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1970s Best Picture Oscar Nominees - Multiple Choice

Identify the 70s films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture but lost.

Other decades in this quiz series here.

Wrong answers were nominated in categories other than Best Picture in the same year.
Year given is the year in film being awarded, not the date of the ceremony.
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Last updated: March 10, 2021
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1. Which 1970 Best Picture nominee lost to Patton?
Ryan's Daughter
The Great White Hope
MASH
2. Which 1971 Best Picture nominee lost to The French Connection?
The Andromeda Strain
Klute
A Clockwork Orange
3. Which 1972 Best Picture nominee lost to The Godfather?
Sleuth
The Poseidon Adventure
Deliverance
4. Which 1973 Best Picture nominee lost to The Sting?
The Exorcist
Last Tango in Paris
Serpico
5. Which 1974 Best Picture nominee lost to The Godfather Part II?
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Chinatown
The Longest Yard
6. Which 1975 Best Picture nominee lost to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
The Wind and the Lion
Jaws
Amarcord
7. Which 1976 Best Picture nominee lost to Rocky?
Carrie
Taxi Driver
Marathon Man
8. Which 1977 Best Picture nominee lost to Annie Hall?
A Little Night Music
Saturday Night Fever
Star Wars
9. Which 1978 Best Picture nominee lost to The Deer Hunter?
The Boys from Brazil
Midnight Express
Superman
10. Which 1979 Best Picture nominee lost to Kramer vs. Kramer?
The China Syndrome
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Apocalypse Now
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