La Bamba (Best Motion Picture – Drama Cartagena Film Festival, Best Picture Award, Zoot Suit, 1982, Cartagena, Colombia Peabody Award for excellence in television in 1987, Corridos: Tales of Passion and Revolution for PBS California Governor's Award, March 1990 Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, 1992. Mexico's Aguila Azteca Award, 1994 2007 USA (United States Artists) Rockefeller Fellow Los Vendidos No Saco Nada de la Escuela (1969) No Saco Nada de la Escuela Loco (1970) Honorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts The National (U.S. Presidential) Medal of Arts (2015) See also List of Mexican American writers References Further information External links Luís Valdez Papers are held at the [California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives] in the UC Santa Barbara Library Teatro Campesino Archives are held at the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives in the UC Santa Barbara Library 1940 births Living people People from Delano, California 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American film directors of Mexican descent American writers of Mexican descent Male actors from San Jose, California San Jose State University alumni Hispanic and Latino American dramatists and playwrights California State University, Monterey Bay faculty Film directors from California Writers from San Jose, California People from San Juan Bautista, California American Book Award winners United States National Medal of Arts recipients American male actors of Mexican descent