Best movies of 2021 that are oscar winners or nominees in directing category

Actors : Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Directors : Jane Campion,

Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.

Actors : David Alvarez, Ariana DeBose, Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

Actors : Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Tom Waits, Sean Penn,
Directors : Paul Thomas Anderson,

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.

Actors : Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Lewis McAskie, Jude Hill,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

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

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.