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Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris
Paris

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) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenian
Armenians

The Armenians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands. A large concentration of them has remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world ....
 descent.

Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations), five Grammy
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
s, and has been nominated for an Emmy
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
. He was twenty-two when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released.






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Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenian
Armenians

The Armenians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands. A large concentration of them has remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world ....
 descent.

Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations), five Grammy
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
s, and has been nominated for an Emmy
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
. He was twenty-two when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released. He is a virtuoso jazz and classical pianist and an accomplished arranger and conductor who performs with orchestras all over the world. He studied music at the Paris Conservatoire from 1943-50 (ages 11-20), working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was an influential French composer, conducting, and music professor. An outstanding music educator at the highest level, she taught many of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th century....
, the teacher also of many other composers, including Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
 and Philip Glass
Philip Glass

Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
. Legrand graduated with top honors as both a composer and a pianist.

Jazz recordings

In the early 1950s, Legrand was one of the first Europeans to work with jazz innovators such as Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
 and Stan Getz
Stan Getz

Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
. His jazz-oriented projects, though infrequent, have been almost uniformly outstanding. While on a visit to the U.S. in 1958, Legrand collaborated with such musicians as Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
, John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
, Bill Evans
Bill Evans

William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
, Phil Woods
Phil Woods

Philip Wells Woods is an United States jazz bebop Alto saxophone, clarinetist, bandleader and composer....
, Ben Webster
Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster , aka "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential United States jazz tenor saxophone. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young....
, Hank Jones
Hank Jones

Henry "Hank" Jones is an United States jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Critics and musicians have described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable....
, and Art Farmer
Art Farmer

Arthur Stewart Farmer , was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet/flugelhorn combination designed for him by David Monette....
 in an album of inventive orchestrations of jazz standards titled Legrand Jazz. The following year, back in Paris with bassist Guy Pedersen and percussionist Gus Wallez, he recorded an album of Paris-themed songs arranged for jazz piano trio, titled Paris Jazz Piano. Nearly a decade later he recorded At Shelly's Manne-Hole (1968), a live trio session with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne
Shelly Manne

Shelly Manne , born Sheldon Manne in New York City, was an American Jazz drumming. Most frequently associated with West coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, Swing music, bebop, avant-garde jazz and Jazz fusion, as well as contributing to the musical background of...
, in which four of the compositions were improvised on the spot. Legrand also provided an odd scat vocal on "My Funny Valentine." After another decade had elapsed, Legrand returned to jazz and collaboration with Phil Woods on Jazz Le Grand (1979) and After the Rain (1982); then he collaborated with violinist Stephane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli

St?phane Grappelli was a French people jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first of all-string jazz bands....
 on an album in 1992. Not as well received as his earlier work was a 1994 album for LaserLight titled Michel Plays Legrand. More recently, in 2002, he recorded a masterful solo jazz piano album reworking fourteen of his classic songs, Michel Legrand by Michel Legrand. His jazz piano style is virtuosic and eclectic, drawing upon such influences as Art Tatum
Art Tatum

Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso.With an exuberant style that combined dazzling technique and sophisticated use of harmony, Art Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time....
, Erroll Garner
Erroll Garner

Erroll Louis Garner was an United States jazz pianist and composer known for his Swung note playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad Misty became a jazz standard with singers....
, Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
, and Bill Evans
Bill Evans

William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
.

A number of his songs have become jazz standards, covered frequently by other artists, including "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?," "Watch What Happens," "The Summer Knows," and "You Must Believe in Spring."

