1978
The Deer Hunter, edited by Peter Zinner
Hooper, edited by Donn Cambern
Superman, edited by Stuart Baird

1977
The Turning Point, edited by William H. Reynolds
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, edited by Michael Kahn
Star Wars, edited by Richard Chew, Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas

1976
Rocky, edited by Scott Conrad, Richard Halsey
All the President's Men, edited by Robert L. Wolfe
Network, edited by Alan Heim

1975
Jaws, edited by Verna Fields
The Hindenburg, edited by Donn Cambern
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest,
        edited by Richard Chew, Sheldon Kahn, Lynzee Klingman

1974
The Longest Yard, edited by Michael Luciano
Earthquake, edited by Dorothy Spencer
The Towering Inferno, edited by Carl Kress, Harold F. Kress

1973
The Sting, edited by William H. Reynolds
The Day of the Jackal, edited by Ralph Kemplen
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, edited by James Galloway,
        Frank P. Keller

1972
Cabaret, edited by David Bretherton
The Godfather, edited by William H. Reynolds, Peter Zinner
The Poseidon Adventure, edited by Harold F. Kress

1971
Summer Of '42, edited by Folmar Blangsted
The African Elephant, edited by Alan L. Jaggs
Fiddler on the Roof, edited by Antony Gibbs, Robert Lawrence
The French Connection, edited by Gerald B. Greenberg
Kotch, edited by Ralph E. Winters
Willard, edited by Warren Low

1970
Patton, edited by Hugh S. Fowler
Airport, edited by Stuart Gilmore
The Great White Hope, edited by William Reynolds
M*A*S*H*, edited by Danford B. Greene
Tora! Tora! Tora!, edited by Inoue Chikaya,
        Pembroke J. Herring, James E. Newcom