Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in best director motion picture category

Actors : Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Richard Burton, Sue Lyon,
Directors : John Huston,

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn, John Castle,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, John Shea, Melanie Mayron, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Actors : Richard Burton, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Actors : David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

Actors : José Luis de Vilallonga, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Julie Christie,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Joanne Woodward, Kate Harrington, James Olson,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.