                      Academy Award debuts

* Brooks, James          Terms of Endearment                1983
* Costner, Kevin         Dances With Wolves                 1990
* Mann, Delbert          Marty                              1955
* Puenzo, Luis           The Official Story                 1985
* Redford, Robert        Ordinary People                    1980
 
                        Nominated Debuts

Beatty, Warren           Heaven Can Wait                    1978
Branagh, Kenneth         Henry V                            1989
Clayton, Jack            Room at the Top [Feature]          1959
Hudson, Hugh             * Chariots of Fire *               1981
Joffe, Roland            The Killing Fields                 1984
Kazan, Elia [Feat]       A Tree Grows in Brooklyn           1945
Lumet, Sydney            Twelve Angry Men                   1957
Nichols, Mike            Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf     1966

                       Directorial Debuts

Allen, Woody             What's Up Tigerlily?               1966
Altman, Robert           Delinquents                        1957
Antonioni, Michel..      Story of A Love Affair             1950
Ashby, Hal               The Landlord                       1970
Attenborough, Richard    Oh! What a Lovely War              1969
Babenco, Hector          Rei de Noite                       1976
Bartel, Paul             Private Parts                      1972
Beineix, Jean-Jacques    Diva                               1982
Benton, Robert           Bad Company                        1972
Beresford, Bruce         Adventures of B McKenzie           1972
BERGMAN, Ingmar          Crisis [Swedish]                   1946
Bernstein, Walter        Little Miss Marker                 1980
Bertolucci, Bernardo     The Grim Reaper                    1962
Bill, Tony               My Bodyguard                       1980
Bogdonavich, Peter       Targets                            1968
Boorman, John            Catch Us If You Can                1965
Borzage, Frank           That Gal of Burke's                1916
Brenon, Herbert          All For Her                        1912
Brickman, Marshall       Simon                              1980
Brooks, Albert           Real Life                          1979
Brooks, Mel              The Producers                      1968
Brooks, Richard          Crisis                             1958
Brown, Clarence          Jim Bludso                         1917
Brunel, Luis             L'Age d'or                         1930
Cacoyannis, Michael      Windfall in Athens                 1954
Cameron, James           Pirahna 2: The Spawning            1981
Carpenter, John          Dark Star                          1974
Cassavettes, John        Shadows                            1960
Chaplin, Charles         Caught In A Cabaret                1914
Crichton, Michael        Westworld                          1973
Cimino, Michael          Thunderbolt and Lightfoot          1974
Columbus, Chris          Adventures in Babysitting          1987
Coppola, Francis F       Dementia 13                        1962
Corman, Roger            Highway Dragnet                    1954
Corman, Roger            Five Guns West [Dir]               1955
Costa-Gravas             Sleeping Car Murders               1965
Cukor, George            Grumpy                             1930
Cukor, George            The Tarnished Lady [Solo]          1931
Curtiz, Michael          The Third Degree                   1926
Dassin, Jules            Nazi Agent                         1942
DeMille, Cecil B         The Squaw Man                      1914
Demme, Jonathan          Caged Heat                         1974
DePalma, Brian           The Wedding Party                  1964
Dieterle, Will (US)      The Last Flight                    1931
Dinner, Michael          Heaven Help Us                     1985
Dmytryk, Edward          The Hawk                           1935
Eastwood, Clint          Play Misty for Me                  1971
Edwards, Blake           Bring Your Smile Along             1955
Eisenstein, Sergei       Strike!                            1924
Fassbinder, Rainer       Love Is Colder Than Death          1969
Fellini, Federico        Variety Lights                     1951
Fleming, Victor          When The Clouds Roll By            1919
Ford, John               The Tornado                        1917
Forman, Milos (US)       Taking Off                         1971
Fosse, Bob               Sweet Charity                      1969
Frankenheimer, John      The Young Stranger                 1957
Friedkin, William        Good Times                         1967
Frears, Stephen          Gumshoe                            1972
Germi, Pietro            The Witness                        1946
Godard, Jean Luc         Breathless [Feature]               1959
Hathaway, Henry          Heritage of the Desert             1932
Hawks, Howard            The Road to Glory                  1926
Hawks, Howard            The Dawn Patrol [Talking]          1930
Hill, George Roy         Period of Adjustment               1962
Hill, Walter             Hard Times                         1975
Hitchcock, Alfred        Pleasure Garden, The               1925
Hitchcock                Blackmail [Talking]                1929
Howard, Ron              Grand Theft Auto                   1977
Huston, Danny            Mr North                           1988
Huston, John             The Maltese Falcon                 1941
Ivory, James             The Householder                    1963
Jaffe, Stanley           Without a Trace                    1983
Jewison, Norman          Forty Pounds of Trouble            1963
Kapra, Frank             Fultah Fisher's Boarding...        1922
Kasdan, Lawrence         Body Heat                          1981
Kazan, Elia              People of the Cumberlands          1937
King, Henry              Little Mary Sunshine               1916
King, Steven             Maximum Overdrive                  1986
King Vidor               The Turn in the Road               1919
Koster, Henry            Adventure of Thea Roland           1932
Koster, Henry (US)       Three Smart Girls                  1936
Kramer, Stanley          Not As A Stranger                  1955
Kubrick, Stanley         Fear and Desire                    1953
Kurosawa, Akita          Sanshiro Sugata                    1943
La Cava, Gregory         His Nibs                           1922
Landis, John             Schlock                            1971
Lean, David              In Which We Serve                  1942
Lee, Spike               She's Gotta Have It [Feature]      1986
Lehmann, Michael         Heathers                           1989
