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Close Encounters wins the Oscar for cinematography

When: 3 Apr 1978
Where: Los Angeles, CA
Sources: 1 public source

Vilmos Zsigmond, who won the cinematography Oscar for Close Encounters Attilaphoto at Hungarian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At the 50th Academy Awards, Vilmos Zsigmond won the cinematography Oscar for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The film also received a Special Achievement Award for sound effects editing, credited to Frank E. Warner.

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OfficialThe 50th Academy Awards (1978) (opens in a new tab)Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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