Awards and Honors
In 1997, Sainte-Marie won a Canadian Gemini Award for her 1996 variety special, Up Where We Belong.
In 1983–4, the song "Up Where We Belong" (music by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie; lyrics by Will Jennings) from An Officer and a Gentleman won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Original Song.
In 2010, she received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award.
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