1991 Academy Awards – Directing Winner and Nominees

Dances with Wolves

Kevin Costner

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

Goodfellas

Martin Scorsese

Reversal of Fortune

Barbet Schroeder

The Godfather: Part III

Francis Ford Coppola

The Grifters

Stephen Frears