Alas, only a nomination, and not a win, but Seth MacFarlane and Walter Murphy (best known for his 1970s disco song “A Fifth of Beethoven”) were nominated for the song “Everybody Needs a Best Friend,” from Ted.
It also seems to be the best path to an EGOT.
Kobe Bryant won for Best Animated Short last year.
I just learned that Taikia Waititi (sorry I probably butchered that) of Thor Ragnarok fame has one for a short he did.
This I did not know. How cool.
It’s true. I have to give credit to Phil Collins, he did a great job on that movie. Better than the movie, actually.
True and kind of amazing.
I knew about this and came in here to point it out. You beat me to it!
The hard one for the grand slam is the Tony.
Actually, I think the Grammy is the one that makes it tough, particularly for a non-musical actor. Helen Hayes and John Gielgud received their Grammy awards for spoken word recordings. And then you have non-acting types like the choreographer Bob Fosse or the set designer Tony Walton, who have won the Tony, Emmy and Oscar but have no clear path to a Grammy.
Another “alas,” but Adam Duritz and Counting Crows were nominated for “Best Original Song” for Shrek 2 tune “Accidentally In Love,” quite possibly the most upbeat and against-type song they’ve ever written, since Duritz is the most depressing son of a bitch on the face of the Earth. Johnny Cash would have told the man to lighten up.
How many times have we seen somebody win a Nobel, a Hugo, and a Superbowl Ring and then fall short on the Tony? It’s practically become a cliche.
Three Six Mafia for the song “It’s hard out here for a pimp”
My first reaction was that Shaw must have been pissed, because the award was clearly for Pygmalion, for which they notably did NOT use the version he had written for the screen, and because THEY CHANGED THE ENDING!!!
It turns out that he was pissed, but for other reasons (although it was, indeed, for Pygmalion)
Clint Eastwood has won two Oscars - both for directing and neither for acting.
The films were “Unforgiven” (1992) and “Million Dollar Baby” (2004)
He has four Oscars. But the other two are for producing the movies he won the directing awards for.
I was at a concert by Buffy Sainte Marie, a Saskatchewan First Nations singer-songwriter. As she was tuning her guitar she said:
“Writing music is funny. It’s sort of like raising a little bird and letting it go into the world. You never know where it will end up.”
“This one came home one day with an Oscar.”
Then she sang “Up Where We Belong” from An Officer and a Gentleman.
I was unaware that Jack Nitzsche …who wrote with The Stones and did the soundtrack for The Razors Edge and Village of the Giants also won an AA for that same song.
You’d think Bacharach would have one, but he only has the grammy and three Oscars.
Guess ‘Promises Promises’ didn’t win enough awards.
If we’re mentioning nominations as well, try this one:
What two regular cast members of All in the Family have been nominated for Academy Awards?
Rob Reiner, nominated as a producer for A Few Good Men, and Danielle Brisebois (who played Edith’s niece Stephanie in AitF’s last season), nominated for Best Original Song from Begin Again.
Wow I was totally unaware of that.
I stand corrected - and thank you Mahaloth.
I enjoyed the story he tells about being on the plane back to England and passing the Oscar around to all the passengers.
Another Oscar winner for best short is Christine Lahti. She was nominated for Swing Shift but her win came from her short.
You will never convince me that the more deserving song was by Neil Young from the same movie.
William Zabka was nominated but did not win.