1978

1. Gates of Heaven- Errol Morris
2. Dawn of the Dead- George A. Romero
3. Days of Heaven- Terrence Malick
4. 36th Chamber of Shaolin- Lau Kar-Leung
5. The Deer Hunter- Michael Cimino
6. Don- Chandra Barot
7. The Fury- Brian De Palma
8. Straight Time- Ulu Grosbard
9. The Tree of Wooden Clogs- Ermanno Olmi
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers- Philip Kaufman
11. Violette- Claude Chabrol
12. Superman- Richard Donner
13. A Wedding- Robert Altman
14. Filming Othello- Orson Welles
15. The Last Waltz- Martin Scorsese
16. Halloween- John Carpenter

Ripe for re-appraisal: Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), Coming Home (Hal Ashby), Fingers (James Toback), Piranha (Joe Dante)
 

Need to see: Alexandria… Why? (Youssef Chahine), American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese), Big Wednesday (John Milius), Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Fred Schepisi), China 9 Liberty 37 (Monte Hellman), Le Dossier 51 (Michel Deville), The Driver (Walter Hill), Drugstore Romance (Paul Vecchiali), Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima), Five Deadly Venoms (Chang Cheh), Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier), The Green Room (François Truffaut), In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Barbet Schroeder), Our Hitler: A Film From Germany (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg), Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer), Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph), Renaldo and Clara (Bob Dylan), Rendezvous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman), Snake in Eagle’s Shadow (Yuen Woo-ping), Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway), Watership Down (Martin Rosen), When the Crow Turns White, When the Heron Turns Black (Celso Ad. Castillo), Who’ll Stop the Rain (Karel Reisz)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Deer Hunter
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
César Awards, Best Film: Other People's Money (Christian de Chalonge)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Trout (Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez), Ascensor (Tomas Munoz), and The Words of Max (Emilio Martinez Lazaro)
Toronto, Audience Award: Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)