Here is a list of well known filmmakers who made their memorable and obscure first directorial efforts in the 1990s.
1990 Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves (Oscar winner) Dennis Dugan - Problem Child Frank Marshall - Arachnophobia Ron Underwood - Tremors
1991 Brian Levant - Problem Child 2 Richard Linklater - Slacker Anthony Minghella - Truly, Madly, Deeply John Singleton - Boyz N the Hood (Oscar nominee) Barry Sonnenfeld - The Addams Family
1992 Nora Ephron - This Is My Life David Fincher - Alien 3 Ang Lee - Pushing Hands Baz Luhrmann - Strictly Ballroom Robert Rodriguez - El Mariachi M. Night Shyamalan - Praying with Anger Quentin Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs Jon Turteltaub - 3 Ninjas
1993 Mel Gibson - The Man Without a Face Guillermo Del Toro - Cronos Albert & Allen Hughes - Menace II Society Dominic Sena - Kalifornia Bryan Singer - Public Access Stephen Sommers - The Adventures of Huck Finn
1994 Danny Boyle - Shallow Grave Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption Jan de Bont - Speed Peter & Bobby Farrelly - Dumb & Dumber Doug Liman - Getting In David O. Russell - Spanking the Monkey Kevin Smith - Clerks Ben Stiller - Reality Bites
1995 Michael Bay - Bad Boys Steven Brill - Heavyweights James Mangold - Heavy Brad Silberling - Casper
1996 Paul Thomas Anderson - Hard Eight Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket Alexander Payne - Citizen Ruth Andy & Larry Wachowski - Bound
1997 Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty (Oscar nominee) Neil LaBute - In the Company of Men Brett Ratner - Money Talks Gore Verbinski - Mouse Hunt
1998 Darren Aronofsky - Pi Antoine Fuqua - The Replacement Killers Mark Steven Johnson - Simon Birch Christopher Nolan - Following Guy Ritchie - Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
1999 Sofia Coppola - The Virgin Suicides Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich Sam Mendes - American Beauty Chris & Paul Weitz - American Pie
