+ Marvin Hamlisch awards and nominations Hamlisch in 1970 Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations TotalsAcademy AwardsBritish Academy Film AwardsCableACE AwardsChicago Film Critics AssociationCritics' Choice Movie AwardsDrama Desk AwardsGolden Globe AwardsGolden Raspberry AwardsGrammy AwardsHouston Film Critics SocietyInternational Film Music Critics AssociationOnline Film & Television AssociationOnline Film Critics SocietyPrimetime Emmy AwardsPulitzer PrizeSatellite AwardsTony Awards
Marvin Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. Over his career he became one of the few people to have completed the EGOT. He received four Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards (Oscar), and a Tony Award. He also received a Pulitzer Prize making him and composer Richard Rodgers the only people to have won those five prizes (known collectively as "PEGOT"). He also won two Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for an BAFTA Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award.
For his work on film, Hamlisch won three Academy Awards, his first for Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Sting (1973) and Best Original Score and Best Original Song for The Way We Were (1973) and its title song. He was Oscar-nominated for numerous film songs as well as the scores to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and Sophie's Choice (1982), with the former also receiving a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music.
Major awards Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1971 Best Song – Original for the Picture "Life Is What You Make It" 1973 Best Original Score The Sting Best Original Dramatic Score The Way We Were Best Song "The Way We Were" 1977 Best Original Score The Spy Who Loved Me Best Original Song "Nobody Does It Better" 1978 "The Last Time I Felt Like This" 1979 "Through the Eyes of Love" 1982 Best Original Score Sophie's Choice 1985 Best Original Song "Surprise Surprise" 1989 "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" 1996 "I Finally Found Someone"
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 1977 Best Original Film Music The Spy Who Loved Me
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 1992 Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Brooklyn Bridge 1995 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics "Ordinary Miracles" Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction Barbra: The Concert 1999 Outstanding Music and Lyrics "A Ticket to Dream" 2000 "Without You" 2001 "On the Way to Becoming Me" Outstanding Music Direction Barbra Streisand: Timeless
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1971 Best Original Song "Life Is What You Make It" 1973 "The Way We Were" 1977 Best Original Score The Spy Who Loved Me Best Original Song "Nobody Does It Better" 1978 "The Last Time I Felt Like This" 1979 "Better Than Ever" "Through the Eyes of Love" 1989 "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" 1996 Best Original Score The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Original Song "I Finally Found Someone" 2009 Best Original Score The Informant!
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1974 Song of the Year "The Way We Were" Best New Artist Best Pop Instrumental Performance "The Entertainer" Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording 1975 Best Cast Show Album A Chorus Line 1977 Song of the Year "Nobody Does It Better" Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media The Spy Who Loved Me Best Instrumental Composition "Bond '77/James Bond Theme" 1979 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Ice Castles Best Cast Show Album They're Playing Our Song 1989 Best Song Written for Visual Media "The Girl Who Used to Be Me"
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1976 Best Original Score A Chorus Line 2002 Sweet Smell of Success
Miscellaneous awards Year Award Category Nominated work Result 1994 CableACE Awards Original Song "Ordinary Miracles" 1976 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lyrics A Chorus Line Outstanding Music 1993 The Goodbye Girl 2002 Sweet Smell of Success 1981 Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Original Song "Hearts, Not Diamonds" 2009 Satellite Awards Best Original Score The Informant!
Critics awards Year Award Category Nominated work Result 2009 Chicago Film Critics Association Best Original Score The Informant! 2009 Critics' Choice Movie Awards Best Score The Informant! 2009 Houston Film Critics Society Best Original Score The Informant! 2009 International Film Music Critics Association Best Original Score for a Comedy Film The Informant! 1996Online Film & Television Association Best Original Song "I Finally Found Someone" 2009 Best Original Score The Informant! 2014 Film Hall of Fame: Support 2009 Online Film Critics Society Best Original Score The Informant!
Special honors Year Award Result 2008 American Theater Hall of Fame 2008 The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Chorus Line 1986 Songwriters Hall of Fame 2009 World Soundtrack Award Lifetime Achievement Award
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