Funny Girl (film) Streisand's Oscar win as Best Actress, the film was nominated in the categories of Best Picture, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Medford, Best Cinematography for Stradling, Best Film Editing for Sands and Winetrobe, Best Score of a Musical Picture- Original or Adaptation for Walter Scharf, Best Original Song for the title tune by Styne and Merrill, and Best Sound. "Funny Girl", along with Columbia Pictures' other Best Picture nominee and eventual winner "Oliver!", secured a combined total of 19 nominations, the most nominations for musicals from one studio in a year. Streisand won the Golden Globe Award for
Chip Deffaa "The Seven Little Foys," "Theater Boys," "The Irving Berlin Ragtime Revue," "Irving Berlin: In Person," "Irving Berln & Co.," "Presenting Fanny Brice," and "The George M. Cohan Revue." Deffaa's most recent plays include "The Family that Sings Together..." (published by Drama Source), "Presenting Fanny Brice: The Original Funny Girl" (Eldridge Plays), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Leicester Bay Theatricals),"Song-and-Dance Kids" (Leicester Bay Theatricals), and "Irving Berlin: In Person" (Leicester Bay Theatricals). All of Deffaa's plays are available for licensing. He is represented by the Fifi Oscard Agency in New York City. Deffaa also produced, in 2002, "The Chip Deffaa Invitational Theater Festival,"