Newitt – The Pirates! Band of Misfits
 * Nima Nourizadeh† – Project X
 * Gabe Polsky – The Motel Life
 * Kazik Radwanski – 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
 * Stefano Sollima♦† – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
 * Scott Speer† – Step Up Revolution
 * Genndy Tartakovsky♦ – Hotel Transylvania
 * Michael Thurmeier – Ice Age: Continental Drift
 * Josh Trank♦ – Chronicle
 * Scott Waugh† – Act of Valor
 * Michael Whitton – Exit Strategy
 * Xu Zheng – Lost in Thailand
 * Benh Zeitlin† – Beasts of the Southern Wild

2013

 * Fede Álvarez† – Evil Dead
 * Ritesh Batra† – The Lunchbox
 * 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
 * Ryan Coogler† – Fruitvale Station
 * 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
 * Klay Hall – Planes
 * Jerusha Hess – Austenland
 * Eliza Hittman† – It Felt Like Love
 * Ha Jung-woo – Fasten Your Seatbelt
 * Bilal Lashari – Waar
 * Michelle Latimer† – Alias
 * Jennifer Lee – Frozen
 * Damien Leone† – All Hallows' Eve
 * Dan Mazer† – I Give It a Year
 * B. J. McDonnell – Hatchet III
 * Andy Muschietti† – Mama
 * Keanu Reeves – Man of Tai Chi
 * Carl Rinsch† – 47 Ronin
 * Dan Scanlon – Monsters University
 * Jill Soloway – Afternoon Delight
 * David Soren♦† – Turbo
 * Michael Tiddes† – A Haunted House
 * Jocelyn Towne – I Am I
 * Zhao Wei† – So Young

2014

 * Ana Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
 * Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi – The Boxtrolls
 * Wes Ball† – The Maze Runner
 * Jason Bateman♦ – Bad Words
 * Paul Bettany – Shelter
 * Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett† – Devil's Due
 * James Ward Byrkit – Coherence
 * Chen Sicheng – Beijing Love Story
 * Nick Cheung – Ghost Rituals
 * Shawn Christensen – Before I Disappear
 * David Cross♦ – Hits
 * Russell Crowe – The Water Diviner
 * Sam Esmail†♦ – Comet
 * Chris Evans – Before We Go
 * Susanna Fogel♦ – Life Partners
 * Bobs Gannaway – Planes: Fire & Rescue
 * Hitori Gekidan – A Bolt from the Blue
 * Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
 * Akiva Goldsman♦ – Winter's Tale
 * Ryan Gosling – Lost River
 * Dave Green - Earth to Echo
 * Jorge R. Gutierrez† – The Book of Life
 * Andy Hamilton♦ – What We Did on Our Holiday
 * Han Han – Duckweed
 * Simon Helberg – We'll Never Have Paris
 * Gerard Johnstone♦ – Housebound
 * July Jung – A Girl at My Door
 * Jennifer Kent† – The Babadook
 * Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer† – Starry Eyes
 * Peter Lepeniotis - The Nut Job
 * Adam MacDonald –Backcountry
 * William H. Macy♦ – Rudderless
 * Charlie McDowell – The One I Love
 * Chris Messina – Alex of Venice
 * Wally Pfister – Transcendence
 * Nabeel Qureshi♦ – Na Maloom Afraad
 * Mark Raso† – Copenhagen
 * Peter Sattler – Camp X-Ray
 * Tristram Shapeero♦† – Merry Friggin' Christmas
 * Gary Shore† – Dracula Untold
 * Justin Simien† – Dear White People
 * Chad Stahelski – John Wick
 * Riley Stearns – Faults
 * Jon Stewart – Rosewater
 * Robert Stromberg – Maleficent
 * Rob Thomas♦ – Veronica Mars
 * Kazuo Umezu – Mother
 * Jon Watts† – Clown
 * Gren Wells – The Road Within
 * Michael Williams – Ozland
 * David Yarovesky♦† – The Hive

