🎬Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was 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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Greatest Night in Pop (2024)	Self (archive footage)		9.2
2	Thriller 40 (2023)	Self (archive footage)		7.5
3	Ennio (2022)	Self		9
4	Sidney (2022)	Self	-	-
5	Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021)	Self		8
6	Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes (2020)	-	-	-
7	ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019)	Self		3
8	The Black Godfather (2019)	Self		5
9	Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)	Self - Musician		3
10	Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)	Self	-	-
11	Survivor's Guide to Prison (2018)	Self		5
12	Quincy (2018)	Self		6
13	Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1 (2018)	Self	-	-
14	Feel Rich: Health Is the New Wealth (2017)	Himself	-	-
15	Sandy Wexler (2017)	Self		5.6
16	Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017)	Self		8.5
17	Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)	Self		8
18	Kareem: Minority of One (2015)	Self	-	-
19	The Distortion of Sound (2014)	Self	-	-
20	Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)	Self		7
21	Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp (2012)	Self		7.5
22	The Jazz Baroness (2009)	Self	-	-
23	Brando (2007)	Self	-	-
24	King: Man of Peace in a Time of War (2007)	Self		6
25	Genius. A Night for Ray Charles (2004)	Self	-	-
26	Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)	Quincy Jones		6.3
27	Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration (2001)	Self		5
28	Fantasia 2000 (2000)	Self - Host		7
29	A Great Day in Harlem (1994)	Self - Narrator		6
30	New Order Story (1993)	Self		10
31	The Color Purple (1985)	Director / Writer		8
32	The Wiz (1978)	Emerald City Gold Pianist (uncredited)		7.2