1976

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2. Network (Sidney Lumet)
3. Rocky (John G. Avildson)
4. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
5. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
6. Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
7. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
8. Obsession (Brian De Palma)
9. Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
10. The Shootist (Don Siegel)

Honorable Mentions:
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog), The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), The Marquise of O... (Eric Rohmer), All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula), The Omen (Richard Donner), Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)