Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who won an Academy Award for the song "Falling Slowly" from the 2007 film "Once," died early Wednesday following a motorcycle crash on the outskirts of Dublin. Police did not initially identify the victim, though his management company, ATC Management, confirmed the death in a statement. Authorities said the circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation, and no further comment would be made while that review continues. He first reached wider audiences with a role in the 1991 film "The Commitments," playing a member of a fictional Dublin soul band. His breakout came in 2007 with "Once," a low-budget Irish film shot on handheld cameras in which he starred as a street musician who falls for a young Czech immigrant, played by Markéta Irglová.