Star Wars (1977)

Academy Awards, USA 1978

Winner Oscar	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration John Barry Norman Reynolds Leslie Dilley Roger Christian
	Best Costume Design John Mollo
	Best Sound Don MacDougall Ray West Bob Minkler Derek Ball Derek Ball was not present at the awards ceremony.
	Best Film Editing Paul Hirsch Marcia Lucas Richard Chew
	Best Effects, Visual Effects John Stears John Dykstra Richard Edlund Grant McCune Robert Blalack
	Best Music, Original Score John Williams
Winner Special Achievement Award	Ben Burtt (as Benjamin Burtt Jr.) For sound effects. (For the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices.)
Nominee Oscar	Best Picture Gary Kurtz
	Best Actor in a Supporting Role Alec Guinness
	Best Director George Lucas
	Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen George Lucas

Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by George Lucas
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Harmy's Despecialized Edition)

George Lucas updates old Saturday matinee serials with slick special effects and an epic, galaxy-spanning story to create one of the most influential, and successful, films of all time. His hero is Luke Skywalker, a bored teenager on a remote desert planet, who reluctantly joins a rebellion against the evil Empire in possession of a weapon capable of destroying planets. He is joined by a pair of wisecracking robots who sound a lot like Laurel and Hardy, an aging Jedi knight with mystical powers and a hot shot pilot with a fast spaceship to get them around. First, they have to rescue a princess from the hands of Darth Vader, a towering, sinister figure who is the ultimate villain. Lucas populates his story with an imaginative variety of alien creatures, some of whom are major characters despite speaking no recognizable language. The soundtrack consists of assorted synthesized sounds, chatter, and bleeps, with a soaring score by John Williams. Incredibly, Lucas has disowned the original version in favor of a souped-up, CGI-ridden "special" edition which is anything but special. Luckily, you can still see the original version if you look hard enough, and that is the only way to see the film.