Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in directing category

Actors : Reika Kirishima, Tôko Miura, Yoo-rim Park, Hidetoshi Nishijima,
Directors : Ryûsuke Hamaguchi,

Yusuke Kafuku is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.

Actors : Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, George C. Scott, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Actors : Warren Beatty, Jerzy Kosinski, Edward Herrmann, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Actors : Katharine Houghton, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.

Actors : Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Alan Parker,

Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Actors : Andrea Riseborough, Edward Norton, Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis,
Directors : Alejandro González Iñárritu,

A washed-up actor, who once played a famous superhero, attempts to revive his career by writing and starring in a Broadway play.

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman, Allie Mickelson,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, José Lewgoy, William Hurt,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

Actors : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Actors : Magda Szubanski, Miriam Margolyes, James Cromwell, Christine Cavanaugh,
Directors : Chris Noonan,

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn,
Directors : Terrence Malick,

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Actors : Cher, Kurt Russell, Meryl Streep, Craig T. Nelson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Susan Sarandon, Raymond J. Barry, Sean Penn,
Directors : Tim Robbins,

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.

Actors : Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Gabriel LaBelle,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Kelly McGillis, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Angus Macfadyen, Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Mel Gibson,

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.