1953Nominee
Best Performance
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Hoagy Carmichael
Actor
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
November 22, 1899
Biography
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1946Winner
Best Performance
The Best Years of Our Lives
1945Winner
Best Performance
To Have and Have Not
Career Highlights
1937Highlight
Best Performance
Topper
1946Highlight
Best Performance
Canyon Passage
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Best Years of Our Lives
To Have and Have Not