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:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), dir. Miloš Forman
- Star Wars (1977), dir. George Lucas
- The Exorcist (1973), dir. William Friedkin
- The Bad News Bears (1976), dir. Michael Ritchie
- Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg
- Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
- The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), dir. Steven Spielberg
- Barry Lyndon (1975), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- The Omen (1976), dir. Richard Donner
- Halloween (1978), dir. John Carpenter
- The Godfather: Part II (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- Dirty Harry (1971), dir. Don Siegel
- Solaris (1972), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Frenzy (1972), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- A Clockwork Orange (1971), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Alien (1979), dir. Ridley Scott
- Apocalypse Now (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- The Tenant (1976), dir. Roman Polanski
- Serpico (1973), dir. Sidney Lumet
- Blazing Saddles (1974), dir. Mel Brooks
- Suspiria (1977), dir. Dario Argento
- Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski
- Grease (1978), dir. Randal Kleiser
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), dir. Peter Weir
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), dir. Tobe Hooper
- Rocky (1976), dir. John G. Avildsen
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), dir. Mel Stuart
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), dir. Jim Sharman
- The Devils (1971), dir. Ken Russell
- House (1977), dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Catch-22 (1970), dir. Mike Nichols
- MASH (1970), dir. Robert Altman
- Five Easy Pieces (1970), dir. Bob Rafelson
- The Deer Hunter (1978), dir. Michael Cimino
- Live and Let Die (1973), dir. Guy Hamilton
- Female Trouble (1974), dir. John Waters
- Fantastic Planet (1973), dir. René Laloux
- The French Connection (1971), dir. William Friedkin
- Network (1976), dir. Sidney Lumet
- Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen
- Le Cercle Rouge (1970), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
- The Conversation (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- Deliverance (1972), dir. John Boorman
- Don’t Look Now (1973), dir. Nicolas Roeg
- Smokey and the Bandit (1977), dir. Hal Needham
- Carrie (1976), dir. Brian De Palma
- American Graffiti (1973), dir. George Lucas
- The Last Detail (1973), dir. Hal Ashby
- Patton (1970), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), dir. Luis Buñuel
- Logan's Run (1976), dir. Michael Anderson
- Dawn of the Dead (1978), dir. George A. Romero
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), dir. Dario Argento
- Days of Heaven (1978), dir. Terrence Malick
- Enter the Dragon (1973), dir. Robert Clouse
- The Muppet Movie (1979), dir. James Frawley
- The Amityville Horror (1979), dir. Stuart Rosenberg
- The Jerk (1979), dir. Carl Reiner
- The Boys in Company C (1978), dir. Sidney J. Furie
- Young Frankenstein (1974), dir. Mel Brooks
- Soylent Green (1973), dir. Richard Fleischer
- Animal House (1978), dir. John Landis
- All the President's Men (1976), dir. Alan J. Pakula
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), dir. Clint Eastwood
- Cries and Whispers (1972), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Eraserhead (1977), dir. David Lynch
- Up in Smoke (1978), dir. Lou Adler
- Saturday Night Fever (1977), dir. John Badham
- Mad Max (1979), dir. George Miller
- Midnight Express (1978), dir. Alan Parker
- Slap Shot (1977), dir. George Roy Hill
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975), dir. Sidney Lumet
- The Warriors (1979), dir. Walter Hill
- The Sting (1973), dir. George Roy Hill
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), dir. Werner Herzog
- Watership Down (1978), dir. Martin Rosen
- The Holy Mountain (1973), dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), dir. Terry Jones
- Superman (1978), dir. Richard Donner
- Phantasm (1979), dir. Don Coscarelli
- Fritz the Cat (1972), dir. Ralph Bakshi
- The Conformist (1970), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
- Nashville (1975), dir. Robert Altman
- The Deep (1977), dir. Peter Yates
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972), dir. Woody Allen
- Rocky II (1979), dir. Sylvester Stallone
- Car Wash (1976), dir. Michael Schultz
- Caligula (1979), dir. Tinto Brass
- Marathon Man (1976), dir. John Schlesinger
- Escape from Alcatraz (1979), dir. Don Siegel
- Robin Hood (1973), dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
- Straw Dogs (1971), dir. Sam Peckinpah
- Foxy Brown (1974), dir. Jack Hill
- Death Race 2000 (1975), dir. Paul Bartel
- Mean Streets (1973), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976), dir. Peter Yates
- Shaft (1971), dir. Gordon Parks
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), dir. Robert Benton
- Sorcerer (1977), dir. William Friedkin
