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Awards Nominees and Winners
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1979 - 31st Emmy Awards
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Variety
Comedy, Variety, Music
Drama
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Directors
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Animation
Art Directors and Set Decorators
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Costume Design & Supervision
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Documentary Programming
Music
Special Class
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series - 1979
All Nominees
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Linda Lavin
Alice
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Jean Stapleton
All In the Family
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Katherine Helmond
Soap
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Ruth Gordon
Taxi
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Isabel Sanford
The Jeffersons