Oscar Alternate 1970s
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1. Patton (1970)
GP | 172 min | Biography, Drama, War
The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong
Votes: 107,905 | Gross: $61.70M
Best Film
Winner: Patton
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
M*A*S*H
Women in Love
2. Airport (1970)
G | 137 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Directors: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg
Votes: 21,671 | Gross: $100.49M
Best Director
Winner: Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton
Elio Petri – Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Arthur Hiller – Love Story
Robert Altman – M*A*S*H
Ken Russell – Women in Love
Sound: Patton
Airport
Ryan's Daughter
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Woodstock
3. Love Story (1970)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland
Votes: 37,419 | Gross: $106.40M
Best Actor
Winner: George C. Scott – Patton
Melvyn Douglas – I Never Sang for My Father
Gene Hackman – I Never Sang for My Father
James Earl Jones – The Great White Hope
Jack Nicholson – Five Easy Pieces
Cinematography: Ryan's Daughter – Freddie Young
Airport
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Women in Love
4. Women in Love (1969)
R | 131 min | Drama, Romance
Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Votes: 8,548 | Gross: $1.03M
Best Actress
Winner: Glenda Jackson – Women In Love
Jane Alexander – The Great White Hope
Ali MacGraw – Love Story
Sarah Miles – Ryan's Daughter
Carrie Snodgress – Diary of a Mad Housewife
Production: Patton – Urie McCleary and Gil Parrondo
Airport
Scrooge
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Women in Love
5. Little Big Man (1970)
PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam
Votes: 37,880 | Gross: $31.56M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Chief Dan George – Little Big Man
Richard Castellano – Lovers and Other Strangers
Frank Langella – Diary of a Mad Housewife
John Marley – Love Story
John Mills – Ryan's Daughter
Film Editing: Patton – Hugh S. Fowler
Five Easy Pieces
M*A*S*H
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Woodstock
6. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
R | 98 min | Drama
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg
Votes: 40,508 | Gross: $19.40M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Karen Black – Five Easy Pieces
Lee Grant – The Landlord
Helen Hayes – Airport
Sally Kellerman – M*A*S*H
Maureen Stapleton – Airport
Costume: Cromwell – Vittorio Nino Novarese
Airport
Darling Lili
Scrooge
Women In Love
7. M*A*S*H (1970)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 76,892 | Gross: $81.60M
Best Screenplay
Original: Patton – Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North
Five Easy Pieces
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Joe
Love Story
Adapted: M*A*S*H – Ring Lardner Jr.
Airport
Diary of a Mad Housewife
I Never Sang for My Father
Women in Love
8. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 13,323 | Gross: $0.27M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italy) – Elio Petri
First Love (Switzerland)
Hoa-Binh (France)
Peace Over the Fields (Belgium)
Tristana (Spain)
Visual Effect: Tora! Tora! Tora!
9. Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
GP | 104 min | Comedy
Mike and Susan's wedding is overshadowed by family drama, including Mike's brother's divorce, Susan's father's affair, her sister's marital troubles, and Mike's friend pursuing the maid of honor.
