Best movies of 1974 that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Perry Lopez, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Huston,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

Actors : Slim Pickens, Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman, Gene Wilder,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Albert Finney,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III, Kris Kristofferson, Mia Bendixsen,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Peter Falk,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.

Actors : William Finley, Gerrit Graham, Jessica Harper, Paul Williams,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Beck, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Art Carney, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

Actors : Michael Conrad, Eddie Albert, Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

Actors : Deborah Walley, Peter Breck, Allen Fiuzat, Patsy Garrett,
Directors : Joe Camp,

A stray dog saves two kidnapped children.

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well ...

Actors : Donald Sinden, Mako, Jacques Marin, David Hartman,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.

Actors : Clive Revill, Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.

Actors : Mildred Natwick, Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.