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Directors (A Rough Chronological Listing)
  
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.
 
1902 Melies, Georges

Georges Melies

Erich von Stroheim

Robert Flaherty

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean Renoir

Alexander Dovzhenko

Robert Z. Leonard

Leo McCarey

Joris Ivens

Robert Siodmak

Julien Duvivier

William Wyler

Victor Saville

Roy Rowland

Arthur Lubin

Douglas Sirk

Otto Preminger

Garson Kanin

Preston Sturges

Claude Autant-Lara

Billy Wilder

Maya Deren

Laurence Olivier

Roberto Rossellini

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Ken Annakin

Kenneth Anger

Federico Fellini

Ida Lupino

Richard Quine

Robert Aldrich

Chuck Jones

Roger Corman

Jean Rouch

Ken Jacobs

Gerald Thomas

Irvin Kershner

John Cassavetes

Mario Bava

Jacques Demy

Sam Peckinpah

Francis Ford Coppola

Norman Jewison

Jan Nemec

John Boorman

Alexander Kluge

Ousmane Sembene

Carl Reiner

Ernie Gehr

Woody Allen

Alan J. Pakula

Clint Eastwood

Nicolas Roeg

Robert Benton

John Waters

Bertrand Tavernier

Jonathan Demme

Oliver Stone

Hector Babenco

Barbet Schroeder

Ridley Scott

Robert Zemeckis

Tsui Hark

John Sayles

James Cameron

Agnieszka Holland

Don Bluth

Garry Marshall

Martha Coolidge

Atom Egoyan

Rob Reiner

Lasse Hallstrom

Denys Arcand

John McTiernan

Stanley Kwan

Claire Denis

Giuseppe Tornatore

Takeshi Kitano

Michael Moore

Whit Stillman

Michael Almereyda

Quentin Tarantino

Robert Rodriguez

Tran Anh Hung

Noah Baumbach

Roger Michell

Wes Anderson

Doug Liman

Alexander Payne

Zhang Ke Jia

Sofia Coppola

Marc Forster

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