* In 1956, a British-Italian epic titled Helen of Troy was released, directed by Oscar-winning director Robert Wise and starring Italian actress Rossana Podestà in the title role.

Ginger Rogers in the Oscar-winning, title role of " Kitty Foyle ( film ) | Kitty Foyle "

The three best-known of these include the 1950s / 1960s TV series titled The Untouchables, which starred Robert Stack as Ness and which Walter Winchell narrated, and Brian De Palma's Oscar-winning film of the same title, The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner as Ness and also featured Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.

The song later served as the impetus for the best-selling biography ( 1976 ) and the Oscar-winning biopic starring Sissy Spacek ( 1980 ), both of which share the song's title.

Oscar-winning writer-director Robert Benton cast her in the title role for the film Nadine ( 1987 ) with Jeff Bridges.

Graziano's life story was the basis of the 1956 Oscar-winning drama film Somebody Up There Likes Me, based on his 1955 autobiography of the same title.

The album was slightly more successful than its predecessor, reaching # 111 on the Billboard 200, and was notable for its collaboration with Leo Kottke, its musical diversity, and a cover of David Bowie's " Rebel Rebel ", which was slated to be the title track for the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry, when Bowie's publishing pulled the plug by asking for too much money from the little independent movie.

* William Oliver Swofford ( 1945 – 2000 ), pop singer in the 1960s and 70s ( under the name Oliver ), known for his hits Good Morning Starshine ( featured in the Broadway musical Hair ) and Jean, the theme song of the Oscar-winning film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

In 2002, Horner and Jennings contributed a song for the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind.

Hit songs such as " Ain't That a Kick in the Head ", " Sway "," You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You ", " That's Amore ", and Martin's signature song " Everybody Loves Somebody " ( and many more ) have been used in films ( such as the Oscar-winning Logorama, A Bronx Tale, Casino, Goodfellas, Payback, Vegas Vacation and Return to Me ), television series ( such as American Dad !, Friends, and House MD ), video games ( such as The Godfather: The Game, The Godfather II, Fallout: New Vegas, and Mafia II ), and even fashion shows ( such as the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2008 ).

In November 2001, Simon's Oscar-winning song " Let the River Run " was used in a public service ad for the United States Postal Service.

Falco recorded " Rock Me Amadeus " inspired in part by the Oscar-winning film Amadeus, and the song became a worldwide hit in 1986.

She played Yocheved in the Oscar-winning animation movie " The Prince Of Egypt ," and sang a song, " Deliver Us.

He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song " Thanks for the Memory ," sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.

Leo Robin collaborated with Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song " Thanks for the Memory ," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938, which was to become Hope's signature tune.

However, the song was subsequently selected for use in the Oscar-winning film Midnight Cowboy and became one of Nilsson's biggest hits as a performer, hitting the US top ten in 1969.

The Essential Bob Dylan spans from 1963's " Blowin ' In The Wind " ( taken from The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan ) to 1999's " Things Have Changed " ( Dylan's Oscar-winning song from the motion picture, Wonder Boys ).

Singer / Songwriter Kimya Dawson mentions the Sharpie brand in the lyrics of her song " Loose Lips ", which featured in the soundtrack of 2007's Oscar-winning Juno.

His illness also helped to inspire Fran Walsh to write the lyrics for the Oscar-winning song, " Into the West " for the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Many 1950s and 1960s war films, including the Oscar-winning films Patton, Lawrence of Arabia, and Spartacus, were shot in Spain, which had large supplies of both Allied and Axis equipment.

In reviewing the film's sequel twenty-three years later, Variety noted that though the original film was " Intended as a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of unchecked ambition and greed, Stone's 1987 original instead had the effect of turning Douglas ' hugely charismatic ( and Oscar-winning ) villain into a household name and boardroom icon -- an inspiration to the very power players and Wall Street wannabes for whom he set such a terrible example.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

It introduced the director's signature approach of combining overt political messages with edge-of-the-seat tension .” Jonathan Richards wrote in 2009, “ It ’ s hard to overstate the impact that this Oscar-winning procedural thriller had in 1969, on a world roiling in political activism, repression, and discord.

