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Directors (A Rough Chronological
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| All directors
with individual pages (Directors
A-L;
Directors M-Z)
on They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? are listed below in
rough chronological order. We've used as the reference point their first
notable film - which in many cases also equates to their first film. |
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1902 |
Melies, Georges |




























































































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Porter,
Edwin S. |
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1909 |
Griffith, D.W. |
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1912 |
Starewicz, Ladislaw |
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1913 |
Bauer,
Yevgeni |
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Feuillade, Louis |
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Sjostrom, Victor |
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1915 |
DeMille, Cecil B. |
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1916 |
Chaplin, Charles |
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1917 |
Lloyd, Frank |
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1918 |
Elvey, Maurice |
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1919 |
Fleming, Victor |
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Lang, Fritz |
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Lubitsch, Ernst |
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Stiller, Mauritz |
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von Stroheim, Erich |
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1920 |
Dreyer, Carl |
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Keaton, Buster |
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Micheaux, Oscar |
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Niblo, Fred |
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1921 |
Browning, Tod |
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King, Henry |
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Wood, Sam |
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1922 |
Dwan, Allan |
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Flaherty, Robert |
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Murnau, F.W. |
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1923 |
Dupont, E.A. |
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Gance, Abel |
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1924 |
Clair, Rene |
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Eisenstein, Sergei |
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Ford, John |
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L'Herbier, Marcel |
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Walsh, Raoul |
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1925 |
Borzage, Frank |
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Brown, Clarence |
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Cooper, Merian C. &
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
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Hitchcock, Alfred |
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Pabst, G.W. |
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Vidor, King |
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1926 |
Cavalcanti, Alberto |
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Capra, Frank |
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Cummings,
Irving |
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Green, Alfred E. |
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Hawks, Howard |
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Pudovkin, Vsevolod |
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1927 |
Barnet, Boris |
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Epstein, Jean |
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Goulding, Edmund |
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La Cava, Gregory |
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Renoir, Jean |
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Room, Abram |
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von Sternberg, Josef |
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Wellman, William |
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1928 |
Bacon, Lloyd |
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Bunuel, Luis |
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Dovzhenko, Alexander |
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Feyder,
Jacques |
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Milestone, Lewis |
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Parrott,
James |
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Van Dyke II, W.S. |
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1929 |
Arzner,
Dorothy |
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Asquith,
Anthony |
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Butler, David |
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Conway, Jack |
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Curtiz, Michael |
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Florey,
Robert |
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Franklin,
Sidney |
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Kenton, Erle
C. |
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Leonard, Robert Z. |
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Machaty, Gustav |
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May, Joe |
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Mamoulian, Rouben |
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Ruggles, Wesley |
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Tuttle,
Frank |
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Vertov, Dziga |
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1930 |
Cline, Eddie |
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Cocteau, Jean |
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Cromwell, John |
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Garnett, Tay |
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LeRoy, Mervyn |
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Mayo, Archie |
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McCarey, Leo |
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Ozu, Yasujiro |
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Seitz, George B. |
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Sherman,
Lowell |
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Vidor, Charles |
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Vigo, Jean |
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1931 |
Cukor, George |
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Del Ruth, Roy |
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Dieterle, William |
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Ivens, Joris |
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Korda, Alexander |
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Lee, Rowland V. |
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McLeod, Norman Z. |
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Schertzinger, Victor |
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Seiter, William A. |
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Siodmak, Robert |
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Taurog, Norman |
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Wallace, Richard |
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Whale, James |
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1932 |
Allégret,
Marc |
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Duvivier, Julien |
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Enright, Ray |
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Howard,
William K. |
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Lamont, Charles |
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Litvak, Anatole |
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Marshall, George |
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Neill, Roy William |
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Ophüls, Max |
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Riefenstahl, Leni |
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Stahl, John M. |
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Wyler, William |
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1933 |
Feist, Felix E. |
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Fleischer, Dave |
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Forst, Willi |
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Korda, Zoltan |
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Lanfield, Sidney |
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Lang, Walter |
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Marin, Edwin L. |
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Mizoguchi, Kenji |
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Nugent, Elliott |
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Sandrich, Mark |
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Saville, Victor |
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Sun Yu |
