1985 Academy Awards – Directing Winner and Nominees

Amadeus

Milos Forman

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him.

A Passage to India

David Lean

Broadway Danny Rose

Woody Allen

Places in the Heart

Robert Benton

The Killing Fields

Roland Joffé