Though "Charlie's Angels" marks the motion picture directorial debut of McG, you already know his work. He is the latest (and, for that matter, lamest) director to take the Nestea plunge from the world of music video directing to the world of feature film directing. But is there any overlapping between VMA and Oscar gold? Here, we take a look at the paths of a handful of directors who cut their teeth at MTV and graduated to the cineplex.

Auteur: McG
Videography: All those bright-colored Barenaked Ladies, Sugar Ray and Offspring videos that totally look the same.
Signature: Always contain scenes in neighborhoods and on game show sets. Could this be a statement on suburban dysfunction? (Probably not.)
Hollywood leap: The jiggly, er, jiggy "Charlie's Angels."
MTV Moment: I don't know, I haven't seen it yet. But I imagine there's plenty.
Filmmaker? Scale (out of 10): 4. His videos, which you could tell were his within two seconds, were ultra-annoying; face it, you're not seeing "Angels" for his directorial prowess. Let's see what he can do in a movie with lesser attractive Camerons and Drews, say, Kirk Cameron and Drew Carey.

Auteur: Hype Williams
Videography: Um, every hip-hop video of the last five years? Notably, Biggie's "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems," Missy's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)," and Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'."
Signature: Early on, it was the in-your-face fish-eye lens effect, which gave Busta Rhymes a career. More recently, it's been butts. Lots of them.
Hollywood leap: The cautionary millennial hood-tale "Belly."
MTV Moment: DMX and Nas cruise through a nightclub with contact lenses that make their eyes glow in the dark. Serves no purpose, but it sure looks cool.
Filmmaker?: 8. "Belly," with its incredible visuals, is one of the better looking films of the last ten years (I'm serious). But Hype's vision was severely compromised in the final edit (Artisan took it from three hours to 90 minutes), which is why in its present form, it makes no sense. But if Hype has his way, he might change the way we look at movies. I'm serious.

Auteur: David Fincher
Videography: Madonna's Blonde-Ambition-era milestones "Express Yourself" and "Vogue."
Signature: Darkness!
Hollywood Leap: The darkest, creepiest, rainiest thriller of the '90s -- the reason you can rattle off the seven deadly sins quicker than your class schedule -- "Se7en," which he followed with "The Game" and your guided tour through the modern male psyche, "Fight Club."
MTV Moment: "Se7en's" opening credit sequence, which contains more cuts than Marilyn Manson's chest.
Filmmaker?: 10. With "Fight Club," Fincher proved he very well could be the best director working today, possessing a total grasp on every facet the film making process. He's darker than David Lynch and more meticulous than Terence Malick. The new Kubrick?

Auteur: Scott Kalvert
Videography: Samantha Fox's "Naughty Girls Need Love Too."
Signature: Samantha Fox, down on her knees, crooning, "Naughty Girls Need Love Too," an image no elementary schooler soon forgot. Which, incidentally, had nothing to do with Kalvert. But a little Samantha Fox goes a long way.
Hollywood Leap: The underrated Leo-on-heroin epic "The Basketball Diaries," as well as the forthcoming "Deuces Wild," which stars everyone from Deborah Harry to Johnny Knoxville.
MTV Moment: Too many to count! Leo shooting hoops in the rain, heroin in a crackhouse and his fellow students in a classroom (donning a black trench coat, no less), to name a few.
Filmmaker?: 7. He's flashy, but maybe too flashy. But with Johnny Knoxville on his side, he's headed in the right direction.

Auteur: Michael Bay
Videography: DiVinyls, "I Touch Myself."
Signature: Here he gave no hint at what was to become his signature -- headaches. Have you tried watching "The Rock" lately?
Hollywood Leap: "Bad Boys," "Armageddon," and next summer's most expensive gamble, "Pearl Harbor."
MTV Moment: Jesus. If you thought MTV and its crazy quick cuts catered to those with short attention spans, take a look at Michael Bay's caffeine cinema. There isn't one shot in any of his films that lasts more than four seconds. I counted.
Filmmaker?: 5. While he and partner-in-crime Jerry Bruckheimer make the loudest, fastest theater-rockin-ist action films of all time, a 1998 Entertainment Weekly essay questioned whether or not he's the devil. Their conclusion was yes, he is.

Auteur: Fred Durst
Videography: All of Limp Bizkit's videos, from "Faith" to "Rollin'," as well as a Korn video or two.
Signature: Stupidity?
Hollywood Leap: The forthcoming "Runt," a high school revenge fantasy on which he's collaborating with David Fincher.
MTV Moment: My guess is, should this project actually go down, it will be chock full o' self indulgences set to Durst's own music. And watch for the cameo... Chocolate Starfish!
Filmmaker: 1. A vanity project so putrid it could make Magic Johnson's much-reviled late night talk show look genius.