- The Brood (1979), dir. David Cronenberg
- Westworld (1973), dir. Michael Crichton
- An Unmarried Woman (1978), dir. Paul Mazursky
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), dir. Gordon Hessler
- THX 1138 (1971), dir. George Lucas
- Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), dir. Lucio Fulci
- Every Which Way But Loose (1978), dir. James Fargo
- Allegro Non Troppo (1976), dir. Bruno Bozzetto
- Rollerball (1975), dir. Norman Jewison
- King Kong (1976), dir. John Guillermin
- Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody Allen
- Five Deadly Venoms (1978), dir. Chang Cheh
- The Andromeda Strain (1971), dir. Robert Wise
- Stalker (1979), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Black Christmas (1974), dir. Bob Clark
- The China Syndrome (1979), dir. James Bridges
- A Star is Born (1976), dir. Frank Pierson
- The Last Picture Show (1971), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- The Aristocats (1970), dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
- Harold and Maude (1971), dir. Hal Ashby
- Papillon (1973), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
- The Last House on the Left (1972), dir. Wes Craven
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972), dir. Ronald Neame
- The Getaway (1972), dir. Sam Peckinpah
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), dir. Philip Kaufman
- Tommy (1975), dir. Ken Russell
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), dir. Lewis Gilbert
- Last Tango in Paris (1972), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
- Dark Star (1974), dir. John Carpenter
- Paper Moon (1973), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), dir. Elio Petri
- Coming Home (1978), dir. Hal Ashby
- Duel (1971), dir. Steven Spielberg
- Fiddler on the Roof (1971), dir. Norman Jewison
- Magnum Force (1973), dir. Ted Post
- A Bridge Too Far (1977), dir. Richard Attenborough
- Amarcord (1973), dir. Federico Fellini
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), dir. Lau Kar-Leung
- I Spit on Your Grave (1978), dir. Meir Zarchi
- The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), dir. John Landis
- The Gauntlet (1977), dir. Clint Eastwood
- The Hills Have Eyes (1977), dir. Wes Craven
- Scenes from a Marriage (1974), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Ben (1972), dir. Phil Karlson
- Sleeper (1973), dir. Woody Allen
- Breaking Away (1979), dir. Peter Yates
- Black Sunday (1977), dir. John Frankenheimer
- Coma (1978), dir. Michael Crichton
- Play Misty for Me (1971), dir. Clint Eastwood
- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), dir. Nicolas Gessner
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), dir. Blake Edwards
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), dir. John Carpenter
- High Plains Drifter (1973), dir. Clint Eastwood
- Pink Flamingos (1972), dir. John Waters
- Deep Red (1975), dir. Dario Argento
- Being There (1979), dir. Hal Ashby
- And Justice for All (1979), dir. Norman Jewison
- The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
- 3 Women (1977), dir. Robert Altman
- The Enforcer (1976), dir. James Fargo
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), dir. Don Taylor
- Time After Time (1979), dir. Nicholas Meyer
- Meatballs (1979), dir. Ivan Reitman
- Lady Snowblood (1973), dir. Toshiya Fujita
- Cabaret (1972), dir. Bob Fosse
- Heaven Can Wait (1978), dir. Warren Beatty and Buck Henry
- Piranha (1978), dir. Joe Dante
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974), dir. John Cassavetes
- Norma Rae (1979), dir. Martin Ritt
- Drunken Master (1978), dir. Yuen Woo-Ping
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), dir. Luis Buñuel
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- High Anxiety (1977), dir. Mel Brooks
- Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), dir. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
- Pretty Baby (1978), dir. Louis Malle
- Cross of Iron (1977), dir. Sam Peckinpah
- 10 (1979), dir. Blake Edwards
- Convoy (1978), dir. Sam Peckinpah
- The Towering Inferno (1974), dir. John Guillermin
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978), dir. John DeBello
- The Beguiled (1971), dir. Don Siegel
- Badlands (1973), dir. Terrence Malick
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), dir. Russ Meyer
- Sounder (1972), dir. Martin Ritt
- Pete's Dragon (1977), dir. Don Chaffey
- Klute (1971), dir. Alan J. Pakula
- Charlotte's Web (1973), dir. Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto
- The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), dir. Víctor Erice
- The Wicker Man (1973), dir. Robin Hardy
- Death Wish (1974), dir. Michael Winner
- Autumn Sonata (1978), dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Sleuth (1972), dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Vengeance is Mine (1979), dir. Shōhei Imamura
- Silver Streak (1976), dir. Arthur Hiller
- Kelly's Heroes (1970), dir. Brian G. Hutton
- The Parallax View (1974), dir. Alan J. Pakula
- Diamonds are Forever (1971), dir. Guy Hamilton
