Great Neck Ties Continue at Oscars

Nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards were announced by Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone Thursday in Beverly Hills — with them comes a new chapter in the legacy between Great Neck and the Oscars.

Continuing with the tradition, filmmaker Roman Coppola, the son of Great Neck High School graduate and Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola, was named Thursday as an Academy Award nominee.

As co-writer with Wes Anderson of the film Moonrise Kingdom, the younger Coppola was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in 2013.

This is the first Academy Award nomination for Roman Coppola and third Oscar nomination for Anderson.

The winners will be announced Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Coppola's nomination adds to an impressive list of Great Neck-related Academy Award scenarios.

Francis Ford Coppola, a five-time Oscar winner and 14-time nominee, known as one of Hollywood's most most influential directors for his works including The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Godfather: Part III, American Graffiti, Patton and Apocalypse Now, among others.

In 2011, Great Neck was well represented by David Seidler, the Oscar winner for Best Screenwriting in "The King's Speech." Seidler is a 1955 graduate of Great Neck High School.

And who can forget Talia Shire? Born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, she is the sister of Francis Ford Coppola and the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage.

Shire was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Godfather: Part II. She also played Adrian Pennino Balboa, in the Rocky movies. She is a 1964 graduate of Great Neck High School.

Born in Great Neck, former Kings Point resident George Segal was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

Other Academy Award winners with ties to Great Neck include:

• Former resident and legendary actor Paul Newman, who won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money. Newman received eight other Oscar nominations.
• Writer, producer and director of musicals, Oscar Hammerstein II. Hammerstein, a former resident, won two Oscars for best original song, in 1941 for The Last Time I Saw Paris in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for It Might as Well Be Spring in State Fair.
• Orchestra conducter Percy Faith received an Oscar nomination for the song score for Love Me or Leave Me starring Doris Day. Faith resided on the peninsula at one point.
• Entertainer, actor, playwright, lyricist, composer, singer, dancer, director, and producer George M. Cohan, also a former resident. In 1942, a musical biopic of Cohan, Yankee Doodle Dandy, won James Cagney the Best Actor Academy Award.

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