Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. People also ask

  2. Feb 10, 2020 · The 2020 Academy Awards went down on Sunday night, and one of music’s biggest names came away with an award. Elton John took home the Best Original Song award for “ (Im Gonna) Love...

    • It Birthed Broadway's Biggest Hit
    • It Covers A Vast Range of Styles
    • It Kickstarted Elton John's Second Career

    Hitting the New Amsterdam Theatre in October 1997, The Lion King wasn't the first Disney animation to get a Broadway stage adaptation (Beauty and the Beast had opened at the Palace Theatre three years earlier) — but it remains the biggest. In fact, thanks to a run of 8,500 shows, its $1 billion-plus gross is now the highest in the theater district'...

    "The plan was that we wouldn't write the usual Broadway-style Disney score," John later wrote in his 2019 memoir, Me, about his and Rice's approach to the film. "But try and come up with pop songs that kids would like." Indeed, while the partnership of Menken and Ashman grounded their Disney sing-alongs in the worlds of musical theater and Tin Pan ...

    "I sat there with a line of lyrics that began, 'When I was a young warthog,'" John told Time magazine in 1995 about the inception of The Lion King soundtrack, "and I thought, 'Has it come to this?'" The pop legend needn't have worried. The song in question, "Hakuna Matata," might not have been his most lyrically sophisticated. But the comic interlu...

  3. The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film.

  4. Feb 9, 2020 · ‘Rocketman’ Tune Scores Elton John His Second Best Original Song Oscar. Nearly 25 years after he first won the best original song Oscar for 'The Lion King's' "Can You Feel the Love...

  5. Jan 13, 2020 · The 2020 best original song Oscar nominees include "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" from 'Toy Story 4,' "I'm Standing With You" from 'Breakthrough,' 'Frozen 2's' "Into the Unknown,"...

    • Annie Howard
  6. Feb 7, 2020 · Let's pick a winner and some losers from among a crop that includes a Disney showstopper, an Elton John banger, Randy Newman's latest Pixar romp and two songs about standing.

  7. The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST.

  1. People also search for