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Danh sách cụ thể > Thập niên 1970

| Năm | Phim | Đạo diễn | Nhà sản xuất |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1970 | Love Story | Arthur Hiller | Howard G. Minsky |
| 1970 | Airport | George Seaton | Ross Hunter |
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | Robert Daley |
| 1970 | I Never Sang for My Father | Gilbert Cates | Gilbert Cates |
| 1970 | Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner | Frank Caffey |
| 1971 | The French Connection | William Friedkin | Philip D'Antoni |
| 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Si Litvinoff |
| 1971 | The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | Stephen J. Friedman |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Charles Jarrott | Hal B. Wallis |
| 1971 | Summer of '42 | Robert Mulligan | Richard A. Roth |
| 1972 | Bố già | Francis Ford Coppola | Albert S. Ruddy |
| 1972 | Deliverance | John Boorman | John Boorman |
| 1972 | Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | William Hill |
| 1972 | The Poseidon Adventure | Ronald Neame | Irwin Allen |
| 1972 | Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Morton Gottlieb |
| 1973 | The Exorcist | William Friedkin | William Peter Blatty |
| 1973 | Cinderella Liberty | Mark Rydell | Mark Rydell |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinneman | John Woolf |
| 1973 | Save the Tiger | John G. Avildsen | Edward S. Feldman |
| 1973 | Serpico | Sidney Lumet | Dino De Laurentiis |
| 1973 | Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci | Alberto Grimaldi |
| 1974 | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Robert Evans |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1974 | Earthquake | Mark Robson | Mark Robson |
| 1974 | The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1974 | A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | Sam Shaw |
| 1975 | Bay qua tổ chim cúc cu | Miloš Forman | Michael Douglas |
| 1975 | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | Martin Bregman |
| 1975 | Jaws | Steven Spielberg | David Brown |
| 1975 | Nashville | Robert Altman | Robert Altman |
| 1976 | Rocky | John G. Avildsen | Robert Chartoff và Irwin Winkler |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | Walter Coblenz |
| 1976 | Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | Robert F. Blumofe |
| 1976 | Network | Sidney Lumet | Howard Gottfried |
| 1976 | Voyage of the Damned | Stuart Rosenberg | Robert Fryer |
| 1977 | The Turning Point | Herbert Ross | Arthur Laurents |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | Julia Phillips |
| 1977 | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Anthony Page | Daniel H. Blatt |
| 1977 | Julia | Fred Zinnemann | Richard A. Roth |
| 1977 | Star Wars | George Lucas | George Lucas |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | Alan Parker | Alan Marshall |
| 1978 | Coming Home | Hal Ashby | Robert C. Jones |
| 1978 | Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | Bert Schneider |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | Barry Spikings |
| 1978 | An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | Paul Mazursky |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton | Stanley R. Jaffe |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1979 | The China Syndrome | James Bridges | Michael Douglas |
| 1979 | Manhattan | Woody Allen | Charles H. Joffe |
| 1979 | Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | Alexandra Rose |