The late Kobe Bryant's Dear Basketball won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2018. The 2015 NBA retirement poetry by the legendary player inspired the film's soundtrack by John Williams.
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Bob Dylan's 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having established new lyrical expressions within the great American song heritage" and Minnesota's 2001 Oscar triumph are almost as shocking.
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Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords received an Oscar in 2012 for "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets. The New Zealander composed four of the film's five songs and was music supervisor for Muppets
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Jim Rash, who portrayed Dean Craig Pelton on Community from 2009 to 2015, writes alongside Nat Faxton (also an actor). The 2011 George Clooney film The Descendants, nominated for five Oscars and winning
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Forget the Doctor's Oscar for It's a Wonderful Life? 1995, for Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life short film. Scottish actor Peter Capaldi won the Oscar Award for Best Short Film
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