Director: Cy Howard | Stars: Gig Young, Bea Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,374 | Gross: $5.48M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "For All We Know" Lovers and Other Strangers – Fred Karlin, Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer
"Pieces of Dreams" Pieces of Dreams
"Thank You Very Much" Scrooge
"Till Love Touches Your Life" Madron
"Whistling Away the Dark" Darling Lili
Score: Love Story – Francis Lai
Airport
Cromwell
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Patton
10. The French Connection (1971)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco
Votes: 135,584 | Gross: $15.63M
Best Film
Winner: The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
11. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 880,896 | Gross: $6.21M
Best Director
Winner: William Friedkin – The French Connection
Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof
Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show
John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sound: Fiddler on the Roof
A Clockwork Orange
Diamonds Are Forever
The French Connection
Mary, Queen of Scots
12. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
G | 181 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon
Votes: 47,837 | Gross: $80.50M
Best Actor
Winner: Gene Hackman – The French Connection
Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Malcolm McDowell – A Clockwork Orange
George C. Scott – The Hospital
Chaim Topol – Fiddler on the Roof
Cinematography: Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris
The French Connection
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Summer of '42
13. Klute (1971)
R | 114 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
Votes: 29,599 | Gross: $17.44M
Best Actress
Winner: Jane Fonda – Klute
Julie Christie – McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots
Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra
Production: Nicholas and Alexandra – Ernest Archer, John Box, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo
The Andromeda Strain
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
Mary, Queen of Scots
14. The Last Picture Show (1971)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson
Votes: 52,353 | Gross: $29.13M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show
Tom Baker – Nicholas and Alexandra
Jeff Bridges – The Last Picture Show
Leonard Frey – Fiddler on the Roof
Roy Scheider – The French Connection
Film Editing: The French Connection – Gerald B. Greenberg
The Andromeda Strain
A Clockwork Orange
Klute
Summer of '42
15. Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
GP | 183 min | Biography, Drama, History
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson
Votes: 5,561 | Gross: $3.96M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show
Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge
Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show
Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between
Diana Rigg – The Hospital
Costume: Nicholas and Alexandra – Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Death in Venice
Mary, Queen of Scots
What's the Matter with Helen?
16. The Hospital (1971)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A hospital's chief-of-staff struggles to find meaning in his life during a spate of staff deaths.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Richard Dysart
Votes: 7,319 | Gross: $19.71M
Best Screenplay
Original: The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky
Carnal Knowledge
Klute
Summer of '42
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Adapted: The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman
A Clockwork Orange
The Conformist
The Emigrants
The Last Picture Show
17. The Emigrants (1971)
PG | 151 min | Drama, History
Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Sven-Olof Bern
Votes: 7,456 | Gross: $1.16M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: The Emigrants (Sweden) – Jan Troell
Dodes'ka-den (Japan)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy)
The Policeman (Israel)
Tchaikovsky (Soviet Union)
Visual Effect: Bedknobs and Broomsticks
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
18. Shaft (1971)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John
Votes: 21,005 | Gross: $16.69M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Theme from Shaft" Shaft – Isaac Hayes
"The Age of Not Believing" Bedknobs and Broomsticks
"All His Children" Sometimes a Great Notion
"Bless the Beasts and Children" Bless the Beasts and Children
"If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out" Harold and Maude
Score: Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand
Mary, Queen of Scots
Nicholas and Alexandra
Shaft
Straw Dogs
19. The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 2,010,902 | Gross: $134.97M
Best Film
Winner: The Godfather
Cabaret
Cries & Whispers
Deliverance
Sounder
20. Sleuth (1972)
PG | 138 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews
Votes: 50,147 | Gross: $4.08M
Best Director
Winner: Bob Fosse – Cabaret
Ingmar Bergman – Cries & Whispers
John Boorman – Deliverance
Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Sleuth
Sound: Cabaret
The Candidate
Deliverance
The Godfather
The Poseidon Adventure
21. Sounder (1972)
G | 105 min | Drama, Family
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews
Votes: 4,822 | Gross: $3.10M
Best Actor
Winner: Marlon Brando – The Godfather
Michael Caine – Sleuth
Laurence Olivier – Sleuth
Al Pacino – The Godfather
Paul Winfield – Sounder
Cinematography: The Godfather – Gordon Willis
Butterflies Are Free
Cabaret
Cries & Whispers
The Poseidon Adventure
22. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,355 | Gross: $42.77M
Best Actress
Winner: Liza Minnelli – Cabaret
Goldie Hawn – Butterflies Are Free
Diana Ross – Lady Sings the Blues
Maggie Smith – Travel with My Aunt
Cicely Tyson – Sounder
Production: Cabaret – Hans Jurgen Kiebach and Rolf Zehetbauer
The Godfather
Lady Sings the Blues
The Poseidon Adventure
Travel with My Aunt
23. Deliverance (1972)
R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Votes: 119,194 | Gross: $7.06M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Joel Grey – Cabaret
