Songwriter
Three Oscars for HIT songs: Liedtexter Alan Bergman is dead
Alan and Marilyn Bergman in Hollywood won three Oscar trophies with their song texts. The songwriter died at the age of 99, three years after his wife.
The American songwriter and three-time Oscar winner Alan Bergman is dead. He died in his house in Los Angeles on Friday night, as Bergman’s spokesman for the German Press Agency said. The multi -award -winning songwriter was 99 years old. He had had respiratory problems in the past few months, but wrote songs to the end, the statement said. In 2022, his wife, songwriter and composer Marilyn Bergman, died at the age of 93.
The couple, married since 1958, became known primarily through film music. They were nominated 16 times for an Oscar. The first nomination immediately brought them the first trophy – for the song “The Windmills of Your Mind” to the film “The Thomas Crown Affair” (1969). Further Oscars followed for the song “The Way We Were” (1973) from the love film “As we were” with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford and in 1984 for the lyrics for the film “Yentl” staged by Streisand. The songwriter duo works with the French composer Michel Legrand.
For Streisand, they also wrote hit songs such as “Solitary Moon”, “The Same Hello, The Same Goodbye” or “That Face”. There were further Oscar nominations for the songs “It Might Be You” from “Totsie”, “If We Were In Love” from “Loved Giorgio” and most recently in 1996 for the song “Moonlight” from the film comedy “Sabrina”.
In addition to three Oscars, the couple was also awarded two Golden Globes, three Grammys and four Emmys.
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Source: Stern
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