Best Actor of the 1970's

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1970s

Who was the top actor during this great decade of film, based on their work during that time?

WARREN BEATTY
(McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Heaven Can Wait, Shampoo, The Parallax View)

ROBERT DE NIRO
(Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Mean Streets, The Godfather Part II)

CLINT EASTWOOD
(Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, Escape from Alcatraz)

GENE HACKMAN
(The French Connection, The Conversation, Night Moves, I Never Sang for My Father)

DUSTIN HOFFMAN
(Straw Dogs, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, Lenny)

JACK NICHOLSON
(Five Easy Pieces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Last Detail, Chinatown)

AL PACINO
(The Godfather I & II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon)

ROBERT REDFORD
(The Sting, Jeremiah Johnson, The Candidate, All the President's Men)

Other
Please explain your choice.