- List of directorial debuts
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This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order.
The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial theatrical release. Where a director has created other earlier works for television it is annotated by a ♦ . When a director's earlier work is uncredited it is annotated #. When the work has not been released e.g. such as film school or is a short film or (music) video it is annotated by a †. Please refer to individual entries for further detail.
Contents 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
1800s
1896
- Alice Guy-Blanche – La Fée aux Choux
- Georges Méliès – Le Manoir du diable
1900s
1908
- D.W. Griffith – The Adventures of Dollie
1910s
1920s
1920
- Clarence Brown – The Great Redeemer
- Sam Wood – Double Speed
1921
- William Dieterle - Der Mensch am Wege
- Leo McCarey – Society Secrets
1922
- Walt Disney – Little Red Riding Hood
- Robert J. Flaherty – Nanook of the North
- Alexander Hall – A Game of Craft
- Alfred Hitchcock – Number 13
1923
- Adrian Brunel - The Man Without Desire
- William Dieterle – Der Mensch am Wege
- Sergei Eisenstein – Glumov's Diary
- Kenji Mizoguchi – Ai ni yomigaru hi
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Der Schatz
1924
- Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – The Adventures of Oktyabrina
- Jean Renoir – Backbiters
1925
- Jean Cocteau – Jean Cocteau fait du Cinema
- Lewis Milestone† – Seven Sinners
- Josef von Sternberg – The Salvation Hunters
1926
- Frank Capra- The Strong Man
- Howard Hawks – The Road to Glory
- Ray Taylor – Fighting with Buffalo Bill
- Edgar G. Ulmer# – The Border Sheriff [nb 1]
- William Wyler† – Lazy Lightning
1927
- Lloyd Bacon – The Heart of Maryland
- David Butler – High School Hero
- Mervyn LeRoy – No Place To Go
- Yasujiro Ozu – Zange no Yaiba
1928
- Norman Taurog† – Lucky Boy
1929
- Lionel Barrymore – Madame X
- John Cromwell – Close Harmony
- Martin Frič - Father Vojtech
- Leo McCarey† – Freed'em and Weep
- Alf Sjöberg - Den starkaste
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2010
- Richard Ayoade† - Submarine[18]
- Banksy – Exit Through The Gift Shop
- Darragh Byrne♦ – Parked
- Lena Dunham - Tiny Furniture
- Gareth Edwards - Monsters
- Tanya Hamilton - Night Catches Us
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Jack Goes Boating
- Henry Joost & Ariel Shulman† - Catfish
- Larysa Kondracki - The Whistleblower[11]
- Joseph Kosinski – Tron: Legacy
- Jason Croot - Le Fear
- William Monahan – London Boulevard
- Ben Miller – Huge
- Chris Morris - Four Lions
- Troy Nixey† – Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
- Josh Radnor - happythankyoumoreplease
- Joann Sfar – Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
- Floria Sigismondi - The Runaways
- Massy Tadjedin – Last Night
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi – The Secret World of Arrietty
2011
- Richard de Aragues – TT3D: Closer to the Edge
- Jayendra – 180
- Paddy Considine - Tyrannosaur
- Joe Cornish†♦ - Attack the Block[19]
- Alexandre Courtes – The Incident
- Dexter Fletcher;- "Wild Bill"
- Giddens – You Are the Apple of My Eye
- Evan Glodell - Bellflower[11]
- Rashaad Ernesto Green - Gun Hill Road[11]
- Xu Haofeng - The Sword Identity
- Angelina Jolie – In the Land of Blood and Honey
- Mayumi Komatsu - Tamatama
- Julia Leigh – Sleeping Beauty
- Niall MacCormick♦ - Albatross
- John Michael McDonagh - The Guard
- Keith Scholey - African Cats
- Jason Winer†♦ - Arthur
2012
- Mamoru Nagano - Gothicmade
- Daigo Matsui - Afro Tanaka
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "The 50 greatest debut movies: part three". Time Out. http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8596/. Retrieved 2 Sep 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Eric's Top 10 Directorial Debuts". scene-stealers.com. http://www.scene-stealers.com/top-10/erics-top-10-directorial-debuts/. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "The 50 greatest debut movies: part five". Time Out. http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8607/. Retrieved 2 Sep 2011.
- ^ Lloyd, Ann; Robinson, David (1987). The Illustrated History of Cinema. Macmillan. p. 162. ISBN 978-0029192412.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "The 50 greatest debut movies: part two". Time Out. http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8595/. Retrieved 2 Sep 2011.
- ^ "The 50 greatest debut movies: part six". Time Out. http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8608/. Retrieved 2 Sep 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "The 50 greatest debut movies: part four". Time Out. http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8597/. Retrieved 2 Sep 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Jarecki, Nicholas. Breaking In — How 20 Film Directors Got Their Start. ISBN 0-7679-0674-8.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Lowenstein, Stephen. My First Movie. ISBN 0-375-42081-9.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time". Time Out. http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8594/Time_Out-s_50_greatest_directorial_debuts_of_all_time.html. Retrieved 2 Sep 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "The Top Grossing Directorial Debuts of All-time". Indiewire.com. http://www.indiewire.com/article/heres_the_top_grossing_directorial_debuts/. Retrieved 3 Sep 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g "J.D.'s Top 10 Directorial Debuts". scene-stealers.com. http://www.scene-stealers.com/top-10/jds-top-ten-directorial-debuts/. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "10 worst-reviewed directorial debuts since 1990". Metacritic.com. http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-and-worst-directorial-debuts?page=1. Retrieved 3 Sep 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Top 5 Female Directorial Debuts". Soundonsight.org. 24 Oct 2011. http://www.soundonsight.org/top-5-female-directorial-debuts/.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "10 best-reviewed directorial debuts since 1990". Metacritic.com. http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-and-worst-directorial-debuts. Retrieved 3 Sep 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Doom Dispatch: The Ten best Directorial Debuts of the Decade". www.geeksofdoom.com. http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/05/29/the-doom-dispatch-the-ten-best-directorial-debuts-of-the-decade/. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2009-10-08). "Katalin Varga". London: Guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/08/katalin-varga-review. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
- ^ "TIFF '10:Day 7". AVClub.com. http://www.avclub.com/articles/tiff-10-day-7,45247/. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ "SXSW Review: Attack The Block Could Be The Best Action Movie Of The Year". Cinemablend.com. March 17, 2011. http://www.cinemablend.com/new/SXSW-Review-Attack-The-Block-Could-Be-The-Best-Action-Movie-Of-The-Year-23620.html.
Notes
- ^ Co-directed with Robert N. Bradbury
- ^ Co-directed with Edgar G. Ulmer
- ^ as Detlef Sierck
- ^ Co-directed with Anthony Hankey
- ^ Co-directed with Gunther von Fritsch
- ^ Co-directed with Brian Desmond Hurst
- ^ Although originally made for TV, additional scenes were filmed and it was released theatrically in Europe in 1972
- ^ co-directed with Buck Henry
- ^ co-directed with Warren Beatty
- ^ Co-directed with Quentin Lee
- ^ co-directed with John Lasseter
- ^ Co-directed with David Silverman
- ^ Co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud
- ^ Co-directed with Pete Docter
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