A year and a half later, a more respectable list:
1. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, '74)
2. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, '79)
3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, '76)
4. F for Fake (Welles, '74)
5. The Godfather (Coppola, '72)
6. Manhattan (Allen, '79)
7. Jaws (Spielberg, '75)
8. Star Wars (Lucas, '77)
9. Annie Hall (Allen, '77)
10. The Exorcist (Friedkin, '73)
11. Young Frankenstein (Brooks, '74)
12. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, '78)
13. Chinatown (Polanski, '74)
14. Network (Lumet, '76)
15. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, '75)