1969 Academy Awards – Directing Winner
![Oliver! Carol Reed](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/oliver-carol-reed-image.jpg)
Oliver!
Carol Reed
After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
1969 Academy Awards – Directing Nominees
![2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2001-a-space-odyssey-stanley-kubrick-image.jpg)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
![Romeo and Juliet Franco Zeffirelli](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/romeo-and-juliet-franco-zeffirelli-image.jpg)
Romeo and Juliet
Franco Zeffirelli
![The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-battle-of-algiers-gillo-pontecorvo-image.jpg)
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
![The Lion in Winter Anthony Harvey](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-lion-in-winter-image.jpg)