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Academy Honors Tigers
Woodberry Forest School alums Angus Wall '84 and Lampton Enochs '79 were honored last night, February 26, 2012, at the 84th Annual Academy Awards. Angus received his second Oscar for film editing with Kirk Baxter, this time for his work on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Lampton's film studio, Moonbot Studios, produced the winning animated short, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
Another Woodberry connection noticed by viewers of last night's ceremony in Hollywood was the presence in the orchestra of violinist Ann Marie Calhoun, who taught chemistry and directed the strings program at Woodberry Forest from 2001 to 2007.
The Woodberry alumnus who has won the most Academy Awards is songwriter Johnny Mercer '27 who received nineteen nominations and won four times in the category Best Original Song. He won for writing the lyrics to the following songs:
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1946) (music by Harry Warren) for The Harvey Girls
"In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening" (1951) (music by Hoagy Carmichael) for Here Comes The Groom
"Moon River" (1961) (music by Henry Mancini) for Breakfast at Tiffany's
"Days of Wine and Roses" (1962) (music by Henry Mancini) for Days of Wine and Roses
To view The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore, see the Woodberry news story here.
For more about Angus Wall, see the Woodberry news story here.
For more about Ann Marie Calhoun, see her website.
For more about Johnny Mercer, see the Woodberry Forest Magazine and Journal article here.
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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