The Year in Film: 1974


Best Picture
#1: The Godfather, Part II (dir: Francis Ford Coppola)
#2: Chinatown (dir: Roman Polanski)
#3: The Conversation (dir: Francis Ford Coppola)
#4: We All Loved Each Other So Much (dir: Ettore Scola)
#5: Scenes from a Marriage (dir: Ingmar Bergman)
#6: Lenny (dir: Bob Fosse)
#7: Murder on the Orient Express (dir: Sidney Lumet)
#8: Young Frankenstein
 (dir: Mel Brooks)
#9: The Parallax View
 (dir: Alan J. Pakula)
#10: Every Man for Himself and God Against All (dir: Werner Herzog)

Honorable Mentions: Butley
 (dir: Harold Pinter), Amarcord (dir: Federico Fellini), The Magic Flute (dir: Ingmar Bergman), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (dir: Martin Scorsese), Woman Under the Influence (dir: John Cassavetes), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (dir: Joseph Sargent), The Sugarland Express (dir: Steven Spielberg), Ali, Fear Eats the Soul (dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Yakuza Papers: Final Episode (dir: Kinji Fukasaku), Blazing Saddles (dir: Mel Brooks), The Odessa File (dir: Ronald Neame), and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (dir: John Hough).