Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

The cast was rounded out by Academy Award-winning actress Miyoshi Umeki, who played the role of Tom's housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston ; James Komack ( one of the series ' producers ) as Norman Tinker ( Tom's pseudo-hippie, quirky photographer ) and actress Kristina Holland as Tom's secretary, Tina.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

He continued working steadily, varying between dramatic roles, as in The Bride ( 1985 ) with Sting and Jennifer Beals, to the Academy Award-winning Glory ( 1989 ), and comedic roles, as in Hot Shots!

Sofia Coppola is an Academy Award-winning writer and nominated director.

Austin Film Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ®, making all Jury Award-winning Narrative Short and Animated Short films eligible for an Academy Award ®.

Being There was adapted as an Academy Award-winning film in 1979.

In 1994, she was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

* 1892 – Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress ( d. 1939 )

* 1879 – Jane Darwell, Academy Award-winning American actress ( d. 1967 )

In 1961, multiple Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra cast Falk in the comedy Pocketful of Miracles.

He, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series: once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-winning character.

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (; born January 14, 1963 ) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director.

His life has been the subject of the 2001 Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind ( film ) | A Beautiful Mind.

Nelson is the son of Emmy Award-winning director Ralph Nelson and the Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm.

He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, composing scores for the films Blade Runner, 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.

Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Jane Porter and of the highly fictionalized Academy Award-winning epic film Braveheart.

The films were directed by Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra and narrated by Academy Award winning actor Walter Huston.

** Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress ( b. 1906 )

* September 23 – The Academy Award-winning movie The Three Faces of Eve is released.

* April 14 – Adrien Brody, Academy Award-winning American actor

The songwriters ( Sager, Ingram, and Clif Mangess ) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and Parton and Ingram performed the song on the awards telecast.

The music video for the 2006 Academy Award-nominated song Listen, performed by Beyoncé Knowles, received a director's cut by Diane Martel.

The film contained song performances, one of which was nominated for an Academy Award.

The song " I've Seen It All " ( which Trier co-wrote ) received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.

His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.

Its writers, Jim Dale and Tom Springfield, were nominated for the 1966 Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost out to the title song from the film Born Free.

The New York City resolution also requests excluding from Grammy Award consideration every song whose lyrics contain the word nigger, however Ron Roecker, vice president of communication for the Recording Academy doubts that it will have any effect on actual nominations.

The stars of the film wrote their own songs ; Keith Carradine won an Academy Award for the song " I'm Easy ".

In 2002, he wrote and recorded " Father and Daughter ", the theme song for the animated children's movie The Wild Thornberrys Movie, The track was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.

The song reached the American Top 10 on the Pop ( No. 6 ), Country ( No. 7 ), and AC ( No. 3 ) charts and earned her a Grammy for Best Country Female and an Academy of Country Music award for Most Promising Female Vocalist.

The hit song from the film was " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah ", which won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song and is frequently used as part of Disney's montage themes, and which has become widely used in popular culture.

Love Affair was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing, Original Story ( Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey ), Best Original Song ( Buddy G. DeSylva, For the song " Wishing "), and Best Art Direction ( Van Nest Polglase, Alfred Herman ).

Today, the United States Naval Academy Glee Club leads the song.

The song also earned Jon Bon Jovi an Academy Award nomination and a Grammy nomination.

Other notable successes include Tammy and the Bachelor ( 1957 ), in which her rendering of the song " Tammy " reached number one on the music charts ; and The Unsinkable Molly Brown ( 1964 ), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

* The song is referenced in the 1962 Academy Award nominated animated short Disney musical film, A Symposium on Popular Songs during the song, " Although I Dropped $ 100, 000 " written by Robert & Richard Sherman.

Elliott Smith performing " Miss Misery ( song ) | Miss Misery " at the 70th Academy Awards | 1998 Academy Awards.

In the song Lennon reads off several lists of names of people who donated $ 100 to the Oklahoma City SPCA and Academy of Contemporary Music at University of Central Oklahoma.

Their worldwide fame expanded when the song " The Power of Love " was featured as a key track in the film Back to the Future ( in which Lewis had a cameo appearance ), became a number-one hit, and nominated for an Academy Award.

# " Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want " ( instrumental ) by The Dream Academy ( a cover of a song by The Smiths )

The theme song, as recorded by The Four Aces, went to # 1 on the charts for four weeks in 1955 ( in the midst of the rock-and-roll era ) and won the Academy Award for Best Song.

Jennings has collaborated on many songs for films, the most notable songs being " Up Where We Belong " for An Officer and a Gentleman, a song which won the Academy Award in America and the BAFTA ( British Academy Award ) in the United Kingdom and was a number one hit for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.