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Uchida, Tomu |
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Ulmer, Edgar G. |
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1934 |
Hathaway, Henry |
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Humberstone, H. Bruce |
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Keighley, William |
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Leisen, Mitchell |
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Pagnol, Marcel |
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Powell, Michael |
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Rowland, Roy |
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Stevens, George |
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1935 |
Berkeley, Busby |
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Pichel, Irving |
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Yamanaka, Sadao |
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1936 |
Avery, Tex |
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Clement, Rene |
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Cornell, Joseph |
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Fischinger, Oskar |
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Guitry, Sacha |
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Koster, Henry |
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Lubin, Arthur |
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Lye, Len |
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Menzies, William Cameron |
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Potter, H.C. |
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Sirk, Douglas |
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Stevenson, Robert |
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Thorpe, Richard |
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1937 |
Carne, Marcel |
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Dickinson, Thorold |
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Douglas, Gordon |
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Farrow, John |
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Foster,
Lewis R. |
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Foster, Norman |
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Gremillon, Jean |
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Kimmins,
Anthony |
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Preminger, Otto |
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Sharpsteen, Ben |
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1938 |
Buzzell, Edward |
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Clampett,
Robert |
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Donskoi, Mark |
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Stone, Andrew L. |
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1939 |
Brahm, John |
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Godfrey, Peter |
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Kanin, Garson |
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McLaren, Norman |
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Reed, Carol |
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Sherman, Vincent |
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Tourneur, Jacques |
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1940 |
Bernhardt, Curtis |
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Heisler, Stuart |
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Lewis, Joseph H. |
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Sturges, Preston |
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1941 |
Blasetti, Alessandro |
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Dmytryk, Edward |
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Huston, John |
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Jennings, Humphrey |
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Miller, David |
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Negulesco, Jean |
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Rapper, Irving |
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Reis, Irving |
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Tetzlaff,
Ted |
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Welles, Orson |
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1942 |
Autant-Lara, Claude |
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Clouzot, Henri-Georges |
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Dassin, Jules |
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de Oliveira, Manoel |
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Gordon, Michael |
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Lewin, Albert |
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Mann, Anthony |
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Powell, Michael &
Emeric Pressburger |
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Visconti, Luchino |
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Wilder, Billy |
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Zinnemann, Fred |
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1943 |
Becker, Jacques |
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Bresson, Robert |
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Castle, William |
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Daves, Delmer |
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De Toth, André |
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Dearden, Basil |
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Deren, Maya |
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Fernández, Emilio |
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Minnelli, Vincente |
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Moguy,
Léonide |
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Robson, Mark |
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Sidney, George |
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Wilcox, Fred M. |
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1944 |
Allen, Lewis |
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Boetticher, Budd |
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De Sica, Vittorio |
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Gilliat, Sidney |
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Käutner,
Helmut |
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Kurosawa, Akira |
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Lean, David |
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Levin, Henry |
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Neville, Edgar |
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Olivier, Laurence |
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Ripley, Arthur |
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Wise, Robert |
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1945 |
Berry, John |
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Boulting, John |
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Karlson, Phil |
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Kazan, Elia |
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Menken,
Marie |
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Oboler, Arch |
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Rossellini, Roberto |
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Seaton, George |
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1946 |
Fleischer, Richard |
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Hamer,
Robert |
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Launder, Frank |
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Mankiewicz, Joseph L. |
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Siegel, Don |
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Staudte,
Wolfgang |
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1947 |
Baker, Roy Ward |
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Crichton, Charles |
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Haskin, Byron |
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Melville,
Jean-Pierre |
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Rossen, Robert |
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Shane,
Maxwell |
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Smith, Harry |
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Tati, Jacques |
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Walters, Charles |
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Zampa, Luigi |
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1948 |
Annakin, Ken |
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Bergman, Ingmar |
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Endfield, Cy |
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Fisher, Terence |
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Lattuada, Alberto |
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Losey, Joseph |
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Mate, Rudolph |
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Sturges, John |
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Young, Terence |
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1949 |
Anger, Kenneth |
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Donen, Stanley & Gene
Kelly |
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Franju, Georges |
