Interestingly, John Williams lost for his Close Encounters soundtrack but won for scoring George Lucas’ original Star Wars movie, which released earlier that same year.
Although the movie wasn’t as successful as Spielberg’s previous film, Jaws, Close Encounters took audiences by storm, grossing $303.78 million worldwide, against an estimated production budget of $20 million.
There’s no denying that Spielberg’s films have impacted and revolutionized the filmmaking industry in more ways than one, and that includes Close Encounters.
It has been 40 years since Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit theaters, and it looks like Sony Pictures is teasing the film’s re-release ahead of its anniversary later this year.