Eddie Albert – The Heartbreak Kid
Ned Beatty – Deliverance
James Caan – The Godfather
Robert Duvall – The Godfather
Film Editing: The Godfather – William Reynolds and Peter Zinner
Cabaret
Deliverance
The Hot Rock
The Poseidon Adventure
24. Butterflies Are Free (1972)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.
Director: Milton Katselas | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser
Votes: 5,957 | Gross: $0.25M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Eileen Heckart – Butterflies Are Free
Jeannie Berlin – The Heartbreak Kid
Talia Shire – The Godfather
Susan Tyrrell – Fat City
Shelley Winters – The Poseidon Adventure
Costume: Travels with My Aunt – Anthony Powell
Cabaret
Cries & Whispers
The Godfather
Lady Sings the Blues
25. Cries & Whispers (1972)
R | 91 min | Drama
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Votes: 36,960 | Gross: $1.74M
Best Screenplay
Original: Cries & Whispers – Ingmar Bergman
The Candidate
Lady Sings the Blues
What’s Up, Doc?
Young Winston
Adapted: The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
Cabaret
The Heartbreak Kid
Pete 'n' Tillie
Sounder
26. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier
Votes: 46,808 | Gross: $0.20M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France) – Luis Bunuel
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (Soviet Union)
I Love You Rosa (Israel)
My Dearest Senorita (Spain)
The New Land (Sweden)
Visual Effect: The Poseidon Adventure
27. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons
Votes: 49,200 | Gross: $84.56M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "The Morning After" The Poseidon Adventure – Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha
"Ben" Ben
"Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
"Mein Herr" Cabaret
"The Pusherman" Super Fly
Score: The Godfather – Nino Rota
Images
Napoleon and Samantha
The Poseidon Adventure
Sleuth
28. The Sting (1973)
PG | 129 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning
Votes: 279,724 | Gross: $159.60M
Best Film
Winner: The Sting
American Graffiti
The Exorcist
Paper Moon
Serpico
29. The Exorcist (1973)
R | 122 min | Horror
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 454,688 | Gross: $232.91M
Best Director
Winner: George Roy Hill – The Sting
George Lucas – American Graffiti
William Friedkin – The Exorcist
Bernardo Bertolucci – Last Tango in Paris
Peter Bogdanovich – Paper Moon
Sound: The Exorcist
The Day of the Dolphin
Paper Moon
Papillon
The Sting
30. Serpico (1973)
R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Votes: 134,683 | Gross: $29.80M
Best Actor
Winner: Al Pacino – Serpico
Marlon Brando – Last Tango in Paris
Jack Nicholson – The Last Detail
Ryan O'Neal – Paper Moon
Robert Redford – The Sting
Cinematography: The Exorcist – Owen Roizman
Last Tango in Paris
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Sting
The Way We Were
31. Paper Moon (1973)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Votes: 52,426 | Gross: $30.93M
Best Actress
Winner: Tatum O'Neal – Paper Moon
Ellen Burstyn – The Exorcist
Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class
Marsha Mason – Cinderella Liberty
Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were
Production: The Sting – Henry Bumstead
The Exorcist
Paper Moon
Tom Sawyer
The Way We Were
32. The Paper Chase (1973)
PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and a woman, unaware that she has a connection that affects their relationship.
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel
Votes: 8,681 | Gross: $1.85M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: John Houseman – The Paper Chase
Vincent Gardenia – Bang the Drum Slowly
Jason Miller – The Exorcist
Randy Quaid – The Last Detail
Max von Sydow – The Exorcist
Film Editing: The Sting — William H. Reynolds
American Graffiti
The Day of the Jackal
The Exorcist
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
33. American Graffiti (1973)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 98,091 | Gross: $115.00M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Madeline Kahn – Paper Moon
Linda Blair – The Exorcist
Candy Clark – American Graffiti
Valentina Cortese – Day for Night
Sylvia Sidney – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Costume: The Sting – Edith Head
