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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![Nomadland [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/243793@2x.jpg)
Nomadland
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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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![La La Land [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/165836@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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![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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![How green was my valley [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/102882@2x.jpg)
How green was my valley2002
Summary: A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.- place hold (0)
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![Going my way [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/36368@2x.jpg)
Going my way2007
Summary: Father O'Malley is a young priest. He is new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those... more »- place hold (0)
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![From here to eternity [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109647@2x.jpg)
From here to eternity2001
Summary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.- place hold (0)
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![Marty [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/21290@2x.jpg)
Marty2001
Summary: Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.- place hold (0)
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![Tom Jones [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27387@2x.jpg)
Tom Jones2002
Summary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom... more »- place hold (0)
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![The sting [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/128699@2x.jpg)
The sting2012
Summary: A young con man teams up with a seasoned con man to win money from a criminal banker in 1930s Chicago.- place hold (0)
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![Terms of endearment [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/100978@2x.jpg)
Terms of endearment2009
Summary: Follows the rocky and passionate relationship between a mother and daughter from birth to death.- 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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![Gravity [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/104104@2x.jpg)
Gravity2014
Summary: Watch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran... more »- place hold (0)
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![West Side Story [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/17049@2x.jpg)
West Side Story
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![Unforgiven [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/29824@2x.jpg)
Unforgiven2007
Summary: Bill Munny is who is a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer is flat broke. He is a widower with two young children to tend to and feels he has no choice but accept on last bounty hunter... 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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![Titanic [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/29915@2x.jpg)
Titanic2005
Summary: The story of a passionate romance aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, framed by an account of a present-day salvager's efforts to investigate the ruins of the ship.- place hold (0)
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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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![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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![The silence of the lambs [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/28571@2x.jpg)
The silence of the lambs2007
Summary: When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the... 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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![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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![Rocky [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/33070@2x.jpg)
Rocky2004
Summary: Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.- place hold (0)
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![Reds [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/23810@2x.jpg)
Reds2006
Summary: The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.- 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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![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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![The pianist [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/9389@2x.jpg)
The pianist2002
Summary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.- place hold (0)
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![Patton [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27189@2x.jpg)
Patton2006
Summary: A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.- 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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![One flew over the cuckoo's nest [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/3097@2x.jpg)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest1997
Summary: The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.- place hold (0)
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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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![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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![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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