Grammy Awards: 1979

Grammy

Date:	15 February
Host:	John Denver
Location:	Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special


Winner:
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - John Williams (I)
Other Nominees:
	"Holocaust" (1978) (mini) - Morton Gould Battlestar Galactica (1978) (TV) - Stu Phillips; John Andrew Tartaglia; Sue Collins (V); Glen A. Larson Midnight Express (1978) - Giorgio Moroder; Christine Bennett; David Castle (II); Billy Hayes (I); Oliver Stone (I) Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) - Henry Mancini (composer); Leslie Bricusse (lyricist)