D'entre a suya filmografía, se puet destacar a suya dirección en bellas cintas como MASH (1970, con Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman y Robert Duvall), Nashville (1975, con Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Henry Gibson, Michael Murphy y Lily Tomlin), A Wedding (1978, con Desi Arnaz Jr., Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin, Howard Duff, Mia Farrow y Lillian Gish), The Player (1992, con Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher y Brion James), Short Cuts (1993, con Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore, Fred Ward, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Lemmon, Buck Henry y Lily Tomlin), Kansas City (1996, con Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte y Steve Buscemi), u Gosford Park (2001, con Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Philippe, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas y Emily Watson).