Event class: film, music, best, score, song, wrote, composed, academy award, original, nominated

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Stephen Gaghan	Gaghan wrote the screenplay for Traffic, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2000.
John D. Hancock	Hancock worked closely on several occasions with playwright and author Tennessee Williams, In 1970, his'' Sticky My Fingers... Fleet My Feet'' was nominated for a Short-Subject Live-Action Academy Award.
Richard Sanderson	At thirty five he began working on film scores and became the official composer of Daniel Costelle, director of many historical documentary films such as La Victoire en Couleurs, which was nominated for an Emmy award in 1995 for best foreign film.
Richard Hawley	Hawley's track'' Tonight The Streets Are Ours'' was chosen as the title track for the Oscar nominated 2010 Banksy film Exit Through the Gift Shop which premièred at the Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2010.''
Scott Rudin	He was nominated (along with Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin and Michael De Luca) for producing the Facebook biographical film The Social Network and was also nominated (along with Joel and Ethan Coen) for their remake of the classic western True Grit (2010).
Brian Syron	Syron was employed as Children's Dialogue Coach on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC-TVs award winning television production Seven Little Australians (1974) a 10 × 30 minute series adapted from the Ethel Turner novel of the same name.
Hayden Nicholas	One of his collaborations with Black, The Hard Way, was included in the musical Urban Cowboy, which was nominated for a 2003 Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Vernon Duke	In 1937, the composer was asked to complete Gershwin's last score, a soundtrack to a Technicolor extravaganza The Goldwyn Follies, for which he contributed two parody ballets, choreographed by George Balanchine, and a song'' Spring Again''.
T Bone Burnett	On January 27, 2004, Burnett was nominated for an Academy Award, along with Elvis Costello in the category of Best Original Song for'' Scarlet Tide'' from the film, Cold Mountain.
Josh G Abrahams	In 2003, Abrahams wrote and produced the original music score for the movie One Last Ride, produced by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee.
Ron Underwood	The film, starring Charlize Theron in her first lead role, was nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects and featured some of the most sophisticated special effects seen in film up to that point, paving the way for later ape films like Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005).
Mary Kay Bergman	Caselotti was unaware she'd been replaced until the 1993 Academy Awards, when she heard Bergman as Snow White presenting an award for best animated short subject.
John Williams	After a three-year absence from film scoring, Williams composed the scores for Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse in 2011.
Peter Gabriel	In 2008, Gabriel contributed to the WALL-E soundtrack several new songs with Thomas Newman, including the film's closing song,'' Down to Earth'', for which they received the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.
Curt Smith	Smith and longtime collaborator Charlton Pettus composed and recorded the score for the 2011 film Meth Head, starring Lukas Haas.
Sin?ad O'Connor	In 2012 the song'' Lay Your Head Down'', written by Brian Byrne and Glenn Close for the soundtrack of the film Albert Nobbs and performed by O'Connor, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Alessandro Pepe	In this role Pepe's first project was New Line Cinema's movie The Golden Compass, which later won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Alexandre Desplat	Prior to these break-out works, he contributed scores for The Luzhin Defence, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Syriana, Birth, Hostage, Casanova, The Nest and The Painted Veil, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music, and the 2006 World Soundtrack Award.
Jim Danforth	The film merited Danforth a second Oscar effects nomination, but lost to Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1970).
Myles Connolly	Myles Connolly was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for Music for Millions (1944).
Hugh Martin	He was best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs,'' The Boy Next Door,'''' The Trolley Song,'' and'' Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.''
Chris Renaud (animator)	He also wrote and co-directed the animated short No Time for Nuts, which received an Annie Award and a 2007 Oscar nomination within the animated short films category.
Stan Winston	In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
Betty Roland	She also wrote the screenplay for what is claimed as the first Australian'' talkie'', The Spur of the Moment, in 1932, credited as Betty M. Davies.
Betsy Palmer	Palmer starred alongside Fonda again as well as Anthony Perkins in the Paramount production of The Tin Star (1957), a Western that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Story or Screenplay.
