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The Graduate

  • Calder Willingham
  • Buck Henry
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Midnight Cowboy

Waldo Salt
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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

William Goldman
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The Go-Between

Harold Pinter
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The Hospital

Paddy Chayefsky
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The Last Picture Show

  • Larry McMurtry
  • Peter Bogdanovich
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The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Le Charme Discret De La Bourgeoisie)

  • Luis Buñuel
  • Jean-Claude Carrière
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Chinatown/The Last Detail

Robert Towne
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Through The Years

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    Missing

    • Costa-Gavras
    • Donald Stewart
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    On Golden Pond

    Ernest Thompson
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    Gandhi

    John Briley
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    ET: The Extra-Terrestrial

    Melissa Mathison
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    Gregory's Girl

    Bill Forsyth
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    Chariots Of Fire

    Colin Welland
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    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    Harold Pinter
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    Atlantic City

    John Guare
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    Being There

    Jerzy Kosinski
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    Kramer Vs Kramer

    Robert Benton
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    The Elephant Man

    • Christopher De Vore
    • Eric Bergren
    • David Lynch
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    Airplane!

    • Jim Abrahams
    • David Zucker
    • Jerry Zucker
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    Manhattan

    • Woody Allen
    • Marshall Brickman
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    Yanks

    • Colin Welland
    • Walter Bernstein
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    The Deer Hunter

    Deric Washburn
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    The China Syndrome

    • Mike Gray
    • TS Cook
    • James Bridges
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    Julia

    Alvin Sargent
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    A Wedding

    • John Considine
    • Patricia Resnick
    • Allan Nicholls
    • Robert Altman
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    The Goodbye Girl

    Neil Simon
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    Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

    Steven Spielberg
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    Annie Hall

    • Woody Allen
    • Marshall Brickman
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    Rocky

    Sylvester Stallone
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    Network

    Paddy Chayefsky
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    Equus

    Peter Schaffer
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    Bugsy Malone

    Alan Parker
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    The Sunshine Boys

    Neil Simon
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    One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

    • Lawrence Hauben
    • Bo Goldman
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    All The President's Men

    William Goldman
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    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    Robert Getchell
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    Nashville

    Joan Tewkesbury
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    Jaws

    • Peter Benchley
    • Carl Gottlieb
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    Dog Day Afternoon

    Frank Pierson
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    Chinatown/The Last Detail

    Robert Towne
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    Lacombe Lucien

    • Louis Malle
    • Patrick Modiano
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    The Conversation

    Francis Ford Coppola
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    Blazing Saddles

    • Mel Brooks
    • Norman Steinberg
    • Andrew Bergman
    • Richard Pryor
    • Alan Uger
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    The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Le Charme Discret De La Bourgeoisie)

    • Luis Buñuel
    • Jean-Claude Carrière
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    A Touch Of Class

    • Melvin Frank
    • Jack Rose
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    Sleuth

    Anthony Schaffer
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    The Day Of The Jackal

    Kenneth Ross
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    The Last Picture Show

    • Larry McMurtry
    • Peter Bogdanovich
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    The Hospital

    Paddy Chayefsky
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    A Clockwork Orange

    Stanley Kubrick
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    Cabaret

    Jay Presson Allen
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    The Go-Between

    Harold Pinter
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    Taking Off

    • Milos Forman
    • John Guare
    • Jean-Claude Carrière
    • John Klein
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    Sunday, Bloody Sunday

    Penelope Gilliatt
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    Gumshoe

    Neville Smith
    Screenplay
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    Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

    William Goldman
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    They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

    • James Poe
    • Robert E Thompson
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    Kes

    • Barry Hines
    • Ken Loach
    • Tony Garnett
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    Bob And Carol And Ted And Alice

    • Paul Mazursky
    • Larry Tucker
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    Midnight Cowboy

    Waldo Salt
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    Z

    • Costa-Gavras
    • Jorge Semprun
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    Women In Love

    Larry Kramer
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    Goodbye, Columbus

    Arnold Schulman
    Screenplay
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    The Graduate

    • Calder Willingham
    • Buck Henry
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    The Lion In Winter

    James Goldman
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    If...

    David Sherwin
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    Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

    William Rose
    Screenplay