Barry Levinson won an Academy Award for Best Director for which of the following films?

"Rain Man", a 1988 dramatic film, concerns the film where Barry Levinson won an Academy Award for Best Director. Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry. They are regarded by many, in and out of entertainment industry worldwide, as the most prestigious and significant awards a professional artist or craftsman in the industry can receive.

A film synopsis of this movie highlights that when car dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has an autistic older brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman). Charlie's father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

"Rain Man" is a film that was produced by Mark Johnson and created at the United Artists studios. It stars Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman and was a hit with both critics and audiences. It won four Academy Awards, Best Director as well as three for Best Picture, Best Actor (Hoffman), and Best Original Screenplay.

As of 2021, "Rain Man" is the first and only film to win both a Golden Bear and Academy Award for Best Picture.