Cary Grant	Accepting the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1965, Father Goose co-writer Peter Stone had quipped,'' My thanks to Cary Grant, who keeps winning these things for other people.''
Ray Ellis	Ellis, who resided in Los Angeles, also composed the music for the 1980s US edition of Sale of the Century theme, along with Hot Streak, Scrabble, Scattergories and Time Machine with his son Marc that includes the Jack Grimsley's score from 1980 and the famed Reg Grundy Productions fanfare at the end of each broadcast.
DJ Paul	In 2006, DJ Paul and Juicy J won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for'' It's Hard out Here for a Pimp'' from the film Hustle & Flow.
Howard Ashman	Also in 1986, Ashman wrote the screenplay for the Frank Oz -- directed film adaptation of his musical Little Shop of Horrors, as well as contributing the lyrics for two new songs,'' Some Fun Now'' and'' Mean Green Mother From Outer Space,'' the latter of which received an Academy Award nomination.
Colin Low (filmmaker)	Low's 1952 animated short, The Romance of Transportation in Canada, won a Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a special BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons.
Tomas Costanza	In January 2009 Costanza was recruited by Academy Award winning music supervisor Richard Glasser (The Illusionist, Crash, Revolutionary Road) to write for his film and TV placement company.
Quincy Jones	In 1985, Jones wrote the score for the Steven Spielberg film adaptation of the Pulitzer prize winning epistolary novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
Norman Gimbel	In October 1967 Norman Gimbel moved to Los Angeles, where he became very active in film and television.
Anne Dudley	These include : In 2012, Dudley worked as a pianist, orchestrator, producer, and composer of additional music on the film adaptation of the musical Les Misérables.
Ivan De Battista	He also was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack (Lyrics) for Is-Sigill tal-Qrar, which he directed, organised by the 2010 Vodafone Television Awards.
Don Walker (orchestrator)	Walker orchestrated and contributed original score elements to The Appointment (1969), starring Omar Sharif.
Charl?lie Couture	In 1983, he wrote his first complete film soundtrack, for the movie Tchao Pantin ('' So Long, Stooge''), for which he was nominated for a César Award.
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek	In 2005, Kaczmarek received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Finding Neverland, directed by Marc Forster.
Spike Lee	Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989.
Bud Luckey	At age 69, Luckey wrote, directed, composed and performed as the solo singer/narrator on the Pixar 2004 Animated Short film Boundin' which won the Annie Award as well as an Academy Award (Oscar) nomination in the Best Animated Short Film category.
A. R. Rahman	In 2010, Rahman composed scores for the romance film Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, blockbuster sci-fi romance film Enthiran and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.
Paul Quarrington	Quarrington's film adaptation of Whale Music, cowritten with director Richard J. Lewis, was nominated for numerous Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, in 1994.
Frankie Laine	His rendition of the title song for Mel Brooks's 1974 hit movie Blazing Saddles won an Oscar nomination for Best Song, and on television, Laine's featured recording of'' Rawhide'' for the series of the same name became a popular theme song.
Patrick Grant (composer)	In 2007 he contributed music to the score of writer and director Gerald Thomas' Rainha Mentira (Queen Liar) for performances in Brazil.
Jerry Goldsmith	In 1982, Goldsmith was hired to compose the music to the classic Tobe Hooper - directed, Steven Spielberg - produced fantasy horror film Poltergeist.
Georgie Stoll	He recruited one of the first black arrangers at MGM, Calvin Jackson with whom he worked on the original music for his 1945 Oscar-winning score for the Kelly - Sinatra Anchors Aweigh.
Tom Waits	In 1997, Waits and Brennan wrote and performed the music for Bunny the animated short film by 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Studios, which was awarded Best Animated Short Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
David Mansfield	He also composed the music for the soundtrack to The Ballad of Little Jo (1993), a movie written and directed by Maggie Greenwald, whom he married in 1993.
John Ford	Ford's films in 1931 were Seas Beneath, The Brat and Arrowsmith ; the last-named, adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel and starring Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes, marked Ford's first Academy Awards recognition, with five nominations including Best Picture.
