1970s
| Category | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | |||||
| Best Film | Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | Jerome Hellman | USA | |
| Oh! What a Lovely War | Richard Attenborough | Richard Attenborough Brian Duffy |
Britain | ||
| Women in Love | Ken Russell | Larry Kramer | Britain | ||
| Z | Costa Gavras | France | |||
| 1971 | |||||
| Best Film | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill | John Foreman | USA | |
| Kes | Kenneth Loach | Tony Garnett | Britain | ||
| M* A* S* H | Robert Altman | Ingo Preminger | USA | ||
| Ryan's Daughter | David Lean | Anthony Havelock-Allan | Britain | ||
| 1972 | |||||
| Best Film | Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | Joseph Janni | Britain | |
| The Go-Between | Joseph Losey | John Heyman Denis Johnson Norman Priggen |
Britain | ||
| Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti | Luchino Visconti | Italy/France | ||
| Taking Off | Miloš Forman | Alfred W. Crown | USA | ||
| 1973 | |||||
| Best Film | Cabaret | Bob Fosse | Cy Feuer | USA | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | Britain | ||
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | Philip D'Antoni | USA | ||
| The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | Stephen J. Friedman | USA | ||
| 1974 | |||||
| Best Film | Day for Night | François Truffaut | Marcel Berbert | France/Italy | |
| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Luis Buñuel | Serge Silberman | France/Italy/Spain | ||
| The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinnemann | John Woolf | Britain/France | ||
| Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | Peter Katz | Italy/Britain | ||
| 1975 | |||||
| Best Film | Lacombe Lucien | Louis Malle | Louis Malle Claude Nedjar |
France/West Germany/Italy | |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Robert Evans | USA | ||
| The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | Gerald Ayres | USA | ||
| Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet | John Brabourne Richard B. Goodwin |
Britain | ||
| 1976 | |||||
| Best Film | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Martin Scorsese | Audrey Maas David Susskind |
USA | |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | Britain | ||
| Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | Martin Bregman Martin Elfand |
USA | ||
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | David Brown Richard D. Zanuck |
USA | ||
| 1977 | |||||
| Best Film | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | Michael Douglas Saul Zaentz |
USA | |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | Walter Coblenz | USA | ||
| Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker | Alan Marshall | Britain | ||
| Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | Julia Phillips Michael Phillips |
USA | ||
| 1978 | |||||
| Best Film | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | Charles H. Joffe Jack Rollins |
USA | |
| A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | Joseph E. Levine Richard P. Levine |
USA/Britain | ||
| Network | Sidney Lumet | Howard Gottfried | USA | ||
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen | Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler |
USA | ||
| 1979 | |||||
| Best Film | Julia | Fred Zinnemann | Richard Roth | USA | |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | Julia Phillips Michael Phillips |
USA/Britain | ||
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | Alan Marshall David Puttnam |
Britain/USA | ||
| Star Wars | George Lucas | Gary Kurtz | USA | ||
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