"Michael Cimino-directed film ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"", which starred Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. He contributed lyrics to the ""Cinderella Liberty"" song ""You're So Nice to Be Around"" with music by John Williams, and it earned them an Oscar nomination. Along with Ascher and Rupert Holmes, he wrote the music and lyrics to ""A Star Is Born"" (also 1976), with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. The love ballad, ""Evergreen"", (lyrics by Paul Williams, melody by Barbra Streisand) from the movie ""A Star Is Born"" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Song of the Year. He"
"and ""For Pete's Sake"" (1974) with Michael Sarrazin. One of her most famous roles during this period was in the drama ""The Way We Were"" (1973) with Robert Redford, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She earned her second Academy Award for Best Original Song (with lyricist Paul Williams) for the song ""Evergreen"", from ""A Star Is Born"" in 1976, in which she also starred. Along with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969 so actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's"
"(Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy) while being composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist – the other being ""Streets of Philadelphia"" by Bruce Springsteen from ""Philadelphia"". Barbra Streisand shared the Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy for ""Evergreen (Love Theme from ""A Star is Born"")"" which she composed and wrote with lyricist Paul Williams (for which she also won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance). Annie Lennox won all three awards – for ""Into the West"" from """", sharing all three with co-composer and lyricists Fran Walsh and Howard Shore. More recently, Adele received"
"the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as did Bill Conti's ""For Your Eyes Only"", which was performed by Sheena Easton. It was not until the 2013 Oscars that a Bond theme song finally won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the theme song from ""Skyfall"" by Adele. Thomas Newman's score also got the first nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Score in the series since Hamlisch's own for ""The Spy Who Loved Me"", while winning the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Adele's song also won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual"
"a row: Roger Edens won for ""Easter Parade"" (1948), ""On the Town"" (1949) and ""Annie Get Your Gun"" (1950). Eight composers have won Oscars two years in a row: Three women have won in the scoring categories. Two are composers: Rachel Portman, who won for ""Emma"" (1996), and Anne Dudley, who won for ""The Full Monty"" (1997); the third, is lyricist Marilyn Bergman, who won for ""Yentl"" (1983) in the Original Song Score category, sharing the award with co-lyricist Alan Bergman (her husband) and composer Michel Legrand. The only female composers nominated for multiple Scoring Oscars are Rachel Portman, who"
"† 1976: ""Evergreen"" Lyrics by Paul Williams, Music by Barbra Streisand, performed by Barbra Streisand – A Star Is Born † 1977: ""You Light Up My Life"" Music & Lyrics by Joseph Brooks, performed by Kasey Cisyk – You Light Up My Life † 1978: ""Last Dance"" Music & Lyrics by Paul Jabara, performed by Donna Summer – Thank God It's Friday † 1979: ""The Rose"" Music & Lyrics by Amanda McBroom, performed by Bette Midler – The Rose 1980: ""Fame"" Lyrics by Dean Pitchford, Music by Michael Gore, performed by Irene Cara – Fame † 1981: ""Arthur's Theme (Best"
"(from ""Ice Castles"") and ""I'll Never Say Goodbye"" (from ""The Promise"") nominated for Best Original Song in the same year at the Academy Awards (the first artist to do this was Maureen McGovern, with 'Wherever Love Takes Me' from 'Gold' and 'We May Never Love Like this Again' from 'Towering Inferno'). But the Oscar for Best Original Song instead went to Shire (music) and Norman Gimbel (lyrics) for the song ""It Goes Like It Goes"" from the film ""Norma Rae,"" performed by Jennifer Warnes. ""I'll Never Say Goodbye"" has been covered by several other artists. The Promise (1979 film) The"
"in 1974 for 'Best New Artist'. During 1974, she recorded two movie themes: ""We May Never Love Like This Again"" from the disaster film ""The Towering Inferno"", in which she made a short appearance when she is seen singing the song as the evening's entertainment, and ""Wherever Love Takes Me"" from the British disaster film ""Gold"". The former won an Oscar (though it was only a minor pop hit), and the latter received an Oscar nomination. In 1976, she recorded her cover version of ""The Continental"", the very first Oscar-winning track for Best Original Song. It proved to be her"
