This page is a work in progress Michael Landon Awards and Honors

 

Michael Landon

 

Awards and Honors

 

Awards and Nominations

   

    Recipient, National Service Award, The Washington Times Foundation, April 16, 1996

 

    Recipient, Hall of Fame Award, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, October 1995 (Aired: April 18, 1996)

 

    Recipient, PLAY Award, Best Celebrity Performance, [Electronic Retailing Association], September 1992

 

    Recipient of a National Hero Award (for his contribution of moral entertainment), 1992

 

    Recipient, Grand Ozzi Award, Kansas Film Institute, December 2, 1990

 

    Recipient, NBC Lifetime Achievement Award, National Broadcasting Company, June 5, 1990

 

    Recipient (Michael Landon Productions), Jimmie Award, 6th Annual Jimmie Awards, Association of Asian Pacific American Artists, March 19, 1990

                For the Highway to Heaven episode “Choices”

 

    Recipient, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin God and Country Exemplar Award, Boys Scouts of America, April 11, 1989

 

    Recipient (Michael Landon Productions), Jimmie Award, 5th Annual Jimmie Awards, Association of Asian Pacific American Artists, March 27, 1989

                For the Highway to Heaven episode “Aloha”

 

    Recipient, 1988 Genesis Award, [__] Annual Awards, Fund for Animals, November 1988

 

    Recipient, Gabriel Personal Achievement Award, Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals, 1987

 

    Recipient (Michael Landon Productions), Media Access Award, Outstanding Media Employer, California Employment Development Department in partnership with the Governor’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, 1987

 

    Recipient (Highway to Heaven), Media Access Award,  California Employment Development Department in partnership with the Governor’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, 1987

 

    Recipient, [___] Award, Best Television Actor, 6th Annual [Honors Ceremony], Academy of Family Films and  Family Television, [February 22,] 1987

 

    Recipient (Highway to Heaven), [___] Award, Best Television Program, 5th Annual [Honors Ceremony], Academy of Family Films and  Family Television, February 23, 1986

 

    Nominee, [___] Award, Best Television Actor, 5th Annual [Honors Ceremony], Academy of Family Films and  Family Television, February 23, 1986

 

    Recipient, The Rev. Kenneth D. Higginbotham Sr. Award, sponsored by Good Shepherd Hospice, October 24, 1985

 

    Nominee, People's Choice Award, Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series, 11th Annual People's Choice Awards, March 14, 1985

 

    Recipient, Silver Angel Award, Excellence in Media, 1985

 

    Recipient (Highway to Heaven), Gabriel Award, Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals, 1985

 

    Recipient, Golden Boot Award, Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation, 1984

 

    Nominee (Little House on the Prairie, A New Beginning), Young Artist Award, Best New Family Television Series, 4th Annual Youth in Film Awards (1981-1982), The Young Artist Foundation, 198[3]

 

    Recipient, International Emmy Founders Award, The International Academy of Television Arts & Science, 1982

 

    Recipient (Father Murphy), Young Artist Award, Best Television Series – Family Enjoyment, 3rd Annual Youth in Film Awards (1980-1981), The Young Artist Foundation, 198[2]

 

    Nominee (Little House on the Prairie), Young Artist Award, Best Television Series – Family Enjoyment, 3rd Annual Youth in Film Awards (1980-1981), The Young Artist Foundation, 198[2]

 

    Recipient (Little House on the Prairie), Media Access Award, California Employment Development Department in partnership with the Governor’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, 1981

 

    Recipient, Spur Award, Best TV Script, Western Writers of America, 1980

                       For the Little House on the Prairie episode “May We Make Them Proud”

 

    Nominee (Little House on the Prairie), Young Artist Award, Best TV Series or Special Featuring Youth,  1st Annual Youth in Film Awards (1978-1979), The Young Artist Foundation, 19[80]

 

    Recipient (Little House on the Prairie), People’s Choice Award, Favorite TV Dramatic Program, 5th Annual People's Choice Awards, [__] Annual People's Choice Awards, March 8, 1979

