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This is a list of notable directors and their first commercial cinematic films, listed chronologically by release date.
Many of the listed filmmakers, including Orson Welles, directed earlier works that were not commercially released, such as film-school projects, movies that failed to find distribution, or others that were never intended for release. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, some directors learned their trade in the medium of television, including Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, and Alfonso Cuarón. Later directors such as Alan Parker and Ridley Scott did their first professional work in commercial television advertising, which became more cinematic in the 1960s and 1970s. The success of MTV and the popularity of music videos from the early 1980s drew first work from David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, and Spike Jonze.
♦ Indicates a director who created other earlier works for television.
# Indicates a director whose earlier work is uncredited.
† Indicates a director whose earlier work has not been released in cinemas—for example, film school productions, short films, or music videos.
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- Co-directed with Robert N. Bradbury
- As Detlef Sierck
- Co-directed with Anthony Hankey
- Co-directed with Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen and David D. Hand
- Co-directed with Gunther von Fritsch
- Co-directed with Brian Desmond Hurst
- Co-directed with Robert Jordan Hill
- Co-directed with Yakov Bazelyan
- Directed segment Interlude in the Marshland
- Co-directed with Abe Levitow
- Co-directed with Bradley R. Swirnoff
- Co-directed with Wolfgang Reitherman
- Co-directed with Bill Melendez
- Co-directed with John Lounsbery
- Co-directed with Rintaro
- Co-directed with Kenneth Tsang
- Co-directed with Art Stevens
- Co-directed with Jesse Wells
- Co-directed with Frank Lustig
- Co-directed with Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells
- Co-directed with Joe Johnston
- Co-directed with Mike Gabriel
- Co-directed with David Van Taylor
- Co-directed with Peter Farrelly
- Co-directed with Quentin Lee
- Co-directed with Simon Wells
- Co-directed with Jim Wynorski
- Co-directed with Kevin Lima
- Co-directed with Eric Goldberg, Pixote Hunt, James Algar and Hendel Butoy
- Co-directed with Ralph Zondag
- Co-directed with Richard Rich
- Co-directed with Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly
- Co-directed with Richard Rich
- Co-directed with David Daniel
- Co-directed with Corey Yuen
- Co-directed with Norton Virgien
- Co-directed with Tim Johnson
- Co-directed with Efram Potelle
- Co-directed with Vicky Jenson and Bibo Bergeron
- Co-directed with Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury
- Co-directed with Ryan Fleck
- Co-directed with Tim Burton
- Co-directed with Eric Darnell
- Co-directed with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
- Co-directed with James Cameron
- Co-directed with Roger Allers
- Co-directed with Tim Johnson
- Co-directed with John Lasseter
- Co-directed with Chris Buck
- Co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud
- Co-directed with Steve Hickner
- Co-directed with Brian Hooks
- Co-directed with Ryan Fleck
- Co-directed with Matthew Robinson
- Co-directed with Pete Docter
- Co-directed with Byron Howard
- Co-directed with Lionel Steketee and Thomas N'Gijol
- Co-directed with Stephen Anderson
- Co-directed with John Lasseter
- Co-directed with Alastair Fothergill
- Co-directed with Barry Cook
- Co-directed with Brenda Chapman
- Co-directed with Chris Renaud
- Co-directed with Peter Lord
- Co-directed with Steve Martino
- Co-directed with Mike McCoy
- Co-directed with Chris Buck
- Co-directed with Anthony Stacchi
- Co-directed with Guy Jenkin
- Co-directed with Jocelyn Towne
- Co-directed with Jennifer Yuh Nelson
- Co-directed with Chris Renaud
- Co-directed with Michael Thurmeier
- Co-directed with Mike Mitchell
- As Declan Dale
- Co-directed with Garth Jennings
- Co-directed with Nicholas Stoller
- Co-directed with Conrad Vernon
- Co-directed with Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda
- Co-directed with Lee Unkrich
- Co-directed with Rich Moore
- Co-directed with Yarrow Cheney
- Co-directed with Peter Ramsey
- Co-directed with Peter Chelsom, Fernando Eimbcke, Dennis Gansel, Dani Levy, Josef Rusnak, Til Schweiger and Massy Tadjedin
- Co-directed with Chris Renaud
- Co-directed with Jim Cummings
- Directed with Sarah Smith
- Co-directed with Aaron Horvath
- Co-directed with Chris Buck
- Co-directed with Chris Renaud
- Co-directed with Chris Jenkins
- Co-directed with Domee Shi and Adrian Molina
- Co-directed with Andrew Stanton
- Co-directed with Joel Crawford
- Co-directed with Alessandro Carloni
- Co-directed with Jason Hand
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