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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 23
2 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest** Milos Forman 38
3 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 111
4 Nashville* Robert Altman 121
5 Dog Day Afternoon* Sidney Lumet 208
6 Barry Lyndon* Stanley Kubrick 231
7 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Jim Sharman 386
8 Jeanne Dielman Chantal Akerman 408
9 The Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky 498
10 Grey Gardens Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 670
11 Picnic at Hanging Rock Peter Weir 718
12 The Man Who Would be King John Huston 764
13 The Passenger Michelangelo Antonioni 833
14 Salò Pier Paolo Pasolini 928
15 The Travelling Players Theodoros Angelopoulos 1024
16 Deep Red Dario Argento 1049
17 Rollerball Norman Jewison 1079
18 Love and Death Woody Allen 1088
19 Dersu Uzala Akira Kurosawa 1224
20 Three Days of the Condor Sydney Pollack 1378
21 Xala Ousmane Sembene 1514
22 Night Moves Arthur Penn 1666
23 Seven Beauties Lina Wertmüller 1721
24 The Battle of Chile: Part 1 Patricio Guzmán 1808
25 Shampoo Hal Ashby 1871
26 Tommy Ken Russell 2098
27 India song Marguerite Duras 2151
28 Sholay Ramesh Sippy 2266
29 Fox and His Friends Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2282
30 Shivers David Cronenberg 2366
31 A Boy and His Dog L.Q. Jones 2722
32 The Promised Land Andrzej Wajda 2793

1976

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Taxi Driver* Martin Scorsese 14
2 Rocky** John G. Avildsen 125
3 Network* Sidney Lumet 182
4 Carrie Brian De Palma 278
5 All the President's Men* Alan J. Pakula 290
6 The Outlaw Josey Wales Clint Eastwood 558
7 In the Realm of the Senses Nagisa Ôshima 589
8 Harlan County, U.S.A. Barbara Kopple 598
9 The Omen Richard Donner 637
10 The Man Who Fell to Earth Nicolas Roeg 765
11 The Bad News Bears Michael Ritchie 976
12 Assault on Precinct 13 John Carpenter 989
13 The Tenant Roman Polanski 1034
14 The Shootist Don Siegel 1110
15 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie John Cassavetes 1402
16 Marathon Man John Schlesinger 1403
17 Kings of the Road Wim Wenders 1545
18 Logan's Run Michael Anderson 1580
19 1900 Bernardo Bertolucci 1600
20 Bugsy Malone Alan Parker 1649
21 Cría Cuervos Carlos Saura 1710
22 The Battle of Chile: Part 2 Patricio Guzmán 1884
23 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings John Badham 2373
24 Silver Streak Arthur Hiller 2791

1977

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars* George Lucas 6
2 Annie Hall** Woody Allen 20
3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg 120
4 Eraserhead David Lynch 220
5 Suspiria Dario Argento 302
6 Saturday Night Fever John Badham 587
7 Slap Shot George Roy Hill 801
8 Opening Night John Cassavetes 1242
9 That Obscure Object of Desire Luis Buñuel 1273
10 21 Up Michael Apted 1290
11 The Ascent Larisa Shepitko 1531
12 Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah 1606
13 Pumping Iron George Butler and Robert Fiore 1617
14 The American Friend Wim Wenders 1688
15 3 Women Robert Altman 1706
16 Sorcerer William Friedkin 1747
17 A Special Day Ettore Scola 1835
18 Ceddo Ousmane Sembene 1866
19 The Spy Who Loved Me Lewis Gilbert 2017
20 A Bridge Too Far Richard Attenborough 2099
21 Stroszek Werner Herzog 2138
22 Martin George A. Romero 2358
23 The Goodbye Girl* Herbert Ross 2426
24 Man of Marble Andrzej Wajda 2432
25 The Rescuers John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Art Stevens 2586
26 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman 2625
27 Julia* Fred Zinnemann 2713
28 Smokey and the Bandit Hal Needham 2792

1978

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter** Michael Cimino 110
2 Halloween John Carpenter 150
3 Days of Heaven Terrence Malick 221
4 Superman Richard Donner 275
5 Dawn of the Dead George A. Romero 307
6 Animal House John Landis 360
7 Grease Randal Kleiser 365
8 Killer of Sheep Charles Burnett 370
9 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Philip Kaufman 483
10 The Last Waltz Martin Scorsese 896
11 The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi 1096
12 Gates of Heaven Errol Morris 1236
13 Heaven Can Wait* Warren Beatty and Buck Henry 1262
14 Watership Down Martin Rosen 1316
15 Autumn Sonata Ingmar Bergman 1409
16 Midnight Express* Alan Parker 1703
17 The Driver Walter Hill 1959
18 In a Year of 13 Moons Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2043
19 La Cage aux Folles Edouard Molinaro 2111
20 Coming Home* Hal Ashby 2194
21 Blue Collar Paul Schrader 2314
22 The Lord of the Rings Ralph Bakshi 2599

1979

Rank Title Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Apocalypse Now* Francis Ford Coppola 8
2 Alien Ridley Scott 16
3 Manhattan Woody Allen 117
4 Life of Brian Terry Jones 156
5 Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 222
6 All That Jazz* Bob Fosse 486
7 Being There Hal Ashby 554
8 Breaking Away* Peter Yates 622
9 Mad Max George Miller 671
10 The Jerk Carl Reiner 704
11 Kramer vs. Kramer** Robert Benton 714
12 The Warriors Walter Hill 720
13 The Muppet Movie James Frawley 723
14 The Marriage of Maria Braun Rainer Werner Fassbinder 819
15 Nosferatu the Vampyre Werner Herzog 966
16 The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff 980
17 The Brood David Cronenberg 1132
18 North Dallas Forty Ted Kotcheff 1570
19 Norma Rae* Martin Ritt 1578
20 Rocky II Sylvester Stallone 1686
21 Hair Milos Forman 1746
22 The Black Stallion Carroll Ballard 1763
23 Quadrophenia Franc Roddam 1907
24 The Battle of Chile: Part 3 Patricio Guzmán 2015
25 Phantasm Don Coscarelli 2039
26 Escape from Alcatraz Don Siegel 2107
27 My Brilliant Career Gillian Armstrong 2251
28 The Castle of Cagliostro Hayao Miyazaki 2576
29 The In-Laws Arthur Hiller 2584
30 The China Syndrome James Bridges 2588

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

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