Best movies of 1970s that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

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 : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.

Actors : Amy Irving, Sam Wanamaker, Richard Dreyfuss, Lee Remick,
Directors : Joel Oliansky,

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...

Actors : Robert Shaw, Ronald Hines, Simon Ward, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick McGoohan, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.

Actors : Joel Fluellen, James Earl Jones, Lou Gilbert, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Actors : Micheál MacLiammóir, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.

Actors : Eli Wallach, Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, James Caan,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.

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 : Louis Gossett Jr., Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Alec McCowen,
Directors : George Cukor,

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she ...

Actors : Mildred Natwick, Barry Brown, Cybill Shepherd, 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.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Diahann Carroll, Tamu Blackwell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Berry,

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.