Alan Bergman (b. September 11th, 1925)
Alan Bergman teamed with wife Marilyn to forge one of the premier lyric-writing teams in contemporary film music, authoring a series of hit themes for movies including In the Heat of the Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Way We Were. Bergman was born September 11, 1925, in Brooklyn, NY, and began his career during the early '50s as a director of children's television programming.
In 1958, he married Marilyn and three years later the couple earned their first big-screen credit for their work on The Right Approach. 1967's In the Heat of Night was the Bergmans' breakthrough; composed with Quincy Jones, the picture's familiar title theme was sung by the inimitable Ray Charles. The following year, the couple teamed with composer Michel Legrand for The Thomas Crown Affair, notching an international smash with Noel Harrison's rendition of the film's "The Windmills of Your Mind," and the Bergmans subsequently enjoyed a lengthy collaboration with Legrand that yielded such familiar favorites as "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" and "How Do You Keep the Music Playing." Arguably their best-known effort was the title theme to the 1973 melodrama The Way We Were, written with Marvin Hamlisch. The song, a number one pop hit for the movie's star, Barbra Streisand, also earned an Academy Award. After notching Emmys for their work on the television projects Queen of the Stardust Ballroom and Sybil, the Bergmans reunited with Hamlisch for 1978's Oscar-nominated "The Last Time I Felt Like This," from Same Time, Next Year. With Dave Grusin, the couple also penned the Tootsie theme "It Might Be You," a Top Ten hit for Stephen Bishop in 1982. A year later they earned an Oscar for Best Original Score for their work on Streisand's Yentl, and the Bergmans also earned two Academy Award nominations, for their contributions to 1989's Shirley Valentine and 1995's Sabrina. Bergman took a tentative vocal on his own "It Might Be You" for Diane Schuur's 2000 album Friends for Schuur, and released his own vocal full-length, Lyrically, Alan Bergman, in 2007. Jason Ankeny
Awards & Nominations
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in From Noon Till Three |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in The Happy Ending |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in Molly and Lawless John |
| Golden Globe award winner for Best Original Song in The Thomas Crown Affair |
| Golden Globe award winner for Best Original Song in The Way We Were |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Score in Yentl |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in Yentl |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in Yes, Giorgio |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in Breezy |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in Pieces of Dreams |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award winner for Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score in Yentl |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Best Friends |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in The Happy Ending |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in The Promise |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Same Time, Next Year |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Shirley Valentine |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Sometimes a Great Notion |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award winner for Best Song in The Thomas Crown Affair |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Tootsie |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award winner for Best Song in The Way We Were |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Yentl |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Yes, Giorgio |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Pieces of Dreams |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award nominee for Best Song in Sabrina |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in Shirley Valentine |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in The African Elephant |
| Golden Globe award nominee for Best Original Song in Sabrina |
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