 

    Nominee, Golden Globe, Best TV Actor (Drama), 36th Annual Golden Globe Awards, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, January 27, 1979

 

    Recipient (Little House on the Prairie), People’s Choice Award, Favorite TV Dramatic Program, 4th Annual People's Choice Awards, [__] Annual People's Choice Awards, February 20, 1978

 

    Nominee (Little House on the Prairie), Golden Globe, Best TV Drama, 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, January 29, 1977

 

    Recipient, Honor Award Scroll, Southern California Motion Picture Council, 1976

 

    Recipient (Little House on the Prairie), TP de Oro Award, Best Foreign Series, [#th Annual TP de Oro Awards], Teleprograma magazine, 1976

 

    Recipient, Certificate of Excellence, Film Advisory Board, November 1975

 

    Recipient (Little House on the Prairie), Bronze Wrangler, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Awards, 1975

 

    Recipient, Award for Excellence, Marin County (California) Motion Picture and Television Council, 1975

 

   Recipient, Christopher Award, The Christopher Awards, 1975

 

    Recipient, Bronze Wrangler, Fictional Television Drama,  National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Awards, 1970

                    For the Bonanza script "The Wish"

 

         Recipient, [___] Award, National Conference of Christian and Jews, [January, 1970]

                       For the Bonanza  episode "The Wish”

 

    Recipient [(shared with Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker)], Bambi Award, 1969

 

    Nominee (Bonanza), Emmy Award, Outstanding Dramatic Series, 18th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, May 22, 1966

 

    Recipient, 1964 Valor Award of the Mississippi State Conference of NAACP branches, December 4, 1964

                    Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker also received a Valor Award

 

    Recipient, Silver Spurs Award, The Most Popular TV Western Star, Reno Chamber of Commerce, May 16, 1964

 

    Recipient (Bonanza), Logie Award, Best Overseas Show, [6th] Annual TV Week Logie Awards, [March __,] 1964

 

    Nominee (Bonanza), Golden Globe, Best TV Show, 21st Annual Golden Globe Awards, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, March 11, 1964

 

    Recipient (Bonanza), TV Guide Award, Favorite Series, [TV Guide Awards], [August __], 1963

 

    Recipient (Bonanza), [___] Award, Best TV Show, California Federation of Women's Clubs, April 27, 1960

 

       

 

Honors

 

    Awards Named in his Honor:

Michael Landon Award, presented by the California Governor’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, to an individual who has made a lifetime commitment to the advancement and inclusion of people with disabilities in the media industry, at the Media Access Awards.

 

The Michael Landon Award, Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Television, presented by the Young Artist Foundation at the Annual Young Artist Awards.

 

Michael Award, given out at the fashion industry’s annual awards ceremony, which is called The Michael Awards, and benefits the National Children’s Leukemia Foundation. The first recipient of the Michael Award was Cindy Crawford in March 1993. [Michael Landon had been named honorary president of the foundation but passed away before he could take the post.]

 

Free Art Angel Awards, given out by Free Arts for Abused Children, was established in memory of Michael Landon.

 

PanCAN-AACR Michael Landon Career Development Award, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

 

    Named to list (#24) of 50 Greatest TV Icons, Entertainment Weekly and TV Land Present: The 50 Greatest TV Icons, November 16, 2007

 

    Inducted into the South Jersey Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame, 2004

 

    Automatic Inductee to The New York Walk of Fame, 2004

 

    Recipient (Bonanza), TV Land Award, Best in the West, 1st Annual TV Land Awards, March 2, 2003 (Aired: March 12, 2003)

 

    No. 33 on TV Guide’s list of 50 Sexiest Stars of All Time, TV Guide Special Issue, September 28-October 4, 2002

 

    Honored at "Evening with the Stars,"  Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), November 8, 1998

 

    Inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame, 1998

 

    45 People Who Made a Difference in the television industry, TV Guide Special Issue, April 4-10, 1998

 

    "Little Treehouse on the Prairie" (in Knight Park, Collingswood, N.J.), dedicated June 7, 1997