Lelouch, Claude          The Right Man                      1960
Leone, Sergio            Last Days of Pompeii               1959
Leroy, Mervyn            No Place to Go                     1927
Levinson, Barry          Diner                              1982
Litvak, Anatole          Dolly's Way to Stardom             1929
Lloyd, Frank             The Gentleman from Indiana         1915
Lubitsch, Ernst          Blindman's Buff                    1915
Lucas, George            THX 1138                           1971
Lynch, David             Eraserhead                         1978
Lyne, Adrian             Foxes                              1980
Mamet, David             House of Games                     1987
Malle, Louis             The Silent World                   1955
Mankiewicz,Joseph        Dragonwyck                         1946
Marshall, Garry          Young Doctors In Love              1982
Marshall, Penny          Jumpin Jack Flash                  1986
Mazursky, Paul           Bob and Carol and Ted and...       1969
McCarey, Leo             Society Secrets                    1923
McDowell, Roddy          The Devil's Widow                  1972
Milestone, Lewis         Seven Sinners                      1925
Minelli, Vincente        Cabin in The Sky                   1943
Molinaro, Edouard        Le Dos au Mur                      1957
Moreau, Jeanne           Lumiere                            1976
Mulligan, Robert         Fear Strikes Out                   1957
Nair, Mira               Salaam Bombay!                     1988
Needham, Hal             Smokey and the Bandit              1977
Negulesco, Jean          Flag of Humanity [Short]           1940
Negulesco, Jean          Singapore Woman [Feature]          1941
O'Bannon, Dan            Return of the Living Dead          1985
Olivier, Laurence        Henry V                            1944
Pakula, Alan J           The Sterile Cuckoo                 1969
Parker, Alan             Bugsy Malone                       1976
Pasolini, Pier Paolo     Accattone                          1961
Paul, Steven             Falling in Love Again              1980
Peckinpah, Sam           The Deadly Companions              1961
Penn, Arthur             The Left-handed Gun                1958
Pinter, Harold           Butley                             1974
Polanski, Roman          Knife in the Water                 1962
Pollack, Sydney          The Slender Thread                 1965
Pontecorvo, Gilio        The Compass/The Windrose           1956
Preminger, Otto          The Great Love                     1931
Prince, Harold           Something For Everyone             1970
Reed, Carol              Midshipman Easy                    1933
Renoir, Jean             The Water Girl                     1924
Richardson, Tony         Look Back In Anger                 1959
Riefenstahl, Leni        The Blue Light                     1932
Ritt, Martin             Edge of the City                   1956
Roeg, Nicholas           Performance                        1970
Ross, Herbert            Goodbye Mr Chips                   1969
Rossen, Robert           Johnny O'Clock                     1947
Rusell, Ken              French Dressing                    1964
Rydell, Mark             The Fox                            1968
Sayles, John             Return of the Secaucus 7           1980
Schlesinger, John        Black Legend [Short]               1948
Schlesinger, John        A Kind of Loving [Feature]         1962
Schrader, Paul           Blue Collar                        1978
Schroeder, Barbet        More                               1969
Scorsese, Martin         Who's That Knocking at My..        1969
Scott, Ridley            The Duellists                      1977
Seltzer, David           Lucas                              1986
Shepard, Sam             Far North                          1988
Siodmak, Robert          People on Sunday                   1929
Spielberg, Steve         Night Gallery [TVM Segment]        1969
Spielberg                Duel [TVM]                         1971
Spielberg                Sugarland Express [Feature]        1974
Sternberg, Josef von     The Salvation Hunters              1925
Stevens, George          The Cohens and Kellys ...          1933
Stevenson, Robert        Falling for You                    1933
Stone, Oliver            Seizure                            1974
Sturges, John            The Man Who Dared                  1946
Sturges, Preston         The Great McGinty                  1940
Taurog, Norman           Lucky Boy                          1929
Taurog, Norman           Sunny Skies [Solo]                 1930
Thompson, Ernest         1969                               1988
Towne, Robert            Personal Best                      1982
Troell, Jan              Stopover in the Marshland          1965
Truffaut, Francois       A Visit [Short]                    1955
Van Dyke, W.S.           Her Good Name                      1917
Wajda, Andrzej           A Generation                       1954
Walters, Charles         Good News                          1947
Wayne, John              The Alamo                          1960
Weir, Peter              Homesdale                          1971
Welles, Orson            Citizen Kane                       1941
Wellman, William         The Man Who Won                    1923
Wertmuller, Lina         The Lizards                        1963
Wilder, Billy            Mauvaise Graine [France]           1933
Wilder, Billy (US)       Major and The Minor                1942
Wise, Robert             Curse of The Cat People            1944
Wyler, William           Crook Buster                       1925
Yates, Peter             Summer Holiday                     1963
Zinnemann, Fred          The Kid Glove Killer               1942

                         Actor-Directors

Bonerz, Peter            Nobody's Perfekt                   1981
Bridges, Beau            The Wild Pair                      1987
Convy, Bert              Weekend Warriors                   1986
Kelly, Gene              On The Town                        1949
Lemmon, Jack             Kotch                              1971
Lewis, Jerry             The Bellboy                        1960
Poitier, Sidney          Buck and The Preacher              1972
Pryor, Richard           Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life...         1986
Reiner, Rob              This is Spinal Tap                 1984
Reynolds, Burt           Gator                              1976
Rivers, Joan             Rabbit Test                        1978
Scott, George C          Rage                               1972
Stallone, Sylvester      Paradise Alley                     1978
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