Randy Newman

Sound

Born 1943-11-28 Los Angeles, California, USA 97 credits Academy Awards 2 Primetime Emmy Awards 4 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1 Disney Legends 1 Annie Award 1

Awards

Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won · 19 nominated

2020 Best Original Song Nominated I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away
2020 Best Original Score Nominated Marriage Story
2011 Best Original Song Won We Belong Together
2010 Best Original Song Nominated Almost There, Down in New Orleans
2007 Best Original Song Nominated Our Town
2002 Best Original Song Won If I Didn't Have You, Monsters, Inc.
2002 Best Original Score Nominated Monsters, Inc.
2001 Best Original Song Nominated A Fool in Love
2000 Best Original Song Nominated When She Loved Me
1999 Best Original Song Nominated
1999 Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Nominated A Bug's Life
1999 Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated Pleasantville
1997 Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Nominated James and the Giant Peach
1996 Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Nominated Toy Story
1996 Best Original Song Nominated You've Got a Friend in Me
1995 Best Original Song Nominated
1991 Best Original Score Nominated Avalon
1990 Best Original Song Nominated I Love to See You Smile
1985 Best Original Score Nominated The Natural
1982 Best Original Score Nominated Ragtime
1982 Best Original Song Nominated One More Hour

Primetime Emmy Awards 4 won

2010 Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics Won Monk
2004 Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Won Monk
— Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Won
— Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics Won

Grammy Awards 1 nominated

— Best Song Written for Visual Media Nominated Down in New Orleans

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1 won

2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Won

Disney Legends 1 won

2007 Disney Legends Won

Annie Award 1 won

2007 Annie Award Won

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Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, and arranger. Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, he is known for his Americana-inspired songs, non-rhotic Southern-accented singing, and lyrics that are often mordant or satirical and delivered by an unreliable narrator. Since the 1990s, he has worked mainly in film scoring, most popularly for Disney and Pixar. Newman began his professional career in the early 1960s composing incidental music for television and later penning UK hits for acts such as Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, and the Alan Price Set. After he formed part of a creative circle at Warner Bros. Records in 1966, the company released his first solo album, Randy Newman (1968). Other artists subsequently enjoyed chart success with recordings of his songs "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (1967), "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (1968), and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1972). His own hits as a recording artist include "Short People" (1977), "I Love L.A." (1983), and "You've Got a Friend in Me" (1995). Three of his eleven studio albums have charted in the U.S. top 40: Good Old Boys (1974), Little Criminals (1977), and Harps and Angels (2008). Newman has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards (out of 22 nominations), three Emmys, seven Grammy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and seven Golden Globe Awards. His award-winning film work includes Ragtime (1981), The Natural (1984), Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Pleasantville (1998), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Cars (2006), The Princess and the Frog (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Marriage Story (2019). He was honored with the Recording Academy's Governors Award in 2003, a Disney Legend award in 2007,[5][6] and inductions into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.