When released on
June 12,
1981 the $20 million film was a huge success, easily the highest grossing film (earning $384 million worldwide) of that year, and, at the time, one of the highest-grossing movies ever made.
[25] It was nominated for eight
Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in 1982 and won four (Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration). It also won a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing, bringing the total Oscars to five. It won numerous other awards, including a
Grammy and Best Picture at the
People's Choice Awards. Spielberg was also nominated for a
Golden Globe.
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In 1998, the
American Film Institute placed the film at number 60 on its top 100 films of the first century of cinema. In 1999, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States
Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the
National Film Registry. Indiana Jones has become an icon, being listed as
Entertainment Weekly's third favorite action hero, while noting "some of the greatest action scenes ever filmed are strung together like pearls" in this film.
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