Bill Mather	In 1985, through Limelight films, he directed the Grammy award winning video for Dire Straits'' Brothers in Arms''.
William Pereira	He shared an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for the action/adventure film Reap the Wild Wind (1942).
Davide Carbone	He has also been nominated for best soundtrack for his work on the award winning short film' Woody' at the 2013 APRA Screen Music Awards.
Ryan Bingham	The song is Bingham's first screen track since his Academy Award win for best theme song in 2010.''
Brian Crosby	In 2006, Crosby and Nick Seymour wrote the music score for the short movie' Silent City' directed by Academy-Award nominated Irish director Ruairí Robinson.
John Cameron (musician)	Cameron also began working in television ; one of his first major credits in this area was as music director and arranger for three seasons of the TV variety series Once More with Felix with folk-singer Julie Felix (1967 -- 69), The Bobbie Gentry Show and numerous episodes of the BBC's In Concert series (directed by Stanley Dorfman), which featured artists including James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman.
George Fenton	A year later he composed the score of Bennett's TV film An Englishman Abroad (1983) which was directed by John Schlesinger.
Barry Manilow	In the 1988 Walt Disney Pictures animated feature Oliver & Company, Bette Midler's character sang a new Manilow composition called'' Perfect Is n't Easy''.
Steve Allen	Allen composed the score to the Paul Mantee imitation James Bond film A Man Called Dagger (1967), with the score orchestrated by Ronald Stein.
Donald Novis	He sang on several film soundtracks and notably recorded the Academy Award - nominated song'' Love Is a Song'' for the Disney animated feature film Bambi (1942).
Leo F. Forbstein	In 1936, Forbstein and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold were write-in candidates for the Oscar for Best Music, Score for their work on Captain Blood.
Atticus Ross	On 27 February 2011, Ross and Reznor received the Academy Award Best Original Score for The Social Network.
Mar?a Elena Walsh	Her work has often contained an underlying political message, as in the song El País del Nomeacuerdo ('' The Country of I-Don' t-Remember''), which was later used as the theme song for The Official Story, winner of the 1985 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Andrew Klavan	Klavans next win came in 1989, with his novel Trapdoor (this time as Keith Peterson) picking up a nomination again in the'' Best Paperback Original'' category.
John Williams	In 1974, director Steven Spielberg approached Williams to compose the music for his feature directorial debut, The Sugarland Express.
Ofra Haza	On the soundtrack of The Governess (1998), Haza is the featured singer on seven of the twelve tracks and worked closely with film music composer Edward Shearmur.
Terry Southern	Under the pseudonym of Norwood Pratt, Southern co-wrote the 1980 sci fi - themed hardcore pornographic film Randy : The Electric Lady ; director Philip Schuman had previously adapted'' Red Dirt'' into an award-winning short.
Johnny Burke (lyricist)	Burke and Van Heusen's song'' Swinging on a Star'', from the Bing Crosby film' Going My Way', won an Academy Award for Best Song in 1944, one of seven Academy Awards won by the film.
James Horner	Several films whose scores were composed by Michael Kamen have had trailers featuring Horner's music ; most notably, the music from Willow is substituted for the theme Kamen wrote for the 1993 remake of The Three Musketeers.
Angela Morley	She was twice nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Music, Original Song Score/Adaptation : for The Little Prince (1974), a nomination shared with Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, and Douglas Gamley ; and for The Slipper and the Rose, which Morley shared with Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
Glen Campbell	The 1969 song `` True Grit'' by composer Elmer Bernstein and lyricist Don Black, and sung by Campbell, who co-starred in the movie, received nominations for both the Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe.
Howard Estabrook	He was responsible for several of what have come to be regarded as classics of Hollywood including Hell's Angels (1930) and Street of Chance (1930), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
Robert Towne	His most notable work may be his Academy Award - winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974).
Tony Crombie	In 1960, Crombie composed the score for the film The Tell-Tale Heart and established residency at a hotel in Monte Carlo.
David Buttolph	Buttolph's best work, according to many, was his work as an arranger on Alfred Newman - directed The Mark of Zorro (1940).
