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 Marilyn Bergman is President and Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the first woman to be elected to its Board of Directors. She brings to the leadership of ASCAP the unique experience of the creator, being herself an award-winning lyricist along with her husband, Alan Bergman.
In collaboration with her husband, Alan, Marilyn won Oscars in 1968, 1973 and 1984 for the songs, "The Windmills of Your Mind," "The Way We Were," and for the score for Yentl. Since their first Oscar nomination in 1968, they have been nominated sixteen times — for such songs as "It Might Be You" from Tootsie,"How Do You Keep The Music Playing?" from Best Friends,"Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from Yentl and "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending. In 1996 they were nominated for both a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award for their song "Moonlight" performed by Sting from the Sydney Pollack film, Sabrina. The Kennedy Center commissioned them to write a Jazz Song Cycle. In collaboration with Cy Coleman, "Portraits in Jazz: A Gallery of Songs," was performed on May 17, 2002 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and received widespread acclaim.
"The Windmills of Your Mind" and "The Way We Were" also received Golden Globe awards and "The Way We Were" earned two Grammys. Their four Emmys are for "Sybil," "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom," "Ordinary Miracles" and "A Ticket to Dream." Among their principal collaborators are Michel Legrand, Marvin Hamlisch, Dave Grusin, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mandel, Cy Coleman, John Williams, Quincy Jones and James Newton Howard.
Marilyn was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980, and was a recipient of the Crystal Award from Women in Film in 1986. In 1995 she received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1996 Marilyn was awarded the first Fiorello Lifetime Achievement Award for a Distinguished Alumnus from New York’s LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. In 1997 the Songwriters Hall of Fame again honored Marilyn with their Johnny Mercer Award.
Marilyn is a member of the Executive Committee of the Music Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Songwriters and the Nashville Songwriters Association. Marilyn was the only creator to serve on the Advisory Council to the National Information Infrastructure (NII).
In 2002, Marilyn became the first Chairman of the Library of Congress National Sound Recording Preservation Board. She served two terms (1994-1998) as President of CISAC, the International Confederation of Performing Right Societies. In 1996 Marilyn received France’s highest cultural honor, Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters medal. She was awarded a Medal of Honor from SGAE, the Spanish performing right organization, in Madrid in 1998, and in the same year Trinity College presented her with an Honorary Doctorate Degree.
Ms. Bergman was a music major at New York's High School of Music and Art, going on to study Psychology and English at New York University.
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