Ludwig
Paper Moon
Tom Sawyer
The Way We Were
34. A Touch of Class (1973)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.
Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Paul Sorvino, K Callan
Votes: 3,546 | Gross: $18.31M
Best Screenplay
Original: The Sting – David S. Ward
American Graffiti
Day for Night
Save the Tiger
A Touch of Class
Adapted: The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
The Last Detail
The Paper Chase
Paper Moon
Serpico
35. Day for Night (1973)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 24,772 | Gross: $0.02M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Day for Night (France) – Francois Truffaut
The House on Chelouche Street (Israel)
L'Invitation (Switzerland)
The Pedestrian (West Germany)
Turkish Delight (Netherlands)
Visual Effect: The Exorcist
36. The Way We Were (1973)
PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance
During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
Votes: 27,454
Best Soundtrack
Song: "The Way We Were" The Way We Were – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch
"All That Love Went to Waste" A Touch of Class
"Live and Let Die" Live and Let Die
"Love" Robin Hood
"(You're So) Nice to Be Around" Cinderella Liberty
Score: The Way We Were – Marvin Hamlisch
Cinderella Liberty
The Day of the Dolphin
Papillon
A Touch of Class
37. The Godfather Part II (1974)
R | 202 min | Crime, Drama
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,363,340 | Gross: $57.30M
Best Film
Winner: The Godfather Part II
Chinatown
The Conversation
Lenny
The Towering Inferno
38. The Conversation (1974)
PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 121,766 | Gross: $4.42M
Best Director
Winner: Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather: Part II
Roman Polanski – Chinatown
Francis Ford Coppola – The Conversation
Bob Fosse – Lenny
John Cassavetes – A Woman Under the Influence
Sound: Earthquake
Chinatown
The Conversation
The Towering Inferno
Young Frankenstein
39. Harry and Tonto (1974)
R | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof
Votes: 6,214 | Gross: $1.26M
Best Actor
Winner: Art Carney – Harry and Tonto
Gene Hackman – The Conversation
Dustin Hoffman – Lenny
Jack Nicholson – Chinatown
Al Pacino – The Godfather Part II
Cinematography: Chinatown – John A. Alonzo
The Godfather Part II
Lenny
Murder on the Orient Express
The Towering Inferno
40. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Mia Bendixsen, Alfred Lutter III
Votes: 27,453 | Gross: $18.60M
Best Actress
Winner: Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Faye Dunaway – Chinatown
Diahann Carroll – Claudine
Valerie Perrine – Lenny
Gena Rowlands – A Woman Under the Influence
Production: The Godfather Part II – Dean Tavoularis and Angelo P. Graham
Chinatown
Earthquake
The Towering Inferno
Young Frankenstein
41. Lenny (1974)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck
Votes: 17,535 | Gross: $8.43M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Robert De Niro – The Godfather Part II
Fred Astaire – The Towering Inferno
Michael V. Gazzo – The Godfather Part II
John Huston – Chinatown
Lee Strasberg – The Godfather Part II
Film Editing: The Towering Inferno — Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress
Blazing Saddles
Chinatown
Earthquake
The Longest Yard
42. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
PG | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery
Votes: 69,099 | Gross: $0.07M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Lauren Bacall – Murder on the Orient Express
Ingrid Bergman – Murder on the Orient Express
Madeline Kahn – Blazing Saddles
Diane Keaton – The Godfather Part II
Diane Ladd – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Costume: The Great Gatsby – Theoni V. Aldredge
Chinatown
Daisy Miller
The Godfather Part II
Murder on the Orient Express
43. Chinatown (1974)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Votes: 349,653
Best Screenplay
Original: Chinatown – Robert Towne
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Blazing Saddles
The Conversation
Harry and Tonto
Adapted: The Godfather Part II – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Lenny
Murder on the Orient Express
Young Frankenstein
44. Amarcord (1973)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Votes: 46,791 | Gross: $0.58M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Amarcord (Italy) – Federico Fellini
Cats' Play (Hungary)
The Deluge (Poland)
Lacombe, Lucien (France)
The Truce (Argentina)
Visual Effect: Earthquake
45. The Towering Inferno (1974)
PG | 165 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Votes: 48,220 | Gross: $116.00M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "We May Never Love Like This Again" The Towering Inferno – Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