2015

 * Aleksander Bach – Hitman: Agent 47
 * Elizabeth Banks† – Pitch Perfect 2
 * Jawad Bashir – Maya
 * Natalie Bible' – Windsor Drive
 * Mark Burton and Richard Starzak – Shaun the Sheep Movie
 * Stephen Campanelli – Momentum
 * Ronnie del Carmen – Inside Out
 * Don Cheadle♦ – Miles Ahead
 * Etan Cohen – Get Hard
 * Marya Cohn† – The Girl in the Book
 * Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley – Like Cattle Towards Glow
 * Director X†♦ – Across the Line
 * Stephen Dunn† – Closet Monster
 * Momina Duraid♦ – Bin Roye
 * Ian Edelman – Puerto Ricans in Paris
 * Joel Edgerton† – The Gift
 * Robert Eggers♦† – The Witch
 * Alex Garland – Ex Machina
 * Neeraj Ghaywan† – Masaan
 * Jonathan Goldstein† and John Francis Daley† – Vacation
 * Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione – Circle
 * Marielle Heller – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
 * Anna Rose Holmer† – The Fits
 * Raman Hui – Monster Hunt
 * Dean Israelite†♦ – Project Almanac
 * Vahid Jalilvand – Wednesday, May 9
 * Yasir Jaswal – Jalaibee
 * Kahlil Joseph† – The Reflektor Tapes
 * Ariel Kleiman† – Partisan
 * Luo Luo – The Last Women Standing
 * John Maclean† – Slow West
 * Reed Morano – Meadowland
 * Ilya Naishuller† – Hardcore Henry
 * László Nemes – Son of Saul
 * Jarrad Paul – The D Train
 * Natalie Portman† – A Tale of Love and Darkness
 * J. G. Quintel♦† – Regular Show: The Movie
 * R. Ravikumar – Indru Netru Naalai
 * Meg Ryan – Ithaca
 * Gary Rydstrom - Strange Magic
 * Amit Sharma – Tevar
 * Trey Edward Shults† – Krisha
 * Peter Sohn – The Good Dinosaur
 * Austin Stark† – The Runner
 * Alec Su – The Left Ear
 * Paul Tibbitt♦ – The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
 * James Vanderbilt – Truth
 * S. Craig Zahler – Bone Tomahawk
 * 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
 * Yarrow Cheney† – The Secret Life of Pets
 * Galen T. Chu – Ice Age: Collision Course
 * Kelly Fremon Craig† – The Edge of Seventeen
 * Garth Davis† – Lion
 * Walt Dohrn♦† – Trolls
 * 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 – Kubo and the Two Strings
 * Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert♦† – Swiss Army Man
 * Gee Malik Linton † – Exposed
 * Avid Liongoren – Saving Sally
 * Christophe Lourdelet – Sing
 * Alice Lowe† – Prevenge
 * Angus MacLane♦† – Finding Dory
 * Ashley McKenzie† – Werewolf
 * Tim Miller – Deadpool
 * Bob Nelson – The Confirmation
 * Cedric Nicolas-Troyan† – The Huntsman: Winter's War
 * William Oldroyd† – Lady Macbeth
 * Tony Olmos† – South of 8
 * Asim Raza♦ – Ho Mann Jahaan
 * Matthew Ross† – Frank & Lola
 * David F. Sandberg♦† – Lights Out
 * Luke Scott♦† – Morgan
 * Jamal Shah – Revenge of the Worthless
 * Konkona Sen Sharma† – A Death in the Gunj
 * Veena Sud♦† – The Salton Sea
 * Doug Sweetland† – Storks
 * Amber Tamblyn – Paint It Black
 * Richard Tanne – Southside with You
 * Greg Tiernan♦† – Sausage Party
 * Dan Trachtenberg♦† – 10 Cloverfield Lane