Eclecticism

During various periods of creative work, Legrand became a conductor for orchestras in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The city is known as a vacation destination for North American and European vacationers, as well as a politically important swing state in U.S....
, Vancouver
Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city in British Columbia and the second largest metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest region....
, Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
, Atlanta, and Denver. He recorded more than one hundred albums with international musical stars (spanning the genres of jazz, variety, and classical) and worked with such diverse musicians as Phil Woods
Phil Woods

Philip Wells Woods is an United States jazz bebop Alto saxophone, clarinetist, bandleader and composer....
, Ray Charles
Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
, Perry Como
Perry Como

Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
, Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
, Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
, Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
, Lena Horne
Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne is an American singer and actress. She has recorded and performed extensively, independently and with other jazz notables, including Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Benny Carter, and Billy Eckstine....
, James Ingram
James Ingram

James Ingram is an United States Soul music musician. He is best-known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass guitar, Drum kit and synthesizer....
, Jack Jones
Jack Jones (singer)

Jack Jones is an United States jazz and pop music singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s....
, Kiri te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa

Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, Order of New Zealand, Order of the British Empire, Order of Australia, is a New Zealand soprano who had a highly successful international opera career between 1968-2004....
, Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine

Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
, Tereza Kesovija
Tereza Kesovija

Tereza Ana Kesovija is an internationally acclaimed Croatian singer, and previously an important artist of the former Yugoslavia. She also had a successful career in France....
, Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
, Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman is a four-time Grammy Award-winning African American opera singer. Norman is one of the most admired contemporary opera singers and recitalists, and is one of the highest paid performers in classical music....
, Diana Ross
Diana Ross

Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
, Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
, Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
, Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan was an United States jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"....
, Shirley Bassey
Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
 and Regine Velasquez
Regine Velasquez

Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez a.k.a Regine Velasquez is a Filipino people singer, actress, record producer, and TV host. She's dubbed as the Asia's Songbird widely known for possessing a wide vocal range....
.

Legrand has also recorded classical piano pieces by composers such as Erik Satie
Erik Satie

Alfred ?ric Leslie Satie was a France composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie....
 and George Gershwin
George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
.

His sister, Christiane Legrand, was a member of The Swingle Singers
The Swingle Singers

The Swingle Singers are a a cappella formed in 1962 in Paris, France with Ward Swingle, Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont and Jean Cussac. Christiane Legrand, the sister of composer Michel Legrand, was the lead soprano in the group....
 and his niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the indie rock group Beach House

Film scores

Legrand is known principally as a composer of innovative music for films, composing film scores (about two hundred to date) for directors Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris....
, Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks was an United States screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer....
, Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch

Claude Lelouch is a France film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor and film producer....
, Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
, Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
, and many others. Legrand himself appears and performs in Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda

Agn?s Varda is a French people film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary ? with a distinct experimental style....
's French New Wave
French New Wave

The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of Cinema of France of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema....
 classic, Cleo from 5 to 7
Cléo from 5 to 7

Cl?o from 5 to 7 is a 1962 in film Left Bank Cinema film by Agn?s Varda. The story depicts the life of Cl?o in real time between 5 and 7 o'clock in the afternoon....
 (1961). After his songs appeared in Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of Fran?ois Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the gol...
's films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a musical film made in 1964. It was Film director by Jacques Demy, and stars Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo....
 (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

The Young Girls of Rochefort is a 1967 musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve, her sister Fran?oise Dorl?ac , Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Danielle Darrieux, George Chakiris, Grover Dale and Gene Kelly....
 (1966), Legrand became famous worldwide. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg was a sung-through musical in which all the dialogue was set to music, a revolutionary concept at the time.

Hollywood soon became interested in Legrand after Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, bombarding him with requests to compose music for films. Having begun to collaborate with Hollywood, Legrand continued to work there for many years. Among his best-known scores are those for The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)

The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
 (1968), which features the hit song The Windmills of Your Mind
The Windmills of Your Mind

"The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with words and music by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair ....
, and Summer of '42
Summer of '42

Summer of '42 is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States "Bildungsroman" film drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Doro...
 (1971), which features another hit song, "The Summer Knows." Legrand also wrote the score for Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
's last-completed film, F for Fake
F for Fake

F for Fake is the last major film completed by Orson Welles. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of...
 (1974).

