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All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider.The screenplay, by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse, is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director.
His films include Sweet Charity (1969), Cabaret (1972), Lenny (1975), All That Jazz (1979), and Star 80 (1983). Fosse's distinctive style of choreography included turned-in knees and "jazz hands". He is the only person ever to have won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year (1973).
1979 National Society of Film Critics Awards. 3 languages. ... Roy Scheider – All That Jazz. Best Actress. 1. Sally Field – Norma Rae 2.
Three plays written by Aurthur were produced on Broadway: A Very Special Baby (1956), Kwamina (1961), and Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights (1968). [6] Kwamina was a collaboration with composer and lyricist Richard Adler, starring Adler's wife, Sally Ann Howes.
"All That Jazz" is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago.It has music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, and is the opening song of the musical.The title of the 1979 film, starring Roy Scheider as a character strongly resembling choreographer/stage and film director Bob Fosse, is derived from the song.
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He composed the film scores for Lenny (1974) and Martin Scorsese's jazz-themed New York, New York (1977). Fosse again employed Burns to create the soundtrack for All That Jazz (1979) for which he also won an Academy Award. [1] He then worked on Urban Cowboy (1980). Burns received another Academy Award nomination for his work in Annie (1982).