"I Feel Love" Benji
"Blazing Saddles" Blazing Saddles
"Little Prince" The Little Prince
"On and On" Claudine
Score: The Godfather Part II – Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola
Chinatown
Murder on the Orient Express
Shanks
The Towering Inferno
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
R | 133 min | Drama
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Votes: 1,071,779 | Gross: $112.00M
Best Film
Winner: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville
47. Tommy (1975)
PG | 111 min | Drama, Musical
A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John
Votes: 22,622 | Gross: $34.25M
Best Director
Winner: Milos Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
Steven Spielberg – Jaws
Robert Altman – Nashville
Sound: Jaws
Bite the Bullet
The Hindenburg
Tommy
The Wind and the Lion
48. The Sunshine Boys (I) (1975)
PG | 111 min | Comedy
A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith
Votes: 6,689
Best Actor
Winner: Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
George Burns – The Sunshine Boys
Walter Matthau – The Sunshine Boys
Al Pacino – Dog Day Afternoon
Maximilian Schell – The Man in the Glass Booth
Cinematography: Barry Lyndon – John Alcott
The Day of the Locust
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
49. Barry Lyndon (1975)
PG | 185 min | Adventure, Drama, War
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger
Votes: 182,951
Best Actress
Winner: Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Isabelle Adjani – The Story of Adele H.
Ann-Margret – Tommy
Glenda Jackson – Hedda
Carol Kane – Hester Street
Production: Barry Lyndon – Ken Adam and Roy Walker
The Hindenburg
The Man Who Would Be King
The Sunshine Boys
Tommy
50. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 659,073 | Gross: $260.00M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Robert Shaw – Jaws
Brad Dourif – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Burgess Meredith – The Day of the Locust
Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon
Jack Warden – Shampoo
Film Editing: Jaws – Verna Fields
Dog Day Afternoon
The Man Who Would Be King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Three Days of the Condor
51. Shampoo (1975)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
On Election Day, 1968, a hairdresser and ladies' man is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his various girlfriends and his mistress, whose husband he meets and finds out is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant
Votes: 14,122 | Gross: $49.41M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Lee Grant — Shampoo
Ronee Blakley – Nashville
Sylvia Miles – Farewell, My Lovely
Lily Tomlin – Nashville
Brenda Vaccaro – Once Is Not Enough
Costume: Barry Lyndon – Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund
The Day of the Locust
The Four Musketeers
Funny Lady
The Man Who Would Be King
52. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar
Votes: 272,944 | Gross: $50.00M
Best Screenplay
Original: Dog Day Afternoon – Frank Pierson
Hearts of the West
Lies My Father Told Me
Love and Death
Shampoo
Adapted: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben
Barry Lyndon
Hester Street
The Man Who Would Be King
The Sunshine Boys
53. Dersu Uzala (1975)
G | 142 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulyov
Votes: 33,481
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Dersu Uzala (Soviet Union) – Akira Kurosawa
Adoption (Hungary)
Profumo di donna (Italy)
The Promised Land (Poland)
Sandakan No. 8 (Japan)
Visual Effect: Jaws
54. Nashville (1975)
R | 160 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall
Votes: 28,551 | Gross: $14.82M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "I'm Easy" Nashville – Keith Carradine
"Do You Know Where You're Going To" Mahogany
"How Lucky Can You Get" Funny Lady
"Now That We’re In Love" Whiffs
"Richard’s Window" The Other Side of the Mountain
Score: Jaws – John Williams
Bite the Bullet
The Man Who Would Be King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Wind and the Lion
55. Network (1976)
R | 121 min | Drama
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall
Votes: 170,518
Best Film
Winner: Network
All the President’s Men
Bound for Glory
Rocky
Taxi Driver
56. Rocky (1976)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Sport
A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Votes: 628,087 | Gross: $117.24M
Best Director
Winner: Sidney Lumet – Network
Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men
John G. Avildsen – Rocky
Lina Wertmuller – Seven Beauties
