James Bond is a fictional character created by the novelist Ian Fleming in 1953.
He has been portrayed on film by the actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, in twenty-seven productions.
Eon now holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.
Additionally, several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song, including Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die", Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" and Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only".
For the music to The Spy Who Loved Me, Marvin Hamlisch received Academy, Golden Globe and Grammy nominations but lost all to John Williams for his work for Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.