Richard Dreyfuss

Apex — Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

25,310 feet (Camp III)

65th highest of 3,283

Awards-driven summit, edging The Goodbye Girl.

The career, climbed · tap a dot for detail

FilmographyAltitudeYear

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	Film	Year	Elevation
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind ▲ apex	1977	20,507 ft
	The Goodbye Girl	1977	20,318 ft
	Mr. Holland's Opus	1995	20,048 ft
	What About Bob?	1991	19,942 ft
	American Graffiti	1973	19,842 ft
	The Big Fix	1978	19,804 ft
	Jaws	1975	19,792 ft
	Stakeout	1987	19,774 ft
	Always	1989	19,752 ft
	Another Stakeout	1993	19,654 ft
	Moon Over Parador	1988	19,602 ft
	Whose Life Is It Anyway?	1981	19,588 ft
	Let It Ride	1989	19,428 ft
	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	1974	19,381 ft
	Silent Fall	1994	19,324 ft
	Mad Dog Time	1996	18,922 ft
	My Life in Ruins	2009	18,891 ft
	James and the Giant Peach	1996	18,879 ft
	W.	2008	18,570 ft
	Tin Men	1987	18,548 ft
	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	1986	18,518 ft
	Lost in Yonkers	1993	18,485 ft
	Once Around	1991	18,483 ft
	Inserts	1975	18,460 ft
	Astronaut	2019	18,423 ft
	Lansky	1999	18,409 ft
	Krippendorf's Tribe	1998	18,366 ft
	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	1991	18,348 ft
	Crime Story	2021	18,325 ft
	Leaves of Grass	2009	18,313 ft
	Fail Safe	2000	18,252 ft
	Oliver Twist	1997	18,243 ft
	Squatters	2014	18,222 ft
	Nuts	1987	18,212 ft
	Postcards from the Edge	1990	18,184 ft
	The Last Laugh	2019	18,138 ft
	Poseidon	2006	18,107 ft
	Into the Deep	2025	18,092 ft
	Cas & Dylan	2013	18,027 ft
	Every Last One of Them	2021	17,992 ft
	Who Is Cletis Tout?	2001	17,949 ft
	Book Club	2018	17,917 ft
	Asher	2018	17,914 ft
	Zipper	2015	17,902 ft
	Bayou Caviar	2018	17,894 ft
	RED	2010	17,876 ft
	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys	2001	17,764 ft
	Silver City	2004	17,751 ft
	Daughter of the Wolf	2019	17,711 ft
	Very Good Girls	2013	17,697 ft
	Paranoia	2013	17,681 ft
	The Graduate	1967	17,680 ft
	Victory at Entebbe	1976	17,678 ft
	Dillinger	1973	17,670 ft
	Stand by Me	1986	17,668 ft
	Night Falls on Manhattan	1997	17,668 ft
	Murder at Yellowstone City	2022	17,666 ft
	Sweetwater	2023	17,665 ft
	Valley of the Dolls	1967	17,662 ft
	The American President	1995	17,659 ft
	Piranha 3D	2010	17,650 ft
	The Sentinel	1977	17,620 ft
	Polar	2019	17,618 ft