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Top Films by Year (1975-1979)

**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

1975

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Jaws* Steven Spielberg 27
2 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest** Milos Forman 37
3 Nashville* Robert Altman 70
4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
5 Dog Day Afternoon* Sidney Lumet 324
6 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Jim Sharman 333
7 Barry Lyndon* Stanley Kubrick 423
8 The Man Who Would be King John Huston 509
9 Picnic at Hanging Rock Peter Weir 556
10 The Travelling Players Theodoros Angelopoulos 768
11 Seven Beauties Lina Wertmüller 887
12 The Passenger Michelangelo Antonioni 905
13 Shampoo Hal Ashby 928
14 The Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky 973
15 Rollerball Norman Jewison 1091
16 Dersu Uzala Akira Kurosawa 1092
17 Xala Ousmane Sembene 1214
18 Night Moves Arthur Penn 1320
19 Fox and His Friends Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1399
20 Grey Gardens Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 1481
21 Smile Michael Ritchie 1498
22 Salò Pier Paolo Pasolini 1527
23 Love and Death Woody Allen 1544
24 A Boy and His Dog L.Q. Jones 1610
25 The Stepford Wives Bryan Forbes 1615
26 Tommy Ken Russell 1721
27 Three Days of the Condor Sydney Pollack 1732
28 The Story of Adele H. François Truffaut 1756
29 The Sunshine Boys Herbert Ross 1845
30 Death Race 2000 Paul Bartel 2216
31 India song Marguerite Duras 2256
32 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta 2259
33 Shivers David Cronenberg 2268
34 Sholay Ramesh Sippy 2319

1976

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Taxi Driver* Martin Scorsese 16
2 Rocky** John G. Avildsen 107
3 Network* Sidney Lumet 202
4 Carrie Brian De Palma 275
5 All the President's Men* Alan J. Pakula 309
6 In the Realm of the Senses Nagisa Oshima 660
7 Jeanne Dielman Chantal Akerman 661
8 The Outlaw Josey Wales Clint Eastwood 733
9 1900 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
10 The Omen Richard Donner 840
11 The Bad News Bears Michael Ritchie 921
12 Harlan County, U.S.A. Barbara Kopple 1139
13 The Man Who Fell to Earth Nicolas Roeg 1173
14 The Shootist Don Siegel 1207
15 Marathon Man John Schlesinger 1286
16 Assault on Precinct 13 John Carpenter 1353
17 The Tenant Roman Polanski 1469
18 Kings of the Road Wim Wenders 1616
19 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings John Badham 1760
20 Small Change François Truffaut 1852
21 Cria! Carlos Saura 1972
22 Bugsy Malone Alan Parker 1990
23 Silver Streak Arthur Hiller 2090
24 Bound for Glory* Hal Ashby 2165
25 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie John Cassavetes 2257
26 Robin and Marian Richard Lester 2358
27 The Front Martin Ritt 2472

1977

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars* George Lucas 7
2 Annie Hall** Woody Allen 24
3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg 103
4 Saturday Night Fever John Badham 346
5 Eraserhead David Lynch 397
6 Suspiria Dario Argento 456
7 Slap Shot George Roy Hill 718
8 Killer of Sheep Charles Burnett 1022
9 That Obscure Object of Desire Luis Buñuel 1153
10 The Goodbye Girl* Herbert Ross 1185
11 The American Friend Wim Wenders 1279
12 Julia* Fred Zinnemann 1287
13 Pumping Iron George Butler and Robert Fiore 1445
14 Man of Marble Andrzej Wajda 1642
15 The Hills Have Eyes Wes Craven 1670
16 Providence Alain Resnais 1705
17 3 Women Robert Altman 1740
18 Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah 1818
19 Ceddo Ousmane Sembene 1830
20 Soldier of Orange Paul Verhoeven 2019
21 Martin George A. Romero 2020
22 The Ascent Larissa Shepitko 2055
23 Opening Night John Cassavetes 2316
24 A Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough 2353
25 Smokey and the Bandit Hal Needham 2405
26 Stroszek Werner Herzog 2457

1978

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter** Michael Cimino 72
2 Halloween John Carpenter 160
3 Grease Randal Kleiser 201
4 Dawn of the Dead George A. Romero 273
5 Animal House John Landis 282
6 Days of Heaven Terrence Malick 295
7 Superman Richard Donner 314
8 The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi 770
9 The Last Waltz Martin Scorsese 797
10 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Philip Kaufman 932
11 Coming Home* Hal Ashby 1124
12 Watership Down Martin Rosen 1361
13 Heaven Can Wait* Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1439
14 Autumn Sonata Ingmar Bergman 1561
15 Blue Collar Paul Schrader 1604
16 An Unmarried Woman* Paul Mazursky 1608
17 In a Year of 13 Moons Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1699
18 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Fred Schepisi 1935
19 Midnight Express* Alan Parker 1960
20 Big Wednesday John Milius 2023
21 Newsfront Phillip Noyce 2057
22 La Cage aux Folles Edouard Molinaro 2143
23 Straight Time Ulu Grosbard 2155
24 The Buddy Holly Story Steve Rash 2240
25 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs Bertrand Blier 2383

1979

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Apocalypse Now* Francis Ford Coppola 17
2 Alien Ridley Scott 54
3 Manhattan Woody Allen 135
4 Life of Brian Terry Jones 180
5 Kramer vs. Kramer** Robert Benton 448
6 Being There Hal Ashby 454
7 Breaking Away* Peter Yates 458
8 The Marriage of Maria Braun Rainer Werner Fassbinder 512
9 Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 513
10 Mad Max George Miller 543
11 The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff 561
12 All That Jazz* Bob Fosse 732
13 My Brilliant Career Gillian Armstrong 860
14 The Jerk Carl Reiner 977
15 The China Syndrome James Bridges 1000
16 Norma Rae* Martin Ritt 1043
17 The Black Stallion Carroll Ballard 1111
18 North Dallas Forty Ted Kotcheff 1161
19 Nosferatu the Vampyre Werner Herzog 1222
20 The In-Laws Arthur Hiller 1295
21 Quadrophenia Franc Roddam 1436
22 Hair Milos Forman 1479
23 The Warriors Walter Hill 1533
24 1941 Steven Spielberg 1663
25 The Muppet Movie James Frawley 1787
26 Star Trek: The Motion Picture Robert Wise 1859
27 Wise Blood John Huston 1863
28 Love on the Run François Truffaut 1909
29 10 Blake Edwards 1916
30 Rock 'n' Roll High School Allan Arkush 1917
31 When a Stranger Calls Fred Walton 2207
32 Best Boy Ira Wohl 2211
33 Tess* Roman Polanski 2314
34 The Great Santini Lewis John Carlino 2340
35 Time after Time Nicholas Meyer 2379
36 Phantasm Don Coscarelli 2402
37 Real Life Albert Brooks 2423

**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

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