 His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner "Ordinary People", a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director.Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.Redford did not direct again until "The Milagro Beanfield War" (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest.