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Cribbed from smofbabe. Italics for ones I've seen; bold for my favorite of that year. The first one in each list was the winner.

1970 (43rd)
Patton
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH

Not sure why Love Story got in there. Probably the token chick flick.

1971 (44th)
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra



1972 (45th)
The Godfather
Cabaret
Deliverance
Sounder
The Emigrants

Cabaret was the first grown up movie I saw in a cinema by myself.

1973 (46th)
The Sting
American Graffiti
The Exorcist
A Touch of Class
Cries and Whispers

American Grafitti? Come on, it was just proto-Happy Days.

1974 (47th)
The Godfather, Part II
Chinatown
The Conversation
Lenny
The Towering Inferno

A good year, not a chick flick in the lot. The Conversation a close second.

1975 (48th)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville

1976 (49th)
Rocky
All the President's Men
Bound for Glory
Network
Taxi Driver

Network for Peter Finch and the creepy corporate sex scene between Faye Dunaway and Bill Holden.

1977 (50th)
Annie Hall
The Goodbye Girl
Julia
Star Wars
The Turning Point

1978 (51st)
The Deer Hunter
Coming Home
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman

1979 (52nd)
Kramer vs. Kramer
Apocalypse Now
All That Jazz
Breaking Away
Norma Rae

I can't believe Kramer vs Kramer won. A movie about a divorce between characters nobody gave a shit about? It beat a musical with open heart surgery in it?

1980 (53rd)
Ordinary People
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Tess

1981 (54th)
Chariots of Fire
Atlantic City
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reds

I had to go with Burt Lancaster playing an old gangster over Harrison Ford with a whip.

1982 (55th)
Gandhi
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Missing
Tootsie
The Verdict

1983 (56th)
Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies

1984 (57th)
Amadeus
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
A Soldier's Story

Compared to The Killing Fields, Amadeus was a little facile.

1985 (58th)
Out of Africa
The Color Purple
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Prizzi's Honor
Witness

1986 (59th)
Platoon
Children of a Lesser God
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room with a View

1987 (60th)
The Last Emperor
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Hope and Glory
Moonstruck

The bunny boiler over Cher anytime.

1988 (61st)
Rain Man
The Accidental Tourist
Dangerous Liaisons
Mississippi Burning
Working Girl

1989 (62nd)
Driving Miss Daisy
Born on the Fourth of July
Dead Poets Society
Field of Dreams
My Left Foot



1990 (63rd)
Dances With Wolves
Awakenings
Ghost
The Godfather, Part III
Goodfellas

1991 (64th)
The Silence of the Lambs
Beauty and the Beast
Bugsy
JFK
The Prince of Tides

Yes I did see Prince of Tides and I didn't see why Nick Nolte was gushing over Streisand. I'll go the cannibal on this one. He changed the face of horror movies, and the faces of several of his victims, too.

1992 (65th)
Unforgiven
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men
Howards End
Scent of a Woman

1993 (66th)
Schindler's List
The Fugitive
In the Name of the Father
The Piano
The Remains of the Day

How the hell did the Fugitive get there?

1994 (67th)
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption

1995 (68th)
Braveheart
Apollo 13
Babe
Il Postino
Sense and Sensibility

1996 (69th)
The English Patient
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Secrets & Lies
Shine

1997 (70th)
Titanic
As Good as It Gets
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential

What can I say? I like James Ellroy.

1998 (71st)
Shakespeare in Love
Elizabeth
Life Is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line

I also like Shakespeare.

1999 (72nd)
American Beauty
The Sixth Sense
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider

Though I do like the scene where Tom Hanks' urinary tract infection was cured by letting Michael Clark Duncan grab his wedding tackle, gotta go with Kevin Spacey jerking off in the shower.


2000 (73rd)
Gladiator
Chocolat
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Erin Brockovich
Traffic

2001 (74th)
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! was a musical made by a man who knows fuck all about musicals and picked the most banal songs possible to put in it.

2002 (75th)
Chicago
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist

2003 (76th)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lost in Translation
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mystic River
Seabiscuit

2004 (77th)
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Ray
Sideways

2005 (78th)
Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich