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EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major performing art awards. [1] [2] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, audio recording, film, and Broadway theatre. [3]
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Music from the Original Soundtrack is the score to the 1982 film of the same name composed and conducted by John Williams. The album was first released by MCA Records on June 11, 1982. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.
It received nine nominations at the 55th Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing in addition to being nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Saturn Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. The film was re-released in 1985 and again in 2002 to celebrate its 20th ...
Not every moment is caught on camera during a night like the 87th Annual Academy Awards. Sometimes you have to be there. ET was on sight for the big awards show and the star-studded after parties ...
Only one composer has won Oscars three years in 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: Ray Heindorf won for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and This Is the Army (1943). Franz Waxman won for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in the Sun ...
In 2022, Williams was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, "for services to film music". With 54 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person, [1] [2] and is the second most nominated person in Academy Awards history ...
The original requirement was only that the nominated song appear in a motion picture during the previous year. This rule was changed after the 1941 Academy Awards, when "The Last Time I Saw Paris", from the film Lady Be Good, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, won. Kern was upset that his song won because it had been ...
Eight years later, Morricone received his second Oscar nomination for The Mission. [10] He also received Oscar nominations for his scores to The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991), Malèna (2000), and The Hateful Eight (2016). [11] In February 2016, Morricone won his first and only competitive Academy Award for his score to The Hateful Eight. [12]