E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (soundtrack)

This article is about the soundtrack album. For the soundtrack companion album, see E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (album).
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Music from the Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
John Williams
ReleasedJune 11, 1982
RecordedMarch–April 1982
StudioMGM Scoring Stage
GenreClassical
LabelMCA
Producer
John Williams chronology
Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981) 		E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Music from the Original Soundtrack
(1982) 		Return of the Jedi
(1983)
Singles from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (soundtrack)
  1. "Flying Theme from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"
    Released: 1982

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Music from the Original Soundtrack is the score to the 1982 film of the same name composed and conducted by John Williams. The album was first released by MCA Records on June 11, 1982. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The album was reissued in expanded form in 1996, and again in a slightly more expanded edition in 2002, before being remastered and reissued in a limited-edition two-disc set by La-La Land Records on September 26, 2017.