* 1979: Nominated for Nobel peace prize by Quakers Association in US

** 1979: Nominated for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special, for Battlestar Galactica ( nomination shared with Stu Phillips, John Andrew Tartaglia, and Sue Collins )

* 1979: Nominated for " Best Comic " British Fantasy Award, for Among the Great Divide ( Rampaging Hulk # 7 ), with Steve Gerber & Bob Wiacek

* Nominated: 1979 Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special, Battlestar Galactica

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.

In 1979 an expert World Health Organization committee discouraged the use of " alcoholism " in medicine, preferring the category of " alcohol dependence syndrome ".

* Three productions, all musicals, have won all " big six " awards for their category: South Pacific ( 1950 awards ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1979 awards ) and Hairspray ( 2003 awards ); each won the Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Best Direction awards.

Timbre has been called " the psychoacoustician's multidimensional waste-basket category for everything that cannot be labeled pitch or loudness " ( McAdams and Bregman 1979, 34 ; cf.

The first award came in 1979 in the Spot News Photography category by staff photographer Tom Kelly.

Present-day ethnomusicologists, such as Margaret Kartomi ( page 173 ), and Ellingson ( PhD dissertation, 1979, p. 544 ) suggest that, in keeping with the spirit of the original Hornbostel Sachs classification scheme, of categorization by what first produces the initial sound in the instrument, that only subcategory 53 should remain in the electrophones category.

Present-day ethnomusicologists, such as Margaret Kartomi ( page 173 ), and Terry Ellingson ( PhD dissertation, 1979, p. 544 ) suggest that, in keeping with the spirit of the original Hornbostel Sachs classification scheme, if one categorizes instruments by what first produces the initial sound in the instrument, that only subcategory 53 should remain in the electrophones category.

For nearly 50 years, Cooper remained the youngest Oscar nominee in any category, until he was surpassed by Justin Henry's nomination, at age 8, in the Supporting Actor category for Kramer vs. Kramer ( 1979 ).

This album won him his second Grammy, in the category Best Pop Instrumental performance in 1979 and the title song, almost 15 minutes long in full version and featuring one of the most recognizable wind section themes, has not lost its popularity to this day.

In August 1979, gay rights activist Tom Brougham proposed a new category of relationship called " domestic partnership ".

It was nominated in the 31st Annual Emmy Awards ( 1979 ) under the category of Outstanding Children's Program, ironically losing to Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.

The 1976, 1978 and 1979 Avco Cup winning Winnipeg Jets were inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in the team category.

A media category was awarded from 1979 to 1992.

Some teams who later gained temporary ODI status also fit into this category ( e. g. Canada in the 1979 World Cup ).

She had a major role in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings based on Maya Angelou's memoir of the same name, and has the distinction of having won the first Emmy Award for the category Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, in 1979, for her work in the television movie Summer of My German Soldier.

The category of Village was maintained until 1979 when the state government elevated its status to City.

In 1979, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences decided to add a Best Disco Recording category for the 22nd Grammy Awards, just as disco was " preparing to die ".

In 1979 he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace.

This was followed by a short documentary highlighting the plight of India's destitute children, called An Encounter with Faces, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category in 1979.

Today, kratom is scheduled in category 5 of the Narcotics Acts ( 1979 ), in the same category as cannabis and magic mushrooms ( the least punitive category ).

* ( 1979: no award in this category )

The 935 was also successful in the Trans Am Series, winning category 2 in 1979.