He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for `` The Tin Drum '' ( 1979 ) , the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass .
He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for `` The Tin Drum '' ( 1979 ) , the movie version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass .