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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. The performers of a song are not credited with the Academy Award unless they contributed either to music, lyrics, or both in their own right. The songs that are nominated for this award are typically ...
Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. [5] The film also received Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the 55th greatest American film of all time, and the fourth -greatest film musical. In 2001 ...
Saul Chaplin, the film's associate producer, accepted the award on his behalf. 1966 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Julie Andrews. 1966 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Peggy Wood. 1966 Winner Oscar. Best Director.
The 36th Academy Awards | 1964 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Monday, April 13, 1964 Honoring movies released in 1963
Academy Award (1966) The Sound of Music, American musical film, released in 1965, that reigned for five years as the highest-grossing film in history. Its breathtaking photography and its many memorable songs, among them “My Favorite Things” and the title song, helped it to become an enduring classic. The nearly three-hour-long movie was ...
Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
