Éric Rohmer, a pioneering director from the French New Wave, was notable for focusing on young adults or youth and their complications with love in a number of his films.

Zora G. Clevenger (December 12, 1881 - November 24, 1970) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and pioneering athletic director.

José Nepomuceno (1893 - 1959) was one of the pioneering directors of the cinema of the Philippines.

Burning an Illusion and its pioneering director Menelik Shabazz were honoured with a Screen Nation Classic Film Award in October 2011.

The gateway was a tribute to the spectacular epics made throughout Hollywood history, especially pioneering director D. W. Griffith's 1916 silent film Intolerance.

Wesley Enoch, the pioneering indigenous Australian director, talks to Lawrence Pollard.

Franklin M. Heller, one of television's pioneering directors, essentially saved What's My Line?

Its pioneering directors recognized the urgent need for the familiarization of composers and audiences alike with music beyond the Iron Curtain.

After Wieland's death, in 1966, other pioneering directors carried on.

George Pearson (1875-1973), a pioneering director and film-writer in the early years of British cinematography, was headmaster of Staples Road Junior School, Loughton 1908-1913.