List of awards and nominations received by Star Wars
Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref(s).
1977 British Society of Cinematographers Best Cinematography Award Gilbert Taylor Nominated [1]
Directors Guild of America Awards Best Director George Lucas Nominated [2]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Film Won [3]
Best Music Score John Williams Won [3]
National Board of Review Awards Top Ten Films Listed [4]
1978 Academy Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role Alec Guinness Nominated [5]
Best Art Direction John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian Won [5]
Best Costume Design John Mollo Won [5]
Best Director George Lucas Nominated [5]
Best Film Editing Paul Hirsh, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew Won [5]
Best Original Score John Williams Won [5]
Best Picture Gary Kurtz Nominated [5]
Best Sound Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball Won [5]
Best Visual Effects John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Robert Blalack Won [5]
Best Original Screenplay George Lucas Nominated [5]
ACE Eddie Awards Best Edited Feature Film Richard Chew, Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas Nominated [6]
Golden Globe Awards Best Director George Lucas Nominated [2][7]
Best Motion Picture – Drama Nominated [2][7]
Best Original Score John Williams Won [2][7]
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Alec Guinness Nominated [2][7]
Golden Screen Golden Screen Won [8]
Grammy Awards Album of the Year John Williams Won [9]
Best Instrumental Composition John Williams Won [10]
Best Instrumental Recording John Williams Won [10]
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special John Williams Won [10]
Hochi Film Awards Best Foreign Language Film Won
Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Nominated [11]
Japan Academy Prize Outstanding Foreign Language Film Nominated [12]
Nebula Awards Best Script George Lucas Won [13]
People's Choice Awards Favorite Motion Picture Won [14]
Saturn Awards Best Actor Harrison Ford Nominated
Mark Hamill Nominated
Best Actress Carrie Fisher Nominated
Best Costume John Mollo Won [15]
Best Direction George Lucas Won [15]
Best Make-up Rick Baker and Stuart Freeborn Won [15]
Best Music John Williams Won [15]
Best Science Fiction Film Won [15]
Best Special Effects John Dykstra and John Stears Won [15]
Best Supporting Actor Peter Cushing Nominated
Alec Guinness Won [15]
Best Writing George Lucas Won [15]
Writers Guild of America Awards Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen George Lucas Nominated
1979 British Academy Film Awards Best Costume Design John Mollo Nominated [16]
Best Film Nominated [16]
Best Film Editing Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew Nominated [16]
Best Film Music John Williams Won [16]
Best Production Design John Barry Nominated [16]
Best Sound Sam Shaw, Robert R. Rutledge, Gordon Davidson, Gene Corso, Derek Ball, Don MacDougall, Bob Minkler, Ray West, Mike Minkler, Lester Fresholtz, Richard Portman, Ben Burtt Won [16]
Evening Standard British Film Awards Best Actor Alec Guinness Won
Best Director George Lucas Won
Kinema Junpo Awards Best Foreign Language Film Director George Lucas Won
1997 MTV Movie Awards Lifetime Achievement Award For Chewbacca Won [17]
  1. ^ Staff (February 8, 2011). "BSC Best Cinematography Award". British Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Star Wars Awards". StarPulse.com. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  3. ^ a b Staff. "3rd Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards". Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award. Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  4. ^ Staff. "1977 Award Winners". National Board of Review Award. National Board of Review. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
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  6. ^ Staff. "American Cinema Editors, USA". ACE Eddie Awards. American Cinema Editors. Retrieved May 10, 2014. — via Internet Movie Database2
  7. ^ a b c d "35th Golden Globes Awards (1978) - Movies from 1977". FilmAffinity. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  8. ^ Staff. "About the Golden Screen". Golden Screen (in German). Hauptverband Deutscher Filmtheater. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  9. ^ Staff (January 17, 2012). "Grammy Rewind: 20th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Award. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  10. ^ a b c "Past Winners Search". Grammy Award. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hugo78 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Staff. "Japan Academy Prize official site" (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Archived from the original on April 5, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  13. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1978 Nebula Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  14. ^ "1978 And the Winners Are". People's Choice Awards. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h "Past Awards". Saturn Award. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  16. ^ a b c d e f "Film in 1979". British Academy Film Awards. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  17. ^ Staff. "1997 MTV Movie Awards". MTV Movie Award. MTV. Retrieved May 27, 2014.