Martin Scorsese – Taxi Driver
Sound: Rocky
All the President's Men
King Kong
Silver Streak
A Star Is Born
57. Taxi Driver (1976)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Votes: 919,834 | Gross: $28.26M
Best Actor
Winner: Peter Finch – Network
Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver
Giancarlo Giannini – Seven Beauties
William Holden – Network
Sylvester Stallone – Rocky
Cinematography: Bound for Glory – Haskell Wexler
King Kong
Network
A Star Is Born
Taxi Driver
58. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,539 | Gross: $33.80M
Best Actress
Winner: Faye Dunaway – Network
Marie-Christine Barrault – Cousin Cousine
Talia Shire – Rocky
Sissy Spacek – Carrie
Liv Ullmann – Face to Face
Production: All the President's Men – George Jenkins
Bound for Glory
The Last Tycoon
Logan's Run
The Shootist
59. All the President's Men (1976)
PG | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam
Votes: 125,967 | Gross: $70.60M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Jason Robards – All the President's Men
Ned Beatty – Network
Burgess Meredith – Rocky
Laurence Olivier – Marathon Man
Burt Young – Rocky
Film Editing: Rocky – Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad
All the President’s Men
Bound for Glory
Network
Taxi Driver
60. Bound for Glory (1976)
PG | 147 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland
Votes: 5,586
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Beatrice Straight – Network
Jane Alexander – All the President's Men
Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver
Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned
Piper Laurie – Carrie
Costume: Bound for Glory – William Ware Theiss
The Incredible Sarah
Logan's Run
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Voyage of the Damned
61. Voyage of the Damned (1976)
PG | 155 min | Drama, War
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 3,401
Best Screenplay
Original: Network – Paddy Chayefsky
The Front
Rocky
Seven Beauties
Taxi Driver
Adapted: All the President's Men – William Goldman
Bound for Glory
Carrie
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Voyage of the Damned
62. Seven Beauties (1975)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Votes: 6,479 | Gross: $0.01M
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Seven Beauties (Italy) – Lina Wertmuller
Black and White in Color (Ivory Coast)
Cousin Cousine (France)
Jacob the Liar (East Germany)
Nights and Days (Poland)
Visual Effect: Logan's Run
63. A Star Is Born (1976)
R | 139 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark
Votes: 13,165 | Gross: $80.00M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Evergreen" A Star Is Born – Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams
"Ave Satani" The Omen
"Car Wash" Car Wash
"Gonna Fly Now" Rocky
"I’d Like to Be You for a Day" Freaky Friday
Score: Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann
Obsession
The Omen
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Voyage of the Damned
64. Annie Hall (1977)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane
Votes: 278,278 | Gross: $39.20M
Best Film
Winner: Annie Hall
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Julia
Star Wars
The Turning Point
65. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 216,756 | Gross: $132.09M
Best Director
Winner: Woody Allen – Annie Hall
Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann – Julia
George Lucas – Star Wars
Herbert Ross – The Turning Point
Sound: Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Deep
Sorcerer
The Turning Point
66. The Goodbye Girl (1977)
PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict
Votes: 16,175 | Gross: $102.00M
Best Actor
Winner: Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl
Woody Allen – Annie Hall
Richard Burton – Equus
Peter Firth – Equus
John Travolta – Saturday Night Fever
Cinematography: Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Vilmos Zsigmond
Annie Hall
Julia
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
The Turning Point
67. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
Votes: 1,448,860 | Gross: $322.74M
Best Actress
Winner: Diane Keaton – Annie Hall
Jane Fonda – Julia
Shirley MacLaine – The Turning Point
Marsha Mason – The Goodbye Girl
Kathleen Quinlan – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Production: Star Wars – John Barry, Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Julia
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Turning Point
68. Oh, God! (1977)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 10,582 | Gross: $41.69M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: George Burns – Oh, God!