- Three Days of the Condor (1975), dir. Sydney Pollack
- The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), dir. Blake Edwards
- Rolling Thunder (1977), dir. John Flynn
- The Seven-Ups (1973), dir. Philip D'Antoni
- All That Jazz (1979), dir. Bob Fosse
- Oh, God! (1977), dir. Carl Reiner
- The Boys from Brazil (1978), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
- Lenny (1974), dir. Bob Fosse
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), dir. Michael Cimino
- The Rescuers (1977), dir. Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery and Art Stevens
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), dir. Robert Altman
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), dir. Joseph Sargent
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976), dir. Nagisa Ōshima
- What's Up, Doc? (1972), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- Orca (1977), dir. Michael Anderson
- Benji (1974), dir. Joe Camp
- The Duellists (1977), dir. Ridley Scott
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974), dir. Sidney Lumet
- Squirm (1976), dir. Jeff Lieberman
- A Bay of Blood (1971), dir. Mario Bava
- Family Plot (1976), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Jeremiah Johnson (1972), dir. Sydney Pollack
- Willard (1971), dir. Daniel Mann
- Mirror (1975), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), dir. Don Siegel
- Interiors (1978), dir. Woody Allen
- Force 10 from Navarone (1978), dir. Guy Hamilton
- The Day of the Jackal (1973), dir. Fred Zinnemann
- The Eiger Sanction (1975), dir. Clint Eastwood
- 1776 (1972), dir. Peter H. Hunt
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), dir. Robert Wise
- The Mechanic (1972), dir. Michael Winner
- El Topo (1970), dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Carnal Knowledge (1971), dir. Mike Nichols
- Midway (1976), dir. Jack Smight
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), dir. Vincente Minnelli
- Johnny Got His Gun (1971), dir. Dalton Trumbo
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), dir. Robert Fuest
- The Telephone Book (1971), dir. Nelson Lyon
- The Cowboys (1972), dir. Mark Rydell
- Walking Tall (1973), dir. Phil Karlson
- Airport (1970), dir. George Seaton
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975), dir. John Huston
- Hair (1979), dir. Miloš Forman
- The Crazies (1973), dir. George A. Romero
- The In-Laws (1979), dir. Arthur Hiller
- The Shootist (1976), dir. Don Siegel
- Mr. Majestyk (1974), dir. Richard Fleischer
- The Omega Man (1971), dir. Boris Sagal
- The Odessa File (1974), dir. Ronald Neame
- Freaky Friday (1976), dir. Gary Nelson
- Scarecrow (1973), dir. Jerry Schatzberg
- Love Story (1970), dir. Arthur Hiller
- Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971), dir. John D. Hancock
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), dir. Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku
- Daughters of Darkness (1971), dir. Harry Kümel
- The Long Goodbye (1973), dir. Robert Altman
List of films not seconded:
- Wanda (1970), dir. Barbara Loden
- Performance (1970), dir. Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
- Soldier of Orange (1977), dir. Paul Verhoeven
- Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972), dir. Shunya Itō
- Bed and Board (1970), dir. François Truffaut
- Walkabout (1971), dir. Nicolas Roeg
- Kenny & Company (1976), dir. Don Coscarelli
- Girlfriends (1978), dir. Claudia Weill
- Emmanuelle (1974), dir. Just Jaeckin
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Phantom of the Paradise (1974), dir. Brian De Palma
- One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977), dir. Agnès Varda
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), dir. Robert Stevenson
- Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971), dir. Robert Bresson
- The Night Porter (1974), dir. Liliana Cavani
- Big Wednesday (1978), dir. John Milius
- Opening Night (1977), dir. John Cassavetes
- Belladonna of Sadness (1973), dir. Eiichi Yamamoto
- The Terminal Man (1974), dir. Mike Hodges
- Murder by Death (1976), dir. Robert Moore
- Wake in Fright (1971), dir. Ted Kotcheff
- Mikey and Nicky (1976), dir. Elaine May
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971), dir. Yoshimitsu Banno
- Jabberwocky (1977), dir. Terry Gilliam
- Killer of Sheep (1978), dir. Charles Burnett
- The Day of the Locust (1975), dir. John Schlesinger
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), dir. Daniel Haller
- Duck, You Sucker! (1971), dir. Sergio Leone
- The Panic in Needle Park (1971), dir. Jerry Schatzberg
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972), dir. Kenji Misumi
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), dir. Chantal Akerman
- The American Friend (1977), dir. Wim Wenders
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), dir. Joseph Sargent
- The Candidate (1972), dir. Michael Ritchie
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), dir. Robert Zemeckis
- Straight Time (1978), dir. Ulu Grosbard
- My Brilliant Career (1979), dir. Gillian Armstrong