And here we go!

This is the nominations thread for the fifth portion of The Great Movie Tournament (fifth of ten) where we'll nominate and second our favorite movies for the decade of the 1970s (from 1970 to 1979). For our purposes, an eligible film must be a feature narrative film (no short films or documentaries) and its first release date must be between January 1, 1970 and December 31, 1979 according to IMDb (sometimes films will premiere at festivals one year but have a wide release the following year; we'll use the IMDb and Wikipedia convention of the year of initial exhibition).

Participation is very much encouraged and extremely welcomed, but please do follow these guidelines for this nomination process (subject to adjustment):
  • You can nominate one film per post, and you can nominate another film after four other members have made their nominations.
  • You can second one film per post, and you can second another film after two other members have made their seconds.
  • If possible, please include a trailer and/or a scene from the film using Spoiler tags (this version and delete the s in https for YouTube links when embedding a video, making sure to use the full URL from the address bar, not the sharing link).
  • Nominations can also be optionally accompanied by year of release and director.

Once 256 nominated films have been seconded, the tournament will begin, following the structure shown below (an overall event overview thread is posted with links to all the polls so members can easily navigate during the tournament). Each poll will be open for 7 days and any tiebreaker polls will be open for 4 days.
  • Round 1: 32 groups of 8 titles - top 6 move on
  • Round 2: 32 groups of 6 titles - top 4 move on
  • Round 3: 32 groups of 4 titles - top 2 move on
  • Round 4: 16 groups of 4 titles - top 2 move on
  • Round 5: 16 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Octofinals: 8 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Quarterfinals: 4 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Semifinals: 2 groups of 2 titles - top 1 moves on
  • Final: 1 group of 2 titles - top 1 is the winner

This post will be updated with the list of nominated and seconded titles as they come in. You can also keep up to date with this handy Google Sheet.

Enjoy and have fun!

