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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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1. Which 1970 Best Picture nominee lost to Patton?
The Great White Hope ✓
Ryan's Daughter ✓
MASH ✓
2. Which 1971 Best Picture nominee lost to The French Connection?
Klute ✓
The Andromeda Strain ✓
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?
Last Tango in Paris ✓
The Exorcist ✓
Serpico ✓
5. Which 1974 Best Picture nominee lost to The Godfather Part II?
Chinatown ✓
The Longest Yard ✓
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ✓
6. Which 1975 Best Picture nominee lost to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Amarcord ✓
The Wind and the Lion ✓
Jaws ✓
7. Which 1976 Best Picture nominee lost to Rocky?
Carrie ✓
Marathon Man ✓
Taxi Driver ✓
8. Which 1977 Best Picture nominee lost to Annie Hall?
A Little Night Music ✓
Star Wars ✓
Saturday Night Fever ✓
9. Which 1978 Best Picture nominee lost to The Deer Hunter?
The Boys from Brazil ✓
Superman ✓
Midnight Express ✓
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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