Awards
In addition to her Emmy win, Thompson has also won a BMI Film & TV Award in 1994 for Most Performed Song from a Film ("I Have Nothing"), composed by Thompson and David Foster for the soundtrack for The Bodyguard, and she shared Special Recognition Awards in 1997 and 2004 with several others for work related to the Olympics, including her and Foster's powerful lyrics for the official 1996 Olympic theme song, sung by Celine Dion, "The Power of the Dream".
In 2002 she was awarded Women in Film Crystal's Humanitarian Awards and in 2007 she shared TV Land's Entertainer's Award with the rest of the cast of Hee Haw for their work on that show.
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