Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in directing category

The Graduate(1967)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.



Patton(1970)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.



Blue Velvet(1986)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.



A Fish Called Wanda(1988)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.



The Crying Game(1992)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.



Licorice Pizza(2021)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.



Cold War(2018)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold ...



Bonnie and Clyde(1967)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.



Tootsie(1982)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.



Hannah and Her Sisters(1986)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Quiz Show(1994)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.



Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.



Belfast(2021)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



The Player(1992)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?



In the Name of the Father(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.



Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.



The Sweet Hereafter(1997)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.




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