A husband and wife songwriting team who have won three Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, one Ace Award and three Emmy Awards. They have been nominated for sixteen Academy Awards, and in 1983, they became the first songwriters ever to be nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Song out of the five nominated songs.

They were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980, and received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 1997.

Some of their songwriting credits include: The Way We Were, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Yellow Bird, Nice n' Easy, What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?, and Ordinary Miracles. They provided the score to the film Yentl, and the song, Moonlight, from the film Sabrina, as well as the theme songs for Maude, Good Times, Alice, and Brooklyn Bridge.

They are best known for writing lyrics as a team.