List of seconded films:
  1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), dir. Miloš Forman
  2. Star Wars (1977), dir. George Lucas
  3. The Exorcist (1973), dir. William Friedkin
  4. The Bad News Bears (1976), dir. Michael Ritchie
  5. Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg
  6. Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese
  7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
  8. The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), dir. Steven Spielberg
  10. Barry Lyndon (1975), dir. Stanley Kubrick
  11. The Omen (1976), dir. Richard Donner
  12. Halloween (1978), dir. John Carpenter
  13. The Godfather: Part II (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  14. Dirty Harry (1971), dir. Don Siegel
  15. Solaris (1972), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  16. Frenzy (1972), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  17. A Clockwork Orange (1971), dir. Stanley Kubrick
  18. Alien (1979), dir. Ridley Scott
  19. Apocalypse Now (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  20. The Tenant (1976), dir. Roman Polanski
  21. Serpico (1973), dir. Sidney Lumet
  22. Blazing Saddles (1974), dir. Mel Brooks
  23. Suspiria (1977), dir. Dario Argento
  24. Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski
  25. Grease (1978), dir. Randal Kleiser
  26. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), dir. Peter Weir
  27. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), dir. Tobe Hooper
  28. Rocky (1976), dir. John G. Avildsen
  29. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), dir. Mel Stuart
  30. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), dir. Jim Sharman
  31. The Devils (1971), dir. Ken Russell
  32. House (1977), dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
  33. Catch-22 (1970), dir. Mike Nichols
  34. MASH (1970), dir. Robert Altman
  35. Five Easy Pieces (1970), dir. Bob Rafelson
  36. The Deer Hunter (1978), dir. Michael Cimino
  37. Live and Let Die (1973), dir. Guy Hamilton
  38. Female Trouble (1974), dir. John Waters
  39. Fantastic Planet (1973), dir. René Laloux
  40. The French Connection (1971), dir. William Friedkin
  41. Network (1976), dir. Sidney Lumet
  42. Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen
  43. Le Cercle Rouge (1970), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
  44. The Conversation (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  45. Deliverance (1972), dir. John Boorman
  46. Don’t Look Now (1973), dir. Nicolas Roeg
  47. Smokey and the Bandit (1977), dir. Hal Needham
  48. Carrie (1976), dir. Brian De Palma
  49. American Graffiti (1973), dir. George Lucas
  50. The Last Detail (1973), dir. Hal Ashby
  51. Patton (1970), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
  52. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), dir. Luis Buñuel
  53. Logan's Run (1976), dir. Michael Anderson
  54. Dawn of the Dead (1978), dir. George A. Romero
  55. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), dir. Dario Argento
  56. Days of Heaven (1978), dir. Terrence Malick
  57. Enter the Dragon (1973), dir. Robert Clouse
  58. The Muppet Movie (1979), dir. James Frawley
  59. The Amityville Horror (1979), dir. Stuart Rosenberg
  60. The Jerk (1979), dir. Carl Reiner
  61. The Boys in Company C (1978), dir. Sidney J. Furie
  62. Young Frankenstein (1974), dir. Mel Brooks
  63. Soylent Green (1973), dir. Richard Fleischer
  64. Animal House (1978), dir. John Landis
  65. All the President's Men (1976), dir. Alan J. Pakula
  66. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), dir. Clint Eastwood
  67. Cries and Whispers (1972), dir. Ingmar Bergman
  68. Eraserhead (1977), dir. David Lynch
  69. Up in Smoke (1978), dir. Lou Adler
  70. Saturday Night Fever (1977), dir. John Badham
  71. Mad Max (1979), dir. George Miller
  72. Midnight Express (1978), dir. Alan Parker
  73. Slap Shot (1977), dir. George Roy Hill
  74. Dog Day Afternoon (1975), dir. Sidney Lumet
  75. The Warriors (1979), dir. Walter Hill
  76. The Sting (1973), dir. George Roy Hill
  77. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), dir. Werner Herzog
  78. Watership Down (1978), dir. Martin Rosen
  79. The Holy Mountain (1973), dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
  80. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), dir. Terry Jones
  81. Superman (1978), dir. Richard Donner
  82. Phantasm (1979), dir. Don Coscarelli
  83. Fritz the Cat (1972), dir. Ralph Bakshi
  84. The Conformist (1970), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  85. Nashville (1975), dir. Robert Altman
  86. The Deep (1977), dir. Peter Yates
  87. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972), dir. Woody Allen
  88. Rocky II (1979), dir. Sylvester Stallone
  89. Car Wash (1976), dir. Michael Schultz
  90. Caligula (1979), dir. Tinto Brass
  91. Marathon Man (1976), dir. John Schlesinger
  92. Escape from Alcatraz (1979), dir. Don Siegel
  93. Robin Hood (1973), dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
  94. Straw Dogs (1971), dir. Sam Peckinpah
  95. Foxy Brown (1974), dir. Jack Hill
  96. Death Race 2000 (1975), dir. Paul Bartel
  97. Mean Streets (1973), dir. Martin Scorsese
  98. Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976), dir. Peter Yates
  99. Shaft (1971), dir. Gordon Parks
  100. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), dir. Robert Benton
  101. Sorcerer (1977), dir. William Friedkin
  102. The Brood (1979), dir. David Cronenberg
  103. Westworld (1973), dir. Michael Crichton
  104. An Unmarried Woman (1978), dir. Paul Mazursky
  105. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), dir. Gordon Hessler
  106. THX 1138 (1971), dir. George Lucas
  107. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), dir. Lucio Fulci
  108. Every Which Way But Loose (1978), dir. James Fargo
  109. Allegro Non Troppo (1976), dir. Bruno Bozzetto
  110. Rollerball (1975), dir. Norman Jewison
  111. King Kong (1976), dir. John Guillermin
  112. Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody Allen
  113. Five Deadly Venoms (1978), dir. Chang Cheh
  114. The Andromeda Strain (1971), dir. Robert Wise
  115. Stalker (1979), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  116. Black Christmas (1974), dir. Bob Clark
  117. The China Syndrome (1979), dir. James Bridges
  118. A Star is Born (1976), dir. Frank Pierson
  119. The Last Picture Show (1971), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  120. The Aristocats (1970), dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
  121. Harold and Maude (1971), dir. Hal Ashby
  122. Papillon (1973), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
  123. The Last House on the Left (1972), dir. Wes Craven
  124. The Poseidon Adventure (1972), dir. Ronald Neame
  125. The Getaway (1972), dir. Sam Peckinpah
  126. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), dir. Philip Kaufman
  127. Tommy (1975), dir. Ken Russell
  128. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), dir. Lewis Gilbert
  129. Last Tango in Paris (1972), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  130. Dark Star (1974), dir. John Carpenter