Mikhail Baryshnikov – The Turning Point
Alec Guinness – Star Wars
Jason Robards – Julia
Maximilian Schell – Julia
Film Editing: Star Wars – Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew
Annie Hall
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Smokey and the Bandit
The Turning Point
69. Julia (1977)
PG | 117 min | Drama
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell
Votes: 10,406
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Vanessa Redgrave – Julia
Leslie Browne – The Turning Point
Quinn Cummings – The Goodbye Girl
Melinda Dillon – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Tuesday Weld – Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Costume: Star Wars – John Mollo
Annie Hall
Julia
A Little Night Music
The Other Side of Midnight
70. The Turning Point (1977)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt
Votes: 5,177 | Gross: $33.60M
Best Screenplay
Original: Annie Hall – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
The Goodbye Girl
The Late Show
Star Wars
The Turning Point
Adapted: Julia – Alvin Sargent
Equus
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Oh, God!
That Obscure Object of Desire
71. A Special Day (1977)
Approved | 106 min | Drama
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd
Votes: 15,821
Best Foreign Film
Winner: A Special Day (Italy) – Ettore Scola
The American Friend (West Germany)
The Ascent (Soviet Union)
Madame Rosa (France)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Spain)
Visual Effect: Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
72. You Light Up My Life (1977)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Laurie has been in show business since she was a child. Her dream is to be a singer, songwriter and actress. Her father wants her to be a comedian like him and Laurie only tries because it ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Brooks | Stars: Didi Conn, Joe Silver, Michael Zaslow, Stephen Nathan
Votes: 835
Best Soundtrack
Song: "You Light Up My Life" You Light Up My Life – Joseph Brooks
"Candle on the Water" Pete's Dragon
"Nobody Does It Better" The Spy Who Loved Me
"Someone's Waiting for You" The Rescuers
"Stayin' Alive" Saturday Night Fever
Score: Star Wars – John Williams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Julia
The Message
The Spy Who Loved Me
73. The Deer Hunter (1978)
R | 183 min | Drama, War
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage
Votes: 361,985 | Gross: $48.98M
Best Film
Winner: The Deer Hunter
Coming Home
Days of Heaven
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman
74. Heaven Can Wait (1978)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.
Directors: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry | Stars: Warren Beatty, James Mason, Julie Christie, Jack Warden
Votes: 23,501 | Gross: $81.64M
Best Director
Winner: Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter
Hal Ashby – Coming Home
Terrence Malick – Days of Heaven
Alan Parker – Midnight Express
Richard Donner – Superman
Sound: The Deer Hunter
The Buddy Holly Story
Days of Heaven
Hooper
Superman
75. Days of Heaven (1978)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz
Votes: 62,717
Best Actor
Winner: Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter
Alan Alda – Same Time, Next Year
Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story
Brad Davis – Midnight Express
Jon Voight – Coming Home
Cinematography: Days of Heaven – Nestor Almendros
The Deer Hunter
Heaven Can Wait
Same Time, Next Year
The Wiz
76. Coming Home (1978)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford
Votes: 14,795 | Gross: $32.65M
Best Actress
Winner: Jane Fonda – Coming Home
Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata
Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year
Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman
Geraldine Page – Interiors
Production: Heaven Can Wait – Paul Sylbert and Edwin O'Donovan
California Suite
Days of Heaven
Interiors
The Wiz
77. Midnight Express (1978)
R | 121 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli
Votes: 88,193 | Gross: $35.00M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter
Bruce Dern – Coming Home
Richard Farnsworth – Comes a Horseman
John Hurt – Midnight Express
Jack Warden – Heaven Can Wait
Film Editing: The Deer Hunter – Peter Zinner
Coming Home
Days of Heaven
Midnight Express
Superman
78. California Suite (1978)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine
Votes: 8,100
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Maggie Smith – California Suite
Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait
Penelope Milford – Coming Home
Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter
Costume: Days of Heaven – Patricia Norris
The Buddy Holly Story
Caravans
Death on the Nile
The Wiz
79. An Unmarried Woman (1978)
R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman
Votes: 6,044 | Gross: $24.00M
Best Screenplay
Original: An Unmarried Woman – Paul Mazursky
Autumn Sonata
Coming Home
The Deer Hunter
Interiors
Adapted: Midnight Express – Oliver Stone
Bloodbrothers
California Suite
Heaven Can Wait
Same Time, Next Year
80. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Serrault
Votes: 4,279
Best Foreign Film
Winner: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France) – Bertrand Blier
The Glass Cell (West Germany)
Hungarians (Hungary)
Viva Italia! (Italy)
White Bim Black Ear (Soviet Union)
Visual Effect: Superman
81. Thank God It's Friday (1978)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Music
A Friday in the life of the disco club The Zoo, where the staff and clients meet and dance their lives away.
