Steinway Artist Randy Newman Wins Second Academy Award
Randy Newman, whose acceptance speech was described by CBS as the "funniest of the Oscars", was asked by a young college reporter backstage after the ceremony if he had any advice for budding songwriters looking to break into the business. "Who would want to break into it?" he joked. "It's like a bank that's already been robbed."
Newman's song, which he composed and sang for Toy Story 3, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
For the 67-year-old Steinway Artist it was his 20th Oscar nomination and second win and he quipped in his speech: "My percentages aren't great."
Newman last won the Academy Award for the song I Didn't Have You from Monsters Inc. but he has some way to go to match his uncle, Alfred Newman, the dean of Hollywood composers. He was nominated 54 times, winning nine Oscars, including for The King And I in 1956.
Here's Randy's nominations :
1982 - Ragtime (Original Score and Original Song (One More Hour))
1985 - The Natural (Original Score)
1990 - Parenthood (Original Song (I Love to See You Smile))
1991 - Avalon (Original Score)
1995 - The Paper (Original Song (Make Up Your Mind))
1996 - Toy Story (Original Score and Original Song (You've Got a Friend))
1997 - James & the Giant Peach (Original Score)
1999 - Pleasantville (Original Dramatic Score)
1999 - A Bug's Life (Original Musical or Comedy Score)
1999 - Babe: Pig in the City (Original Song (That'll Do))
2000 - Toy Story 2 (Original Song (When She Loved Me))
2001 - Meet the Parents (Original Song (A Fool in Love))
2002 - Monsters, Inc. (Original Score & Original Song (If I Didn't Have You))
2007 - Cars (Original Song (Our Town))
2010 - The Princes & the Frog (Originals Song (Almost There and Down in New Orleans)
2011 - Toy Story 3 (Original Song (We Belong Together))
