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 theatrical release.

Notes:

♦ 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, or short films or music videos.

Please refer to individual entries for further detail.

1890s

1896

Alice Guy-Blaché – La Fée aux Choux

Georges Méliès – Le Manoir du diable

1900s

1908

Louis Feuillade – L'Homme aimanté

D. W. Griffith – The Adventures of Dollie

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

References

Notes

List

A list is any enumeration of a set of items. List or lists may also refer to:

People

Places

List auf Sylt, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt

Enumerations

Electoral list, a grouping of candidates

Listicle, an article in list format

Mailing list, collection of names and addresses to send material to multiple recipients

Task list, sometimes a to-do list, a prioritization strategy for time management

Computing

Comma-separated values, sometimes character-separated values, a file type that stores tabular data in plain-text form

Electronic mailing list

List (abstract data type), sometimes called a sequence

Organizations

List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

SC Germania List, German rugby union club

Other uses

List (watercraft), the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship

Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted

List, an alternative term for roll in flight dynamics

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film.

The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay in the boundaries of the film's budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect, and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners. Some directors edit or appear in their films, or compose the music score for their films.

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