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Nominations | 59 |
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.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1971 | Best Song – Original for the Picture | "Life Is What You Make It" (from Kotch ) | Nominated | [1] |
1973 | Best Original Score | The Sting | Won | [2] [a] |
Best Original Dramatic Score | The Way We Were | Won | ||
Best Song | "The Way We Were" (from The Way We Were) | Won | ||
1977 | Best Original Score | The Spy Who Loved Me | Nominated | [3] |
Best Original Song | "Nobody Does It Better" (from The Spy Who Loved Me) | Nominated | ||
1978 | "The Last Time I Felt Like This" (from Same Time, Next Year ) | Nominated | [4] | |
1979 | "Through the Eyes of Love" (from Ice Castles ) | Nominated | [5] | |
1982 | Best Original Score | Sophie's Choice | Nominated | [6] |
1985 | Best Original Song | "Surprise Surprise" (from A Chorus Line ) | Nominated | [7] |
1989 | "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" (from Shirley Valentine ) | Nominated | [8] | |
1996 | "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces ) | Nominated | [9] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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British Academy Film Awards | ||||
1977 | Best Original Film Music | The Spy Who Loved Me | Nominated | [10] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1992 | Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music | Brooklyn Bridge (Episode: "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling") | Nominated | [11] |
1995 | Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics | "Ordinary Miracles" (from Barbra: The Concert ) | Won | [12] |
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction | Barbra: The Concert | Won | ||
1999 | Outstanding Music and Lyrics | "A Ticket to Dream" (from AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies ) | Won | [13] |
2000 | "Without You" (from AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars ) | Nominated | [14] | |
2001 | "On the Way to Becoming Me" (from AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand ) | Nominated | [15] | |
Outstanding Music Direction | Barbra Streisand: Timeless | Won |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1971 | Best Original Song | "Life Is What You Make It" (from Kotch ) | Won | [16] |
1973 | "The Way We Were" (from The Way We Were ) | Won | [16] | |
1977 | Best Original Score | The Spy Who Loved Me | Nominated | [16] |
Best Original Song | "Nobody Does It Better" (from The Spy Who Loved Me) | Nominated | ||
1978 | "The Last Time I Felt Like This" (from Same Time, Next Year ) | Nominated | [16] | |
1979 | "Better Than Ever" (from Starting Over ) | Nominated | [16] | |
"Through the Eyes of Love" (from Ice Castles ) | Nominated | |||
1989 | "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" (from Shirley Valentine ) | Nominated | [16] | |
1996 | Best Original Score | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Nominated | [16] |
Best Original Song | "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces) | Nominated | ||
2009 | Best Original Score | The Informant! | Nominated | [16] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1974 | Song of the Year | "The Way We Were" | Won | [17] |
Best New Artist | — | Won | ||
Best Pop Instrumental Performance | "The Entertainer" | Won | ||
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording | Won | ||
1975 | Best Cast Show Album | A Chorus Line | Nominated | [17] |
1977 | Song of the Year | "Nobody Does It Better" | Nominated | [17] |
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | The Spy Who Loved Me | Nominated | ||
Best Instrumental Composition | "Bond '77/James Bond Theme" | Nominated | ||
1979 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Ice Castles | Nominated | [17] |
Best Cast Show Album | They're Playing Our Song | Nominated | ||
1989 | Best Song Written for Visual Media | "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" (from Shirley Valentine ) | Nominated | [17] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1976 | Best Original Score | A Chorus Line | Won | [18] |
2002 | Sweet Smell of Success | Nominated | [19] |
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1994 | CableACE Awards | Original Song | "Ordinary Miracles" (from Barbra: The Concert ) | Won | [20] |
1976 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Lyrics | A Chorus Line | Won | [21] |
Outstanding Music | Won | ||||
1993 | The Goodbye Girl | Won | [22] | ||
2002 | Sweet Smell of Success | Nominated | [23] | ||
1981 | Golden Raspberry Awards | Worst Original Song | "Hearts, Not Diamonds" (from The Fan ) | Nominated | [24] |
2009 | Satellite Awards | Best Original Score | The Informant! | Nominated | [25] |
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2009 | Chicago Film Critics Association | Best Original Score | The Informant! | Nominated | [26] |
2009 | Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Best Score | The Informant! | Nominated | [27] |
2009 | Houston Film Critics Society | Best Original Score | The Informant! | Nominated | [28] |
2009 | International Film Music Critics Association | Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | The Informant! | Won | [29] |
1996 | Online Film & Television Association | Best Original Song | "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces ) | Nominated | [30] |
2009 | Best Original Score | The Informant! | Nominated | [31] | |
2014 | Film Hall of Fame: Support | — | Inducted | [32] | |
2009 | Online Film Critics Society | Best Original Score | The Informant! | Nominated | [33] |
Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2008 | American Theater Hall of Fame | Inducted | [34] |
2008 | The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame | Inducted | [35] |
1976 | Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Chorus Line | Won | [36] |
1986 | Songwriters Hall of Fame | Inducted | [37] |
2009 | World Soundtrack Award Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | [38] |