Best movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.

Actors : Phyllis Boyens-Liptak, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Biographical story of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer that came from poverty to worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Richard Donner,

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks ...

Actors : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Actors : Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Marisa Berenson, Ryan O'Neal, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Actors : Gregory Peck, David Warner, Harvey Stephens, Lee Remick,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

Actors : Pat Hingle, Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Actors : Al Pacino, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, John Cazale,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.

Actors : Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Bette Midler,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : George Lucas,

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.

Actors : Billy Green Bush, Jack Nicholson, Fannie Flagg, Karen Black,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg,

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.