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1 day ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. The performers of a song are not credited with the ...
- United States
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
1 day ago · Most awards or nominations. Most awards won by a single film: 11. Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories. Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories.
3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. [1] Some pre-existing music is allowed, though, but a contending film must ...
- February 27, 1935; 88 years ago
- Alfred Newman (9)
Apr 22, 2024 · The Beatles won best original song score for Let It Be (1970); Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Irwin Kostal and Sid Ramin won best scoring of a musical picture for West Side Story (1961); and Richard ...
Apr 14, 2024 · 14 APRIL. 2018 Beyoncé, who had to cancel the previous year because of her pregnancy, headlines Coachella in lavish fashion, with over 70 performers and a reunion of Destiny's Child. She becomes the first black woman to headline the festival. More. 2016 At the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Prince plays his last concert, as he dies a week later.
Apr 15, 2024 · It's the only father-daughter duet ever to top the Hot 100. 1964 After a long day of filming their first movie, Ringo Starr tells the other Beatles it's been "a hard day's night." John Lennon turns the phrase into a song, and the movie title is changed from Beatlemania! to A Hard Day's Night. List of events in music history on April 15.
1 day ago · A.R. Rahman (born January 6, 1966, Madras [now Chennai], India) Indian composer whose extensive body of work for film and stage earned him the nickname “the Mozart of Madras.”. Rahman’s father, R.K. Sekhar, was a prominent Tamil musician who composed scores for the Malayalam film industry, and Rahman began studying piano at age four.
