At an extraordinary Academy Awards ceremony in 1974, no fewer than three Oscars went to the same man - the composer Marvin Hamlisch. He received two awards - best score and best song - for the Barbra Streisand movie The Way We Were, and the third for the music of the Paul Newman/Robert Redford picture The Sting. Its main theme was The Entertainer, a Scott Joplin composition that Hamlisch adapted for the soundtrack…
SOURCE: The Stage at 01:54PM on August 17, 2012