Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack from the 1961 movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" starring Audrey Hepburn. The tracks were re-arranged parts of the film music composed and conducted by Henry Mancini. At the 1962 Academy Awards, Mancini and lyricist Johnny Mercer won Oscars for Best Original Song for "Moon River", while Mancini picked up a second statue for Best Original Score. The album also stayed on Billboard's album charts for over ninety weeks. Because of his success with title themes, such as the hit theme to the
Audrey Hepburn won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. She had contributed to the organisation since 1954, then worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63. Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston or Edda Kathleen