Once in the U. S. he taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable students as Lukas Foss, Graham George, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, Ruth Schonthal, and Oscar-winning film director George Roy Hill.

Roddy McDowall, who had a long distinguished career including as the regular star of the Planet of the Apes series ; Ron Howard, who, in addition to being the star of the long running Happy Days television series, became an Oscar-winning director in adulthood ; Elijah Wood, who continued his career successfully into adulthood from playing Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film series and starring as Ryan Newman in the T. V.

At that time Ron Kovic had recently completed his autobiographical book Born on the Fourth of July which would later become an Oscar-winning motion picture of the same name directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Cruise as Kovic.

Since Decca had access to the stereophonic tracks of the Oscar-winning film, they quickly released a stereo version in 1958.

Although she had already received some critical acclaim, she gained mainstream success after being cast as Matron " Mama " Morton in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of the musical Chicago, the recipient of the Best Picture Oscar.

MacLaine also had a major role ( and Sinatra a cameo ) in the 1956 Oscar-winning film Around the World in Eighty Days.

Thorson's design was highly derivative of a character he had designed for Disney in 1936, the country mouse from the Oscar-winning short The Country Cousin.

Next year, the Slumdog Millionaires Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy had been hired to work on the project.

He had a small role in the Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting, playing a psychologist known for his best-selling books who agrees to have one session with the troubled protagonist, Will Hunting.

Birkenhead's technical college in Woodside ( previously in Borough Road ), now called Wirral Metropolitan College, had a theatre named after one of its most famous former students and Birkonian ( born 1936 ), Glenda Jackson, the Oscar-winning actress and Member of Parliament.

With Sony Pictures Classics distributing the film and Oscar-winning director Baz Luhrmann praising it, Lagaan had a chance to win.

Despite 15 years of coaching at a prominent level, Tuberville, according to an article by Jennifer Ritz in Texas Techsan, claimed in 2010 that the most high profile activity he had ever done was in 2009 between his stints at Auburn and Texas Tech, when he appeared in the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side.

His uncle, Oscar-winning screen phenomenon Wallace Beery, became the world's highest-paid actor by 1932, and while neither Noah nor his father ever approached that level, both had extremely long and memorable film careers.

She had a part as the grieving mother who commits suicide in Six Shooter, playwright Martin McDonagh's Oscar-winning short film.

At the time of his death, Hill was preparing to direct, and had done some shooting in China for the The Good Earth, produced at MGM by Irving Thalberg, an Oscar-winning film completed to great acclaim in 1937.

Moving On also included music from Oscar-winning films Gladiator and The Piano.

He has also written 3 stories that have been set to music by Oscar-winning composer Anne Dudley: The first of the series Little Red Violin ( and the Big, Bad Cello ) received its first performance in New York in March 2007, followed by Goldipegs and the Three Cellos, and Cindercella ( Published by Universal Edition, Vienna ).

In 1990, Long founded OneMusic in Del Mar, California and created yet another innovative music library, increasingly used in radio, television ( e. g., Saturday Night Live ), and film production ( e. g., the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind ).

The music for Black was composed by Chris Tilton, using a theme co-authored with Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino.

Lesser known Dutch individuals with international credits include Hollywood sound designer Charles Deenen ; Oscar-winning director Marleen Gorris who made a number of international productions including the 1997 adaptation of Mrs Dalloway and currently works on several British productions ; DJ and composer Junkie XL who wrote additional music for Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven and scored the action film DOA: Dead or Alive ; Sylvia Kristel, most famous for her role as Emmanuelle in a series of softcore movies, also appeared in a large number of lesser known American ( TV -) movies, of which The Nude Bomb, a feature film adaptation of the TV-series Get Smart is probably the most notable.