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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 24
2 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest** Milos Forman 35
3 Nashville* Robert Altman 86
4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
5 Dog Day Afternoon* Sidney Lumet 285
6 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Jim Sharman 301
7 Barry Lyndon* Stanley Kubrick 355
8 Picnic at Hanging Rock Peter Weir 567
9 The Man Who Would be King John Huston 665
10 Jeanne Dielman Chantal Akerman 751
11 The Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky 887
12 Rollerball Norman Jewison 916
13 The Travelling Players Theodoros Angelopoulos 988
14 Seven Beauties Lina Wertmüller 1049
15 The Passenger Michelangelo Antonioni 1063
16 Grey Gardens Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 1150
17 Dersu Uzala Akira Kurosawa 1194
18 Shampoo Hal Ashby 1200
19 Xala Ousmane Sembene 1234
20 Three Days of the Condor Sydney Pollack 1308
21 Salò Pier Paolo Pasolini 1310
22 Love and Death Woody Allen 1343
23 Tommy Ken Russell 1359
24 Fox and His Friends Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1599
25 Night Moves Arthur Penn 1623
26 A Boy and His Dog L.Q. Jones 1827
27 Deep Red Dario Argento 1906
28 Smile Michael Ritchie 1914
29 Sholay Ramesh Sippy 1987
30 Shivers David Cronenberg 2019
31 India song Marguerite Duras 2086
32 The Stepford Wives Bryan Forbes 2124
33 The Story of Adele H. François Truffaut 2362

1976

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Taxi Driver* Martin Scorsese 19
2 Rocky** John G. Avildsen 101
3 Network* Sidney Lumet 221
4 Carrie Brian De Palma 269
5 All the President's Men* Alan J. Pakula 277
6 Eraserhead David Lynch 280
7 In the Realm of the Senses Nagisa Oshima 615
8 The Outlaw Josey Wales Clint Eastwood 645
9 The Omen Richard Donner 739
10 The Man Who Fell to Earth Nicolas Roeg 782
11 The Bad News Bears Michael Ritchie 807
12 Assault on Precinct 13 John Carpenter 862
13 Marathon Man John Schlesinger 966
14 1900 Bernardo Bertolucci 970
15 Harlan County, U.S.A. Barbara Kopple 989
16 The Tenant Roman Polanski 1199
17 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie John Cassavetes 1413
18 The Shootist Don Siegel 1512
19 Kings of the Road Wim Wenders 1521
20 Bugsy Malone Alan Parker 1582
21 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings John Badham 1691
22 Logan's Run Michael Anderson 1879
23 Silver Streak Arthur Hiller 2037
24 The Front Martin Ritt 2174
25 Bound for Glory* Hal Ashby 2325
26 The Pink Panther Strikes Again Blake Edwards 2367

1977

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars* George Lucas 8
2 Annie Hall** Woody Allen 25
3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg 103
4 Suspiria Dario Argento 327
5 Saturday Night Fever John Badham 360
6 Slap Shot George Roy Hill 673
7 That Obscure Object of Desire Luis Buñuel 1080
8 Pumping Iron George Butler and Robert Fiore 1332
9 Julia* Fred Zinnemann 1403
10 Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah 1440
11 3 Women Robert Altman 1448
12 The Goodbye Girl* Herbert Ross 1633
13 The American Friend Wim Wenders 1653
14 A Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough 1709
15 The Hills Have Eyes Wes Craven 1736
16 Opening Night John Cassavetes 1749
17 Martin George A. Romero 1826
18 The Spy Who Loved Me Lewis Gilbert 1902
19 Providence Alain Resnais 2005
20 Ceddo Ousmane Sembene 2030
21 Soldier of Orange Paul Verhoeven 2166
22 New York, New York Martin Scorsese 2204
23 Stroszek Werner Herzog 2225

1978

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter** Michael Cimino 85
2 Halloween John Carpenter 131
3 Grease Randal Kleiser 187
4 Dawn of the Dead George A. Romero 216
5 Superman Richard Donner 272
6 Days of Heaven Terrence Malick 297
7 Animal House John Landis 299
8 The Last Waltz Martin Scorsese 808
9 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Philip Kaufman 889
10 The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi 976
11 Heaven Can Wait* Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1129
12 Watership Down Martin Rosen 1163
13 Coming Home* Hal Ashby 1356
14 Midnight Express* Alan Parker 1595
15 Gates of Heaven Errol Morris 1897
16 In a Year of 13 Moons Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1898
17 La Cage aux Folles Edouard Molinaro 1900
18 Autumn Sonata Ingmar Bergman 1911
19 Blue Collar Paul Schrader 1937
20 An Unmarried Woman* Paul Mazursky 1955
21 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Fred Schepisi 1971
22 The Lord of the Rings Ralph Bakshi 2208
23 Straight Time Ulu Grosbard 2217
24 I Spit on Your Grave Meir Zarchi 2249
25 Newsfront Phillip Noyce 2272
26 The Driver Walter Hill 2298
27 The Buddy Holly Story Steve Rash 2315

1979

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Apocalypse Now* Francis Ford Coppola 13
2 Alien Ridley Scott 38
3 Manhattan Woody Allen 135
4 Life of Brian Terry Jones 147
5 Breaking Away* Peter Yates 413
6 Being There Hal Ashby 459
7 Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 509
8 Kramer vs. Kramer** Robert Benton 535
9 All That Jazz* Bob Fosse 577
10 The Marriage of Maria Braun Rainer Werner Fassbinder 585
11 Mad Max George Miller 606
12 The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff 644
13 The Jerk Carl Reiner 764
14 North Dallas Forty Ted Kotcheff 961
15 Norma Rae* Martin Ritt 980
16 Nosferatu the Vampyre Werner Herzog 1047
17 My Brilliant Career Gillian Armstrong 1096
18 The China Syndrome James Bridges 1118
19 The Warriors Walter Hill 1143
20 The Muppet Movie James Frawley 1243
21 The Black Stallion Carroll Ballard 1342
22 Quadrophenia Franc Roddam 1439
23 The Brood David Cronenberg 1577
24 Return of the Secaucus Seven John Sayles 1631
25 The In-Laws Arthur Hiller 1661
26 Hair Milos Forman 1682
27 Rocky II Sylvester Stallone 1805
28 Star Trek: The Motion Picture Robert Wise 1894
29 1941 Steven Spielberg 1973
30 Rock 'n' Roll High School Allan Arkush 1996
31 Phantasm Don Coscarelli 2048
32 10 Blake Edwards 2197
33 Love on the Run François Truffaut 2229
34 Time after Time Nicholas Meyer 2320
35 Wise Blood John Huston 2387

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

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