Academy Award for Best Sound 1978
50th Academy Awards · held April 3, 1978 · 5 nominees
- Winner Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · Bob Minkler, Derek Ball, Don MacDougall, Ray West
- Nominee Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Don MacDougall, Gene Cantamessa, Robert Glass, Robert Knudson
- Nominee Sorcerer · Jean-Louis Ducarme, Richard Tyler, Robert Glass, Robert Knudson
- Nominee The Deep · Dick Alexander, Robin Gregory, Tom Beckert, Walter Goss
- Nominee The Turning Point · Douglas Williams, Jerry Jost, Paul Wells, Theodore Soderberg