Quincy Jones

Sound

Born 1933-03-14 Died 2024-11-03 Chicago, Illinois, USA 214 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Grammy Awards 4 Tony Awards 1 Kennedy Center Honors 1 BBC Jazz Awards 1 Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo 1 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1

Awards

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 7 nominated

1986 Best Original Song Nominated Miss Celie's Blues
1986 Best Picture Nominated The Color Purple
1986 Best Original Score Nominated The Color Purple
1979 Best Original Song Score Nominated The Wiz
1969 Best Original Song Nominated For Love of Ivy
1968 Best Original Song Nominated The Eyes of Love
1968 Best Original Score Nominated In Cold Blood

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

1977 Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) Won Roots

Grammy Awards 4 won · 2 nominated

1986 Best Pop Solo Performance Won We Are the World
1986 Record of the Year Won We Are the World
1985 Best R&B Song Nominated Yah Mo B There
1984 Record of the Year Won Beat It
1979 Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella Won The Wiz
1968 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated In the Heat of the Night

Tony Awards 1 won

2016 Best Revival of a Musical Won

Kennedy Center Honors 1 won

— Kennedy Center Honors Won

BBC Jazz Awards 1 won

— BBC Jazz Awards Won

Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo 1 won

— Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 won

— Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Won

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Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing Lesley Gore's major pop hits of the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in the same time period. In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Eyes of Love" from the film Banning. Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year. Jones produced three of popstar Michael Jackson's most successful albums: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia. In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the second most Oscar-nominated African American, with seven nominations each. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.