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Fuller, Sam |
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Mackendrick,
Alexander |
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Newman, Joseph M. |
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Ray, Nicholas |
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Vajda,
Ladislao |
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1950 |
Antonioni,
Michelangelo |
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Brooks, Richard |
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Fellini, Federico |
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Geronimi,
Clyde/Hamilton Luske/Wilfred Jackson |
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Guest, Val |
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Lupino, Ida |
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Resnais, Alain |
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Thomas, Ralph |
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1951 |
Donen, Stanley |
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Germi, Pietro |
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Kinoshita, Keisuke |
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Kubrick, Stanley |
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Neame,
Ronald |
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Parrish, Robert |
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Quine, Richard |
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Weis, Don |
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1952 |
Berlanga, Luis García |
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Comencini, Luigi |
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Guillermin, John |
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Hamilton, Guy |
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Lamorisse, Albert |
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Mann, Daniel |
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Sears, Fred F. |
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Tashlin, Frank |
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Thompson, J. Lee |
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Verneuil,
Henri |
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1953 |
Aldrich, Robert |
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Anderson, Lindsay |
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Arnold, Jack |
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Brook, Peter |
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Jones, Chuck |
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Pennebaker, D.A. |
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Wood Jr., Edward D. |
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1954 |
Anderson, Michael |
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Cottafavi, Vittorio |
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Gilbert, Lewis |
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Naruse, Mikio |
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Wajda, Andrzej |
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1955 |
Clayton, Jack |
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Corman, Roger |
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Dos Santos,
Nelson Pereira |
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Edwards, Blake |
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Green, Guy |
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Kramer, Stanley |
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Laughton, Charles |
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Logan, Joshua |
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Mann, Delbert |
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Ray, Satyajit |
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Risi, Dino |
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Rouch, Jean |
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Shavelson, Melville |
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1956 |
Breer,
Robert |
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Ichikawa, Kon |
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McLaglen, Andrew V. |
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Pontecorvo, Gillo |
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Post, Ted |
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Vadim, Roger |
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1957 |
Altman, Robert |
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Day, Robert |
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Donner,
Clive |
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Frankenheimer, John |
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Godard, Jean-Luc |
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Jacobs, Ken |
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Kalatozishvili,
Mikheil |
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Kubelka, Peter |
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Lumet, Sidney |
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Malle, Louis |
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Marker,
Chris |
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Masumura,
Yasuzo |
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Monicelli, Mario |
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Mulligan, Robert |
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Ritt, Martin |
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Thomas, Gerald |
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Truffaut, Francois |
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1958 |
Brakhage, Stan |
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Cardiff, Jack |
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Chabrol, Claude |
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Chahine, Youssef |
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Ghatak, Ritwik |
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Holt, Seth |
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Kershner, Irvin |
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Penn, Arthur |
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Polanski, Roman |
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Reisz, Karel |
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Richardson, Tony |
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1959 |
Bolognini, Mauro |
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Cassavetes, John |
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Kawalerowicz, Jerzy |
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Kobayashi, Masaki |
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Li Han Hsiang |
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Meyer, Russ |
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Rohmer, Eric |
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Zurlini,
Valerio |
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1960 |
Bava, Mario |
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Chor Yuen |
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Hellman, Monte |
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Leone, Sergio |
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Lewis, Jerry |
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Oshima, Nagisa |
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Petrie, Daniel |
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Rivette, Jacques |
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Rush,
Richard |
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Sautet, Claude |
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Suzuki, Seijun |
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1961 |
Corbucci,
Sergio |
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Demy, Jacques |
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Donner, Richard |
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Forbes, Bryan |
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Francis, Freddie |
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Furie, Sidney J. |
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Harrington, Curtis |
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Imamura, Shohei |
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Kennedy, Burt |
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Olmi, Ermanno |
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo |
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Peckinpah, Sam |
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Petri, Elio |
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Rosi, Francesco |
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Schlesinger, John |
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Xie Jin |
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1962 |
Deville,
Michel |
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Ferroni,
Giorgio |
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Griffi, Giuseppe Patroni |
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Hill, George Roy |
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Kotcheff, Ted |
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Lester, Richard |
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Perry, Frank |
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Tarkovsky, Andrei |
