Ragtime

No, not yet.

When's that pod? She gets nominated in 81 for another song on Ragtime.

So there's two.

This is 79, 81, 82.

The song wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

In 1981, she sings Randy Newman's One More Hour for the film Ragtime, picking up yet another Oscar nomination.

So when Paramount Pictures is putting together the romantic military drama An Officer and a Gentleman, music supervisor Joe Sill brings in songwriter Will Jennings.

Director Taylor Haxford's friend and manager Gary George suggests using Warnes.

because his doctor said, look, you're retired, you need to take your mind off things and do something.

So he came back in Milos Forman's 1981 film Ragtime, made a couple of other films then before he passed.

But yeah, it's just, there just didn't seem to be

any boundaries with him.

Forman studied screenwriting at FAMU, but for most of his career, he was making films based on scripts written by other people.

Sometimes, as in the case of, say, Ragtime, he was a director for hire.

But still, you call him an auteur, meaning that he had a kind of recognizable style and he had his own vision.

What, for you, makes Forman an auteur?

It's very Oliver Twist.

So they all work for this guy named Otis, played by Howard E. Rollins Jr. who was nominated for an Oscar for Ragtime.

Yeah.

And he's great.

Like, like I said, like, like, Howard Rollins, like, was, like, an Oscar-nominated only, like, two years or so before.

1982?

Uh, Ragtime was '81.

Okay, '81.

Yes.

But instead I chose, and actually I kinda get two for one on this one, I chose James Cagney, Ragtime.

Oh.

But it was also the final film of his great Warner Brothers pal, Pat O'Brien.

James Cagney's career-

It really is

... because Ragtime came out in 1981.

Milos Forman was the director, incredible cast, but he ended up playing the police commissioner, uh, Commissioner Waldo, and he's really the gentleman who's sort of the negotiator between Coalhouse Walker, who ends up holing up inside the Morgan Library because he wants revenge because these white firemen destroyed his car.