Impressive Directorial Debuts

Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
Elia Kazan – A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Bruce Robinson – Withnail and I
Sam Mendes – American Beauty
François Truffaut – The 400 Blows
Robert Redford – Ordinary People
Ridley Scott – The Duellists
Bryan Forbes – Whistle Down the Wind
Mike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Wolfgang Reitherman – One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Tony Richardson – Tom Jones
Charles Jarrott – Anne of the Thousand Days
Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones – Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Stephen Frears – Gumshoe
James L. Brooks – Terms of...