Composers Articles

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented "A Centennial Tribute to Johnny Mercer," on Thursday, November 5, 2009. Pictured above at the reception preceding the event (left to right): satirist Stan Freberg, veteran actress Rose Marie, singer/host Michael Feinstein, Ginny Mancini, widow of Henry Mancini, who was a frequent Johnny Mercer collaborator, Oscar-nominated songwriter Arthur Hamilton, and singer Monica Mancini, daughter of Henry [...]

Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, among whose compositions are "The Way We Were" and the song score for Yentl, will be the recipients of an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tribute on Friday, May 29, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will be hosted by music producer and composer Quincy Jones, and will feature film clips, [...]

Maurice Jarre, best known for his Oscar-winning association with David Lean in films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984), died in his sleep on March 28 at his home in Malibu after a brief illness. Some reports claimed that Jarre had cancer. He was 84. Throughout his five-decade career in film and on television Jarre was [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the 1969 Best Picture winner Midnight Cowboy as part of the "Monday Nights with Oscar" series on Monday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in New York City. Pictured above (from left to right): composer John Barry, costume designer Ann Roth, cinematographer Adam Holender, Oscar-nominated actress Sylvia Miles, former United [...]