1975

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles- Chantal Akerman
2. Nashville- Robert Altman
3. Barry Lyndon- Stanley Kubrick
4. Jaws- Steven Spielberg
5. The Holy Mountain- Alejandro Jodorowsky
6. The Passenger- Michelangelo Antonioni
7. F for Fake- Orson Welles
8. Night Moves- Arthur Penn
9. Grey Gardens- Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer
10. The Mirror- Andrei Tarkovsky
11. The Friends of Eddie Coyle- Peter Yates
12. Dog Day Afternoon- Sidney Lumet
13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail- Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam
14. Overlord- Stuart Cooper
15. The Story of Adèle H.- Francois Truffaut
16. Shampoo- Hal Ashby
17. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom- Pier Paolo Pasolini
18. The Man Who Would Be King- John Huston
19. Love and Death- Woody Allen
20. The Magic Flute- Ingmar Bergman

Ripe for re-appraisal: Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel), The Fortune (Mike Nichols)

Need to see: At Long Last Love (Peter Bogdanovich), Black Moon (Louis Malle), Dirty Hands (Claude Chabrol), Fällan (Peter Watkins), Female Trouble (John Waters), Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The French Connection II (John Frankenheimer), Giliap (Roy Andersson), Graveyard of Honor (Kinji Fukasaku), Hard Times (Walter Hill), Hester Street (Joan Micklin Silver), I Am a Cat (Kon Ichikawa), India Song (Marguerite Duras), Keetje Tippel (Paul Verhoeven), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Margaretha Von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff), Love Among the Ruins (George Cukor), Moses und Aron (Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard), Promise of the Flesh (Kim Ki-young), Race With the Devil (Jack Starrett), The Return of the Chinese Boxer (Wang Yu), The Seventies People (Peter Watkins), The Traveling Players (Theo Angelopoulos), Welfare (Frederick Wiseman), Wide Angle Saxon (Owen Land), Xala (Ousmane Sembene)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
César Awards, Best Film: The Old Gun (Robert Enrico)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Mohammad Lakhdar-Hamina)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Adoption (Marta Meszaros)