Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in directing category

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore, Terence Stamp, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, James Broderick, Patricia Quinn,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

Actors : Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

Actors : Frank Wolff, Stathis Giallelis, Harry Davis, Elena Karam,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.

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 : Carol Lynley, Romy Schneider, Tom Tryon, John Huston,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

Actors : Howard Da Silva, Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Neva Patterson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...

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.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

In Australia's Outback during the early 20th century the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon but the mom and son want to settle while the dad is against it.

Actors : Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Mary Ure,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

Jack Cardiff received a 1960 Oscar Nomination as Best Director for this lush, engaging film starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence, which was adapted from D.H. ...