Currently, Legrand divides his time between America and France

Filmography

  • Beau fixe (short) (1953)
  • Lovers Net (Les amants du Tage) (1954)
  • Charmants garçons (1958)
  • Le Triporteur (1958)
  • L'Amérique insolite (1958)
  • Lola (1960)
  • Terrain vague (co-composer) (1960)
  • A Woman Is a Woman
    A Woman Is a Woman

    A Woman Is a Woman...
     (Une femme est une femme) (1960)
  • The French Game (Le cœur battant) (1960)
  • Les Portes claquent (1960)
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Cl?o from 5 to 7 is a 1962 in film Left Bank Cinema film by Agn?s Varda. The story depicts the life of Cl?o in real time between 5 and 7 o'clock in the afternoon....
     (Cléo de 5 à 7) (1961)
  • The 7 Capital Sins (Les Sept péchés capitaux
    Les Sept péchés capitaux

    Les Sept p?ch?s capitaux is a 1962 film composed of seven different segments, one for each of the seven deadly sins.External links ...
    ) (co-composer) (1961)
  • The Winner (Un cœur gros comme ça) (1961)
  • Retour a New York (1962)
  • Comme un poisson dans l'eau (1962)
  • Eva (1962)
  • Une grosse tete (1962)
  • My Life to Live
    My Life to Live

    Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux is a 1962 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was released in the U.S. as My Life to Live and in the UK as It's My Life....
     (Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux) (1962)
  • Bay of Angels
    La Baie des Anges

    La Baie des Anges is a 1963 French film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann. La Baie des Anges is Demy's second film and deals with the subject of gambling....
     (La baie des anges) (1962)
  • L'Amerique lunaire (1962)
  • Histoire d'un petit garcon devenu grand (1962)
  • Le joli mai (1962)
  • Illuminations (1963)
  • Le grand escroc (1963)
  • L'Empire de la nuit (1963)
  • Love Is A Ball (1963)
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
    Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a musical film made in 1964. It was Film director by Jacques Demy, and stars Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo....
    ) (1964)
  • A Ravishing Idiot (Une ravissante idiote) (1964)
  • Band of Outsiders (Bande à part
    Bande à part

    Bande ? part is a 1964 in film film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It is released as Band of Outsiders in North America; its French title derives from the phrase faire bande ? part, which means "to do something apart from the group."...
    ) (1964)
  • Fascinante amazonie (1964)
  • Les amoureux du France (1964)
  • La Douceur du village (1964)
  • A Matter of Resistance (La vie de château) (1965)
  • Quand passent les faisans (1965)
  • Tender Scoundrel (Tendre voyou) (1965)
  • Monnaie de singe (1965)
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
    Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

    The Young Girls of Rochefort is a 1967 musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve, her sister Fran?oise Dorl?ac , Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Danielle Darrieux, George Chakiris, Grover Dale and Gene Kelly....
    ) (1966)
  • Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?) (1966)
  • The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean (1966)
  • L'an 2000 (1966)
  • Gold and Lead (L'or et le plomb) (1966)
  • A Matter of Innocence (also known as Pretty Polly) (1967)
  • L'homme a la Buick (1967)
  • How to Save a Marriage — And Ruin Your Life (1967)
  • Sweet November (1968)
  • The Thomas Crown Affair
    The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)

    The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
     (1968)
  • The Swimming Pool (La piscine) (1968)
  • Play Dirty (1968)
  • The Appointment
    The Appointment

    The Appointment is a 1969 in film psychological drama from director Sidney Lumet and writer James Salter, based on the story by Antonio Leonviola....
     (rejected) (1968)
  • Ice Station Zebra
    The Go-Between (film)

    The Go-Between is a 1970 in film United Kingdom film adaptation of the The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley directed by Joseph Losey and starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, and Edward Fox , among others....
     (1968)
  • Castle Keep (1969)
  • The Happy Ending
    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending is a 1969 film which tells the story of a repressed housewife who longs for liberation from her marriage....
     (1969)
  • Picasso Summer (1969)
  • Pieces of Dreams (1969)
  • The Go-Between
    The Go-Between (film)

