MGM has received the following award(s) for Best Director:

A World Apart

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Chris Menges
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1988

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this "haunting, deeply moving film" (Los Angeles Times) brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker) and features Barbara Hershey in a "strikingly forceful performance" (New York) by Barbara Hershey, this potent account of personal and political turmoil brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker)!
South Africa, 1963. Communist Gus Roth (Jeroen Krabbe) is forced to flee Johannesburg to escape arrest, leaving his activist wife Diana (Hershey) to continue their crusade against apartheid. But when Diana is wrenched from her three daughters and jailed under the notorious 90-day Detention Act, she and her family face the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom.

Annie Hall

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1977
Recipient(s): Woody Allen
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 20, 1977

Synopsis: This Best Picture Oscar winner stars Woody Allen as a neurotic, New York comedian who falls for a quirky midwestern girl (Diane Keaton) in an on-again, off-again romance.

Black Robe

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1992
Recipient(s): Bruce Beresford
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 04, 1991

Synopsis: The compelling saga of Father LaForgue, an ambitious 17th-century Jesuit Priest, who journeyed through the frozen Canadian wilderness to save the souls of the Indians and colonize the tribes.

Blood Simple

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1985
Recipient(s): Joel Coen
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 18, 1985

Synopsis: In this homage to film noir, a jealous husband hires a sleazy detective to kill his wife and her bartender boyfriend...but that's only the beginning.

Blue Velvet

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1986
Recipient(s): David Lynch
Theatrical Release Date: Sep 19, 1986

Synopsis: A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, prehaps too much more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown's picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger. It is also an unforgettably fascinating and forboding world.

Burn!

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1970
Recipient(s): Gillo Pontecorvo
Theatrical Release Date: Oct 21, 1970

Synopsis: A Caribbean island in the mid-1800's. Nature has made it a paradise; man has made it a hell. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready to provide the spark. They send agent William Walker (Marlon Brando) on a devious three-part mission: trick the slaves into revolt, grab the sugar trade for England... then return the slaves to servitude. Gillo Pontecorvo, the acclaimed director of The Battle of Algiers, explores colonialism and insurrection in the searing epic Burn!.
Both visually and narratively stunning, Burn! glows with the fires of Pontecorvo's unique filmmaking genius. Genius is also evident in Brando's complex, intelligent portrayal of a man who is both gentleman and scoundrel, revolutionary and colonialist. And Ennio Morricone's (The Untouchables, The Mission) haunting music memorably underscores the almost overwhelmingly powerful story.

Company of Wolves

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1984
Recipient(s): Neil Jordan
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 19, 1985

Synopsis: Rosaleen, a young impressionable girl, dreams of strange lurid nightmares when men turn into wolves. Gradually, these dreams turn into reality as her friendly village turns into a company of werewolves!

Cyrano De Bergerac

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1991
Recipient(s): Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Theatrical Release Date: Nov 16, 1990

Synopsis: A retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic tale of the unattractive cavalier Cyrano de Bergerac, a French soldier with a gift of poetry and an ego as large as his nose.

Dances with Wolves

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1990
Recipient(s): Kevin Costner
Theatrical Release Date: Nov 09, 1990

Synopsis:

A "truly spectacular" (The New York Times) film that combines action, romance and breathtaking adventure, Dances With Wolves is "a cinematic masterpiece" (American Movie Classics) that is nothing short of "a triumph" (Roger Ebert)!

Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choiceone that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.

Darling

Award: Best Director
Award Year: 1965
Recipient(s): John Schlesinger
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1965

Synopsis: As a model, Julie Christie, bullies, bluffs and claws her way from a commonplace life to marrying an Italian noble. Then only to find that life at the top is meaningless.

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