Which on these two men won a Academy Award, Oscar Hammerstein II or Alan Paton?
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Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II ( ; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalist's and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".
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Alan Paton Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels "Cry, the Beloved Country" and "Too Late the Phalarope".
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Oscar Potoker Oscar Potoker (born Vinnytsia April 26, 1880, death 26 Jun 1935 - Los Angeles, age 55) was a musician and film composer.
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Andy Paton Andy Paton (2 January 1923 – 8 February 2014) was a Scottish football player and manager. Paton played for Motherwell, Hamilton Academical and Scotland, and he later managed Hamilton.
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James LaRue (sound engineer) James LaRue (May 12, 1934 – December 30, 2012) was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film "Tron".
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King Vidor King Wallis Vidor ( ; February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator." He was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar, and won eight international film awards during his career. Vidor's best known films include "The Big Parade" (1925), "The Crowd" (1928), "Stella Dallas" (1937), and "Duel in the Sun" (1946). (He is not related to fellow director Charles Vidor).
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Town Without Pity (song) "Town Without Pity" is a song written by composer Dimitri Tiomkin and lyricist Ned Washington. The track was originally recorded by Gene Pitney for the 1961 film of the same title. In 1962, the song received a Golden Globe award for "Best Motion Picture Song," and was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Music, Original Song".
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Delbert Mann Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film "Marty" (1955), adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. In 2002, he received the DGA's honorary life member award. Mann was credited to have "helped bring TV techniques to the film world."
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Bill Varney Harold William "Bill" Varney (January 22, 1934 – April 2, 2011) was an American motion picture sound mixer. A two-time Academy Award winner, Varney shared the Academy Award for Best Sound for "" in 1980 and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in 1981. Varney also received Academy Award for Best Sound nominations his collaborative sound mixing on "Dune" in 1984 and "Back to the Future" in 1985.
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Oscar Bettison Oscar Bettison (born September 19,1975) is a British/American composer known for large-scale chamber and large ensemble works. He has been described as possessing “a unique voice” His work has been described as having "An unconventional lyricism and a menacing beauty" and “pulsating with an irrepressible energy and vitality, as well as brilliant craftsmanship.” He is a member of the composition faculty at the Peabody Institute. Bettison has recently been named a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
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Anna Pinnock Anna Pinnock is a set decorator. She has been nominated six times for an Academy Award:
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Patrick Tubach Patrick "Pat" Tubach is a visual effects supervisor. Tubach and his fellow visual effects artists are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2013 film "Star Trek Into Darkness".
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Robert L. Wolfe Robert L. Wolfe (July 5, 1928 – February 28, 1981) was an American film editor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing three times for "All the President's Men" (1976), "The Rose" (1979), and "On Golden Pond" (1981), respectively. Other notable films edited by Wolfe include "The Getaway" (1972), "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973), "The Terminal Man" (1974), and "The Wind and the Lion" (1975).
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84th Academy Awards The 84th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2011 in the United States and took place on February 26, 2012, at the Hollywood and Highland Center Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and produced by Brian Grazer and Don Mischer, with Mischer also serving as director. Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the ninth time. He first presided over the 62nd ceremony held in 1990 and had last hosted the 76th ceremony held in 2004.
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Alan Heim Alan Heim, ACE (born May 31, 1936) is an Academy Award-winning American film editor who was born in the Bronx, New York. With a long and distinguished career in the film business, Heim has more than thirty feature-film credits to his name, and has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Heim has also served as President of the ACE organization and as President of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), the IATSE union that represents film editors, sound mixers and post-production craftspeople. Heim had an extended collaboration with director Bob Fosse, and he edited "All That Jazz" (1979). For that film, Heim received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. "All That Jazz" is the fourth best-edited film of all time on a 2012 list compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
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South Pacific (musical) South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances. The plot of the musical is based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book "Tales of the South Pacific" and combines elements of several of those stories. Rodgers and Hammerstein believed they could write a musical based on Michener's work that would be financially successful and, at the same time, would send a strong progressive message on racism.
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21st Academy Awards The 21st Academy Awards features numerous firsts. It was the first time a non-Hollywood production won Best Picture, "Hamlet". It was the first time an individual (Laurence Olivier) directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance.
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Ronald Pierce (sound engineer) Ronald Pierce (September 18, 1909 – March 5, 2008) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category.
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Stephen McKeon Stephen McKeon is a multi-award winning Irish composer of film and television soundtrack music. He has received two Irish Film and Television Awards both for John Boorman films, Queen & Country in 2014 and "The Tiger's Tail" in 2004 and was previously nominated for "Blind Flight", "Savage" and the children's animated feature "". His other works include: "The Nephew" (1998) and "Borstal Boy" (2000). He scored the 2011 biopic "Hattie".
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Ted Haworth Ted Haworth (September 26, 1917 – February 18, 1993) was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Best Art Direction.
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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created for 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. In 2002, the name of the award was changed from Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) to Writing (Original Screenplay).
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Paul Lukas Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; May 26, 1894 – August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film "Watch on the Rhine" (1943), reprising the role he created on the Broadway stage.