    The Go-Between is a 1970 in film United Kingdom film adaptation of the The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley directed by Joseph Losey and starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, and Edward Fox , among others....
     (1970)
  • The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
  • Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront?'s only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte Bront?....
     (1970)
  • The Swashbuckler (Les mariés de l'an II) (1970)
  • Donkey Skin (Peau d'Âne
    Peau d'Âne

    Peau d'?ne is a 1970 French color-coded musical film rendering of the famous Charles Perrault fairy tale Donkeyskin, about a king who wishes to marry his daughter....
    ) (1970)
  • The Lady in the Car With Glasses And a Gun (La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil) (1970)
  • Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1970)
  • Le Mans (1970)
  • Summer of '42
    Summer of '42

    Summer of '42 is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States "Bildungsroman" film drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Doro...
     (1971)
  • La vieille Fille (1971)
  • A Time for Loving (Also: Paris Was Made For Lovers) (1971)
  • Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
  • Portnoy's Complaint
    Portnoy's Complaint (film)

    Portnoy's Complaint is a 1972 in film United States dramedy film written and directed by Ernest Lehman. His screenplay is based on the Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth....
     (1972)
  • Les feux de la Chandeleur (1972)
  • The Impossible Object (1972)
  • One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
  • A Doll's House
    A Doll's House (1973 Losey film)

    A Doll's House is a 1973 France-United Kingdom movie directed by Joseph Losey. It went directly to television and premiered in the United States on the American Broadcasting Company....
     (1973)
  • The Nelson Affair (Also: A Bequest to the Nation) (1973)
  • The Outside Man (Un homme est mort) (1973)
  • The Hostages (Le gang des otages) (1973)
  • Forty Carats (1973)
  • Cops and Robbers (1973)
  • Breezy
    Breezy

    Breezy is a 1973 in film Cinema of the United States romance film drama film, starring William Holden and Kay Lenz. It was written by Jo Heims and directed by Clint Eastwood....
     (1973)
  • The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
    The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

    The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing is a novel written by Marilyn Durham first published in 1972. The novel employs much symbolism.The novel was filmed by MGM in 1973 as The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, starring Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, and Lee J....
     (rejected) (1973)
  • The Three Musketeers
    The Three Musketeers (1973 film)

    The Three Musketeers is a 1973 in film film based on the The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, p?re. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser ....
     (1973)
  • Our Time (1974)
  • The Four Musketeers (1974)
  • The Most Important Event Since Man Walked on the Moon (L'Evenement le plus important depuis que l'homme marche sur la lune) (1974)
  • F for Fake
    F for Fake

    F for Fake is the last major film completed by Orson Welles. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of...
     (1974)
  • The Savage (Le sauvage) (1975)
  • Gulliver's Travels (1975)
  • Sheila Levine is Dead — and Living in New York (1975)
  • Gable and Lombard
    Gable and Lombard

    Gable and Lombard is a 1976 United States biographical film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The screenplay by Barry Sandler is based on the romance and consequent marriage of legendary screen stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard....
     (1976)
  • Ode to Billy Joe
    Ode to Billy Joe (film)

    Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 in film film with a screenplay by Herman Raucher adapted from his own novel, which in turn was based on the 1967 in music hit song by Bobbie Gentry, also titled "Ode to Billie Joe" ....
     (1976)
  • Le voyage de noces (1976)
  • The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (La flute a six schtroumpfs) (1976)
  • The Other Side of Midnight
    The Other Side of Midnight (film)

    The Other Side of Midnight is a 1977 in film United States film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Marie-France Pisier, John Beck and Susan Sarandon....
     (1977)
  • Routes to the South (Les routes du sud) (1978)
  • Mon premier amour (1978)
  • Lady Oscar (1978)
  • The Phoenix
    Phoenix (manga)

    is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka considered Phoenix his "life's work"; it consists of 12 books, each of which tells a separate, self-contained story and takes place in a different era....
     (1978)
  • The Fabulous Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (1979)
  • Atlantic City
    Atlantic City (film)

