# The Palme d'Or winners of the 1970s

The films that won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize between 1970 and 1979, including the shared awards.

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- Nov 6, 2024 · piotr_popcorn
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## Top 13

1. **MASH** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Robert Altman, 1970. Army surgeons in Korea.
2. **The Go-Between** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Joseph Losey, 1971. A boy carries letters between lovers.
3. **The Working Class Goes to Heaven** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Elio Petri, 1972 (shared). A factory worker and a strike.
4. **The Mattei Affair** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Francesco Rosi, 1972 (shared). The mysterious death of the head of Italy's oil company.
5. **Scarecrow** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jerry Schatzberg, 1973 (shared). Gene Hackman and Al Pacino on the road.
6. **The Hireling** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alan Bridges, 1973 (shared). A chauffeur in love with an aristocrat.
7. **The Conversation** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Francis Ford Coppola, 1974. Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert.
8. **Chronicle of the Years of Fire** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, 1975. Algeria's road to independence.
9. **Taxi Driver** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martin Scorsese, 1976. Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle.
10. **Padre Padrone** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1977. A Sardinian shepherd's son learns to read.
11. **The Tree of Wooden Clogs** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ermanno Olmi, 1978. Peasants in Lombardy at the end of the 19th century.
12. **Apocalypse Now** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 (shared). The Vietnam War and Colonel Kurtz.
13. **The Tin Drum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Volker Schlöndorff, 1979 (shared). The adaptation of Günter Grass's novel; also an Oscar.

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