| Any |
Pel·lícula |
Nominat(s) |
1970
[2] | Cowboy de mitjanit (Midnight Cowboy) | Waldo Salt |
| Goodbye, Columbus | Arnold Schulman |
| Dones enamorades (Women in Love) | Larry Kramer |
| Z | Costa-Gavras i Jorge Semprún |
1971
[3] | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | William Goldman |
| Bob, Carol, Ted i Alice (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) | Paul Mazursky i Larry Tucker |
| Kes | Barry Hines, Ken Loach, i Tony Garnett |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | James Poe i Robert E. Thompson |
1972
[4] | El missatger (The Go-Between) | Harold Pinter |
| Gumshoe | Neville Smith |
| Diumenge, maleït diumenge (Sunday Bloody Sunday) | Penelope Gilliatt |
| Vull volar (Taking Off) | Milos Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière, i Jon Klein |
1973
[5] | Anatomia d'un hospital (The Hospital) | Paddy Chayefsky |
| L'última projecció (The Last Picture Show) | Larry McMurtry i Peter Bogdanovich |
| Cabaret | Jay Presson Allen |
| La taronja mecànica (A Clockwork Orange) | Stanley Kubrick |
1974
[6] | El discret encant de la burgesia (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie) | Luis Buñuel i Jean-Claude Carrière |
| Xacal (The Day of the Jackal) | Kenneth Ross |
| L'empremta (Sleuth) | Anthony Shaffer |
| A Touch of Class | Melvin Frank, Jack Rose |
1975
[7] | Chinatown | Robert Towne |
| Selles de muntar calentes (Blazing Saddles) | Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, i Alan Uger |
| La conversa (The Conversation) | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Lacombe Lucien | Louis Malle i Patrick Modiano |
1976
[8] | Alícia ja no viu aquí (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore) | Robert Getchell |
| Tarda negra (Dog Day Afternoon) | Frank Pierson |
| Tauró (Jaws) | Peter Benchley i Carl Gottlieb |
| Nashville | Joan Tewkesbury |
1977
[9] | Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker |
| Tots els homes del president (All the President's Men) | William Goldman |
| Algú va volar sobre el niu del cucut (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) | Lawrence Hauben i Bo Goldman |
| The Sunshine Boys | Neil Simon |
1978
[10] | Annie Hall | Woody Allen i Marshall Brickman |
| Network | Paddy Chayefsky |
| Rocky | Sylvester Stallone |
| Equus | Peter Shaffer |
1979
[11] | Julia | Alvin Sargent |
| Encontres a la tercera fase (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) | Steven Spielberg |
| La noia de l'adéu (The Goodbye Girl) | Neil Simon |
| A Wedding | John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls, i Robert Altman |
