Articles: Frank Sinatra's Awards & Achievements

Frank Sinatra's Awards & Achievements
Article by Steve Pond

ACADEMY AWARDS

1945: Nominated, Best Original Song

• "I Fall in Love too Easily," from the motion picture Anchors Aweigh
• Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• Sung by Frank Sinatra

1945: Special Academy Award

• To the makers of The House I Live In
• Shared with Frank Ross, Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Maltz, Earl Robinson and Lewis Allen

Articles: Frank Sinatra at the Movies

Frank Sinatra at the Movies

Article by Leonard Maltin

There are only a handful of people who meant as much to the world of film as they did to the world of music: Bing Crosby, Doris Day, even Elvis Presley, although his movies were never as good as his records. But I think the case can be made that Frank Sinatra topped them all.

It's often been said that a great singer is, by nature, a great actor, because of the need to impart meaning to the lyrics that he or she sings. It's become a clich' but if it were as simple as that, there would be more great singing actors. In Sinatra's case, if you didn't know he was an enormously popular singing star, you'd still be impressed with his work on film.

Paintings: Frank Sinatra, by Jerry Malinka

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Articles » Frank Sinatra article by Steve Pond

Frank Sinatra, long acclaimed as the world's greatest performer of popular music, is the artist who set the standard for all others to follow. Sinatra was, of course, more than a singer - he was an actor, recording artist, cabaret and concert star, radio and television personality, and, on occasion, producer, director, and conductor.

A beloved entertainer for six decades, Sinatra earned three Oscars, three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, ten personal Grammy's (and a total of 20 for his albums), an Emmy, a Peabody, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 1983. A generous charitable contributor, he was honored with the prestigious Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1971. In addition, Sinatra was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Honor and the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress highest civilian award.

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