Best movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Quinn Cummings, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Benedict, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

Actors : John Matthews, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne,
Directors : Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw, Dick Anthony Williams,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater ...

Actors : John Denver, Donald Pleasence, Teri Garr, George Burns,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Actors : Conrad Janis, Charles Martin Smith, Gary Busey, Don Stroud,
Directors : Steve Rash,

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Actors : Charles Grodin, Audra Lindley, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Elaine May,

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...

Actors : Clive Revill, Juliet Mills, Edward Andrews, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

Actors : Graham Beckel, John Houseman, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner,
Directors : James Bridges,

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Woody Allen, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Actors : William Atherton, Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Joan Blondell, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Jack Warden, Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

Actors : Richard Benjamin, George Burns, Lee Meredith, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis, Jeanne Moreau, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Actors : Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Glenda Jackson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

Actors : Jenny Runacre, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be ...

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.