awards for Close Encounters of the Third Kind on AllMovie

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Nominated	Best Art Direction Joe Alves, Daniel Lomino, Phillip Abramson	1977
Won	Best Cinematography Vilmos Zsigmond	1977
Nominated	Best Director Steven Spielberg	1977
Nominated	Best Editing Michael Kahn	1977
Nominated	Best Original Score John Williams	1977
Nominated	Best Sound Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall, Gene S. Cantamessa	1977
Nominated	Best Supporting Actress Melinda Dillon	1977
Nominated	Best Visual Effects Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein, Richard Yuricich	1977
Won	Special Achievement Frank Warner	1977

American Film Institute

Won

100 Greatest American Movies

1998

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Won	Best Art Direction Joe Alves	1978
Nominated	Best Picture Steven Spielberg	1978

Directors Guild of America

Nominated

Best Director Steven Spielberg

1977

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Nominated	Best Director Steven Spielberg	1977
Nominated	Best Original Score John Williams	1977
Nominated	Best Picture - Drama	1977
Nominated	Best Screenplay Steven Spielberg	1977

National Board of Review

Nominated

Best Picture

1977