The Buddy Holly Story

He got that Oscar or an, an Oscar nomination.

I think he won the Oscar for, uh, The Buddy Holly Story.

No.

And he's a very, very good actor.

And in 1985, Gary Busey was a known commodity.

He had been nominated for an Oscar for The Buddy Holly Story.

He was a big deal.

But he also had this incredibly volatile, unpredictable, manic energy off-screen, and the production apparently just let him run wild with it.

This week, we've got the second matchup in the Gone Too Soon division.

It is the Buddy Holly story taking on Elvis.

Jen, talk to me about the Buddy Holly story.

Whoa.

I mean, this week's going to be interesting because we have these two icons of rock and roll and two stories told in very, very different ways.

Austin Butler is incredible.

And we'll get to him later as kind of the lead performance.

But in contrast to the Buddy Holly story, where I think I don't I mean, nobody really knows the Buddy Holly story.

I think when I really started working on bigger pictures, I had hoped to be the first African-American to win for sound.

But rightly, another multiple winner, a gentleman named Willie Burton, And he had been doing great work and had been in the union actually before I even came to L.A. And I want to say he won his first Oscar in 1989 for Buddy Holly Story.

He won his second one many years later for Dreamgirls.

So I said, okay, well, that record's already gone.

It's Gary Busey.

It's the Buddy Holly story.

Gary Busey is a hack.

Did you see the

He's a composer, arranger, guitarist, and orchestrator.

And he won the Academy Award for Adaptation Score for The Buddy Holly Story in 1978.

Wow.

Some of his relevant genre filmography includes, from this same year, Poltergeist III.