Academy Awards

1982 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerRedsWarren BeattyA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.Amazon1982 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesAtlantic CityLouis MalleAmazonChariots of FireHugh HudsonAmazonOn Golden PondMark RydellAmazonRaiders of the Lost ArkSteven SpielbergAmazon

1983 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerGandhiRichard AttenboroughMohandas K. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.Amazon1983 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesDas BootWolfgang PetersenAmazonE.T. the Extra-TerrestrialSteven SpielbergAmazonThe VerdictSidney LumetAmazonTootsieSydney PollackAmazon

1984 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerTerms of EndearmentJames L. BrooksFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.Amazon1984 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesFanny and AlexanderIngmar BergmanAmazonSilkwoodMike NicholsAmazonTender MerciesBruce BeresfordAmazonThe DresserPeter YatesAmazon

1985 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerAmadeusMilos FormanThe 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.Amazon1985 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesA Passage to IndiaDavid LeanAmazonBroadway Danny RoseWoody AllenAmazonPlaces in the HeartRobert BentonAmazonThe Killing FieldsRoland JofféAmazon

1986 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerOut of AfricaSydney PollackIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.Amazon1986 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesKiss of the Spider WomanHector BabencoAmazonPrizzi's HonorJohn HustonAmazonRanAkira KurosawaAmazonWitnessPeter WeirAmazon

1987 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerPlatoonOliver StoneA young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.Amazon1987 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesA Room with a ViewJames IvoryAmazonBlue VelvetDavid LynchAmazonHannah and Her SistersWoody AllenAmazonThe MissionRoland JofféAmazon

1988 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerThe Last EmperorBernardo BertolucciThe story of the final Emperor of China.Amazon1988 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesFatal AttractionAdrian LyneAmazonHope and GloryJohn BoormanAmazonMoonstruckNorman JewisonAmazonMy Life as a DogLasse HallströmAmazon

1989 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerRain ManBarry LevinsonSelfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.Amazon1989 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesA Fish Called WandaCharles CrichtonAmazonMississippi BurningAlan ParkerAmazonThe Last Temptation of ChristMartin ScorseseAmazonWorking GirlMike NicholsAmazon

1990 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerBorn on the Fourth of JulyOliver StoneThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.Amazon1990 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesCrimes and MisdemeanorsWoody AllenAmazonDead Poets SocietyPeter WeirAmazonHenry VKenneth BranaghAmazonMy Left FootJim SheridanAmazon

1991 Academy Awards - Directing WinnerDances with WolvesKevin CostnerLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.Amazon1991 Academy Awards - Directing NomineesGoodfellasMartin ScorseseAmazonReversal of FortuneBarbet SchroederAmazonThe Godfather: Part IIIFrancis Ford CoppolaAmazonThe GriftersStephen FrearsAmazon