Born in Chicago in 1933, he received an Oscar nomination for his original score for "The Color Purple"
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Quincy Jones - Wikipedia  Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American record ... Quincy Jones was born in 1933, on the South Side of Chicago, to Sarah ... He left his studies after he received an offer to tour as a trumpeter with the .... In 1978, he produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, the musical adaptation of The...
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About - Quincy Jones  In the mid-50's, he was the first popular conductor-arranger to record with a ... of the 20th century, Quincy Jones was born on March 14, 1933, in Chicago and ... of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, which garnered eleven Oscar nominations, ... Quincy has won an Emmy Award for his score of the of the opening episode of the...
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Money Runner by Quincy Jones - WEFUNK Radio  Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music ... In 1968, Jones along with his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first ... twice in the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score (for In Cold Blood). ... as a producer in the category of Best Picture (in 1986, for The Color Purple).
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Quincy Jones - Biography - Classy 100 WXKC-FM  Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music ... twice in the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score (for In Cold Blood). ... He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated ... He left his studies after he received an offer to tour as a trumpeter with the...
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IMDb: Most Oscar-Nominated Composers - a list by smcgann14  With a massive list of awards that includes over 41 Oscar nominations (five wins). ... After receiving a bachelor's degree in music at USC, he would go on to earn his .... an Academy Award-winning composer best known for his original music scores .... Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. was born on March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Henry Mancini - Wikipedia  Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924  June 14, 1994) was an American composer, ... His best known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film ... The Peter Gunn theme won the first Grammy Award for Album of the Year. .... All three of the films for which he won were directed by Blake Edwards.
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Retro Movie Nerd: 1985 AT THE MOVIES  Oct 3, 2016 ... We also find a couple of films that probably would not be top ten in this era with Out of Africa and The Color Purple. Out of Africa would go on to...
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1985 At The Movies | Varse Sarabande  And the biggest film of 1985  Back To The Future has received worldwide ... The five scores nominated for the Academy Award were Out of Africa by John Barry, ... of God by Georges Delerue, The Color Purple by Quincy Jones, Silverado by...
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The Same River Twice - The New York Times  Jan 14, 1996 ... By Alice Walker. T he filming of her novel ''The Color Purple'' in 1985 came at a traumatic time for Alice Walker. ... When Ms. Walker first saw the movie, she thought that it was slick, sanitized, apolitical and marred by...
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Eliot Ness - Author biographies  Born: April 19, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois Died: May 16, 1957, Coudersport, Pennsylvania ... Keywords: Al Capone, Chicago, Cleveland, Director of Public Safety, Oscar ... Abstract: Eliot Ness was born in Chicago in 1903. ... Shortly thereafter, Ness began work on The Untouchables, a book about his Chicago days that he...
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Duke Ellington - Wikipedia  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899  May 24, 1974) was an American composer, ... His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a special Pulitzer .... An alcoholic, Miley had to leave the band before they gained wider fame. ...... Ellington, The Early Years, University of Illinois Press, 1991.
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58th Academy Awards - Wikipedia  The 58th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ... At age 79, John Huston became the oldest person nominated for Best Director. ..... by Out of Africa ($55.6 million), The Color Purple ($46.4 million), Prizzi's Honor ($26.7 million) and Kiss of the Spider Woman ($13.4 million). Of the...
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Alan Menken - Wikipedia  Alan Irwin Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken is best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and .... The film won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Song: "A Whole New World".
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Walt Disney - Wikipedia  Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards ... Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing.
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The Color Purple - Wikipedia  The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
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Jeopary Questions page 1896 - AUTHORS - TriviaBistro.com  CLASSICAL CLASSICS: In 1881, on receiving a doctorate, this last of the "3 B's" composed the "Academic Festival Overture"  THE COLOR PURPLE: A...
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The Color Purple - Wikipedia  The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of ... She writes letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her.
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Biography of Alice Walker, a Mississippi writer of The Color Purple ...  ... of Alice Walker, book review of The Color Purple, and many related web sites. ... You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982); The Color Purple (1982) ... Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia.
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Summer of '85: Prizzi's Honor | The House Next Door | Slant Magazine  Jun 13, 2010 ... First, as Steven Spielberg tried to make his first grownup movie with The Color Purple, they ... tracing the formative years of eventual Prizzi family soldier Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson, ... Then he spots the mystery woman and asks her to dance, neglecting to get her ... Do I ice her? Do I marry her?
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Fredric March | Hometowns to Hollywood  After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, ... March was actually born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel on August 31, ... The family resided in Racine, Wisconsin, where young Frederick spent the ... He won his second Oscar for his favorite movie role in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
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1985 Academy Awards Nominations and Winners by Category  1985 Academy Awards Nominees and Box Office Breakdown. ... Academy Awards > 1985. BEST PICTURE. Picture  Studio  Box Office  The Color Purple...