"A Star Is Born (2018 film) A Star Is Born is a 2018 American musical romantic drama film produced and directed by Bradley Cooper (in his directorial debut) and written by Eric Roth, Cooper and Will Fetters. A remake of the 1937 film of the same name, it stars Cooper, Lady Gaga, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, and Sam Elliott, and follows a hard-drinking musician (Cooper) who discovers and falls in love with a young singer (Gaga). It marks the fourth remake of the original 1937 film, after the 1954 musical, the 1976 rock musical and the 2013 Bollywood romance"
"Kristen Anderson-Lopez Kristen Anderson-Lopez (born March 21, 1972) is an American songwriter. She is best known for co-writing the songs for the 2013 animated film ""Frozen"" with her husband Robert Lopez. Anderson-Lopez won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ""Let It Go"" from ""Frozen"" and ""Remember Me"" from ""Coco"" (2017) at the 86th Academy Awards and 90th Academy Awards. She also won two Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. Anderson-Lopez was raised in Croton-on-Hudson, New York (a suburb of New York City), until 1986; the Myers Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1986 to 1990;"
"and commentary from comedian Kathy Griffin and the panelists from ""Football Night in America"". In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, while including her bestowment of the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award she has nine wins. Including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand tied this record with nine. Additionally, Streisand won for composing the song ""Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"", producing the Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) (""A Star Is Born"" in the ceremony held in"
"for Nat King Cole in 1954. For ""Limelight"", Chaplin composed ""Terry's Theme"", which was popularised by Jimmy Young as ""Eternally"" (1952). Finally, ""This Is My Song"", performed by Petula Clark for ""A Countess from Hong Kong"" (1967), reached number one on the UK and other European charts. Chaplin also received his only competitive Oscar for his composition work, as the ""Limelight"" theme won an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1973 following the film's re-release. In 1998, the film critic Andrew Sarris called Chaplin ""arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema, certainly its most extraordinary performer"
"A Star Is Born (1954 film) A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film written by Moss Hart, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and directed by George Cukor. Hart's screenplay was an adaptation of the original 1937 film, which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and from the same story by William A. Wellman and Carson, with uncredited input from six additional writers—David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner Jr., John Lee Mahin, Budd Schulberg and Adela Rogers St. Johns. In 2000, the 1954 film was selected for preservation in"
"nominations. It was also the eleventh of fifteen films (to date) to receive nominations in all four acting categories. This year's Academy Awards is also notable for the first ever female nominee for Best Director, Lina Wertmüller for ""Seven Beauties"". Barbra Streisand received her second Academy Award, composing music for the love theme ""Evergreen"", the first woman to be honored as a composer, and as of the 90th Academy Awards, the only person to win Academy Awards for both acting and songwriting. No honorary awards were given this year. ABC had the Oscars from 1960–70 and had regained them for"
"Barbra Streisand Barbara Joan ""Barbra"" Streisand (; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. In a career spanning six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes. She is among a small group of entertainers who have been"
"in 1974 according to the list compiled by ""Billboard"". It was also sent to adult contemporary radio, where it topped the Adult Contemporary charts in both the United States and Canada. On August 19, 1997, ""The Way We Were"" was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, signifying sales of over 1,000,000 copies. The single has since been considered to be one of her signature songs. For their work on the track, Hamlisch and the Bergman's won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 46th Academy Awards, with Hamlisch also winning the Academy Award for Best"
"from A Star Is Born, starring Streisand and Kris Kristofferson and other movies she made in the 1970s. Atomic Kitten member Liz McClarnon covered ""Woman in Love"" after the band's split in 2005. Produced by original songwriter Robin Gibb—whom McClarnon accompanied on his 2005 tour—the cover was released in February 2006 as McClarnon's debut solo single. In the United Kingdom, the song was released as a double A-side with a cover of Jackie Wilson's 1968 hit ""I Get the Sweetest Feeling"". The double A-side peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart on February 19, 2006, staying in the"
