Ep. 111: Kristen Anderson Lopez & Robert Lopez

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Our final guests of 2020 are a dynamic duo who are best known for contributing their original songs to the Oscar-winning animated film ‘Frozen’ and its 2019 sequel, ‘Frozen 2,’ the biggest animated film of all time.

They composed seven songs for the sequel, including the single "Into the Unknown" which was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and most recently a 2021 Grammy Nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media. The duo was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. The original Grammy-winning ‘Frozen’ soundtrack spent 33 weeks in the top 5 on the Billboard 200 chart, including 13 weeks at No. 1. It is certified 4x Platinum and was ranked the No. 1 best-selling album on the 2014 year-end Billboard 200 chart. The soundtrack received two Grammy Awards for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Song Written for Visual Media for “Let It Go.” Following the success of Frozen, our guests collaborated in writing songs for the 2017 Pixar film ‘Coco,’ for which they won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Remember Me.” In addition to film, they have each have written songs and composed for renowned Broadway shows such as ‘The Book of Mormon’ and ‘Avenue Q,’ and ‘In Transit.’And one half of this duo, joined an exclusive list of 12 other individuals who have each won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards in competitive categories, being the youngest person ever to have earned all four awards. And The Writer Is… Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez!

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0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Anne the Writer is. I'm your host Ross Golan. I've written with
0:37.7	hundreds of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each session
0:41.8	is the first hour when we catch up about life, the
0:44.4	industry, politics, composition, whatever.
0:47.9	So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly, who the people are who write the songs. I'm producing this with
0:57.5	the great Joe London, Big Deal music publishing, and mega house music
1:01.6	management. If you want to listen to the songs we discuss in this
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1:15.0	W.W. and the writer is.com. For a little bit of context, we just wanted you to know that a lot of these were recorded before quarantine.
1:26.4	And as we know, a lot has changed in 2020.
1:29.7	So again, please stay safe out there and enjoy the new episodes of And The Writer is.
1:37.0	Welcome to And the Writer is.
1:40.4	I am your host, Ross Golan.
1:43.0	Today's living legends reinvigorated one of the biggest brands in show business
1:47.0	the way Alan Manchin and Howard Ashman did three decades ago.
1:50.0	They've won Oscars and Grammys together to prove it. But this superpower couple took two separate paths to get here.
1:58.0	After they, side note, met at the BMI Theater Workshop, they each individually went on to impose award-winning musicals.
2:06.9	One of them became the youngest and fastest to win the EGOT and is now the only human with
2:10.7	its second EGOT, the record of all records.
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