Quincy Jones has been nominated for such works as The Color Purple, a coming-of-age period drama.
Marking Jones's debut as a film producer, The Color Purple received 11 Oscar nominations that year. The Color Purple is a 1985 American coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. 
