Anecdotes

At the age of seven, he was the youngest student ever accepted at the acclaimed Juilliard School of Music.

Made film history in 1974 as the first individual ever to win three Academy Awards in one night in all three music categories. One for the song, "The Way We Were" (with co-writers Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman), another for composing the score of Nos plus belles années (1973), and a third for the adaptation of Scott Joplin's ragtime music for L'Arnaque (1973).

He was the accompanist and straight man for Groucho Marx, when he toured in 1974-1975.

Marvin Hamlisch won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical "A Chorus Line", collaborating with Nicholas Dante, Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood Jr. and Ed Kleban.

The sixth person and third man to receive the EGOT. The other recipients (chronologically) are Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, John Legend, Alan Menken, Jennifer Hudson, Viola Davis and Elton John.

Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986.

After legendary musical composer, Richard Rodgers, Marvin Hamlisch is only the second artist to have won the all of the five big awards Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, and the most rare, a Pulitzer Prize.

In 1994, he guest conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for Barbra Streisand's first British concert.

Engaged to Emma Samms in the early 1980s.

His musical, "Sweet Smell of Success", at the Kokandy Productions in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2014 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Award for Musical Production.

His musical, "A Marvin Hamlisch Songbook," at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2016 Joseph Jefferson Award (Non-Equity) for Musical or Revue Production.

"A Chorus Line," at the Porchlight Music Theatre at Ruth Page Center for the Arts in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2019 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Midsize Musical Production.

The cast of "A Chorus Line" at the Porchlight Music Theatre at Ruth Page Center for the Arts in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2019 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Musical or Revue Ensemble.

His musical, "A Chorus Line", at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for the 2011 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Production of a Musical (Large).

Younger brother of Terry Liebling. Ex-brother-in-law of Howard Liebling.