Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, and French film director, screenwriter and producer François Truffaut. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an everyday blue-collar worker whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO). He becomes obsessed by UFOs, to the dismay of his wife, Ronnie (Garr). Meanwhile in Mexico's Sonoran Desert, French scientist Claude Lacombe (Truffaut) and his team discover Flight 19, a squadron of World War II airplanes that disappeared more than 30 years earlier... Internationally renowned as a film director, and widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave, this was Truffaut's only acting role in a film he did not direct as well as his only role in an English language film. CE3K received numerous awards although despite eight Oscar nominations its only win was for Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography. The Academy did honour the film's sound effects editing with a Special Achievement Award. In December 2007, CE3K was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.