Academy Awards - Best Director
The Academy Award for Best Director is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry.
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![The sound of music [DVD]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
The sound of music
Summary: Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict... more »- place hold (0)
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![My fair lady [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/91928@2x.jpg)
My fair lady1998
Summary: A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady.- place hold (0)
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![Braveheart [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/3721@2x.jpg)
Braveheart2000
Summary: William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation.- place hold (0)
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![Gone with the wind [DVD] : Margaret Mitchell's story of the old South](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/974@2x.jpg)
Gone with the wind : Margaret Mitchell's story of the old South1999
Summary: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.- place hold (0)
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![The revenant [Blu-ray]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/149110@2x.jpg)
The revenant2016
Summary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a... more »- place hold (0)
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![Nomadland [Blu-ray]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/244653@2x.jpg)
Nomadland2021
Summary: Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way,... more »- place hold (0)
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![Parasite [Blu-ray]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/214679@2x.jpg)
Parasite2020
Summary: Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they... more »- place hold (0)
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![The shape of water [Blu-ray]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/182987@2x.jpg)
The shape of water2018
Summary: An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of... more »- place hold (0)
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![La La Land [Blu-ray]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/165835@2x.jpg)
La La Land2017
Summary: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.- place hold (0)
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![Gravity [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/102483@2x.jpg)
Gravity2014
Summary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and... more »- place hold (0)
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![Lawrence of Arabia [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/8706@2x.jpg)
Lawrence of Arabia2000
Summary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.- place hold (0)
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![No country for old men [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/31918@2x.jpg)
No country for old men2008
Summary: Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled... more »- place hold (0)
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![Amadeus [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/67370@2x.jpg)
Amadeus
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![Birdman [DVD] : or, (the unexpected virtue of ignorance)](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/126245@2x.jpg)
Birdman : or, (the unexpected virtue of ignorance)2015
Summary: A black comedy story of an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.- place hold (0)
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![Annie Hall [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/21289@2x.jpg)
Annie Hall2005
Summary: Woody Allen's semi-autobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.- place hold (0)
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![It happened one night [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/21291@2x.jpg)
It happened one night1999
Summary: A rich young woman marries an idle playboy against her father's will. Her father holds her captive on his yacht but she escapes and, while on her way to New York, becomes entangled with an unemployed news reporter.- place hold (0)
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![American beauty [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/3815@2x.jpg)
American beauty2000
Summary: An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen... more »- place hold (0)
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![A beautiful mind [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/82260@2x.jpg)
A beautiful mind2002
Summary: Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon... more »- place hold (0)
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![Brokeback Mountain [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/21032@2x.jpg)
Brokeback Mountain2006
Summary: It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist... more »- place hold (0)
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![Casablanca [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/84675@2x.jpg)
Casablanca1999
Summary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.- place hold (0)
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![The departed [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/25624@2x.jpg)
The departed2007
Summary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief... more »- place hold (0)
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![Gandhi [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/25629@2x.jpg)
Gandhi2007
Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end... more »- place hold (0)
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![The king's speech [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54541@2x.jpg)
The king's speech2011
Summary: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.- place hold (0)
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Million Dollar Baby
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![On the waterfront [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/13162@2x.jpg)
On the waterfront2001
Summary: An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss.- place hold (0)
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![Out of Africa [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35452@2x.jpg)
Out of Africa2000
Summary: The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya in 1914.- place hold (0)
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![Parasite [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/214678@2x.jpg)
Parasite2020
Summary: Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they... more »- place hold (0)
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![Platoon [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/21973@2x.jpg)
Platoon2006
Summary: Bonus features include all new interviews with Oliver Stone, over 10 minutes of never-before-seen deleted footage, interviews with Vietnam veterans, commentaries, documentaries, special collector's booklet and much more!- place hold (0)
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![Rain man [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/21293@2x.jpg)
Rain man2004
Summary: A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a '49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he thinks should be his 3 million dollar... more »- place hold (0)
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![Saving Private Ryan [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/3419@2x.jpg)
Saving Private Ryan1999
Summary: Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are... more »- place hold (0)
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![Schindler's list [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/18735@2x.jpg)
Schindler's list2004
Summary: The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his... more »- place hold (0)
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![The shape of water [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/182988@2x.jpg)
The shape of water2018
Summary: An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of... more »- place hold (0)
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![Slumdog millionaire [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/40665@2x.jpg)
Slumdog millionaire2009
Summary: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who... more »- place hold (0)
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![Traffic [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/25974@2x.jpg)
Traffic2001
Summary: Presents a mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous... more »- place hold (0)
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![All about Eve [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27183@2x.jpg)
All about Eve2002
Summary: From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers... more »- place hold (0)
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All quiet on the western front (1979)
Summary: In this realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers Paul Baumer and his school chums are encouraged to enlist by their bombastic, slogan-chanting teacher, but they quickly learn that... more »- place hold (0)
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![The artist [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63337@2x.jpg)
The artist2012
Summary: In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the... more »- place hold (0)
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![Ben-Hur [DVD] : a tale of the Christ](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60018@2x.jpg)
Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ2011
Summary: "Judah Ben-Hur [is] a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ"--Container.- place hold (0)
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![The best years of our lives [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27405@2x.jpg)
The best years of our lives2000
Summary: Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a... more »- place hold (0)
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![Dances with wolves [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/51626@2x.jpg)
Dances with wolves2004
Summary: Sent to protect a U.S. outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux... more »- place hold (0)
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