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27 Feb, 1980

Wins Grammy

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Warwick wins the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for I’ll Never Love This Way Again and Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for Deja Vu.

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Doobie Brothers wins the Grammy for Record Of the Year for What A Fool Believes and Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus for Minute By Minute. 

9 Apr, 1979

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Jon Voight wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance of a paralyzed Vietnam veteran in Hal Ashby’s Coming Home. Ginger Rogers and Diana Ross present the award. Voight:

I’m carrying with me all the men who gave me so much of their experience to deal with, who have contributed so much: the people in chairs, and the veterans, and the civilians, and the walkers, who are so strongly represented in what I’d call my work. Thank you very much.

Jon Voight winning Best Actor

Wins Grammy

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Williams wins the Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for  Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special for Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.