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Eloyce Gist, James Gist
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Religious Drama
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Unknown • Starring: Gloria Blondell
Animation • Documentary • Short Film
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Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Avant-garde / Experimental • Female-Directed Film • Short Film
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Susan Seidelman • Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn
Comedy Drama • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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John Lasseter
Animation • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
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Anthony Rizzo • Starring: Leo M. Langlois, Ray J. Mauer, Robert Middleton
Animation • Short Film
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Henry King • Starring: Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres
Americana • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy
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Gregory Nava • Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Guerra, Constance Marie
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Reginald Hudlin • Starring: Christopher Martin, Robin Harris, Martin Lawrence
Buddy Film • Comedy • Teen Movie
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Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie • Starring: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers
Comedy Drama • Short Film
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D.W. Griffith • Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
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David Hand • Starring: Bobby Stewart, Hardie Albright, Perce Pearce
Animated Musical • Animation • Family
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John Huston • Starring: Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary • History • Military and War
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John Badham • Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller
Dance Film • Drama • Urban Drama
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Alan Crosland • Starring: May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugénie Besserer
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
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Jerry Lewis • Starring: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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William K.L. Dickson • Starring: Fred Ott
Documentary • Short Film • Silent Film
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Larry Jordan
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film
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Clyde Geronimi • Starring: Ilene Woods, Verna Felton, Don Barclay
Animated Musical • Animation • Fairy Tales and Legends
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Sally Cruikshank
Animation • Female-Directed Film • Short Film
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David Hand • Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Billy Gilbert
Animated Musical • Animation • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
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Frederick Stephani • Starring: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Action • Adventure • Superhero Film
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Dudley Murphy • Starring: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Fred M. Wilcox • Starring: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Animal Picture
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William Heise • Starring: May Irwin, John C. Rice
Romance • Short Film • Silent Film
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William K.L. Dickson • Starring: Joseph Jefferson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Short Film • Silent Film
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Stan Brakhage
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Short Film
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Ben Sharpsteen • Starring: Herman Bing, James Baskett, Billy Bletcher
Adventure • Animated Musical • Animation
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.
Drama • Musical • Musical Romance
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Abraham Zapruder • Starring: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary • Short Film
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Hamilton Luske • Starring: Christian Rub, Dick Jones, Cliff Edwards
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William K.L. Dickson • Starring: Charles Kayser, John Ott
Short Film • Silent Film
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Alan Parker • Starring: Paul McCrane, Barry Miller, Lee Curreri
Dance Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film • Silent Film
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Richard Thorpe • Starring: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy
Drama • Musical Drama • Musical
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Clyde Geronimi • Starring: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee
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William K.L. Dickson • Starring: William K.L. Dickson
Short Film
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Burt Gillett • Starring: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
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King Vidor • Starring: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
Drama • Melodrama • Musical
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Edwin S. Porter • Starring: Broncho Billy Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes
Crime • Outlaw • Short Film
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George B. Seitz • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland
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Dorothy Arzner • Starring: Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
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Dave Fleischer • Starring: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Lou Fleischer
Animation • Based-on-Comics • Cartoon
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Brock Peters
Based-on-Theatre • Musical Romance • Musical
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Spike Lee • Starring: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith
Comedy Drama • Media Satire • Satire
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
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John Waters • Starring: Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine
Comedy • Dance Film • Period Film
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Burt Gillett
Animated Musical • Animation • Cartoon
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Luis Valdez • Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
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Dave Fleischer
Animated Musical • Animation • Musical
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William Dieterle • Starring: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut
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Michael Moore • Starring: Bob Eubanks, Roger B. Smith, Anita Bryant
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social Issues
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Herbert Brenon • Starring: Betty Bronson, Mary Brian, Jack Murphy
Adventure • Family • Family-Oriented Adventure
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Shirley Clarke • Starring: Hampton Clanton, Clarence Williams III, Yolanda Rodríguez
Crime Drama • Crime • Docudrama
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Robert J. Flaherty • Starring: Berry Kroeger
Documentary • History • Silent Film
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Carroll Ballard • Starring: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr
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Marlon Riggs • Starring: Marlon Riggs, Brian Freeman, Essex Hemphill
Culture and Society • Documentary • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Kenneth Anger • Starring: Carmilla Salvatorelli
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Ub Iwerks • Starring: Walt Disney
Animation • Cartoon • Short Film
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Robert Wise • Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Peggy Wood
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
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Jordan Belson
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Melvin Van Peebles • Starring: John Dullaghan, Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster
Action Thriller • Action • Blaxploitation
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Lowell Sherman • Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
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Clarence Brown • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Animal Picture • Drama • Family Drama
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Albert Maltz • Starring: Frank Sinatra
Drama • Short Film
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Sydney Pollack • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Errors • Comedy
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Chris Eyre • Starring: Adam Beach, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer
Americana • Buddy Film • Comedy Drama
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Robert Clampett
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Stanley Donen • Starring: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards
Americana • Comedy • Musical Comedy
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Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise • Starring: Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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James Whale • Starring: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Costume Romance
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Oscar Micheaux • Starring: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, Jack Chenault
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Andrew L. Stone • Starring: Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Dooley Wilson
Comedy • Musical • Musical Romance
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Fred Niblo • Starring: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, Betty Bronson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
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Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
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Robert J. Flaherty • Starring: Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc, E. Bienvenu
Docudrama
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Ralph Steiner
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Lois Weber • Starring: Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Mattie Witting
Drama • Silent Film • Social Problem Film
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Gordon Parks • Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
Action • Blaxploitation • Crime
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Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett • Starring: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan
Drama • Musical Romance • Musical
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Merian C. Cooper • Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Adventure • Horror • Jungle Film
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Shirley Clarke
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Ron Clements, John Musker • Starring: Jodi Benson, René Auberjonois, Pat Carroll
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Herbert J. Biberman • Starring: Juan Chacon, Rosaura Revuletas, Will Geer
Drama • Message Movie • Political Drama
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Charles Eames, Ray Eames • Starring: Philip Morrison
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Jim Sharman • Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
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Gina Prince-Bythewood • Starring: Boris Kodjoe, Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Alexander Hall • Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford
Comedy Drama • Drama • Family
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