 

 

    Inducted into the Collingswood (N.J.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame, February 8, 1997

 

    No. 8 on TV Guide’s list of 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time, TV Guide Special Issue, December 14-20, 1996

 

  

 

    Michael Landon’s bronze bust unveiled in The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Hall of Fame Plaza, 199[_]

 

 

    Inducted into The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Hall of Fame, October 1995

 

         Inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, 1994

 

    Honored at St. Vincent Medical Center Auxiliary's 'Time to Remember' benefit, April 23, 1993

 

    First Michael Awards, benefiting the National Children’s Leukemia Foundation, is held on March 15, 1993 in NYC

 

    A cancer prevention center is named after him by the Los Angeles Oncologic Institute of St. Vincent Medical Center. The Michael Landon Cancer Prevention Center opened in the Fall of 1992

 

    Center Court re-named, Michael Landon Center Court, and a bust statue of him placed behind the stadium court at Randolph Tennis Center, Tucson, Arizona, 1992

 

 

         Honored in Memoriam as the Male Entertainer of the Year by Lefthanders International, 1991

 

    Recipient of a Gentle Spirit Award, 1991

 

    A tribute to Michael Landon at the Thirteenth Annual Youth in Film Awards, Young Artist Foundation, 1991

 

    Honored at the Fourth Annual Tuolumne County Wild West Film Fest & Rodeo, September 27-29, 1991

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    Michael Landon Memorial, Memorial Grove in Cooper River Park, Pennsauken, New Jersey, Dedicated by WAR (Women Against Rape) Child Watch on September 17, 1991

 

    

 

    A tribute to Michael Landon, 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, August 25, 1991

 

    National Spokesman for the National Down Syndrome Congress, 198[_]-1991

 

     Recipient of an award from Retinitis Pigmentosa International, an organization dedicated to eye research, for the Highway to Heaven episode “Summer Camp,” June 29, 1991

 

    Community center in Malibu Bluffs Park is named in his honor (Michael Landon Community Center), June 1, 1991

 

 

    Tribute to Michael Landon by Rep. Gallegly in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 16, 1991 (part of the Congressional Record)

 

    Recipient of an award from the American Women in Radio and TV, May 11, 1989

 

    Co-Host, 15th Annual People’s Choice Awards, March 11, 1989

 

    Honored by his hometown of Collingswood, New Jersey, May 1988

Entered into the Congressional Record by a NJ Congressman

Received a Senatorial Proclamation from a NJ State Senator

Received a Proclamation from the Collingswood Mayor

Received a Special Letter of Commendation from the NJ Governor

 

    Honored by the Free Arts Clinic for Abused Children, April 16, 1988

 

    Honorary Chairman of the fundraising campaign for Pima County Sheriff’s Auxiliary Volunteers, 1988

 

    Honored by the California Special Olympics, November 14, 1987

 

    Honored by the L.A. Project for Hiring the Handicapped, October 21, 1987

 

    Honored by Catholic Big Brothers and Jewish Big Brothers of Greater Los Angeles, March 19, 1987

 

    A Chief Spokesman for First Earth Run, 1986

 

    Recipient of an award from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department Auxiliary Volunteers, 198[5]

 

    National Spokesman for Pharmacists Against Drug Abuse, 1983-198[5]

 

    Grand Marshal, 53rd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade, 1984

 

 

    Received star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, August 1984

 

 

    Named the Male Entertainer of the Year by Lefthanders International, 1983

 

    Received Alumni Merit Award from USC's General Alumni Association, March 20, 1983

 

    President of the Emmy jury, International Emmy Awards, 1982

 

    Received Certificate of Appreciation from California Transcribers and Educators of the Visually Handicapped, 1982

 

    Salvation Army's National Christmas Chairman, 1981

 

    Received an award from the National Father's Day Council, 1981

 

    Named the Male Entertainer of the Year by Lefthanders International, 1980

 

    Scheduled Co-Host, 32nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 7, 1980
                    