Bernard Herrmann	Taxi Driver director and Spielberg's friend Martin Scorsese called him over to Warner Bros Studio on December 23, 1975 to meet the famed film composer.
Elmer Bernstein	Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total.
Josh Pyke	In 2008, Pyke and Michael Yezerski won the APRA award for Best Original Song Composed for the Screen for' When We Get There', from the film The Black Balloon.
Arthur Schwartz	Schwartz also started contributing songs to motion pictures, beginning with'' I'm Afraid of You'' (lyrics by Ralph Rainger and Edward Eliscu) in Queen High (1930).
Andrew Birkin	In 1980, Birkin won a BAFTA award and an Academy Award nomination for his short film Sredni Vashtar, based on the short story by Saki, which he wrote, produced and directed for 20th Century Fox.
Mike Love	Mike Love (along with'' Kokomo'' co-writers Scott McKenzie, Terry Melcher, and John Phillips) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award (1988) in the Original Song category, and was also nominated for a Grammy Award for'' Kokomo''.
Melba Liston	During her time in Jamaica, she composed and arranged the music for the classic 1975 comedy film Smile Orange (starring Carl Bradshaw, who three years earlier starred in the very first Jamaican film, The Harder They Come).
Patrick Woodroffe (lighting designer)	Working with Oscar winning cinematographer, Bob Richardson, Woodroffe lit the Martin Scorsese film, Shine a Light, the record of the Stones' live performances at the Beacon Theatre in 2006.
Eminem	He recorded several new songs for the soundtrack, including'' Lose Yourself,'' which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2003.''
Tim Rice	In 1996, his collaboration with Lloyd Webber for the film version Evita won Rice his third Academy Award for Best Original Song with the song'' You Must Love Me''.
T Bone Burnett	In 2000, Burnett produced the soundtrack and wrote the score for the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou ?
Michael James Rowland	For his work, Michael was nominated in the Best Telemovie Director category at the Australian Directors Guild Awards 2009, composer Roger Mason won Best Music for a Telemovie at the 2009 Australian Screen Music Award and Designer Felicity Abbott and props master Paul Stewart were both recognised for their work on the film at the 2009 Newport International Film Festival.
Randy Newman	Newman was awarded the 2004 Emmy Award for Best Main Title Music for It's a Jungle Out There.
John Doheny	Doheny also composed and performed source music for the soundtrack for the 1998 Bruce Sweeney film imdb.
Rob Schrab	Along with Ben Schwartz and Dan Harmon, Schrab co-wrote the opening for the 81st Academy Awards in 2009.
Manu Chao	His song'' Me llaman Calle'', written for the 2005 Spanish film Princesas, earned that film a Goya nomination for Best Original Song.
Phil Tippett	In 1981 Tippett continued using go motion for Dragonslayer, and received his first Academy Award nomination for the extraordinarily realistic dragon animation.
Howard Ashman	In 1986, Ashman was brought in to write lyrics for a song in Disney's Oliver & Company.
Jerry Goldsmith	In 1996, Goldsmith composed the critically successful score to the horror action film The Ghost and the Darkness which featured a traditional Irish folk melody interwoven with African rhythms.
Omer Arbel	Since then, several of Arbel's design pieces have gone into widespread production, most notably the 14 series chandelier, and 22 series plug socket, which also won a 2009 red dot design award.
Alan Bennett	Entitled The Madness of King George (1994), the film received four Academy Award nominations : for Bennett's writing and the performances of Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren.
Judy Kuhn	She has also participated in several cast recordings and sang the song'' Colors of the Wind'' on the hit soundtrack of the 1995 film Pocahontas, which won it's composers the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
W. P. Kinsella	A short story by Kinsella,'' Lieberman in Love'', was the basis for a short film that won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 1996.
James Newton Howard	In 2009, he was awarded a Grammy along with Hans Zimmer for the soundtrack to The Dark Knight.
Billy Wilder	Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend (1945), about alcoholism.
Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner	In 1970, Gardiner married Muriel Box, writer, producer and director who had won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Seventh Veil.