Buffy Sainte-Marie

Acting

Born 1941-02-20 34 credits Academy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 honorary doctorate 6 Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year 3 Companion of the Order of Canada 1 Juno Humanitarian Award 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

1983 Best Original Song Won Up Where We Belong
1982 Best Original Song Nominated Up Where We Belong

Golden Globe Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

1983 Best Original Song Won Up Where We Belong
1982 Best Original Song Nominated Up Where We Belong

BAFTA Awards 1 won

1984 Best Original Song Won Up Where We Belong

honorary doctorate 6 won

2010 honorary doctorate Won
2007 honorary doctorate Won
2003 honorary doctorate Won
2000 honorary doctorate Won
1996 honorary doctorate Won
1983 honorary doctorate Won

Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year 3 won

2016 Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year Won Power in the Blood
2009 Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year Won Running for the Drum
1997 Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year Won Up Where We Belong

Companion of the Order of Canada 1 won

— Companion of the Order of Canada Won

Juno Humanitarian Award 1 won

— Juno Humanitarian Award Won

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Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an auto accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an U.S. couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts & Maine. Her earliest days as a self-taught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered. Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world, she has changed the education system from within, and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice, equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs. Her legacy is that of as an ever-curious, ever-evolving, and technologically pioneering musician, producer, composer and artist — despite her inability to read a note of music.

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Filmography

Acting 30 credits