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1970
Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton
Robert Altman – M*A*S*H
Federico Fellini – Fellini Satyricon
Arthur Hiller – Love Story
Ken Russell – Women in Love
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1971
William Friedkin – The French Connection
Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show
Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof
Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
John Schlesinger – Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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1972
Bob Fosse – Cabaret
John Boorman – Deliverance
Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Sleuth
Jan Troell – The Emigrants
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1973
George Roy Hill – The Sting
Ingmar Bergman – Cries and Whispers
Bernardo Bertolucci – Last Tango in Paris
William Friedkin – The Exorcist
George Lucas – American Graffiti
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1974
Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather, Part II
John Cassavetes – A Woman under the Influence
Bob Fosse – Lenny
Roman Polanski – Chinatown
Francois Truffaut – Day for Night
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1975
Milos Forman – One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Robert Altman – Nashville
Federico Fellini – Amarcord
Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
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1976
John G. Avildsen – Rocky
Ingmar Bergman – Face to Face
Sidney Lumet – Network
Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men
Lina Wertmuller – Seven Beauties
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1977
Woody Allen – Annie Hall
George Lucas – Star Wars
Herbert Ross – The Turning Point
Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann – Julia
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1978
Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter
Woody Allen – Interiors
Hal Ashby – Coming Home
Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait
Buck Henry – Heaven Can Wait
Alan Parker – Midnight Express
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1979
Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer
Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now
Bob Fosse – All That Jazz
Edouard Molinaro – La Cage aux Folles
Peter Yates – Breaking Away