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The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film.
Feb 10, 2020 · The 2020 Academy Awards went down on Sunday night, and one of music’s biggest names came away with an award. Elton John took home the Best Original Song award for “ (I’m Gonna) Love...
Taika Waititi poses backstage with the Oscar® for Adapted Screenplay during the live ABC Telecast of The 92nd Oscars®. Hildur Guðnadóttir accepts the Oscar® for Original Score during the live ABC Telecast of The 92nd Oscars®. View More Memorable Moments.
- It Birthed Broadway's Biggest Hit
- It Covers A Vast Range of Styles
- It Kickstarted Elton John's Second Career
Hitting the New Amsterdam Theatre in October 1997, The Lion King wasn't the first Disney animation to get a Broadway stage adaptation (Beauty and the Beast had opened at the Palace Theatre three years earlier) — but it remains the biggest. In fact, thanks to a run of 8,500 shows, its $1 billion-plus gross is now the highest in the theater district'...
"The plan was that we wouldn't write the usual Broadway-style Disney score," John later wrote in his 2019 memoir, Me, about his and Rice's approach to the film. "But try and come up with pop songs that kids would like." Indeed, while the partnership of Menken and Ashman grounded their Disney sing-alongs in the worlds of musical theater and Tin Pan ...
"I sat there with a line of lyrics that began, 'When I was a young warthog,'" John told Time magazine in 1995 about the inception of The Lion King soundtrack, "and I thought, 'Has it come to this?'" The pop legend needn't have worried. The song in question, "Hakuna Matata," might not have been his most lyrically sophisticated. But the comic interlu...
Jan 13, 2020 · The 2020 best original song Oscar nominees include "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" from 'Toy Story 4,' "I'm Standing With You" from 'Breakthrough,' 'Frozen 2's' "Into the Unknown,"...
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Feb 10, 2020 · Elton John ‘s end-titles theme for his own biopic, “ Rocketman ,” won the best original song award at Sunday’s Academy Awards, his first Oscar since he won for “Can You Feel the Love...
Feb 9, 2020 · The winners at the ceremony included Elton John and Bernie Taupin, who took home best original song for Rocketman. Hildur Guðnadóttir won best original score for her work on Joker .