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Varda, Agnes |
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Winner, Michael |
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1963 |
Coppola, Francis
Ford |
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Deray,
Jacques |
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Ferreri, Marco |
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Hiller, Arthur |
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Ivory, James |
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Jewison, Norman |
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Lizzani,
Carlo |
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Pollet,
Jean-Daniel |
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Reitherman, Wolfgang |
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Robbe-Grillet, Alain |
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Schaffner, Franklin
J. |
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Warhol, Andy |
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Wertmüller, Lina |
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Widerberg,
Bo |
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Yates, Peter |
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1964 |
Bertolucci, Bernardo |
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Borowczyk, Walerian |
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Daneliya,
Georgi |
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de
Antonio, Emile |
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Fulci, Lucio |
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Fernán Gómez, Fernando |
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Guerra, Ruy |
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Nemec, Jan |
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Ophüls, Marcel |
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Parajanov, Sergei |
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Rocha, Glauber |
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Scola, Ettore |
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Watkins, Peter |
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1965 |
Alvarez, Santiago |
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Bellocchio, Marco |
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Boorman, John |
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Costa-Gavras,
Constantin |
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Forman, Milos |
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Harris, James B. |
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Hutton, Brian G. |
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Jancso, Miklos |
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Loach, Ken |
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Passer, Ivan |
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Pollack, Sydney |
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1966 |
Greene,
David |
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Harvey, Anthony |
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Hu, King |
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Kluge, Alexander |
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Konchalovsky, Andrei |
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Lelouch, Claude |
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Nichols, Mike |
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Rappeneau, Jean-Paul |
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Sanjines, Jorge |
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Sembene, Ousmane |
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Shepitko,
Larisa |
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Skolimowski, Jerzy |
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Szabo, Istvan |
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1967 |
Castellari, Enzo G. |
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Cheh Chang |
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Colizzi,
Giuseppe |
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Friedkin, William |
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Kaufman, Philip |
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Kren, Kurt |
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Makavejev, Dusan |
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Muratova,
Kira |
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Perrault, Pierre |
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Reiner, Carl |
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Rosenberg, Stuart |
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Russell, Ken |
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Saks, Gene |
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Shear, Barry |
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Snow, Michael |
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Wiseman, Frederick |
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Zeffirelli, Franco |
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1968 |
Alea,
Tomás Gutiérrez |
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Berri, Claude |
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Bogdanovich, Peter |
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Brooks, Mel |
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De Palma, Brian |
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Flynn, John |
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Gehr, Ernie |
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Grosbard, Ulu |
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Herzog, Werner |
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Jodorowsky, Alejandro |
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McBride, Jim |
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Medak, Peter |
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Morrissey, Paul |
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Newman, Paul |
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Pialat, Maurice |
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Rafelson, Bob |
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Romero, George A. |
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Rydell, Mark |
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Scorsese, Martin |
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Straub, Jean-Marie &
Daniele Huillet |
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1969 |
Allen, Woody |
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Argento, Dario |
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Attenborough,
Richard |
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Burnett, Charles |
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Fassbinder, Rainer Werner |
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Fosse, Bob |
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Fukasaku,
Kinji |
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Hopper, Dennis |
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Mazursky, Paul |
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Pakula, Alan J. |
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Ritchie, Michael |
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Ross, Herbert |
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Sen, Mrinal |
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1970 |
Andersson,
Roy |
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Ashby, Hal |
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Avildsen, John G. |
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Bridges, James |
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Diegues,
Carlos |
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Frampton, Hollis |
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Hanson, Curtis |
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Iosseliani, Otar |
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Lynch, David |
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Mekas, Jonas |
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Saura, Carlos |
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Schatzberg, Jerry |
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Schlondorff, Volker |
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1971 |
Eastwood, Clint |
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Hodges, Mike |
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Leigh, Mike |
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Lucas, George |
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May, Elaine |
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Mutrux,
Floyd |
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Roeg, Nicolas |
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Schroeter, Werner |
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Spielberg, Steven |
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Tanner, Alain |
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Troell, Jan |
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Wenders, Wim |
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1972 |
Bakshi, Ralph |
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Bartel, Paul |
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Becker, Harold |
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