Director: Robert Klane | Stars: Donna Summer, Valerie Landsburg, Terri Nunn, Chick Vennera
Votes: 3,121 | Gross: $7.30M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "Last Dance" Thank God It's Friday – Paul Jabara
"Hopelessly Devoted to You" Grease
"The Last Time I Felt Like This" Same Time, Next Year
"Ready to Take a Chance Again" Foul Play
"When You're Loved" The Magic of Lassie
Score: Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
Heaven Can Wait
Superman
82. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
PG | 105 min | Drama
After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry
Votes: 154,612 | Gross: $106.26M
Best Film
Winner: Kramer vs. Kramer
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
Breaking Away
Norma Rae
83. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 709,679 | Gross: $83.47M
Best Director
Winner: Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now
Bob Fosse – All That Jazz
Peter Yates – Breaking Away
Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer
Edouard Molinaro – La Cage aux Folles
Sound: Apocalypse Now
1941
The Electric Horseman
Meteor
The Rose
84. All That Jazz (1979)
R | 123 min | Drama, Music, Musical
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer
Votes: 35,363 | Gross: $37.82M
Best Actor
Winner: Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer
Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome
Al Pacino – ...And Justice for All.
Roy Scheider – All That Jazz
Peter Sellers – Being There
Cinematography: Apocalypse Now – Vittorio Storaro
All That Jazz
The Black Hole
Kramer vs. Kramer
Manhattan
85. Norma Rae (1979)
PG | 114 min | Drama
A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle
Votes: 12,823 | Gross: $22.23M
Best Actress
Winner: Sally Field – Norma Rae
Jill Clayburgh – Starting Over
Jane Fonda – The China Syndrome
Marsha Mason – Chapter Two
Bette Midler – The Rose
Production: All That Jazz – Philip Rosenberg and Tony Walton
Alien
Apocalypse Now
The China Syndrome
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
86. Being There (1979)
PG | 130 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden
Votes: 77,616 | Gross: $30.18M
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Melvyn Douglas – Being There
Paul Dooley – Breaking Away
Robert Duvall – Apocalypse Now
Frederic Forrest – The Rose
Justin Henry – Kramer vs. Kramer
Film Editing: All That Jazz – Alan Heim
Apocalypse Now
Breaking Away
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Rose
87. Manhattan (1979)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy
Votes: 147,183 | Gross: $45.70M
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer
Jane Alexander – Kramer vs. Kramer
Barbara Barrie – Breaking Away
Candice Bergen – Starting Over
Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan
Costume: All That Jazz – Albert Wolsky
Agatha
The Europeans
Hair
La Cage aux Folles
88. Breaking Away (1979)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley
Votes: 25,456 | Gross: $16.42M
Best Screenplay
Original: Breaking Away – Steve Tesich
All That Jazz
...And Justice for All.
The China Syndrome
Manhattan
Adapted: Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton
Apocalypse Now
La Cage aux Folles
A Little Romance
Norma Rae
89. The Tin Drum (1979)
R | 142 min | Drama, War
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 25,740
Best Foreign Film
Winner: The Tin Drum (West Germany) – Volker Schlondorff
Alexandria... Why? (Egypt)
The Maids of Wilko (Poland)
A Simple Story (France)
To Forget Venice (Italy)
Visual Effect: Alien
1941
The Black Hole
Moonraker
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
90. The Rose (1979)
R | 125 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton
Votes: 9,246 | Gross: $29.20M
Best Soundtrack
Song: "It Goes Like It Goes" Norma Rae – David Shire and Norman Gimbel
"It’s Easy to Say" 10
"Rainbow Connection" The Muppet Movie
"The Rose" The Rose
"Through the Eyes of Love" Ice Castles
Score: A Little Romance – Georges Delarue
10
Apocalypse Now
The Amityville Horror
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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