Sidney Poitier's star vehicle was nominated for one Oscar, Best Song, “For Love of Ivy,” music by Quincy Jones, lyrics by Bob Russell
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Sidney Poitier's star vehicle was nominated for one Oscar, Best Song, “For Love of Ivy,” music by Quincy Jones, lyrics by Bob Russell
Billy Wilder's satire “The Fortune Cookie” was nominated for four Oscars, including Story and Screenplay (Original) by Wilder and I.A. Diamond, and Supporting Actor for Walter Matthau, who won.
Budd Schulberg, who wrote the Hollywood novels “What Makes Sammy Run?” and “The Disenchanted” and who won a 1954 Oscar for his original screenplay for Kazan’s “On the Waterfront,” died of natural causes Wednesday, August 5, at his home in Westhampton Beach, Long Island. He was 95.
The showbiz biopic “Frances” was nominated for two Oscars, Best Actress for Jessica Lange and Supporting Actress for Kim Hunter.
British-born Samantha Morton has received two Oscar nominations: Supporting Actress for Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Best Actress for Jim Sheridan's In America (2002)