The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears ( 1979 ) won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Being There was adapted as an Academy Award-winning film in 1979.

The novel was made into a 1979 movie directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role and Melvyn Douglas, who won the award for Best Supporting Actor.

He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy ( now Liberty Christian Academy ) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.

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 ).

He was elected to the Academy of Sciences and the SED central committee, and was later appointed deputy director of the Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf, near Dresden, where he served until he retired in 1979.

Mary Pickford ( April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979 ) was a Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Training camps were previously held at Chestnut Hill Academy in 1935, St. Joseph's University in 1939 and 1943, Saranac Lake from 1946 – 1948, Hershey from 1951 – 1967, Albright College from 1968 – 1972, Widener University from 1973 – 1979, and West Chester University from 1980 – 1995.

During this period, other related organizations were also formed, including the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine ( 1970 ), the Institute of Parascience ( 1971 ), the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the Institute of Noetic Sciences ( 1973 ), the International Kirlian Research Association ( 1975 ), and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory ( 1979 ).

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) — winner of two Academy Awards, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

* Harding, James, Artistes Pompiers: French Academic Art in the 19th Century, 1979, Academy Editions, ISBN 856704512

Four of his films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land ( 1975 ), The Maids of Wilko ( 1979 ), Man of Iron ( 1981 ), and Katyń ( 2007 ).

She was also nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical and performed the Oscar-nominated " Hopelessly Devoted to You " at the 1979 Academy Awards.

Lieutenant General Wamala was among military cadets sent to Monduli Military Academy in Tanzania in 1979 ( now the TPDF's Tanzania Military Academy, which Ugandan cadets still attend ) and served as Inspector General of Police until 2005.

Screenwriter Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.

* 1979 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

Caine was averaging two films a year, but these included such failures as the BAFTA Award-nominated The Magus ( 1968 ), the Academy Award-nominated The Swarm ( 1978 ), Ashanti ( 1979 ) ( which he claimed were the worst three films of all the other worst films he ever made ), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 ), The Island ( 1980 ), The Hand ( 1981 ) and a reunion with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man ( 1982 ).

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979.

He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award ( posthumously ) for his " unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning.

Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.

Dalglish won the Ballon d ' Or Silver Award in 1983, the PFA Player of the Year in 1983, and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 1979 and 1983.

* Inkpot Award, 1979

* Evita ( 1979 ) – Che ( Tony Award, 1980 )

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

The Fountains of Paradise is a Hugo and Nebula Award – winning 1979 novel by Arthur C. Clarke.

Le Guin has received five Hugo awards and six Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003.

* A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 ( Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, 1979 )

She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Nosferatu the Vampire in 1979.

Anderson is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie, as well as for her film roles ; as Vivian in Midnight Offerings, as Ginny in the cult classic slasher Happy Birthday to Me, and as Alex in the ABC Afterschool Special, Which Mother Is Mine ?, for which she won the Emmy Award in 1979.

She was nominated for a 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series for her work on Little House on the Prairie and won the Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine ?, which aired as an ABC Afterschool Special in 1979.

As Slovenia's most popular music band, the group has won countless awards including eight consecutive television competitions, twelve from German network television, eighteen as Germany's most popular band, the recording industry's " European Oscar " in 1975, the Golden Rose Award ( most requested on Austrian radio ) in 1979, the Linhart plaque ( Slovenia ), and the " Hermann Löns " award from the German Minister of Culture.

Asteroids Hyper 64 is an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 on December 14, 1999.

# The Primates ' Meeting ( first met in 1979 ) is the most recent manifestation of international consultation and deliberation, having been first convened by Archbishop Donald Coggan as a forum for " leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation ".

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

* Number Theory for Beginners ( 1979 ) with Maxwell Rosenlicht

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

Following the 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops, Massoud devised a strategic plan for expelling the invaders and overthrowing the communist regime.

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

Both the F-14 Tomcat and AIM-54 Phoenix missile continue in the service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, although the operational abilities of these aircraft and the missiles are questionable, since the US refused to supply spare parts and maintenance after the 1979 revolution ; except for a brief period during the Iran-Contra Affair.

He has been invited to speak at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies at Yale University in 1979.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

The criteria for being charged with " caught stealing " were fine tuned in 1979, with a runner being charged with being caught if he is put out while trying to steal, oversliding a base ( otherwise successfully stolen ), or is picked off a base, and tries to advance to the next base.

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

Previous radio flagships for the Orioles have been WCBM from 1954 to 1956, and again for the 1987 season ; and the now-defunct WFBR from 1979 through 1986.

J. B. Curtis in his 1979 paper " On Job's Response to Yahweh ", argues that Job's final responses to Yahweh are a total rejection of Yahweh rather than an expression of repentance, and translates Job 42: 6 as " Therefore I feel loathing contempt and revulsion ( toward you, O God ); and I am sorry for frail man.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

Costas later did play-by-play for Chicago Bulls broadcasts on WGN-TV during the 1979 – 1980 NBA season.