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Which Steven Spielberg film earned his first Academy Award nomination for best director?
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American motion-picture director and producer Steven Spielberg attending the premiere of Inside Llewyn Davis at the Cannes International Film Festival, France, 2013.
Steven Spielberg received his first Academy Award for best director nomination for the 1977 science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.1