Cicely Tyson, born on 19 December 1933, Oscar-nominated in 1972, former wife of Miles Davis and winner of multiple Emmy Awards, is of Nevisian descent.

Sheen was then a co-star in the controversial Emmy Award-winning 1972 television movie That Certain Summer, said to be the first television movie in America to portray homosexuality in a sympathetic light.

The series won a Prix Italia award in Italy, several BAFTA awards in England and several Emmy Awards in the U. S., and was adapted by Ian Thorne into the 1972 film Henry VIII and his Six Wives.

The series itself won the Emmy for the Best Dramatic Series in 1972 ( the first British TV series ever to win the American TV award, before Upstairs, Downstairs carried the award two years later ).

He received four Emmy Awards ( two in 1971, and one each in 1972 and 1973 ) and a Peabody Award in 1978.

For his work as Archie Bunker, he was nominated for eight Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series ; he won the award four times ( 1972, 1977, 1978, and 1979 ).

Thomas won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1972.

The plight of this bird inspired the novel ( and subsequent Emmy Award winning 1972 ABC Afterschool Special ) Last of the Curlews.

O ' Connell co-hosted the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants with Bob Barker from 1972 to 1980 and was nominated for an Emmy award in 1976 for her coverage of the Miss Universe pageant.

Moreno went on to be the first Hispanic to win an Emmy ( 1977 ), a Grammy ( 1972 ), an Oscar ( 1962 ) and a Tony ( 1975 ).

Drea de Matteo () ( born January 19, 1972 ) is an American television actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Angie Bolen on ABC's Desperate Housewives, Joey Tribbiani's sister Gina on the NBC sitcom Joey, and as Adriana La Cerva on the acclaimed HBO TV series The Sopranos, a role for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

In 1972 and 1974, the serial received a Daytime Emmy for Best Drama.

La cabina (" The Telephone Box ") is an Emmy award-winning, 1972 film directed by Spanish director Antonio Mercero, and written by him and José Luis Garci.

The first daytime-themed Emmy Awards were given out at the primetime ceremony in 1972, when The Doctors and General Hospital were nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Drama.

She later appeared in various television productions, often in guest roles, and played Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 until 1978, receiving several Emmy Award nominations for her work.

Pleshette was one of the stars of the popular CBS sitcom The Bob Newhart Show ( 1972 – 1978 ) for all six seasons, and was nominated twice for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

He is best known as the director of a 1972 surrealist short horror film titled La cabina, that won an Emmy Award.

In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm Gargoyles.

* Ellen Stokes, Emmy nominated and CableACE Award winning producer and director, 1972

( 1979 – 86 ), receiving an Emmy nomination in 1981 ; and playing the character twice as long as Wayne Rogers had ( 1972 – 1975 ) on the CBS M * A * S * H series.

As a featured performer in supporting roles, her work was acknowledged with nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Play It As It Lays ( 1972 ), a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1978 ), an Emmy Award for The Winter of Our Discontent ( 1983 ), and a BAFTA for Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 ).

The Lawyers was nominated for three Emmy Awards in 1972, winning one for its music and another for its direction.

In 1977, he received his first of three Emmy Award nominations for producing the television movie 21 Hours at Munich about the massacre at the 1972 Olympics.

In 1972, he won two primetime Emmy Awards for S ' Wonderful, S ' Marvelous, S ' Gershwin, which starred, among others, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Larry Kert, and Robert Guillaume.

* 1972 Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Program-Variety or Musical-Variety and Popular Music -" S ' Wonderful, S ' Marvelous, S ' Gershwin "

The following year, he won the Parents Without Partners Exemplary Service Award for 1972.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

When he briefly returned to the United States in 1972, the Lincoln Center Film Society honoured him with a gala and awarded him a lifetime achievement award, which has since been awarded annually to filmmakers as The Chaplin Award.

* 44th Academy Awards ( 1972 ): Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

For his professional work he was bestowed the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Psychology by the APA in 1972.

He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.

* The Association for Computing Machinery's A. M. Turing Award ( 1972 )

* ( EWD340 ) PDF, 1972 ACM Turing Award lecture

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

Russ won a 1972 Nebula Award for her short story " When It Changed " and a 1983 Hugo Award for her novella " Souls.

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance ( 1972 ), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home ( 1978 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ ( 1979 ).

Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981, and he was a recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990.

Bench had another strong year in 1972, again winning the Most Valuable Player Award and leading the National League in home runs ( 40 ) and RBI ( 125 ), to help propel the Reds to another National League West Division title, and a five-game victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1972 National League Championship Series.

The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ( 1972 ), a role critics consider among his greatest.

Pitcher Steve Carlton leads the team in Cy Young Award wins with four ( 1972, 1977, 1980, and 1982 ), while John Denny ( 1983 ), Steve Bedrosian ( 1987 ), and Roy Halladay ( 2010 ) each have one.

An early use of the term is in Edsger Dijkstra's 1972 ACM Turing Award Lecture:

* The Farthest Shore, 1972 ( National Book Award winner, 1973 )

* The Lathe of Heaven, 1971 ( made into TV movies, 1980 and 2002 ; Locus SF Award winner, 1972 )

* Kiril i Metodi Award, Geographical Society, Bulgaria ( 1972 )

Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

From 1972 to 2006 an Italian acting award, " The Rudolph Valentino Award ", was handed out every year.

Bridges is one of the youngest actors ever to be nominated for an Academy Award ( 1972, age 22, Best Supporting Actor, The Last Picture Show ), and one of the oldest ever to win ( 2010, age 60, Best Actor, Crazy Heart ).