"composing music for the love theme ""Evergreen"", the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of ""Yentl"" in 1983, Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical; Streisand received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the first (and to date only) woman to win that award. Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the U.S. and with a total"
"the same year. Best Actress winner Frances McDormand was the first person to win for a role in a film directed by his or her spouse. Best Original Musical or Comedy Score winner Rachel Portman became the first female winner for composing a musical score. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double-dagger (). The following seventeen films received multiple nominations: The following two films received multiple awards: The following individuals, in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. After taking a year off, Gil Cates was selected by AMPAS in November 1996 to"
"achievement that could single-handedly net the singer-turned-actress her first Oscar, reminding us yet again that she's one of the best vocalists right now in any genre, pop or otherwise."" Credits adapted from the liner notes of the ""A Star Is Born"" soundtrack album. I'll Never Love Again ""I'll Never Love Again"" is a song from the 2018 film ""A Star Is Born"", performed by its stars Lady Gaga and director Bradley Cooper whose character sings the final chorus in the flashback scene. The soundtrack contained both versions of the song including the extended version that featured Gaga as the sole"
"86th Academy Awards in March 2014, where the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. When John Travolta announced her before she sang the song, he incorrectly introduced her as ""Adele Dazeem"". The slip-up became a popular Internet meme. According to a source for E!, Menzel was not upset about the mishap. In response to the misnaming, she reportedly printed up satirical playbills that promoted her name as Adele Dazeem, noting her past work in ""Nert"" (""Rent""), ""Wicked-ly"" (""Wicked"") and ""Farfignugen"" (a play on the word ""Fahrvergnügen"", referring to ""Frozen""). Three days after the ceremony, Travolta publicly apologized"
"when the magazine asked 155 of its readers ""Who gets your vote for best original song in a motion picture at the Academy Awards?""; only 5% of them voted in favor of ""Happy Working Song"" winning the award while 10% voted for ""So Close"" and 24% voted for ""That's How You Know"". In addition to this, 6% of readers voted for ""August Rush""s ""Raise It Up"" and 22% voted for Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's ""Falling Slowly"" from ""Once ""(2007). Ultimately, ""Happy Working Song"" lost to ""Falling Slowly"". Menken believes that his compositions did not win the Best Original Song"
"for best picture in the musical or comedy category, and Susan Hayward won the Golden Globe award for leading actress in a musical or comedy. The film is also recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Although the film won the Academy Award for the Best Original Score, there were a number of American standards represented. All except three songs featured the voice of Jane Froman; and were performed by Susan Hayward. Songs included in an ""American Medley"" With a Song in My Heart (film) With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the"
"her name not be considered for the nominations thereafter. There have been ties for two consecutive years between 2010 and 2011. Until the award was not officially divided up for different gender (1968) Lata Mangeshkar was the only artist to win and be nominated for this award. She is also the earliest recipient of this award in 1959. Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle were the most successful singers in 60s with two wins each. Bhosle continued her domination in the 70s with five wins (Mangeshkar not considered from hereon). In 80s no singer dominated the epoch (Bhosle not considered from hereon)"
"and nominations in a variety of categories, with particular praise for its title song performed by Irene Cara. It received four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Cara), and Best Original Score (Michael Gore). At the 38th Golden Globe Awards, the film only won one award for Best Original Song (""Fame""). At the 53rd Academy Awards, the film received a total of six Oscar nominations, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Sound. The songs ""Fame"" and ""Out Here on My Own"" both received"