  131. Paper Moon (1973), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  132. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), dir. Elio Petri
  133. Coming Home (1978), dir. Hal Ashby
  134. Duel (1971), dir. Steven Spielberg
  135. Fiddler on the Roof (1971), dir. Norman Jewison
  136. Magnum Force (1973), dir. Ted Post
  137. A Bridge Too Far (1977), dir. Richard Attenborough
  138. Amarcord (1973), dir. Federico Fellini
  139. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), dir. Lau Kar-Leung
  140. I Spit on Your Grave (1978), dir. Meir Zarchi
  141. The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), dir. John Landis
  142. The Gauntlet (1977), dir. Clint Eastwood
  143. The Hills Have Eyes (1977), dir. Wes Craven
  144. Scenes from a Marriage (1974), dir. Ingmar Bergman
  145. Ben (1972), dir. Phil Karlson
  146. Sleeper (1973), dir. Woody Allen
  147. Breaking Away (1979), dir. Peter Yates
  148. Black Sunday (1977), dir. John Frankenheimer
  149. Coma (1978), dir. Michael Crichton
  150. Play Misty for Me (1971), dir. Clint Eastwood
  151. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), dir. Nicolas Gessner
  152. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), dir. Blake Edwards
  153. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), dir. John Carpenter
  154. High Plains Drifter (1973), dir. Clint Eastwood
  155. Pink Flamingos (1972), dir. John Waters
  156. Deep Red (1975), dir. Dario Argento
  157. Being There (1979), dir. Hal Ashby
  158. And Justice for All (1979), dir. Norman Jewison
  159. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
  160. 3 Women (1977), dir. Robert Altman
  161. The Enforcer (1976), dir. James Fargo
  162. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), dir. Don Taylor
  163. Time After Time (1979), dir. Nicholas Meyer
  164. Meatballs (1979), dir. Ivan Reitman
  165. Lady Snowblood (1973), dir. Toshiya Fujita
  166. Cabaret (1972), dir. Bob Fosse
  167. Heaven Can Wait (1978), dir. Warren Beatty and Buck Henry
  168. Piranha (1978), dir. Joe Dante
  169. A Woman Under the Influence (1974), dir. John Cassavetes
  170. Norma Rae (1979), dir. Martin Ritt
  171. Drunken Master (1978), dir. Yuen Woo-Ping
  172. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), dir. Luis Buñuel
  173. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  174. High Anxiety (1977), dir. Mel Brooks
  175. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), dir. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
  176. Pretty Baby (1978), dir. Louis Malle
  177. Cross of Iron (1977), dir. Sam Peckinpah
  178. 10 (1979), dir. Blake Edwards
  179. Convoy (1978), dir. Sam Peckinpah
  180. The Towering Inferno (1974), dir. John Guillermin
  181. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978), dir. John DeBello
  182. The Beguiled (1971), dir. Don Siegel
  183. Badlands (1973), dir. Terrence Malick
  184. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), dir. Russ Meyer
  185. Sounder (1972), dir. Martin Ritt
  186. Pete's Dragon (1977), dir. Don Chaffey
  187. Klute (1971), dir. Alan J. Pakula
  188. Charlotte's Web (1973), dir. Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto
  189. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), dir. Víctor Erice
  190. The Wicker Man (1973), dir. Robin Hardy
  191. Death Wish (1974), dir. Michael Winner
  192. Autumn Sonata (1978), dir. Ingmar Bergman
  193. Sleuth (1972), dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  194. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), dir. Martin Scorsese
  195. Vengeance is Mine (1979), dir. Shōhei Imamura
  196. Silver Streak (1976), dir. Arthur Hiller
  197. Kelly's Heroes (1970), dir. Brian G. Hutton
  198. The Parallax View (1974), dir. Alan J. Pakula
  199. Diamonds are Forever (1971), dir. Guy Hamilton
  200. Three Days of the Condor (1975), dir. Sydney Pollack
  201. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), dir. Blake Edwards
  202. Rolling Thunder (1977), dir. John Flynn
  203. The Seven-Ups (1973), dir. Philip D'Antoni
  204. All That Jazz (1979), dir. Bob Fosse
  205. Oh, God! (1977), dir. Carl Reiner
  206. The Boys from Brazil (1978), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
  207. Lenny (1974), dir. Bob Fosse
  208. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), dir. Michael Cimino
  209. The Rescuers (1977), dir. Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery and Art Stevens
  210. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), dir. Robert Altman
  211. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), dir. Joseph Sargent
  212. In the Realm of the Senses (1976), dir. Nagisa Ōshima
  213. What's Up, Doc? (1972), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  214. Orca (1977), dir. Michael Anderson
  215. Benji (1974), dir. Joe Camp
  216. The Duellists (1977), dir. Ridley Scott
  217. Murder on the Orient Express (1974), dir. Sidney Lumet
  218. Squirm (1976), dir. Jeff Lieberman
  219. A Bay of Blood (1971), dir. Mario Bava
  220. Family Plot (1976), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  221. Jeremiah Johnson (1972), dir. Sydney Pollack
  222. Willard (1971), dir. Daniel Mann
  223. Mirror (1975), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  224. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), dir. Don Siegel
  225. Interiors (1978), dir. Woody Allen
  226. Force 10 from Navarone (1978), dir. Guy Hamilton
  227. The Day of the Jackal (1973), dir. Fred Zinnemann
  228. The Eiger Sanction (1975), dir. Clint Eastwood
  229. 1776 (1972), dir. Peter H. Hunt
  230. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), dir. Robert Wise
  231. The Mechanic (1972), dir. Michael Winner
  232. El Topo (1970), dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
  233. Carnal Knowledge (1971), dir. Mike Nichols
  234. Midway (1976), dir. Jack Smight
  235. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), dir. Vincente Minnelli
  236. Johnny Got His Gun (1971), dir. Dalton Trumbo
  237. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), dir. Robert Fuest
  238. The Telephone Book (1971), dir. Nelson Lyon
  239. The Cowboys (1972), dir. Mark Rydell
  240. Walking Tall (1973), dir. Phil Karlson
  241. Airport (1970), dir. George Seaton
  242. The Man Who Would Be King (1975), dir. John Huston
  243. Hair (1979), dir. Miloš Forman
  244. The Crazies (1973), dir. George A. Romero
  245. The In-Laws (1979), dir. Arthur Hiller
  246. The Shootist (1976), dir. Don Siegel
  247. Mr. Majestyk (1974), dir. Richard Fleischer
  248. The Omega Man (1971), dir. Boris Sagal
  249. The Odessa File (1974), dir. Ronald Neame
  250. Freaky Friday (1976), dir. Gary Nelson
  251. Scarecrow (1973), dir. Jerry Schatzberg
  252. Love Story (1970), dir. Arthur Hiller
  253. Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971), dir. John D. Hancock
  254. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), dir. Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku
  255. Daughters of Darkness (1971), dir. Harry Kümel
  256. The Long Goodbye (1973), dir. Robert Altman

