Days of Heaven 1978

List of Movies I need to watch

Welcome to the days of disco and dirty deeds as we plunge into a new wave of movies: raw and renewed, unfiltered, while laying the groundwork for blockbuster era to come. Welcome to the 140 essential movies of the 1970s.

The two moods we aimed to capture in this countdown: The wilting of ’60s flower power optimism under the harsh light of urban reality and decay; meanwhile the destruction of the musty Hays Code — a musty ruleset that dictated what could be depicted on-screen for decades — suddenly allowing directors to pursue more personal expressions in film, often violent and sexual. You’ll find stories of lone men (Taxi Driver, Dog Day Afternoon) and women (Wanda, Norma Rae) against the system, and paranoid political thrillers (All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor). There are the horror hallmarks (Alien, Halloween) including international (Suspiria, Deep Red), and box office game changers (Star Wars, Jaws). Low-budget exploitation (The Last House on the Left, Mad Max), and a few things a willing warped mind can get off on (The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Holy Mountain). All movies considered for this list needed to have a Tomatometer (after 5 reviews) and have been made during the decade, even if it didn’t get a major release until later, e.g. Hausu or Killer of Sheep.

Now, let’s strut them mean streets, let’s do the time warp again, let’s have ourselves a close encounter with 140 essential 1970s movies!
Link: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-1970s-movies/

Based on review sites / awards

This is a list of all winners of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography since 1927.

Oscar Award Winners for Cinematography

List of movies that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Updated with 2024 winners.

Notes:
- From 1936 until 1939 two oscars were awarded, one additional for color movies.

This list contains all movies that have won the Best Cinematography prize in the Academy Awards.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Cinematography

All the winners in the Best Cinematography category of the Oscars.

List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Cinematography: http://bit.ly/37Jf8tg

List of films that have won the Oscar for Best Cinematography

In its first film season, 1927–28, this award (like others such as the acting awards) was not tied to a specific film; all of the work by the nominated cinematographers during the qualifying period was listed after their names. The problem with this system became obvious the first year, since Karl Struss and Charles Rosher were nominated for their work together on Sunrise but three other films shot individually by either Rosher or Struss were also listed as part of the nomination. The second year, 1929, there were no nominations at all, although the Academy has a list of unofficial titles which were under consideration by the Board of Judges. In the third year, 1930, films, not cinematographers, were nominated, and the final award did not show the cinematographer's name.

Finally, for the 1931 awards, the modern system in which individuals are nominated for a single film each was adopted in all profession-related categories. From 1939 to 1967 with the exception of 1957, there were also separate awards for color and for black-and-white cinematography. Since then, the only black-and-white film to win is Schindler's List (1993).

Floyd Crosby won the award for Tabu in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this category. Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award ever, in 1935 for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mohr was also the first person to win for both black-and-white and color cinematography.

No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees (and of the unofficial nominees of 1928–29) are lost, including The Devil Dancer (1927), The Magic Flame (1927), and Four Devils (1928). The Right to Love (1930) is incomplete, and Sadie Thompson (1927) is incomplete and partially reconstructed with stills.

The first nominees shot primarily on digital video were The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire in 2009, with Slumdog Millionaire the first winner.[1] The following year Avatar was the first nominee and winner to be shot entirely on digital video.[2]

In 2018, Rachel Morrison became the first woman to receive a nomination. Prior to that it had been the last Academy Award category to never nominate a woman.[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Cinematography#Winners_and_nominees

Last Updated: 2012-09-08
These Greatest Movies of the 1970s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success.

Movies of the 70's, Jürgen Müller (ed.) Taschen.

Films showing during the Zürich Film Festival 2012. (largely complete)

https://www.moviepilot.de/news/100-fur-die-ewigkeit-198367

Essential Movies Any Serious Film Fan Should See

BBC Culture polled film critics from around the world to determine the best American movies ever made. The results are surprising – Gone With the Wind appears at 97.

http://observador.pt/2015/07/21/serao-estes-os-100-melhores-filmes-americanos/

https://filmschoolrejects.com/movies-not-nominated-best-picture/

Film School Rejects List of 100 Best Movies not Nominated for an Oscar as of April 20th, 2021