"A Star Is Born (2018 soundtrack) A Star Is Born is the soundtrack album to the 2018 musical film of the same name, performed by its stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It was released on October 5, 2018, by Interscope Records. Gaga and Cooper collaborated on the soundtrack album with an assortment of country musicians, including Lukas Nelson, who also stars in the film as a member of Cooper's band. For the more pop-oriented songs on the soundtrack, Gaga teamed up with recurring collaborator DJ White Shadow. The soundtrack also includes contributions from Jason Isbell, Mark Ronson, Diane Warren,"
"of ""her success as a recording artist, contributions to the business, and leadership in embracing the changing music business."" Every year since then, ""Billboard"" has honored a female artist with the award. Taylor Swift is the only woman to be honored twice. The most recent winner of this award is Ariana Grande. In 2008, Colbie Caillat was honored with ""Billboard""'s first Rising Star award because of ""her ascent in the pop charts and the repercussion that her music caused."" Every year since then, ""Billboard"" has honored a female artist with the award. In 2010, Lea Michele was honored with ""Billboard""'s"
"1983, and Carly Simon, in 1989, each won Oscars, but in the category of Best Original Song). Portman was also nominated for Academy Awards for her scores for ""The Cider House Rules"" in 1999 and ""Chocolat"" in 2000. On 19 May 2010, she was given the Richard Kirk Award at the BMI Film & TV Awards for her contributions to film and television music. Portman is the first woman to receive the honour. Portman was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours. In 2015 Portman received the Primetime Emmy Award for"
"executives considered filing a plagiarism suit against Selznick International Pictures because of the similarities in the story, but eventually chose not to take legal action. Cukor later directed the 1954 musical remake starring Judy Garland. A common Hollywood myth about the film is that Lana Turner appeared as an extra in one of the scenes in the film. Turner often denied the myth over the years, mentioning that she was discovered several months after the picture had finished production. ""A Star is Born"", sung by Buddy Clark with the orchestra of Eddy Duchin. The lyrics were written by Dorothy Dick"
"Vocal Performance – Female and Record of the Year won by, respectively, Barbra Streisand (""Love Theme From ""A Star Is Born"" (Evergreen)"") and the Eagles (""Hotel California""). ""You Light Up My Life"" also succeeded on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (No. 1 for one week) and Country (No. 4) singles charts. The single and the album (No. 6 Pop, No. 6 Country) of the same name were both certified platinum. The song, written and produced by Joe Brooks, was from the film of the same name. Brooks earned Song of the Year awards at both the 1978 Grammys and Oscars for writing"
"accompanying music video was also released, showing Gaga and Cooper singing ""Shallow"" onstage, interspersed with scenes from ""A Star Is Born"". The track received positive reviews from music critics who praised Gaga's vocals, the dramatic nature of the composition and the songwriting, while feeling it worthy of award nominations. Commercially the song topped the record charts in more than a dozen countries, the digital charts in four European countries, and reached the top five in eight other countries. It received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song as well as four Grammy Award nominations, including Record of the Year"
"Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film for the song. M.I.A. was due to perform at the Oscars ceremony two weeks after her Grammy Award performance, but could not as she had just given birth to her son. M.I.A. is the first person of Asian descent to be nominated for an Oscar and Grammy award in the same year. At the 2009 BRIT Awards in February, M.I.A. was a nominee for Best British Female Artist. Seeking to promote new, underground music with N.E.E.T., M.I.A. signed more bands including Baltimore musician Blaqstarr, indie rock band Sleigh Bells and visual artist"
"employed all of her ""signatures"" like ""whimsical yet romantic melodies, fluffy string arrangements, and woodwind solos"", which would be familiar to anyone who had listened to her previous film scores. He stated, ""it seems as if she's simply going through the motions, content to operate within the confines of an aesthetic that, admittedly, is hers and hers alone. By no means a bad score, ""Emma"" is nevertheless a disappointment – if you've heard a previous Rachel Portman score, you've pretty much heard this one as well."" On March 24, 1997, Portman became the first woman to win the Academy Award"