Best movies of 1990s that are oscar winners or nominees in directing category

Actors : Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Actors : Annette Bening, Wes Bentley, Kevin Spacey, Thora Birch,
Directors : Sam Mendes,

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Liam Neeson, Caroline Goodall,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Actors : Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, John Travolta,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Actors : Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich, John Cusack,
Directors : Spike Jonze,

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : John Madden,

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Directors : James Cameron,

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Actors : Al Pacino, Diane Venora, Christopher Plummer, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Michael Mann,

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco.

Actors : Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

Actors : Connie Nielsen, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.

Actors : Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Tom Hanks, Sally Field,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

JFK, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.

Actors : Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, Peter Stormare, Frances McDormand,

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Anthony Minghella,

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

Actors : Geena Davis, Michael Madsen, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed!

Actors : Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Haley Joel Osment, Olivia Williams,
Directors : M. Night Shyamalan,

A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

Actors : Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven,
Directors : Stephen Daldry,

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.