    Atlantic City is a film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980 and in the United States in 1981....
     (1980)
  • The Hunter
    The Hunter (film)

    The Hunter is a 1980 USA thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik based on the exploits of real-life bounty hunter Ralph Thorson. The film stars Steve McQueen in the lead role , and features Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson and Richard Venture in supporting roles....
     (1980)
  • The Mountain Men (1980)
  • Les Uns et les Autres
    Les Uns et les Autres

    Les Uns et les Autres is a 1981 France film by Claude Lelouch.The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work with Un Homme et une Femme, Palme d'or in Festival de Cannes....
     (also known as Bolero) (1980)
  • Hinotori (co-composer) (1980)
  • Falling in Love Again (1981)
  • What Makes David Run? (Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?) (1981)
  • La cadeau (1981)
  • Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
  • Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1982)
  • Slapstick of Another Kind
    Slapstick of Another Kind (film)

    Slapstick of Another Kind was filmed in 1982. It was released in March 1984 in film by both The S. Paul Company/Serendipity Entertainment Releasing Company and International Film Marketing....
     (1982) (1982 cut)
  • La revanche des humanoides (1982)
  • Best Friends (1982)
  • The Gift (1982)
  • Yentl
    Yentl

    Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer.Based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," it centers on a young girl who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father....
     (1983)
  • Never Say Never Again
    Never Say Never Again

    Never Say Never Again, released in 1983 in film by Orion Pictures and Warner Bros., is a non-EON Productions remake of the 1965 James Bond film, Thunderball ....
     (1983)
  • A Love in Germany (Un amour en Allemagne) (1983)
  • Secret Places (1984)
  • Micki and Maude (1984)
  • Love Songs (Paroles et musique) (1984)
  • Palace (1985)
  • Partir revenir (1985)
  • Train to Hell (Train d'enfer) (1985)
  • Parking (1985)
  • Crossings (1986)
  • Sins (1986)
  • Casanova (1987)
  • Social Club (Club de recontres) (1987)
  • Spirale (1987)
  • Switching Channels (1988)
  • Three Seats For the 26th (Trois places pour le 26) (1988)
  • Five Days in June (Cinq jours en juin) (1989)
  • Escape from Paradise (Fuga dal Paradiso) (1990)
  • Predator 2 (1990)
  • Dingo
    Dingo (film)

    Dingo is a 1991 Australia film directed by Rolf de Heer and written by Marc Rosenberg . It traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson , an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris, to meet his idol, jazz trumpeter Billy Cross ....
     with Miles Davis
    Miles Davis

    Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
     (1991)
  • Gaspard et Robinson (1991)
  • Pure Luck (1991)
  • The Burning Shore (1991)
  • The Pickle (1993)
  • Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter
    Prêt-à-Porter (film)

    Pr?t-?-Porter is a 1994 in film satirical black comedy written, directed and produced by Robert Altman and shot during the Paris, France, Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models and designers....
    ) (1994)
  • Angels in the Outfield (1994)
  • Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
  • Les enfants de lumiere (1995)
  • L'Americain se détend (1958)
  • Michel's Mixed Up Musical Bird (1968)
  • Gone Fishin (1997)
  • Aaron's Magic Village (1997)


Television

  • Brian's Song
    Brian's Song

    Brian's Song is a 1971 in film made-for-TV movie, recalling the details of the life of Brian Piccolo , a White American American football player stricken with terminal cancer, and his friendship with African American Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers , who helps him through the difficult strugg...
     (1970)
  • Oum le Dauphin Blanc
    Zoom the White Dolphin

    Zoom the White Dolphin was a 1971 France animated television series, of 13 episodes, created by Vladimir Tarta, directed by Ren? Borg.The original French version was broadcast in 1971 on Office de Radiodiffusion T?l?vision Fran?aise's France 2 and rebroadcast in France from 29 June 1981 on France 3....
     (1971)
  • The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973)
  • It's Good To Be Alive (1974)
  • Cage Without a Key (1975)
  • Once Upon a Time... Space
    Once Upon a Time... Space

    Once Upon a Time...Space was a French animated TV series from 1982, directed by Albert Barill?.Several episodes were edited to make a film titled Revenge of the Humanoids....
     (1982)
  • A Woman Named Golda (1982)
  • The Jesse Owens Story (1984)
  • Promises to Keep (1985)
  • As Summers Die (1986)
  • Once Upon a Time... Life
    Once Upon a Time... Life

    Il ?tait une fois... la vie was a France animated television series which tells the story of the human body for children. The program was originally produced in France in 1987 by Procidis and directed by Albert Barill?....
     (1987)
  • Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1990)
  • La Montagna dei Diamanti (1991)
  • Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers
    Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers

    Il ?tait une fois... les D?couvreurs was a French animated TV series from 1994. Directed by Albert Barill?....
     (1994)
  • The Ring (1995)
  • Once Upon a Time... The Explorers
    Once Upon a Time... The Explorers

    Il ?tait une fois... les Explorateurs is a French animated TV series from 1996. Directed by Albert Barill?....
     (1996)


Musical Theatre

The world premiere of the new musical Marguerite
Marguerite (musical)

Marguerite is a musical theatre with a book by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Jonathan Kent , lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, and music by Michel Legrand, with original French lyrics by Boublil....
 from Alain Boublil
Alain Boublil

Alain Boublil is a librettist, born in Tunisia in 1941, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg.These include:...
 and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg

Claude-Michel Sch?nberg is a French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the librettist Alain Boublil....
, the creators of Les Misérables
Les Misérables

Les Mis?rables is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It has been described as one of the greatest novels ever written in any language....
 and Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon

Miss Saigon is a West End theatre musical theatre by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr....
, will include music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Herbert Kretzmer

Herbert Kretzmer is a South African born newspaperman and lyricist, best known for writing the lyrics of the hit musical theatre, Les Mis?rables ....
.

Marguerite, is set during World War II in occupied Paris, and was inspired by the romantic novel La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils
Alexandre Dumas, fils

Alexandre Dumas, fils was a French author and dramatist. He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, p?re, also a writer and playwright....
. It will premiere in early 2008 at the Haymarket Theatre
Haymarket Theatre

The Theatre Royal Haymarket or Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre is a West End theatre in The Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use....
, London and will be directed by Jonathan Kent
Jonathan Kent

Jonathan Kent may refer to:*Jonathan Kent , British actor, then later theatre and opera director*Jonathan Kent , adoptive father of DC Comics character Superman...
.

Awards

Legrand has won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations), five Grammy
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
s, and has been nominated for an Emmy
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
. The following are some of the awards and nominations with which Legrand's works have been honored:

Academy Award nominations

  • Music score
    Academy Award for Original Music Score

    The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of Film score written specifically for the film by the submitting composer....
    , substantially original:     The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1965)
  • Original score for a motion picture, not a musical: The Thomas Crown Affair
    The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)

    The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
     (1968)
  • Score of a musical picture, original or adaptation: The Young Girls of Rochefort (1968)
  • Original dramatic score: Summer of '42 (1971) (won)
  • Original song score or adaptation score: Yentl (1983) (won)
  • Original song:
    • "I Will Wait For You
      I Will Wait for You

      "I Will Wait For You" is a song from the French musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg . Its music was composed by Michel Legrand and its lyrics written by Jacques Demy....
      " from       The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1965)
    • "The Windmills of Your Mind
      The Windmills of Your Mind

      "The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with words and music by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair ....
      "       (won) from The Thomas Crown Affair
      The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)

      The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
       (1968)
    • "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
      What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?

