Michael Wendler (born 22 June 1972 in Dinslaken as Michael Skowronek, legal name after his marriage in 2009 Michael Norberg) is a prominent and distinguished German pop singer and songwriter.
 Since his breakthrough year in 1998, he has won several awards such as the prestigious Crown of the Folk Music[16] and Smgo!
 Award in 2012 and Most Successful Pop Star of the Year and as Median Star of Year in 2014.
 He has been under contract with Sony Entertainment Record Label for many years and has a total of six gold Records and one platinum.
 Wendler also writes songs and lyrics for other Schlager singers under the pseudonym Mic Skowy.
Jay Orpin (born April 29, 1976 in Stockholm, Sweden ) is a Swedish and Finnish songwriter and producer.
 He also writes songs and produced for Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Robyn, Ace of Base, Bon Jovi, 2gether and Britney Spears, and later he produced songs for Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Simple Plan, Hawthorne Heights, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, My Chemical Romance, Tokio Hotel, Lindsay Lohan, Dashboard Confessional, All American Rejects, Fall Out Boy, AFI, Evanescence, Hollywood Undead, t.A.T.u., Yellowcard, Hannah Montana, Linkin Park, Bullet for My Valentine and Taking Back Sunday.
 Most of his music is under the influence of today's modern pop punk, dance-punk, and emo music, but he does write some pop and hip-hop music as well.
 He also teamed up with Travis Barker in 2007, remixing popular hip-hop singles such as Throw Some D's, Party Like a Rockstar, and Crank That Soulja Boy.
 Even though he has written some of the works of some of the aforementioned artists, he is not one of the main producers of many of these artists and he chooses not to put his credit for his work.
 An original song written by such composer to be cited is yet to be found, however some has claimed an abbreviation of his name in one of the albums.
 In late 2008, he has decided to move in a small town near Oulu, Finland to raise his family and is a high school teacher and does accounting for bill paying in the summer to support the family, along with music production projects part-time, but he still continues to produce music today, but not as much as he used to.
 He did come back to help write a few new songs, such as In My Head by Jason Derulo.
 He has quit his part-time job in accounting to allow more time back in the music production business, to make a revival.
Kate Long is an American songwriter and storyteller who writes songs that have been recorded by dozens of artists and won national awards, including the International Bluegrass Music Association Song of the Year.
 She is the writing coach for The Charleston Gazette and produces for West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
 She hosted and produced the national award-winning "In Their Own Country" public radio series.
 She regularly performs at storytelling festivals around the country.
Guy Hendrix Dyas (born 20 August 1968) is a British production designer for feature films.
 He collaborated with Christopher Nolan on his science fiction thriller "Inception" which earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design.
 In 2017, Dyas was nominated for another Academy Award, this time for his work on Passengers.
 In 2010, Dyas became the first British designer to win a Goya Award for Best Production Design for his work on Alejandro Amenábar's historical epic "Agora" which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
 Dyas previously received three consecutive Art Directors Guild Award nominations for his production design work on Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", Shekhar Kapur's "" and "Superman Returns" for Bryan Singer.
 He won an ADG award in 2011 for "Inception".
 He also earned a BAFTA Award nomination in 2007 for Best Production Design for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and for four years in a row Dyas has been named by "The Sunday Times" as one of the top ten Brits working behind the camera in Hollywood.
Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan (born July 17, 1976) is an American country singer and songwriter.
 He began his musical career in the mid-2000s, writing songs for his longtime friends from high school, performers Travis Tritt and Billy Currington, and releasing his first "Spring Break" album.
 After signing with Capitol Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee in 2007 with his cousin, Chad Christopher Boyd, he released the album "I'll Stay Me", which included the singles "All My Friends Say," "We Rode in Trucks," and "Country Man."
 The follow-up album "Doin' My Thing" included "Do I," which Bryan co-wrote with Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum, and the number one singles "Rain Is a Good Thing" and "Someone Else Calling You Baby" on the country charts.
"Blue" is a song released in 1958 by Bill Mack, an American songwriter-country artist and country radio disc jockey.
 It has since been covered by several artists, in particular by country singer LeAnn Rimes, whose 1996 version became a hit.
 The song won Mack the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Country Song, a 1996 Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year, a 1997 Country Music Association Awards nomination for Song of the Year, a 1997 Country Radio Music Awards nomination for Song of the Year, and is included on the CMT list of the top 100 country songs of all time.
 Rimes' rendition won the 1996 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor and musician.
 His notable films include musical-drama film "Footloose" (1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller "JFK" (1991), the legal drama "A Few Good Men" (1992), the historical docudrama "Apollo 13" (1995), and the mystery drama "Mystic River" (2003).
 Bacon is also known for taking on darker roles such as that of a sadistic guard in "Sleepers" (1996) and troubled former child abuser in a critically acclaimed performance in "The Woodsman" (2004).
 He is equally prolific on television, having starred in the Fox drama series "The Following" (2013–2015).
 For the HBO original film "Taking Chance" (2009), Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, also receiving a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. "
The Guardian" named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
 In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry.
Hillary Lindsey is an American singer-songwriter.
 She has written songs with or for several popular artists including Michelle Branch, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Shakira, Lady Antebellum, Gary Allan, Sara Evans, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Tim McGraw and Luke Bryan.
 Lindsey won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song for Carrie Underwood's "Jesus, Take the Wheel".
 In 2011, Lindsey received an Academy Award nomination for "Coming Home", recorded by Gwyneth Paltrow for the soundtrack of "Country Strong", in the Best Original Song category.
 "Coming Home" also received a Golden Globe that same year for Best Original Song along with "There's A Place For Us", making Lindsey a double nominee in 2011.
 As of 2015, she has had 15 number one singles as a writer.
Rupert James Hector Everett ( ; born 29 May 1959) is an English actor and writer.
 He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film "Another Country" (1984) as an openly gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination.
 He went on to receive a second BAFTA Award nomination and his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in "My Best Friend's Wedding" (1997), followed by a second Golden Globe nomination for "An Ideal Husband" (1999).
Elizabeth Cook (born July 17, 1972 in Wildwood, Florida) is an American country music singer.
 She made her debut on the "Grand Ole Opry" on March 17, 2000.
 Cook, "the daughter of a hillbilly singer married to a moonshiner who played his upright bass while in a prison band," was "virtually unknown to the pop masses" before she made a debut appearance on the "Late Show With David Letterman" in June 2012.
 "The New York Times" called her "a sharp and surprising country singer" and an "idiosyncratic traditionalist."

Question: In what year did the person who writes songs for an American country singer and songwriter born July 17, 1976 receive an Academy Award nomination?
Answer: 2011