Critically acclaimed movies that are oscar winners in directing category

Actors : Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Actors : Adil Hussain, Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Suraj Sharma,
Directors : Ang Lee,

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Actors : Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Ron Howard,

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Actors : Carol Kane, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Directors : James Cameron,

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Robert Redford,

The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.

Actors : Peter Brocco, Michael Berryman, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Milos Forman,

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Actors : Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Anthony Minghella,

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, John McGiver, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend.

Actors : Keith David, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

A young recruit in Viet Nam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Actors : Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Sally Field, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

JFK, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen, Ruocheng Ying,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The story of the final Emperor of China.

Actors : John Savage, John Cazale, Christopher Walken, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Robert Benton,

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.