Michel Legrand

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Born 1932-02-24 Died 2019-01-26 Bécon-les-Bruyères, Paris, France 230 credits Academy Awards 3 Golden Globe Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 Order of the Badge of Honour 1 Officer of the National Order of Merit 1 Officer of Arts and Letters 1 Commander of the Legion of Honour 1

Awards

Won 3 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 3 won · 9 nominated

1984 Best Original Song Nominated The Way He Makes Me Feel, Papa, Can You Hear Me?
1984 Best Original Song Score Won Yentl
1983 Best Original Song Nominated How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
1972 Best Original Dramatic Score Won Summer of '42
1971 Best Original Song Nominated Pieces of Dreams
1970 Best Original Song Nominated What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
1969 Best Original Score, no Musical Nominated The Thomas Crown Affair
1969 Best Original Song Won The Windmills of Your Mind
1969 Best Original Musical Score Nominated The Young Girls of Rochefort
1966 Best Original Song Nominated I Will Wait for You
1966 Best Original Score Nominated The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1966 Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Nominated The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

1969 Best Original Song Won The Windmills of Your Mind

BAFTA Awards 1 won

1972 Best Original Music Won Summer of '42

Tony Awards 1 nominated

2003 Best Original Score Nominated Amour

Order of the Badge of Honour 1 won

— Order of the Badge of Honour Won

Officer of the National Order of Merit 1 won

— Officer of the National Order of Merit Won

Officer of Arts and Letters 1 won

— Officer of Arts and Letters Won

Commander of the Legion of Honour 1 won

2015 Commander of the Legion of Honour Won

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Michel Jean Legrand (24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written more than 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983). Legrand was born in Paris, France, to his father, Raymond Legrand, who was himself a conductor and composer, and his mother, Marcelle Der-Mikaëlian, who was the sister of conductor Jacques Hélian. Raymond and Marcelle were married in 1929. His maternal grandfather was Armenian. Legrand composed more than two hundred film and television scores. He won three Oscars and five Grammys. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris from the age of 11, working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger and graduated with top honors as both a composer and a pianist. He burst upon the international music scene at 22 when his 1954 album I Love Paris became a surprise hit. He established his name in the United States by working with such jazz stars as Miles Davis and Stan Getz. His sister Christiane Legrand was a member of The Swingle Singers and his niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the dream pop band Beach House. Legrand composed music for Jacques Demy's films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (from which Recit de Cassard came and in turn, in English became the standard Watch What Happens) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), from which the relyricized "You Must Believe in Spring" is considered a jazz standard. Legrand appeared and performed in Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961). He also composed music for Joseph Losey's Eva (1962), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) (which features "The Windmills of Your Mind"), Ice Station Zebra (1968), The Picasso Summer (1969), The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970), The Go-Between (1971), Summer of '42 (1971), Clint Eastwood's Breezy (1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), Orson Welles's last-completed film F for Fake (1974), TriStar Pictures 1998 family film Madeline, and would later compose the score for Welles's posthumously released movie The Other Side of the Wind (2018). He also composed the score for Yentl (1983), as well as the film score for Louis Malle's film Atlantic City (1980). His instrumental version of the theme from Brian's Song charted 56th in 1972 on the Billboard's pop chart. Legrand died of sepsis, during the night of 25–26 January 2019, at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he had been hospitalized for two weeks for a pulmonary infection. His funeral was held in Paris at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on 1 February 2019. He was interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. He remained active until his death and had concerts scheduled to take place in the spring. ... Source: Article "Michel Legrand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.