Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editing:  Michael Kahn
Production Design:  Joe Alves
Special photographic effects supervisor :Douglas Trumbull
Director of photography: photographic effects  Richard Yuricich
Supervisor matte artist: Matthew Yuricich
Matte photography: Don Jarel
Assistant matte artist:  Rocco Gioffre
Animation supervisor:  Robert Swarthe
Chief model maker: Gregory Jein
Mothership photography: Dennis Muren / Scott Squires
Additional director of photography: John Alonzo / William A. Fraker / Douglas Slocombe
Realization of 'extraterrestrial':  Carlo Rambaldi