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 [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 [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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![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 [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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![Midnight cowboy [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/29806@2x.jpg)
Midnight cowboy1998
Summary: A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.- 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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![The graduate [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/22511@2x.jpg)
The graduate2005
Summary: A recent college graduate from an affluent family is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, then subsequently falls in love with her daughter.- 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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![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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![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 bridge on the River Kwai [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/5364@2x.jpg)
The bridge on the River Kwai2000
Summary: British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.- 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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![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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![The French connection [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27187@2x.jpg)
The French connection2005
Summary: Detectives "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy Russo hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover the French connection.- 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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![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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