Question: Who directed the 1979 American drama film that starred the actress who won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Psycho"?
Context: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1960 American drama film.  Academy Award winner Delbert Mann directed the work of Robert Preston and Dorothy McGuire in the production.  Shirley Knight garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and Lee Kinsolving was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actor.  Knight was also nominated for two Golden Globes.  Mann's direction was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing in a Feature Film.  It was based on the Tony Award nominated play of the same name by William Inge. Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer and author.  She is best remembered for her performance in "Psycho", for which she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and received an Academy Award nomination. Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British-American film and stage actress.  Blunt made her professional debut in a 2001 London production of the play "The Royal Family".  Two years later, she appeared on screen for the first time in the 2003 television film "Boudica (Warrior Queen)" and portrayed ill-fated queen consort Catherine Howard in the miniseries "Henry VIII".  Her performance in the 2004 drama film "My Summer of Love" garnered her the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer.  For her performance in the TV film "Gideon's Daughter" (2006) she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.  The same year, she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for "The Devil Wears Prada." Diane Ladd (born November 29, 1932) is an American actress, film director, producer and author.  She has appeared in over 120 film and television roles.  For the 1974 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.  She went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for "Alice" (1980–81), and to receive Academy Award nominations for "Wild at Heart" (1990) and "Rambling Rose" (1991).  Her other film appearances include "Chinatown" (1974), "Ghosts of Mississippi" (1996), "Primary Colors" (1998), "28 Days" (2000), and "American Cowslip" (2008).  Ladd is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern. Julia Roberts is an American actress and producer who made her debut in the 1987 direct-to-video feature "Firehouse".  Roberts made her breakthrough the following year by starring in the coming-of-age film "Mystic Pizza" (1988).  For her supporting role in the comedy-drama "Steel Magnolias" (1989), she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.  Roberts' next role was opposite Richard Gere in the romantic comedy "Pretty Woman" (1990).  The film is estimated to have sold over 42 million tickets in North America—the most for a romantic comedy in the United States as of 2014.  For her performance, Roberts won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy).  In 1991, she appeared in the psychological thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy", and played Tinker Bell in the Steven Spielberg-directed fantasy adventure "Hook".  Two years later, Roberts starred in the legal thriller "The Pelican Brief", an adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same name.  During the late 1990s, she played the lead in the romantic comedies "My Best Friend's Wedding" (1997), "Notting Hill" (1999), and "Runaway Bride" (1999). Angelina Jolie is an American actress and filmmaker.  As a child, she made her screen debut in the 1982 comedy film "Lookin' to Get Out", acting alongside her father Jon Voight.  Eleven years later she appeared in her next feature, the low-budget film "Cyborg 2", a commercial failure.  She then starred as a teenage hacker in the 1995 science fiction thriller "Hackers", which went on to be a cult film despite performing poorly at the box-office.  Jolie's career prospects improved with a supporting role in the made-for-television film "George Wallace" (1997), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Television Film.  She made her breakthrough the following year in HBO's television film "Gia" (1998).  For her performance in the title role of fashion model Gia Carangi, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Film. Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1972) is an American actress and author.  She made her film debut in the 1996 drama film "A Time to Kill".  Her breakthrough came in 2011, when she starred as Minny Jackson in the period drama film "The Help", for which she won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress.  She had a critically acclaimed performance in Ryan Coogler's drama "Fruitvale Station" (2013), for which she received the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.  Spencer has received acclaim for her work in the films "Smashed" (2012), "Snowpiercer" (2013), "Get on Up" (2014), "The Divergent Series" (2015-2016), "Zootopia" (2016) and "The Shape of Water" (2017).  In 2017, she received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and SAG nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as mathematician Dorothy Vaughan in the drama "Hidden Figures". Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress of film, stage and television.  She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for the 1966 film "The Group", and starred in the 1967 western "Will Penny".  She went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1981 film "Only When I Laugh".  She also starred as Christine Mannon in the 1978 PBS miniseries version of "Mourning Becomes Electra". Juliette Jolene Barnes-Barkley is a fictional character and one of the two leads in the ABC/CMT musical drama series "Nashville".  Juliette is portrayed by actress Hayden Panettiere since the pilot episode, which aired on October 10, 2012.  Juliette was a teenage country sensation and is now making more mature music.  She tries to take the throne, as Queen of Country music, from rival Rayna Jaymes.  Panettiere has received critical acclaim for her performance as Juliette and she has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Television Series Drama in 2013 and 2014, a Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2012 and a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2016. Boardwalk is a 1979 American drama film written by Stephen Verona and Leigh Chapman and directed by Verona.  It stars Ruth Gordon, Lee Strasberg and Janet Leigh.
Answer: Verona