Replaced (as were the other co-hosts, Bob Newhart and Lee Remick) because they honored the boycott of the show

                         called for by the Screen Actors Guild

 

 

         Honorary Membership Chairman of the California PTA, 1979

 

         Chairman of National Hobby Month, October 1978   

 

         National Chairman for the 1977 Easter Seals Campaign

 

         National Chairman for American Humane Association's 'Be Kind to Animals' Week, May 2-8, 1976 and National 'Kindness' Chairman for the whole year

 

         Received the Mariner’s Humanitarian Award from the San Pedro Masonic Lodge No. 332 (now known as the L.A. Harbor Lodge No. 332), 1976

 

         Little House on the Prairie episode “A Harvest of Friends” was honored by the Los Angeles Women’s Chapter of the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge as "an outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life," 1975

 

    Grand Marshal, Longview 50th Anniversary Parade, June 30, 1973

 

    Grand Marshal, Reno Rodeo Parade, June 24, 1972

 

    Named an official Goodwill Ambassador for the Greater Reno Chamber of Commerce and presented with Honorary Good Citizen Plaque, May 1972

 

    Presenter at 6th Annual Awards Dinner, Academy of Country and Western Music, March 22, 1971

 

    Honorary Mayor of Encino, California, 1969-1970

 

    Honorary Sheriff of Encino, California, 1966-1967

 

    Named Honorary U.S. Air Force Recruiter, [July] 1967

 

    Co-Grand Marshal (w/Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker), The Indy 500 Festival Parade, May 28, 1967

 

    Grand Marshal, Grand Floral Parade, Blossomtime Festival of Southwestern Michigan, May 20, 1967

 

    Honorary Chairman (w/Lorne Greene & Dan Blocker) of United Cerebral Palsy's Teen Rainbow Tag Day, May 6, 1967

 

    Received silver Scout statuette for his work as Honorary Chairman of the Scout Roundup - membership drive for Cubs, Scouts and Explorers, February 1967

 

    Voted one of TV’s “Most Popular Actors in the San Francisco Bay Area” by leading SF editors and journalists, 1966

 

    Citation from both the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Postal Service for Bonanza (prompted by the episode "Ride the Wind") and proclamations issued by Governors of Midwest and Western States through which Pony Express couriers passed, January 6, 1966

 

 

    Honorary Mayor of Encino, California, 1965-1966

 

    Grand Marshal, King Orange Jamboree  Parade, December 31, 1965

 

    Named Honorary Citizen of Nevada, October 31, 1964

 

    Co-Grand Marshal (w/Lorne Greene), Nevada Day Parade, October 31, 1964

 

    Named Honorary Citizen of Brussels, Belgium, January 1964

 

    Honorary Grand Marshal, Annual Carolinas' Carrousel Parade, November [28], 1963
 

    Appears (as Little Joe) in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 28, 1963

 

    Named Honorary Member of the YMCA's Ponderosa Day Camp at Cedar Creek Ranch, September 1963

 

    Little Joe Cartwright Day, July 20, 1963, by proclamation of the Mayor of Lima, Ohio

 

    Grand Marshal, Kentucky Derby Pegasus Parade, 1963

 

    Grand Marshal of the Parade for the Grant County Fair & Rodeo, [August] 1962

 

    Rides in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 23, 1961

 

    Named Honorary First Sergeant of the U.S. Marine Corps., June 1961

 

    Cast of Bonanza rode their horses in the 72nd Tournament of Roses Parade, January 2, 1961

 

    Cast of Bonanza rode their horses in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 24, 1960

 

    Received plaque from the Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children at Denver (for fostering the ideal that the cause of the child is the cause of humanity), 1960

 

    Grand Marshal, Annual J.C. Rodeo Parade held in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 1960

 

Year Unknown:

 

    Named Honorary Member of the Stuntmen’s Association of Motion Pictures, 19[__]

 

    Led the WSB-TV Salute 2 America Parade (Atlanta, Georgia), July 4, 197[_]

 

    Grand Marshal, La Grange Pet Parade, June [_], 196[_]

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