Randy Newman

Premiere: Randy Newman and the Randy Newman Posse at the Hollywood premiere of Monsters, Inc. - 10/28/2001 Photo: Steve Granitz/Wireimage.com

Biography

Born 11/28/1942

One of the most sardonic, iconoclastic, musically adept and stylistically diverse singer-songwriters in the music industry, Randy Newman, remembering his relatives sweating out their movie score deadlines, initially avoided following in the outsized footsteps of his famous film composer uncles...
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Awards

  • In 2007, received Grammy for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
  • In 2002, received Grammy for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
  • In 2002, received Oscar for Best Music (Song)

Highlights

  • In 2006, Scored the Disney/Pixar film "Cars"; earned an Oscar nomination for Best Song for Our Town, which was sung by James Taylor
  • In 2003, Was nominated for a grammy for his contribution on the soundtrack "Seabiscuit"
  • In 2002, Picked up two Oscar nominations (his 15th and 16th) for the original score to the animated "Monsters, Inc." and the song "If I Didn't Have You" from the same film; won Best Original Song Academy Award

Family & Companions

  • Irving Newman: father (Musician-turned-doctor; died of cancer in 1990)
  • Adele Newman: mother (Died c. 1988)

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