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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.
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]
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 film was nominated for nine Oscars at the 55th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Gandhi won that award, but its director, Richard Attenborough, said, "I was certain that not only would E.T. win, but that it should win. It was inventive, powerful, wonderful. I make more mundane movies."
The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the Super Bowl for youth, an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony's ability to draw ...
Morricone received his first Academy Award nomination in 1979 for the score to Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978). [10] 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 ...
The Los Angeles Music Awards, previously known as Pro Set L.A. Music Awards, were created to honor and pay tribute to the diversity and depth of the L.A. music scene and have honored numerous celebrities and organizations from every genre of the entertainment industry. [153] Cher has won once.
After pressure via a social media campaign by actors Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, ET announced in February 2014 that it would no longer accept footage or pictures of the children of celebrities from paparazzi photographers. [9] In January 2020, Entertainment Tonight set the Guinness World Record for the longest-running entertainment news show ...