She saved her three infant children, but lost her husband, Pedro. “Encanto” follows Alma Madrigal, who fled her home years ago while escaping conflict. When Germaine Franco was recognized for best original score on the Disney animated film “Encanto,” which Miranda wrote songs for, he screamed for the whole neighborhood to hear. He texted Ariana DeBose when she was nominated for best supporting actress for “West Side Story” and hit up the costume designer Paul Tazewell when he scored a nod for the same film. The real joy in watching, he said, was “how many friends I’m lucky enough to know that made such amazing work this year.” He sat down with his wife, the attorney and engineer Vanessa Nadal, just in time to catch the Oscar nominations.
The composer, lyricist and actor - known for “ In the Heights” and “ Hamilton” - had trouble getting his youngest off to preschool, and his older son’s school bus was running late.
Miranda’s emotional 2016 Tony acceptance speech for Best Original Score ( Hamilton) was dedicated to his wife, Vanessa Nadal, and the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, just a day before the ceremony took place.It was just one of those Tuesdays for Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton broke the record for most Tony nominations (16), but fell short of the most Tony wins by one – The Producers won 12 awards in 2001. Hamilton won the same four awards, in addition to Best Book of a Musical, Actor (Leslie Odom Jr.), Featured Actor (Daveed Diggs), Featured Actress (Renée Elise Goldsberry), Costume Design, Lighting Design, and Direction. In The Heights won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Original Score, Choreography, and Orchestrations in 2008. He has a star on the Puerto Rican Walk of Fame and will receive a Hollywood star in 2018.īoth of Miranda’s musicals have been lauded with awards. He was the recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant”. Personally, Miranda has received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama ( Hamilton), three Tony Awards (Best Original Score for both ITH and Hamilton, Best Book of a Musical for Hamilton), two Grammys (Best Musical Theatre Album ITH, Hamilton), and an Emmy (Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for “Bigger”). The film’s main theme, “How Far I’ll Go”, was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Song. Miranda also co-wrote the music and lyrics for Disney’s Moana (2016). He created and starred in two hit musicals, In the Heights and Hamilton (2015), an epic adaptation of Ron Chernow’s biography of the American founding father. Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning American writer, composer, playwright, and actor.
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