Debut Director
Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Shannon Murphy – Babyteeth
Autumn de Wilde – Emma.
Lynn Chen – I Will Make You Mine
Joe Marcantonio – Kindred
Egor Abramenko – Sputnik
Sasie Sealy – Lucky Granda
Ekwa Msangi – Farewell Amor
Matthew Rankin – The Twentieth Century
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Natalie Erika James – Relic
Dave Franco – The Rental
Josh Ruben – Scare Me
Gavin Rothery – Archive
Florian Zeller – The Father
Ricky Tollman – Run This Town
Channing Godfrey Peoples – Miss Juneteenth
Dea Kulumbegashvili – Beginning (Dasatskisi)
Annie Silverstein – Bull
Kevin Ward – A Patient Man
Sara Zandieh – Simple Wedding
Aaron Fischer – Inside the Rain
Tyler Taormina – Ham on Rye
Roel Leijten – Buoyancy
Liz Manashil – Speed of Life
Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña – The Wolf House
Michael Angelo Covino – The Climb
Jeff Roda – 18 to Party
Loira Limbal – Through The Night
Jiayan ‘Jenny’ Shi – Finding Yingying
Anabel Rodríguez Ríos – Once Upon A Time In Venezuela
Nathan Grossman – I Am Greta
Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis – Father Soldier Son
Radu Ciorniciuc – Acasă, My Home
Lance Oppenheim – Some Kind Of Heaven
First-Time Co-Directors (eligible?)
Danielle Krudy – Blow the Man Down
Kemp Powers – Soul (co-director)
Melissa Haizlip – Mr. Soul! (co-director)
Gregory Kershaw –The Truffle Hunters
Amanda McBain – Boys State
Chris Dorrance – Slay The Dragon
James Lebrecht – Crip Camp
Not Eligible –
Regina King – One Night in Miami (directed documentary)
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal (directed documentary Loot)
Max Barbakow – Palm Springs (directed documentary)
Diane Paragas – Yellow Rose (doc)
Unjoo Moon – I Am Woman (2nd film)
Rose Glass – Saint Maude (not released in time)