Ovation TV

Bob Fosse choreographed The Pajama Game.

John Cassavetes directed his 1st film, Shadows.

Mel Brooks directed his 1st film, The Critic.

John Waters directed his first short film, "Hag in a Black Leather Jacket".

David Lynch directed his 1st short film, Sick Men Getting Sick.

Steven Spielberg directed his 1st short film, Amblin.

Francis Ford Coppola directed his 1st studio feature film, a movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow.

John Cassavetes directed Faces.

Bob Fosse's debut directorial of a feature film, Sweet Charity.

Woody Allen's directing, acting and screenwriting debut in Take the Money and Run.

Francis Ford Coppola wins Academy Award, Best Screenplay for Patton.

Hal Ashby directed his 1st film The Landlord.

John Waters directed his 1st feature-length film, “Multiple Maniacs”.

Sofia Coppola is born to Francis Ford Coppola & X.

Hal Ashby directs Harold and Maude.

Bob Fosse's 2nd film, Cabaret beat out Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather winning 8 Academy Awards.

Francis Ford Coppola directed The Godfather.

John Waters directed "Pink Flamingos" on a measly $10,000 budget.

Bob Fosse is the 1st person to win a Tony, Academy Award & an Emmy all in one year.

Mel Brooks most financially successful films, Blazing Saddles & Young Frankenstein were released.

Bob Fosse directed Lenny.

John Cassavetes directed A Woman Under the Influence.

Oliver Stone directed his 1st feature film, Seizure.

Coppola wins Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original/Adapted) for The Godfather: Part II.

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws premieres to record breaking box office success, making him one of America's youngest multi-millionaires.

Hal Ashby directed Shampoo which was nominated for 3 Academy Awards, winning 1 for Best Supporting Actress.

John Cassavetes directed The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

With a $10,000 grant from the American Film Institute, David Lynch begins production on Eraserhead.

Hal Ashby’s Bound for Glory was the 1st film to use the Steadicam and won 2 Academy Awards.

Steven Spielberg wrote and directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Woody Allen directed Anne Hall, which won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

John Cassavetes directed Faces.

Hal Ashby’s Coming Home earns him his 1st Academy Award for Best Director.

Francis Ford Coppola wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now.

Oliver Stone's wins his first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express.

Hal Ashby directed Being There, his last acclaimed film.

Mel Brooks hired David Lynch to direct The Elephant Man, which goes on to earn 8 Academy Award nominations.

John Cassavetes directed Gloria.

Raiders of the Lost Ark became the biggest grossing film of the year and launched one of the most successful movie franchises in history.

John Waters directed Polyester.

Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial becomes the top-grossing film of all time. Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Bob Fosse directed his last movie, Star 80, was a controversial biopic about slain Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten.

Steven Spielberg directed The Color Purple Adapted from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and earns 11 Academy Award nominations.

Oliver Stone co-wrote Year of the Dragon, which received a Razzie nomination for Worst Screenplay.

Oliver Stone directed Platoon which received 4 Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture.

David Lynch's Blue Velvet earns his 2nd Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

Quentin Tarantino directed and co-wrote a movie called My Best Friend's Birthday. The screenplay would later form the basis for True Romance.

Woody Allen won his 3rd Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Hannah and Her Sisters.

John Waters directed Hairspray starring Ricki Lake.

Oliver Stone directed Born on the Fourth of July and won an Oscar for Best Director.

David Lynch co-creates, Twin Peaks which turns into a cult classic and later a feature film.

Julie Taymor won the prestigious MacArthur "genius" award for her innovative work in theatre.

Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List earned his first Academy Award for Best Director.

Francis Ford Coppola achieves huge commercial success with Dracula.

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs wins acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival.

Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway earns 7 Academy Award nominations including Best Director.

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction premieres at the Cannes Film Festival and wins the Palme d'Or.

Oliver Stone directed Natural Born Killers.

Julie Taymor directed the play “The Lion King” (Tony Award winner for Best Direction of a Musical, Tony Award co-nomination for Best Original Score, Tony Award winner for Best Costume Design).

Quentin Tarantino directed Jackie Brown.

Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan achieves huge box office success, and earns Spielberg his 2nd Academy Award for Best Director.

Sofia Coppola directed her 1st feature film, Lick the Star.

Julie Taymor directed her 1st feature film, Titus.

David Lynch directed Mulholland Drive.

Sofia Coppola directed The Virgin Suicides.

John Waters directed Cecil B. Demented.

Julie Taymor directed Frida (which won 2 Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Best Original Score).

Quentin Tarantino directed Kill Bill. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two 'volumes'.

Sofia Coppola directed Lost in Translation winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay & 3 Golden Globes including Best Picture.

John Waters directed his last film to date, "A Dirty Shame".

Woody Allen garners critical and commercial success with Match Point, and earns Allen an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay.

Julie Taymor directed film Across the Universe. Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Comedy/Musical in 2008.

Sofia Coppola directed Marie Antoinette.

Quentin Tarantino directed Inglourious Basterds nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director.