2017

 * Ana Asensio – Most Beautiful Island
 * Jay Baruchel – Goon: Last of the Enforcers
 * Charlie Bean and Paul Fisher & Bob Logan – The Lego Ninjago Movie
 * Kristoffer Borgli – DRIB
 * Antoine Bourges† – Fail to Appear
 * Dean Devlin♦ – Geostorm
 * Denise Di Novi♦ – Unforgettable
 * Brian Fee – Cars 3
 * Cory Finley – Thoroughbreds
 * Anna Foerster – Underworld: Blood Wars
 * Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
 * Michael Gracey – The Greatest Showman
 * Eric Guillon - Despicable Me 3
 * Jason Hall – 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
 * Adrian Molina – Coco
 * Usama Mukwaya – Love Faces
 * Jordan Peele – Get Out
 * Timothy Reckart – The Star
 * Andy Serkis – Breathe
 * Quinn Shephard† – Blame
 * Kevin Sorbo♦ – Let There Be Light
 * Aaron Sorkin – Molly's Game
 * Michael Stephenson† – Girlfriend's Day
 * Jessica M. Thompson – The Light of the Moon
 * Oren Uziel – Shimmer Lake

2018

 * Ari Aster† – Hereditary
 * Bo Burnham† – Eighth Grade
 * Kay Cannon – Blockers
 * Aneesh Chaganty† – Searching
 * Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
 * Paul Dano – Wildlife
 * Steven S. DeKnight♦ – Pacific Rim Uprising
 * Carlos López Estrada – Blindspotting
 * Nicolai Fuglsig – 12 Strong
 * Karen Gillan† – The Party's Just Beginning
 * Heather Graham – Half Magic
 * Reinaldo Marcus Green†♦ – Monsters and Men
 * Christian Gudegast – Den of Thieves
 * Jonah Hill† – Mid90s
 * Aaron Horvath – Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
 * Mag Hsu† and Hsu Chih-yen† – Dear Ex
 * Phil Johnston† – Ralph Breaks the Internet
 * Arunraja Kamaraj – Kanaa
 * Anthony Mandler† – Monster
 * Scott Mosier – The Grinch
 * Mari Okada† – Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
 * Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
 * Alex Pettyfer† – Back Roads
 * Boots Riley† – Sorry to Bother You
 * Christian Rivers – Mortal Engines
 * Jared Stern†♦ – Happy Anniversary
 * Jayson Thiessen♦ - My Little Pony; The Movie
 * Jeff Tomsic†♦ – Tag
 * Jonathan Watson –  Arizona

2019

 * Dianna Agron†, Justin Franklin, Daniel Lwowski†♦, and Gabriela Tscherniak†♦ – Berlin, I Love You
 * Mike Ahern and Edna Loughman – Extra Ordinary
 * Annabelle Attanasio – Mickey and the Bear
 * Will Becher and Richard Phelan – A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
 * Andrea Berloff – The Kitchen
 * Robin Bissell – The Best of Enemies
 * Dylan Brown# – Wonder Park
 * Nick Bruno and Troy Quane – Spies in Disguise
 * Matthew Michael Carnahan - Mosul
 * Michael Chaves♦† – The Curse of La Llorona
 * Monia Chokri – A Brother's Love
 * Josh Cooley† – Toy Story 4
 * Michael Angelo Covino – The Climb
 * Gary Dauberman – Annabelle Comes Home
 * Roxann Dawson♦ – Breakthrough
 * Jonathan del Val – The Secret Life of Pets 2
 * Mati Diop – Atlantics
 * Lino DiSalvo – Playmobil: The Movie
 * Nora Fingscheidt – System Crasher
 * Micah Gallo† – Itsy Bitsy
 * Mike Gan – Burn
 * Rose Glass† – Saint Maud
 * Rachel Griffiths†♦ – Ride Like a Girl
 * Simon Kinberg – Dark Phoenix
 * Lars Klevberg† – Child's Play
 * Van Ling – Cliffs of Freedom
 * Ladj Ly – Les Misérables
 * Gail Mancuso♦ – A Dog's Journey
 * Melina Matsoukas†♦ – Queen & Slim
 * William McGregor♦† – Gwen
 * Carlo Mirabella Davis – Swallow
 * Adam Egypt Mortimer♦† – Daniel Isn't Real
 * Wagner Moura – Marighella
 * Shannon Murphy – Babyteeth
 * Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz† – The Peanut Butter Falcon
 * Katharine O'Brien† – Lost Transmissions
 * Sergio Pablos – Klaus
 * Andrew Patterson† – The Vast of Night
 * Joe Penna♦† – Arctic
 * Annie Silverstein – Bull
 * Grant Sputore† – I Am Mother
 * Gene Stupnitsky† – Good Boys
 * Joe Talbot† - The Last Black Man in San Francisco
 * Emma Tammi – The Wind
 * Michael Tyburski† – The Sound of Silence
 * Thurop Van Orman and John Rice – The Angry Birds Movie 2
 * Viktor van der Valk – Nocturne
 * Olivia Wilde† – Booksmart
 * Phillip Youmans – Burning Cane
 * Lulu Wang† – The Farewell

