Academy Award for Best Original Song

soundtrack original score was composed and conducted by Randy Newman for Pixar. The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The score lost both these awards to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, but after 16 nominations, the song "If I Didn't Have You" won Newman his first Academy Award for Best Original Song. It also won a Grammy for Best Song Written

Musical Theater Workshop, where he wrote small musicals for them but would also sneak away to the piano room and compose songs that he kept to himself. In 1968 he wrote his first musical, Separate Ways, for NYU. (Biography Comments 1). When Menken graduated from NYU, he wrote a few musicals for The Downtown Ballet Company that were not very successful, but he considers it one of the best moments of his life because it is where he met a ballet dancer who eventually became his wife of forty-four years, Janis

deep longing and hope of an escape from the worldly troubles. The song was originally written for the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, with its music created by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg. It won the Best Original Song in the Academy Awards on the same year. “Over the Rainbow” is one of the greatest American standards of the 20th century, a cultural gem significant for preservation. The song also ranked first in the Songs of the Century List, the result of a survey of America’s musical and

Oh, October, my favorite month of the year. For many reasons, October has my heart. It holds the peak of Autumn, my dearest season. It is full of festivities such as pumpkin carving, haunted houses, and of course the traditional dressing up on Halloween. It also holds a large amount of anticipation for Thanksgiving and Christmas, which is debatably better than the holidays themselves. This year, October holds these things along with much more for me. I have experienced a lot this October, but this

Introduction – 45 to 60 seconds Audio Ben and his friends went to a minor league baseball game on Friday night. They thought it would be a fun night, but it turned into a disaster! The next morning Ben was telling his sister about his wretched night out. “First, the guy that sat behind us had a nasty cold. He kept coughing and sneezing all over the back of my head,” complained Ben. “I just hope that he wasn’t contagious,” commented Ben’s sister, but Ben looked at her quite confused. “Do you mean

Michael Johnson Interpretation of Return to Hayneville Class 1101, Mon and Wed 9:30 a.m. December 1, 2010 Word count 874 In Gregory Orr’s essay, “Return to Hayneville”, published by The Virginia Quarterly Review, Orr revisited the place of his abduction by armed vigilantes in Alabama as a Civil Rights worker in 1965. Even though the events of this essay take place in 1965, for Orr it started with the death of his younger brother in a hunting accident when Orr was twelve. Holding

can recognize the lyrics of the nostalgic song. The original singer of the song was Judy Garland. “Over the Rainbow” speaks a message that can speak to any person which has led to numerous artists covering this song on many different occasions. Two other singers that have covered this song are Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and Jerry Lee Lewis. Each artist can bring their own personal emotions into their performance of “Over the Rainbow” leading to a beautiful song that impacts the lives of many. “Over

of “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” was Randy Newman. This song was written in 1995 for the movie Toy Story and is played in the opening credits for “Toy Story”, “Toy Story 2” and “Toy Story 3”. The song was released April 12, 1996. This song implies that one can always rely on someone. Initially, it was suppose to be about Andy and Woody but throughout the films it becomes more clear that the song is about Woody and Buzz. In “Toy Story” the song is first heard in the opening credits when Andy is playing

Willy’s fixation with the American Dream and through which he measures his personal success prevent him from achieving a sense of fulfilment, leading him to become mentally unstable and suicidal. In Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the American dream can mostly be shown as the desire to become successful by most characters, although they each have personal, different definitions of success. For Willy Loman, success is achieved when an individual is very well-liked and superficially attractive

In "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" by Andrew Lang and "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Anderson, both protagonist's pursue the object of their desire. In "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," there's a protagonist named Aladdin, who is the son of a poor tailor. One day a magician approaches Aladdin by disguising himself as his uncle. The magician ends up taking advantage of Aladdin by using him to get a wonderful lamp. Aladdin without not knowing anything about the wonderful lamp goes with the