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- DocumentaryKareem: Minority of One
- DocumentaryUnbanned: The Legend of AJ1
- DocumentaryRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
- AdventureThe Wiz
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- DramaThe Color Purple
- DramaThe Color Purple
- ComedySandy Wexler
- ActionAustin Powers in Goldmember
- ThrillerThe Smokers
- DocumentaryListen Up: The Lives Of Quincy Jones
- MusicQuincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux
- ComedyThe Out-of-Towners
- DocumentaryMichael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
- DocumentaryWe Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
- DramaBrother John
- DocumentaryThe Jazz Ambassadors
- movieQuincy Jones: 50 Years in Music - Live at Montreux
- ActionThe Italian Job
- ComedyBob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- DocumentaryScore: A Film Music Documentary
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- DramaFast Forward
- ActionMackenna's Gold
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- ComedyWalk Don't Run
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- DramaThe Pawnbroker
- DramaThe Slender Thread
- DocumentaryMarvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
- DocumentaryIceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
- ActionThe Getaway
- CrimeIn the Heat of the Night
- DramaBel-Air
- showIn the House
- DocumentaryThe History of Rock 'n' Roll
- DocumentaryNational Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
- CrimeIronside
- DramaStalingrad
- DocumentaryA Great Day in Harlem
- ComedyFor Love of Ivy
- DocumentaryYou Don't Own Me
- DramaBanning
- MusicQuincy Jones & Friends - Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart
- DocumentaryQuincy Jones: Breaking New Sound
- movieWe are the world
- AnimationEggs
- CrimeSplit Second to an Epitaph
- DocumentaryLetter to the President
- DramaKiller by Night
- movieCooking On Hot
- AnimationDig: A Journey Into Earth
- MusicMontreux Jazz Festival 1991
- DocumentaryMichael Jackson: Number Ones
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- DocumentaryFandango at the Wall
- DocumentaryNational Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
- MusicGenius. A Night for Ray Charles
- DocumentarySergio Mendes: In The Key of Joy
- DramaThe Boy in the Tree
- DramaThe Boy in the Tree
- MusicMiles Davis with Quincy Jones and the Gil Evans Orchestra: Live at Montreux 1991
- DocumentaryThe Jazz Baroness
- DocumentaryExperience Montreux
- DramaHonky
- DramaThe Counterfeit Killer
- DocumentaryQuincy Jones: In the Pocket
- MusicThe Phil Collins Big Band - Live at Montreux 1996
- MusicJazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies
- MusicMontreux Jazz Festival 2013 - Remember Claude Nobs
- MusicQuincy Jones : A Musical Celebration Paris
- MusicRonnie's
- movieAn Evening with Quincy Jones
- DocumentaryQ: The Man
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- movieJazz Icons - Quincy Jones Live in '60
- DocumentaryThriller 40
- DramaTheir Eyes Were Watching God
- ActionA Dandy in Aspic
- DocumentaryRising Above the Blues: The Story of Jimmy Scott
- MusicI Go Back Home - Jimmy Scott
- AnimationA Cool Like That Christmas
- DocumentaryIt Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
- MysteryJigsaw
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Quincy Jones
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992.
Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing Lesley Gore's major pop hits of the early 1960s (including "It's My Party") and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations between the jazz artists Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in the same time period. In 1968, Jones became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Eyes of Love" from the film Banning. Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 1967 film In Cold Blood, making him the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year. Jones produced three of popstar Michael Jackson's most successful albums: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987). In 1985, Jones produced and conducted the charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of famine in Ethiopia.
In 1971, Jones became the first African American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the second most Oscar-nominated African American, with seven nominations each. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. He was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time.
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- Place of Birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Known Credits
- 149
- Website
- http://www.quincyjones.com/