Critically acclaimed movies that are oscar winners or nominees in art direction (black-and-white) category

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Sidney Poitier, Steven Hill,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A college volunteer at the crisis phone gets a call from a suicide caller.

Actors : James Fox, Tom Courtenay, Patrick O'Neal, George Segal,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A fast-taking wheeler-dealer corporal in a Malaysian POW camp during WWII uses bribery and larceny to take de facto control of the camp from his senior officers.

Actors : Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Fred Clark, Earl Holliman,
Directors : Norman Taurog,

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...

Actors : Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Mary Ure,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

Jack Cardiff received a 1960 Oscar Nomination as Best Director for this lush, engaging film starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence, which was adapted from D.H. ...

Actors : Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Don DeFore, Ruth Hussey,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Larry and Kitty are two middle-class suburbanites who find themselves growing bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other grating in manner, they ...

Actors : Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Actors : Salvatore Baccaloni, Harry Guardino, Elsa Martinelli, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

In 1944, two American spies, posing as priests, infiltrate German occupied Rome to relay information to HQ but can only communicate via pigeons due to the imposed radio silence.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Actors : Nick Adams, Claude Rains, Richard Chamberlain, Joan Blackman,
Directors : Boris Sagal,

A murder case that can't be won is assigned to a young defense attorney. He asks his old ailing friend, a legend among attorneys, for help on the case as his consultant.

Actors : Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, James Garner,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.