Best Fantasy movies of 1970s that are oscar winners or nominees

Star Wars(1977)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee, and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader.



Somewhere in Time(1980)

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Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.



Heaven Can Wait(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.



The Wiz(1978)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.



Phantom of the Paradise(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.



Oh, God!(1977)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.



Man of La Mancha(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.



Scrooge(1970)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.



The Island at the Top of the World(1974)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.



The Little Prince(1974)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.



Resurrection(1980)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...



I Never Promised You a Rose Garden(1977)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.



Shanks(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.