2020

 * Max Barbakow – Palm Springs
 * Halle Berry – Bruised
 * Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz† – Antebellum
 * Brian Patrick Butler† – Friend of the World
 * Eric D. Cabello Diaz – El Camino de Xico
 * Tony Cervone♦ - Scoob!
 * Dean Craig† – Love Wedding Repeat
 * Joel Crawford† – The Croods: A New Age
 * Jack Danini† – Ode to Passion
 * Emerald Fennell† – Promising Young Woman
 * Michael Fimognari† – To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
 * Will Forbes – John Henry
 * Jeff Fowler† – Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Edward Hall♦† – Blithe Spirit
 * Sam Hargrave† – Extraction
 * Chris Henchy† – Impractical Jokers: The Movie
 * David Henrie† – This Is the Year
 * Natalie Erika James† – Relic
 * Anthony Jerjen† – Inherit the Viper
 * Aneil Karia♦† – Surge
 * Glen Keane and John Kahrs – Over the Moon
 * Regina King♦† – One Night in Miami...
 * Natalie Krinsky – The Broken Hearts Gallery
 * Patrice Laliberté♦† – The Decline
 * Rob Lodermeier – The Willoughbys
 * Viggo Mortensen – Falling
 * Jekaterina Oertel – DAU. Natasha
 * Prentice Penny♦† – Uncorcked
 * David Prior† – The Empty Man
 * Emma Seligman† – Shiva Baby
 * Tomotaka Shibayama – A Whisker Away
 * Remi Weekes♦ – His House
 * Autumn de Wilde† – Emma
 * David S. F. Wilson† – Bloodshot
 * Florian Zeller♦ – The Father

2021

 * Elaine Bogan and Ennio Torresan♦ – Spirit Untamed
 * Mika Boorem† – Hollywood.Con
 * Paul Briggs and John Ripa – Raya and the Last Dragon
 * Laura Brousseau and Kevin Pavlovic – The Addams Family 2
 * Jonathan Butterell – Everybody's Talking About Jamie
 * Enrico Casarosa – Luca
 * Ryan Crego♦ – Arlo the Alligator Boy
 * Bakhtyar Fatah♦ – 09
 * Hamish Grieve† – Rumble
 * Maggie Gyllenhaal♦ – The Lost Daughter
 * Rebecca Hall – Passing
 * Brandon Jeffords – Vivo
 * Lisa Joy♦ – Reminiscence
 * Fran Kranz – Mass
 * Johane Matte, Francisco Ruiz Velasco and Andrew L. Schmidt – Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
 * PJ McCabe – The Beta Test
 * Simon McQuoid – Mortal Kombat
 * Brian Andrew Mendoza† – Sweet Girl
 * Lin-Manuel Miranda – Tick, Tick... Boom!
 * Edson Oda – Nine Days
 * Mike Rianda - The Mitchells vs. the Machines
 * Alessandra de Rossi – My Amanda
 * Rodo Sayagues – Don't Breathe 2
 * Evan Spiliotopoulos – The Unholy
 * Liesl Tommy♦ – Respect
 * Mattson Tomlin – Mother/Android
 * Jean-Philippe Vine – Ron's Gone Wrong
 * Jude Weng – Finding 'Ohana
 * Robin Wright†♦ – Land
 * Steve Yamamoto – Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild
 * Carlson Young† – The Blazing World

