Best Dramatic Presentation, 1978

Star Wars

George Lucas

Also on the ballot

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)Steven Spielberg
  • Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper (recording) (1977)Shelley Torgeson; Written by Robert Bloch and Harlan Ellison; Roy Torgeson, Producer
  • Wizards (1977)Ralph Bakshi
  • The Hobbit (1977)Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.; Teleplay by Romeo Muller; based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien