Flashback : 1991

August 31st 1991

The Top 10 movies in US theaters

1978 ACM Awards - Kenny Rogers

1978
The 13th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards 

(for 1977 in Country Music)

The big winner in 1978 was Kenny Rogers who took home the prizes for "Lucille" as Song of the Year and "Kenny Rogers" for Album of the Year and won his first of 2 consecutive awards for Male Vocalist of the Year.

Calvin and Hobbes of the Day (August 16th 2019)

John Wayne Wins An Oscar

April 7th 1970

The 42nd Annual Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and had no official host.  The Academy celebrated the year 1969 in film.

The big news for a lot of film fans was that John Wayne was nominated again for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his turn as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit".  This was his 2nd nomination in the category, the first was 1949 for his role in "The Sands of Iow Jima".  

I agree with him winning the Award I will say for me his best role was in his last film "The Shootist" in 1976.

Here he is accepting the award from Barbra Streisand and he mentions that he finally gets to accept for himself instead of for friends winning awards that weren't attending the ceremonies. 

Top 10 Ultimate Stephen Sondheim Musicals

These are the ultimate Stephen Sondheim musicals! Few can put words and music together quite like this legend. But what are his absolute greatest works? We’re here to find out. For this list, we’ll be looking at the greatest musicals that involved Stephen Sondheim, whether that be as the composer or lyricist, from “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, to “Into the Woods”. Join MsMojo as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Stephen Sondheim Musicals!

The Oscar for Best Song (2000)

The 72nd Academy Awards were held on March 26th 2000 for the Best of 1999.

Winner of Best Original Song was awarded to Phil Collins for his song "You'll Be In My Heart" from Disney's "TARZAN" animated feature.
Other nominated songs: "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (music and lyric by Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman),
"Music of My Heart" from Music of the Heart (music and lyric by Diane Warren),
"Save Me" from Magnolia (music and lyric by Aimee Mann) and
"When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 (music and lyric by Randy Newman).