In a career spanning almost half a century, Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award.

It earned Midler her first Gold single and won the Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.

It featured her biggest hit, " Wind Beneath My Wings ", which went to No. 1 on Billboards Hot 100, achieved Platinum status, and won Midler her third Grammy Award – for Record of the Year – at the 1990 telecast.

Recent motion pictures in which the agency has been involved in include Fox Searchlight's Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Robert Duvall, and directed by Scott Cooper ; Richard Eyre ’ s The Other Man, starring Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas and Laura Linney ; Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Williams, and Kim Cattrall ; James Toback's documentary Tyson, which was the official selection in Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and won a specially named " Knockout " prize ; Chris Rock's documentary Good Hair, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won a special jury prize ; and The Women, directed by Diane English and starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, and Bette Midler.

It was later performed by Marlene Dietrich, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Bette Midler and many others ; it won King a gold disc.

The film was a box-office smash, and Midler received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture ( Leading Role ).

Midler won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for " The Rose ".

It earned Midler that year's Emmy Award ( 1992 ) for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.

" In 1997, Keaton, along Hawn and Midler, was a recipient of the Women in Film Crystal Award, which honors " outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry ".

It reached Billboard's Top 10 and became a million-selling Platinum-certified album, earning Midler the 1973 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

In 1997, Midler, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton, was a recipient of the Women in Film Crystal Award, which honors " outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry ".

Critcially praised however, Midler was awarded a People's Choice Award for her performance in the show and received a Golden Globe Award nomination the following year.

" For her performance in the film, Midler received her second Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress at the 21st ceremony.

Released in October 2005, the album sold 55, 000 copies the first week of release, returned Midler to the Top 10, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Bette Midler was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.

Bette Midler lost the Academy Award to Jodie Foster that year for her performance in the Best Picture-winning film The Silence of the Lambs.

Michelle Pfeiffer was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, but lost to Bette Midler in For The Boys ( 1991 ).

He also has produced: LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, Amy Holland ( he sang a duet with her called " I Still Run To You " which was on Amy's second album On Your Every Word ), Trisha Yearwood, Selena, All-4-One, Bette Midler ( and also sang a duet with her, " I Know You by Heart ," on the Beaches film soundtrack ), Brian Setzer, TLC, Brian McKnight, Little Richard, Patti Austin, Linda Ronstadt, James Ingram, The Pointer Sisters, Mavis Staples, Andrae Crouch, David Benoit, Take 6, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis, Chick Corea, Steve Vai, Tevin Campbell, The Jerky Boys, Paul Rodriguez, Yakov Smirnoff, Def Jeff, Amy Grant, Chet Atkins, Olivia Newton-John, DC Talk, recent Academy Award – winner Jennifer Hudson and CeCe Winans.

Midler received an American Comedy Award in the category Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance in 1989.

One of the more noteworthy cover versions was one by Bette Midler in 1992, released from the soundtrack of her 1991 movie For the Boys.

It was re-made for TV in 1993 Starring Bette Midler as Mama Rose and Cynthia Gibb as Gypsy Rose Lee.

Hawn returned to the screen again in 1996 as the aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in the financially and critically successful The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit " You Don't Own Me " for the film's soundtrack.

In 2005, Turner beat out a score of other contenders ( including Jessica Lange, Frances McDormand, and Bette Midler ) for the role of Martha in a 2005 Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The official 24-hour record for The longest kite surfing journey is 199. 63 nautical miles ( 369. 71 km ; 229. 73 statute miles ) and was achieved by Phillip McCoy Midler ( USA ) who travelled from South Padre Island, Texas to Matagorda, Texas, USA, from 10 to 11 May 2010.

Midler returned to recording with the 1976 and 1977 albums, Songs for the New Depression and Broken Blossom.

Midler performed on USA for Africa's 1985 fund-raising single " We Are the World ", and participated at the Live Aid event at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

The next year, Midler co-starred with Woody Allen in Scenes from a Mall, again for Mazursky.

Oz later blamed Midler who was amid recording her next album and rehearsing for her tour, for being under a lot of stress by other projects and making " the mistake of bringing her stress on the set ".

Midler joined forces again with Manilow for another tribute album, Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook.

She also sang backup for Bette Midler, who hired her for her 1979 tour as one of The Harlettes.

The Rose was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Frederic Forrest ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Bette Midler, in her screen debut ), Best Film Editing and Best Sound.

Midler performed the soundtrack album for the film, and the title track became one of her biggest hit singles in 1980.

Guests including Bette Midler, Paul Simon and his son Harper, and principal members of Sonic Youth interpreted her songs in their own styles.

In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, were recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Awards.

* Bette Midler sang the lyrics in her concert film Divine Madness !.

* February 15 – Bette Midler bails seven members of her entourage out of jail after they are arrested on charges of cocaine and marijuana possession.

Both surviving sisters had something of a comeback when Bette Midler recorded her own version of their song " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy " in 1972.

Until the advent of the Supremes, the sisters were the most imitated of all female singing groups and influenced many artists, including Mel Tormé, Les Paul and Mary Ford, The Four Freshmen, The McGuire Sisters, The Manhattan Dolls, The Lennon Sisters, The Pointer Sisters, The Manhattan Transfer, The Puppini Sisters, Barry Manilow, and Bette Midler who scored her first # 1 hit with her 1973 remake of " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy ".

Manchester then appeared on the Manhattan club scene, where she was discovered by Barry Manilow and Bette Midler, who took her on as one of her backup singers, the Harlettes in 1971.

Bette Midler ( born December 1, 1945 ) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys.

Her mother, Ruth ( née Schindel ), was a seamstress and housewife, and her father, Fred Midler, worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter.

She was named after actress Bette Davis, though Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one,.

In the summer of 1965, Midler relocated to New York City, using the money from her work in the film Hawaii.

In the late 1990s, during the release of her album Bathhouse Betty, Midler commented on her time performing there, " Despite the way things turned out the AIDS crisis, I'm still proud of those days.

Midler released her debut album, The Divine Miss M, on Atlantic Records, in December 1972.

" Bugle Boy " became a very successful rock cover of the classic swing tune originally introduced and popularized in 1941 by the famous Andrews Sisters, of whom Midler has repeatedly referenced as her idols and inspiration, as far back as her first appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

In 1979, Midler made her first motion picture, starring in the 1960s-era rock and roll tragedy The Rose, as a drug-addicted rock star modeled after Janis Joplin.

Later in 1988, Midler lent her voice to the animated character Georgette, a snobbish poodle, in Disney's Oliver & Company, and had a hit with the tearjerker Beaches, co-starring Barbara Hershey.