1978

1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2. In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. Halloween (John Carpenter)
4. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
5. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
7. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
8. Filming Othello (Orson Welles)
9. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
10. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)

Honorable Mentions:
Midnight Express (Alan Parker), The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino), Interiors (Woody Allen), Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), Superman (Richard Donner), The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese), Big Wednesday (John Milius), Piranha (Joe Dante), Death on the Nile (John Guillermin)