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Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. Brown discovered The Jackson 5 . Aside from his career, Brown ran unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Congress .
As a player, Oscar Brown threw and batted right-handed, and was listed at 6 ft (1.83 m) and 175 lb (79 kg). Brown was born in Long Beach, California , and attended the Polytechnic there and the University of Southern California before being chosen by the Braves in the first round of the secondary draft in June 1966.
The list does not include people who were retrospectively honoured with an Academy Award and were dead at the time the Academy made the decision to make the retrospective award. For example: in 1993, seventeen years after his death, Dalton Trumbo was retrospectively awarded the 1953 Oscar for Academy Award for Best Story for Roman Holiday.
The beginning of the movement saw Oscar Brown seeking the establishment of a state in the union territories. The state was to be populated and governed by African American people. The primary goal of statehood was to ensure that the benefits of the New Deal were fairly allocated to African American citizens. The organization gradually declined ...
The Penguin Guide to Jazz states: " 'Work Song' is the real classic, of course, laced with a funky blues feel but marked by some unexpectedly lyrical playing." [8] In a musical analysis of Adderley's improvisational bebop style, Kyle M. Granville writes that the song is "connected to the soul-jazz style that Nat Adderley and his brother Cannonball Adderley immersed themselves into during the ...
Hopkins become the oldest actor to ever win an Oscar. "At 83 years of age, I did not expect to get this award," Hopkins said in the video. "I really didn't. I'm very grateful to the Academy, and ...
Sterling K. Brown has been nominated for his first Academy Award this year, but he doesn't expect to come home with any new hardware.. The 47-year-old actor opened up about his Oscar nomination ...
The only Oscar-winning performance that is a lost film; currently, only two fragments are known to exist. 1928/ 1929: Paul Muni "James Dyke" The Valiant: Nominated First actor of Austro-Hungarian (later defined as Ukrainian) background to earn an Oscar nomination. Became a United States citizen. 1929/ 1930: George Arliss: Prime Minister ...