question: The Oracle is a character in a movie created by two directors who made their directing debut when? 
answer: 1996
context: Title: The Oracle (The Matrix)
  Passage: The Oracle is a fictional character in "The Matrix" franchise.  She was created by The Wachowskis, and portrayed by Gloria Foster in the first and second film and Mary Alice in the third film.  The character also appears in the video game "Enter the Matrix" and the MMORPG "The Matrix Online".
  Title: The Wachowskis
  Passage: Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski, born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andrew Paul "Andy" Wachowski, born December 29, 1967) are American film directors, screenwriters, and producers.  They are siblings, and are both trans women.  Collectively known as The Wachowskis ( ) and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers, the pair made their directing debut in 1996 with "Bound", and achieved fame with their second film "The Matrix" (1999), a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director.  They wrote and directed its two sequels: "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" (both in 2003), and were deeply involved in the writing and production of other works in that franchise.
  Title: Parental Control
  Passage: Parental Control was a scripted show about people looking for love produced by MTV.  The two directors, Brendon Carter and Bruce Klassen, have also created other MTV shows.
  Title: Golden Leopard
  Passage: The Golden Leopard is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946.  Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be entered in the competitive selection.  The winning films are chosen by a jury.  The award went under many names until it was named the "Golden Leopard" in 1968.  The festival was not held in 1951 and the prize was not awarded in 1956 and 1982.  As of 2009 René Clair and Jiří Trnka are the only two directors to have won the award twice, both of them winning in consecutive years.
  Title: Tesch &amp; Stabenow
  Passage: The corporation Tesch & Stabenow (in short Testa) was a market leader in pest control chemicals between 1924 and 1945 in Germany east of the Elbe.  Testa distributed Zyklon B, a pesticide consisting of inert adsorbents saturated with hydrogen cyanide, a volatile liquid extremely toxic to animals and humans.  For legitimate use as a pesticide, Zyklon B included a warning odorant as not everyone can smell cyanide or recognize its faint almond-like odor.  The company sold Zyklon B to the Wehrmacht and the SS in Auschwitz-Birkenau without the odorant, clearly showing that it was intended for use on humans.  Two directors of Testa were convicted and executed for assisting in the mass murder of Jews during the Second World War.  The company continued after the war and merged with Heerdt-Lingler GmbH (HeLi) in 1979.
  Title: Yama—Attack to Attack
  Passage: Yama—Attack to Attack (山谷─やられたらやりかえせ , Yama—Yararetara Yarikaese ) is a 1985 color documentary film produced about day laborers in Japan.  The two directors were murdered by the yakuza.
  Title: Offshore Super Series
  Passage: The Offshore Super Series (OSS) is an offshore powerboat racing organization founded in December 2003 by 30 of the top offshore race boat teams in the United States.  OSS is organized as a not for profit corporation, run by a democratically elected Board of Directors.  OSS is organized into classes of race boats.  Each class bringing 5 or more member boats to OSS has a right to nominate two directors on the OSS Board.  The basic principle is “one boat, one vote.”
  Title: Game, Set and Match
  Passage: Game, Set and Match is a 1988 television serial directed by Ken Grieve and Patrick Lau and written by John Howlett.  It is based on the books "Berlin Game", "Mexico Set" and "London Match" by Len Deighton.  The two directors worked separately on different episodes.  Filmed on location in Berlin and Mexico, the project included a large international cast with 3,000 extras and a budget of $8 million.  While critically acclaimed, the ratings for the series were a disaster.  Ian Holm was nominated for a BAFTA award for his portrayal of Bernard Samson.
  Title: Duel Project
  Passage: Duel Project was a challenge issued to Ryuhei Kitamura and Yukihiko Tsutsumi by producer Shinya Kawai during a night of drinking.  The challenge was for the two directors to see who could make the best feature film with two principal actors/actresses battling in one principal location in the time span of one week.  Kitamura's half was the film "Aragami" with Tsutsumi's being "2LDK".
  Title: Le gendarme et les gendarmettes
  Passage: The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (French: "Le gendarme et les gendarmettes" ) is a 1982 French comedy film, and the sixth and last movie of the "Gendarme" series .  It is the final film of both one of its two directors, Jean Girault, and its lead actor Louis de Funès, both of which were involved in the franchise since its very first film in 1964.
citations: The Wachowskis The Oracle (The Matrix)