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
Moon River as a #3 or #1 easy listening hit. Mancini's original version was also featured in the film "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989). In 1993, following Hepburn's death, her version was released on an album titled "Music from the Films of Audrey Hepburn". In 2004, Hepburn's version finished at #4 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. "Moon River" was a hit single for Jerry Butler in late 1961; it reached number 11 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in December, two weeks before Mancini's recording reached the same chart ranking. Danny Williams had