50th Academy Awards (1978) - Movies from 1977
1977
8 nominations - 1 award
Nominations - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Best Director (Steven Spielberg)
- Best Supporting Actress (Melinda Dillon)
- Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn)
- Best Cinematography (Vilmos Zsigmond) Winner
- Best Music (Score) (John Williams)
- Best Production Design (Joe Alves, Daniel A. Lomino, Phil Abramson)
- Best Sound Mixing (Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall, Gene S. Cantamessa)
- Best Visual Effects (Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein, Richard Yuricich)