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Elton is the only winner to also host an Oscar viewing party, which he has done since 1993.
The 25 years between Elton's first and most recent Academy Award statuettes is the longest winning span of any songwriter since the category was introduced in 1934.
Elton’s Oscars with two different lyricists (Sir Tim Rice and Bernie Taupin) puts him in elite company with composers Alan Menken, Jerome Kern, Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Giorgio Moroder, and Burt Bacharach… and makes him only the second person to achieve this feat since 1990.
Elton is the only winner to also host an Oscar viewing party, which he has done since 1993.