      "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" is a song with lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and original music written by Michel Legrand for the 1969 film The Happy Ending and was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Original Song....
      " from       The Happy Ending
      The Happy Ending

      The Happy Ending is a 1969 film which tells the story of a repressed housewife who longs for liberation from her marriage....
       (1969)
    • "Pieces of Dreams" from Pieces of Dreams (1970)
    • "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from Best Friends (1982)
    • "Papa, Can You Hear Me?
      Papa, Can You Hear Me?

      Papa, Can You Hear Me? is an a 1983 Academy Award-nominated song, performed by Barbra Streisand for the film Yentl. The song was composed by Michel Legrand, with lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman....
      " and "The Way He Makes Me Feel
      The Way He Makes Me Feel

      "The Way He Makes Me Feel" is the title of a popular song from 1983 performed by Barbra Streisand. The song is featured in the Yentl of the play Yentl, in which Streisand starred and sang most of the music....
      " both from       Yentl
      Yentl

      Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer.Based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," it centers on a young girl who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father....
       (1983)


Golden Globe nominations

  • Original Score:
    • The Thomas Crown Affair
      The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)

      The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
       (1968)
    • The Happy Ending (1969)
    • Wuthering Heights (1970)
    • Le Mans (1971)
    • Summer of '42 (1971)
    • Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
    • Breezy (1973)
    • Yentl (1983)
  • Original Song:
    • "The Windmills of Your Mind
      The Windmills of Your Mind

      "The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with words and music by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair ....
      " from       The Thomas Crown Affair
      The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)

      The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
       (1968)       (won)
    • "What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending (1969)
    • "Pieces of Dreams" from Pieces of Dreams (1970)
    • "Breezy's Song" from Breezy (1973)
    • "Yesterday's Dreams" from Falling in love again (1980)
    • "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from Yentl (1983)


Grammy Award nominations

  • Best arrangement accompanying vocalist: Happy Ending (Sarah Vaughn) (1972)
  • Song of the year: "The Summer Knows" from Summer of '42 (1972)
  • Best instrumental composition: "Brian's Song" [TV] (1972)
  • Best original score written for a motion picture or television special: The Three Musketeers (1974)
  • Best instrumental composition: "Images" (1982)
  • Best jazz performance by a Big Band: "Images" (1982)
  • Best original score album: Yentl (1983)
  • Best instrumental arrangement accompanying vocals: Yentl (Barbra Streisand) (1983)


Theatre nominations

  • Tony Award
    Tony Award

    The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
     for Best Original Score:     Amour
    Amour (musical)

    Amour is a musical theatre fantasy with an English language book by Jeremy Sams, music by Michel Legrand, and lyrics by Didier Van Cauwelaert, who wrote the original French language libretto....
     (2002)
  • Drama Desk Award
    Drama Desk Award

    The Drama Desk Award, created in 1955, is an award which recognizes theatres produced on Broadway theatre, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and for legitimate not-for-profit theaters....
     for Outstanding Original Score:     Amour (2002)


Emmy Award nominations

  • Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special (Dramatic Underscore): "A Woman Called Golda" [TV] (1982)


Fennecus nominations

  • Song score, original or adaptation: Yentl (1983)
  • Original song: "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from Yentl (1983)


Apex nominations

  • Original score, comedy: Best Friends (1982)
  • Original song, drama: "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from Yentl (1983)
  • Original song score/adaptation/compilation, drama: Yentl (1983)


Australian Film Institute Award nominations

  • Best Original Music Score: Dingo (1991)


Prix Moliere Award (France)

  • Best musical: Le Passe-Muraille


ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)

  • Henry Mancini Award for Le Passe-Muraille


Golden Eagle Award

  • Outstanding contribution to world cinema (2002)


External links

  • , from Radio France Internationale
    Radio France Internationale

    Radio France Internationale was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France to serve as a broadcast vehicle for French Equatorial Africa....
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