BAFTA Award For Best Film Music - 1970s

1970s

1970: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach

• Alice's Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie
• Figures in a Landscape – Richard Rodney Bennett
• The Railway Children – Johnny Douglas

1971: Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand

• Little Big Man – John Hammond
• Shaft – Isaac Hayes
• Traffic – Charles Dumont

1972: The Godfather – Nino Rota

• Lady Caroline Lamb – Richard Rodney Bennett
• The Tragedy of Macbeth – Third Ear Band
• Young Winston – Alfred Ralston

1973: O Lucky Man! – Alan Price

• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid – Bob Dylan
• Sounder – Taj Mahal
• State of Siege – Mikis Theodorakis

1974: Murder on the Orient Express – Richard Rodney Bennett

• Happy New Year – Francis Lai
• Chinatown – Jerry Goldsmith
• Serpico – Mikis Theodorakis
• The Three Musketeers – Michel Legrand

1975: Jaws – John Williams and The Towering Inferno – John Williams

• The Godfather Part II – Nino Rota
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three – David Shire
• The Wind and the Lion – Jerry Goldsmith

1976: Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann

• Bugsy Malone – Paul Williams
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Jack Nitzsche
• The Slipper and the Rose – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

1977: A Bridge Too Far – John Addison

• Equus – Richard Rodney Bennett
• The Spy Who Loved Me – Marvin Hamlisch
• A Star Is Born – Paul Williams, Barbra Streisand, Kenny Ascher, Rupert Holmes, Leon Russell, Kenny Loggins, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Donna Weiss

1978: Star Wars – John Williams

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind – John Williams
• Julia – Georges Delerue
• Saturday Night Fever – Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb

1979: Days of Heaven – Ennio Morricone

• Alien – Jerry Goldsmith
• Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola
• Yanks – Richard Rodney Bennett