Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister)

1985
The Color Purple
Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton
Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Lionel Richie

Academy Award Nominations (Winner marker =  winner  ):
Music (Original Music Score). In Cold Blood, Pax Enterprises Production; Columbia. Quincy Jones.
Music (Song). The Eyes of Love from Banning, Universal. Music by Quincy Jones; lyrics by Bob Russell.
Music (Song [Original for the Picture]). For Love of Ivy from For Love of Ivy, American Broadcasting Companies-Palomar Pictures International Production; Cinerama. Music by Quincy Jones; lyrics by Bob Russell.
Music (Adaptation Score). The Wiz, Motown/Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Quincy Jones.
Music (Original Song). Endless Love from Endless Love, Polygram/Universal Pictures/Keith Barish/Dyson Lovell Production; Universal. Music and lyric by Lionel Richie.
Best Picture. The Color Purple, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Quincy Jones, Producers.
Music (Original Score). The Color Purple, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andrae Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey and Randy Kerber.
Music (Original Song). Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister) from The Color Purple, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Music by Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton; lyric by Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Lionel Richie.
Winner markerMusic (Original Song). Say You, Say Me from White Nights, New Visions Production; Columbia. Music and lyric by Lionel Richie.
Winner markerJean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Quincy Jones

10 Nominations