| 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 Charles Band – Crash! Joseph Brooks# – You Light Up My Life Coluche – Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine 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 Gregory Nava† – The Confessions of Amans Hal Needham – Smokey and the Bandit Chris Noonan – Bulls Phillip Noyce† – Backroads Nobuhiko Obayashi† – House Phil Roman† – Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown Ridley Scott†♦ – The Duellists Art Stevens – The Rescuers Béla Tarr† – Családi tűzfészek Richard Williams – Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure Fred Wolf – The Mouse and his Child 1978 Lou Adler – Up in Smoke Alejandro Agresti† – El zoológico y el cementerio 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 Severino "Nonoy" Marcelo♦† – Tadhana 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 Sam Firstenberg – For the Sake of the Dog Bill Forsyth – That Sinking Feeling Goutam Ghose† – Maabhoomi Tsui Hark – The Butterfly Murders Agnieszka Holland†♦ – Provincial Actors Ann Hui♦ – The Secret Leon Ichaso – El Super Michael Mann – The Jericho Mile 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 Marilou Diaz-Abaya – Tanikala 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 George Bowers – The Hearse James Caan – Hide in Plain Sight Tommy Chong – Cheech and Chong's Next Movie Rob Cohen – A Small Circle of Friends Peter Greenaway† – The Falls Robert Greenwald – Xanadu Taylor Hackford♦† – The Idolmaker Jim Jarmusch – Permanent Vacation Art Linson – Where the Buffalo Roam Steven Lisberger – Animalympics 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, and 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? William Malone – Scared to Death 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 Roger Young – Bitter Harvest 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 Don Gronquist – Unhinged 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 Robert Towne – Personal Best Michael Toshiyuki Uno†♦ – The Silence David S. Ward – Cannery Row Edward Yang – In Our Time 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 Richard Eyre — The Ploughman's Lunch John Herzfeld – Two of a Kind Robert Hiltzik – Sleepaway Camp Robert Jiras – I Am the Cheese Alan Johnson – To Be or Not to Be Shekhar Kapur – Masoom Aki Kaurismäki – Crime and Punishment David Kendall – Luggage of the Gods! Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson – Carry Greenham Home 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 David Allen, John Carl Buechler, and Ted Nicolaou – The Dungeonmaster Steve Barron† – Electric Dreams Leos 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 Paul Michael Glaser†♦ – Amazons 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 – Notre 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 1985 Dodo Abashidze – The Legend of Suram Fortress Dan Attias – Silver Bullet Hal Barwood† – Warning Sign Jonathan R. Betuel – My Science Project Jeff Bleckner♦ – Do You Remember Love 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 Yousry Nasrallah – Summer Thefts 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 Jane Campion†♦ – Two Friends Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, and John Musker – The Great Mouse Detective Jeffrey Delman – Deadtime Stories Howard Deutch† – Pretty in Pink Emilio Estevez – Wisdom Peter Faiman♦ – Crocodile Dundee 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 Sion Sono† – Man's Flower Road Ziggy Steinberg – The Boss' Wife Giuseppe Tornatore – The Professor Agustí Villaronga – Tras el cristal Edward Zwick – About Last Night... 1987 Allison Anders – Border Radio Emile Ardolino♦ – Dirty Dancing 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 Jim Drake† – Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol Steve Gomer† – Sweet Lorraine Flora Gomes – Mortu Nega Michael Gornick†♦ – Creepshow 2 Tamar Simon Hoffs† – The Allnighter Stephen Hopkins – Dangerous Game 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 Charles Winkler – You Talkin' to Me? 1988 Greg Beeman♦ – License to Drive Glenn Gordon Caron – Clean and Sober Stephen Chiodo – Killer Klowns from Outer Space Christopher Coppola – Dracula's Widow John Cornell – Crocodile Dundee II Claire Denis – Chocolat Robert Englund – 976-EVIL Reha Erdem – Oh, Moon! Bran Ferren – Funny: A Bran Ferren Film 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 Wong Kar-wai – Wong Gok Ka Moon Fran Rubel Kuzui – Tokyo Pop John Lafia – The Blue Iguana Richard Linklater – It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books 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! 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 Aisling Walsh† – Joyriders Keenen Ivory Wayans – I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Henry Winkler♦ – Memories of Me Terence H. Winkless – The Nest Stan Winston – Pumpkinhead Zhang Yimou – Red Sorghum 1989 Meiert Avis† – Far from Home Sooraj Barjatya – Maine Pyar Kiya Jeff Blyth – Cheetah Kenneth Branagh – Henry V 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 Isaac – The Horror Show Joe Johnston – Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Takeshi Kitano – Violent Cop Michael Lehmann† – Heathers Brett Leonard – The Dead Pit 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 Anthony Minghella – Truly, Madly, Deeply Stanley Nelson Jr.† – Freedom Bags Dean Parisot†♦ – Framed James D. Parriott – Heart Condition Michele Placido – Pummarò Jay Roach – Zoo Radio Tom Ropelewski – Madhouse Sergio Rubini – The Station Rajkumar Santoshi – Ghayal Tom Savini – Night of the Living Dead Lone Scherfig♦ – Kaj's fødselsdag Ulrich Seidl† – Good News 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 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 Christian Duguay – Scanners II: The New Order Bill Duke†♦ – A Rage in Harlem Jodie Foster – Little Man Tate Randall Fried – Heaven Is a Playground George Gallo – 29th Street Screaming Mad George and Steve Wang – The Guyver 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 Mimi Leder♦ – A Little Piece of Heaven Brian Levant♦ – Problem Child 2 Doug McHenry and George Jackson – House Party 2 Deepa Mehta♦ – Sam & Me Takashi Miike – Eyecatch Junction 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 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 Rich Christiano – Second Glance Billy Crystal – Mr. Saturday Night Gregory Dark – Mirror Images 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 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 David Twohy – Timescape Prasanna Vithanage – Sisila Giniganee 1993 Daniel Alfredson†♦ – Roseanna 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 Mathieu Kassovitz – Métisse 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 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 Jun Falkenstein – Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights 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 Olivia M. Lamasan♦ – Maalaala Mo Kaya: The Movie Doug Liman – Getting In Darnell Martin† – I Like It Like That 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 Charles Herman-Wurmfeld – Fanci's Persuasion Nick Hurran – The Perfect Match Scott Kalvert – The Basketball Diaries Hirokazu Kore-eda – Maborosi Robert Kurtzman – The Demolitionist 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 Jafar Panahi – The White Balloon 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 Edgar Wright – A Fistful of Fingers 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 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 Andrew Kötting† – Gallivant Kim Ki-duk†♦ – Crocodile Zeka Laplaine† – Macadam Tribu 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 Kevin Rodney Sullivan – America's Dream Billy Bob Thornton – Sling Blade Gary J. 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