2022

 * Kenya Barris♦ – You People
 * Loren Bouchard♦ and Bernard Derriman†♦ – The Bob's Burgers Movie
 * Reid Carolin and Channing Tatum – Dog
 * John C. Donkin – The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
 * Jesse Eisenberg† – When You Finish Saving the World
 * Tim Federle♦ – Better Nate Than Ever
 * John Patton Ford† – Emily the Criminal
 * Tom George♦ – See How They Run
 * Mark Gustafson – Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
 * Alex Hardcastle♦ – Senior Year
 * Lee Jung-jae – Hunt
 * Gail Lerner†♦ – Cheaper by the Dozen
 * Pierre Perifel – The Bad Guys
 * J.J. Perry – Day Shift
 * Danny and Michael Philippou† – Talk to Me
 * Domee Shi† – Turning Red
 * Goran Stolevski† – You Won't Be Alone
 * Charlotte Wells†♦ – Aftersun
 * Patrick Wilson – Insidious: The Dark Realm
 * Mike Cheslik† – Hundreds of Beavers
 * Spider One ♦ – Allegoria

2023

 * Carlos Alcántara – ¡Asu mare! Los amigos
 * Kenya Barris♦ – You People
 * Jacob Byrd† – Adalynn
 * Charlie Day – Fool's Paradise
 * Tom DeLonge – Monsters of California
 * Chloe Domont†♦ – Fair Play
 * Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
 * Felipe Gálvez Haberle – The Settlers
 * Meredith Hama-Brown† – Seagrass
 * Benjamin Howard† – Riley
 * Raven Jackson† – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
 * Michael Jelenic♦ – The Super Mario Bros. Movie
 * Michael B. Jordan – Creed III
 * Anna Kendrick – Woman of the Hour
 * Chad Kinis – Beks Days of Our Lives
 * Adele Lim – Joy Ride
 * Eva Longoria♦ – Flamin' Hot
 * Nicholas Maggio† – Mob Land
 * Flora Martínez – Itzia, Tango & Cacao
 * Chris Pine – Poolman
 * A. V. Rockwell† – A Thousand and One
 * Lee Hong-chi – Love Is a Gun
 * Jingyi Shao† – Chang Can Dunk
 * Grant Singer – Reptile
 * Celine Song – Past Lives
 * Julio Torres – Problemista
 * Fawn Veerasunthorn – Wish
 * Meera Welankar – Butterfly
 * Patrick Wilson – Insidious: The Red Door
 * D. W. Waterson♦† – Backspot
 * M. H. Murray† – I Don't Know Who You Are
 * Zarrar Kahn† – In Flames
 * Corey Sherman – Big Boys
 * FM Reyes – In His Mother's Eyes
 * Cord Jefferson♦ – American Fiction

2024

 * Samantha Jayne♦† and Arturo Perez Jr.♦† – Mean Girls
 * Pete Browngardt – The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
 * S. J. Clarkson♦ – Madame Web
 * Patrick Delage ♦ – Despicable Me 4
 * David G. Derrick Jr.♦ –Moana 2
 * Loris Lai – How Kids Roll
 * Kelsey Mann♦ – Inside Out 2
 * Kelly Marcel – Venom: The Last Dance
 * Rachel Morrison♦ – The Fire Inside
 * Dev Patel† – Monkey Man
 * Jerry Seinfeld♦ – Unfrosted
 * Arkasha Stevenson♦† – The First Omen
 * Chris Stuckmann† – Shelby Oaks
 * Zelda Williams† – Lisa Frankenstein
 * Elle Márjá Eira♦† – Stolen
 * Michael Felker – Things Will Be Different
 * Josh Margolin – Thelma

2025

 * Adrian Molina – Elio

Upcoming

 * Michael Cera† – TBA
 * Emily Dean – Tao
 * John D. Eraklis and Tara Nicole Whitaker – Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk
 * Mark Fischbach†♦ – Iron Lung
 * Keith Jardine† – Killer Kafé
 * Scarlett Johansson† – Eleanor the Great
 * Jonathan Krisel – untitled Sesame Street film
 * Minkyu Lee† – The Witch Boy
 * Kristen Stewart† – The Chronology of Water
 * Taylor Swift† – TBA
 * Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk – Hell of a Summer