List of films not seconded:
  1. Wanda (1970), dir. Barbara Loden
  2. Performance (1970), dir. Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
  3. Soldier of Orange (1977), dir. Paul Verhoeven
  4. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972), dir. Shunya Itō
  5. Bed and Board (1970), dir. François Truffaut
  6. Walkabout (1971), dir. Nicolas Roeg
  7. Kenny & Company (1976), dir. Don Coscarelli
  8. Girlfriends (1978), dir. Claudia Weill
  9. Emmanuelle (1974), dir. Just Jaeckin
  10. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  11. Phantom of the Paradise (1974), dir. Brian De Palma
  12. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977), dir. Agnès Varda
  13. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), dir. Robert Stevenson
  14. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971), dir. Robert Bresson
  15. The Night Porter (1974), dir. Liliana Cavani
  16. Big Wednesday (1978), dir. John Milius
  17. Opening Night (1977), dir. John Cassavetes
  18. Belladonna of Sadness (1973), dir. Eiichi Yamamoto
  19. The Terminal Man (1974), dir. Mike Hodges
  20. Murder by Death (1976), dir. Robert Moore
  21. Wake in Fright (1971), dir. Ted Kotcheff
  22. Mikey and Nicky (1976), dir. Elaine May
  23. Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971), dir. Yoshimitsu Banno
  24. Jabberwocky (1977), dir. Terry Gilliam
  25. Killer of Sheep (1978), dir. Charles Burnett
  26. The Day of the Locust (1975), dir. John Schlesinger
  27. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), dir. Daniel Haller
  28. Duck, You Sucker! (1971), dir. Sergio Leone
  29. The Panic in Needle Park (1971), dir. Jerry Schatzberg
  30. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972), dir. Kenji Misumi
  31. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), dir. Chantal Akerman
  32. The American Friend (1977), dir. Wim Wenders
  33. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  34. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), dir. Joseph Sargent
  35. The Candidate (1972), dir. Michael Ritchie
  36. I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), dir. Robert Zemeckis
  37. Straight Time (1978), dir. Ulu Grosbard
  38. My Brilliant Career (1979), dir. Gillian Armstrong