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The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
 written specifically for the film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 by the submitting composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
.

composers have won Oscars two years in a row:

The following is a list of composers nominated more than once and winning at least one Academy Award. The list is sorted by number of wins, with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses.

following composers have been nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar more than once; but as of 2009
2009

2009 is the current year of the Anno Domini/Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It is a common year starting on Thursday and the last year of the 2000?2009 decade....
, the eleven living composers have yet to garner one.






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The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
 written specifically for the film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 by the submitting composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
.

Winners with multiple nominations

Four composers have won Oscars two years in a row:
  • Franz Waxman
    Franz Waxman

    Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
    , for 1950's Sunset Boulevard and 1951's A Place in the Sun
    A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
    ,
  • Andre Previn
    André Previn

    Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
    , for 1958's Gigi (film) and 1959's Porgy and Bess
    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward....
    ,
  • Alan Menken
    Alan Menken

    Alan Menken is an United States musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman , Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz ....
     for 1991's Beauty and The Beast
    Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)

    Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 Cinema of the United States animated cartoon family film. It is the thirtieth List of Disney animated features produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation....
     and 1992's Aladdin
  • Gustavo Santaolalla
    Gustavo Santaolalla

    Gustavo A. Santaolalla is an Argentina musician, film composer and producer....
     for 2005's Brokeback Mountain
    Brokeback Mountain

    Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States romance film-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the Western United States from 1963 to 1983....
     and 2006's Babel.


The following is a list of composers nominated more than once and winning at least one Academy Award. The list is sorted by number of wins, with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses.
  • 9 : Alfred Newman
    Alfred Newman

    Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      (45)
  • 5 : John Williams
    John Williams

    John Towner Williams is an United States composer, conducting and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars music, Superman music, Born on the Fourth of July , Harry Potter music and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature fil...
      (45)
  • 4 : Johnny Green
    Johnny Green

    Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
      (12)
  • 4 : André Previn
    André Previn

    Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
      (11)
  • 4 : John Barry
    John Barry (composer)

    John Barry, Order of the British Empire is a renowned Golden Globe Award and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond movies and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style....
      (6)
  • 4 : Alan Menken
    Alan Menken

    Alan Menken is an United States musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman , Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz ....
      (5)
  • 3 : Max Steiner
    Max Steiner

    Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
     (25)
  • 3 : Ray Heindorf
    Ray Heindorf

    Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
      (17)
  • 3 : Morris Stoloff
    Morris Stoloff

    Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
      (17)
  • 3 : Miklós Rózsa
    Miklós Rózsa

    Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      (16)
  • 3 : Dimitri Tiomkin
    Dimitri Tiomkin

    Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      (14)
  • 3 : Maurice Jarre
    Maurice Jarre

    Maurice Jarre is a France composer and Conducting. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia , Doctor Zhivago , and A Passage to India ....
      (8)
  • 3 : Ken Darby
    Ken Darby

    Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
      (6)
  • 3 : Roger Edens
    Roger Edens

    Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood"....
      (6)
  • 3 : Saul Chaplin
    Saul Chaplin

    Saul Chaplin was one of Hollywood's preeminent composers and musical directors.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley....
      (5)
  • 3 : Adolph Deutsch
    Adolph Deutsch

    Adolph Deutsch was an Academy Awards-winning composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! , and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun ....
      (5)
  • 2 : Franz Waxman
    Franz Waxman

    Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
     (11)
  • 2 : Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
     (7)
  • 2 : Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Academy Award-winning 20th century film and romantic music composer....
     (3)
  • 2 : Gustavo Santaolalla
    Gustavo Santaolalla

    Gustavo A. Santaolalla is an Argentina musician, film composer and producer....
      (2)
  • 2 : Howard Shore
    Howard Shore

    Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, orchestrator, conducting and music producer. He was the first band leader on Saturday Night Live....
      (2)
  • 1 : Jerry Goldsmith
    Jerry Goldsmith

    Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
      (17)
  • 1 : Victor Young
    Victor Young

    Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
     (17)
  • 1 : Herbert Stothart
    Herbert Stothart

    Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
     (11)
  • 1 : Elmer Bernstein
    Elmer Bernstein

    'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
      (10)
  • 1 : James Horner
    James Horner

    James Roy Horner is an United States composer of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic music....
      (9)
  • 1 : Lionel Newman
    Lionel Newman

    Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
      (9)
  • 1 : Hans Zimmer
    Hans Zimmer

    Hans Florian Zimmer is a Germany composer and Record producer. He is best known for his Academy Award, Grammy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning film scores....
      (7)
  • 1 : Dave Grusin
    Dave Grusin

    David Grusin is an Academy Award-winning United States composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many film score for feature films and television, and he has won numerous awards for his soundtrack work....
      (6)
  • 1 : Georges Delerue
    Georges Delerue

    'Georges Delerue' was a renowned France film composer who composed over 350 film score for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize , Emmy Award , Genie Award , ACE Award and Academy Award in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations ....
      (5)
  • 1 : Bernard Herrmann
    Bernard Herrmann

    Bernard Herrmann was an United States composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho , North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo ....
     (5)
  • 1 : Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
     (4)
  • 1 : Elliot Goldenthal
    Elliot Goldenthal

    Elliot Goldenthal is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning United States composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways....
      (3)
  • 1 : Rachel Portman
    Rachel Portman

    Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman is a United Kingdom composer, best known for her film work. She was the first List of female film score composers to win an Academy Awards in the category of Best Original Score ....
      (3)
  • 1 : Stephen Schwartz
    Stephen Schwartz (composer)

    Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked ....
      (3)
  • 1 : Louis Silvers
    Louis Silvers

    Louis Silvers was a Film score, whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. He was born on September 6, 1889 in New York and died of Congenital heart defect on March 26, 1954 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
     (4)
  • 1 : Gabriel Yared
    Gabriel Yared

    Gabriel Yared is a Lebanon Academy Award winning composer, best known for his work in French and American film.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel ....
      (3)
  • 1 : John Corigliano
    John Corigliano

    John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
      (2)
  • 1 : Dario Marianelli
    Dario Marianelli

    Dario Marianelli is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-winning composer of piano, orchestral, and film music. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm and Pride & Prejudice ....
     (2)
  • 1 : Nino Rota
    Nino Rota

    Nino Rota was an Italian composer best known for his work on film scores, notably the films of Federico Fellini. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy....
      (2)
  • 1 : A. R. Rahman
    A. R. Rahman

    Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian film composer, record producer, musician and Singing. His film scoring career began in the early 1990s. He has won thirteen Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, a British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards....
     (1)


Other composers with multiple nominations

The following composers have been nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar more than once; but as of 2009
2009

2009 is the current year of the Anno Domini/Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It is a common year starting on Thursday and the last year of the 2000?2009 decade....
, the eleven living composers have yet to garner one. The number of nominations is listed in parentheses. Deceased:
  • Alex North
    Alex North

    Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
      (14)
  • Roy Webb
    Roy Webb

    Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
     (7)
  • Werner Janssen
    Werner Janssen

    Hans-Werner Janssen was an United States Conducting of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores....
     (6)
  • Richard Hageman
    Richard Hageman

    Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American Conductor , pianist, composer, and actor....
     (5)
  • Edward Ward
    Edward Ward (composer)

    Edward Ward was a prolific film score and music director who was nominated for seven Academy Awards during a career that spanned thirty-seven years and included more than 150 projects....
     (5)
  • Frank Skinner
    Frank Skinner (composer)

    Frank Skinner. American composer and arranger. A graduate of the Chicago Musical College,. At age 16 Frank found early employment in vaudeville and began playing in local areas with his brother Carl on drums....
     (4)
  • Louis Gruenberg
    Louis Gruenberg

    Louis Gruenberg was a Russian Lithuania-born American pianist and composer.Although born in Russia, his family emigrated to the United States months after his birth....
     (3)
  • Ernst Toch
    Ernst Toch

    Ernst Toch was a composer of european classical music and film scores....
     (3)
  • Marvin Hatley
    Marvin Hatley

    Thomas Marvin Hatley , professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an United States film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940....
     (2)
  • Jack Nitzsche
    Jack Nitzsche

    Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an arranger, producer, songwriter and Academy Award-winning film score composer....
      (2)
  • Victor Schertzinger
    Victor Schertzinger

    Victor L. Schertzinger was an United States composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar ....
     (2)
Living:
  • Thomas Newman
    Thomas Newman

    Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American 10 time Academy Award-nominated film score composer....
      (9)
  • Randy Newman
    Randy Newman

    Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
      (8)
  • James Newton Howard
    James Newton Howard

    James Newton Howard is an eight time Academy Award-nominated American film score composer, orchestrator and music producer....
      (7)
  • Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone

    Ennio Morricone, Italian orders of merit#Order of Merit of the Republic is an acclaimed List of Italian composers Academy Award-winning composer....
      (5)
  • Lalo Schifrin
    Lalo Schifrin

    Lalo Schifrin is an Argentina piano and composer. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the Mission Impossible theme. He has received four Grammy Awards and six Academy Award nominations....
      (5)
  • Danny Elfman
    Danny Elfman

    Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an United States musician, who is famous for composing scores and songs for Tim Burton's films, composing "The Simpsons Theme," and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995....
      (4)
  • George Fenton
    George Fenton

    George Fenton is a British composer best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, although he also writes music for the theatre....
      (4)
  • Philip Glass
    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
      (3)
  • Marc Shaiman
    Marc Shaiman

    Marc Shaiman is an United States composer, lyricist, arranger, and performer for films, television, and theatre....
      (3)
  • Alexandre Desplat
    Alexandre Desplat

    Alexandre Michel Gerard Desplat is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning film composer. Desplat was born to a French father and Greek mother who met at UC Berkeley, California....
      (2)
  • Patrick Doyle
    Patrick Doyle

    Patrick Doyle is an Academy Award nominated Scotland musician and film score composer. His collaboration with Kenneth Branagh and the Shakespearean community is well known, but his scoring talents are versatile, and he has composed orchestral scores for a variety of films and film genres, including The Walt Disney Company's Shipwrecked ,...
      (2)
  • Richard Robbins
    Richard Robbins

    Richard Robbins is an American film composer known for his work on Merchant Ivory films....
      (2)


List by year

The following is the list of nominated composers organized by year, and listing both films and composers. The years shown in the following list of winners are the production years, thus a reference to 1967 means the Oscars
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 presented in 1968 for movies released in 1967.

1930s

  • 1934
    • MUSIC (Scoring): One Night of Love
      One Night of Love

      One Night of Love is a 1934 in film musical romance, set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K....
       - Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers
      Louis Silvers

      Louis Silvers was a Film score, whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. He was born on September 6, 1889 in New York and died of Congenital heart defect on March 26, 1954 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
      , head of department (Thematic Music by Victor Schertzinger
      Victor Schertzinger

      Victor L. Schertzinger was an United States composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar ....
       and Gus Kahn
      Gus Kahn

      Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist....
      )
      • The Gay Divorcee
        The Gay Divorcee

        The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 in film film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor , Kenneth S....
         - RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
        , head of department (Score by Kenneth Webb
        Kenneth Webb

        Kenneth S. Webb was an United States film director, screenwriter, and composer noted for directing a number of films in the early age of the American film industry. He helped write The Gay Divorce along with Samuel Hoffenstein....
         and Samuel Hoffenstein
        Samuel Hoffenstein

        Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he immigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business....
        )
      • The Lost Patrol
        The Lost Patrol (1934 film)

        The Lost Patrol is a 1934 in film war film made by RKO Pictures. It was directed and produced by John Ford, with Merian C. Cooper as executive producer and Cliff Reid as associate producer....
         - RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
        , head of department (Score by Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
        )
  • 1935
    • MUSIC (Scoring): The Informer - RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner
      Max Steiner

      Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      , head of department (Score by Max Steiner
      Max Steiner

      Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      )
      • (Write-in candidate) Captain Blood - Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein
        Leo F. Forbstein

        Leo F. Forbstein was an Academy Award-winning film Music supervision and Conducting who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period....
        , head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
        Erich Wolfgang Korngold

        Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Academy Award-winning 20th century film and romantic music composer....
        )
      • Mutiny on the Bounty
        Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

        Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
         - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
        )
      • Peter Ibbetson
        Peter Ibbetson

        Peter Ibbetson is an United States black-and-white drama film released in 1935 in film and directed by Henry Hathaway.The picture is based on a novel by George du Maurier, first published in 1891....
         - Paramount Studio Music Department, Irvin Talbot, head of department (Score by Ernst Toch
        Ernst Toch

        Ernst Toch was a composer of european classical music and film scores....
        )
  • 1936
    • MUSIC (Scoring): Anthony Adverse
      Anthony Adverse

      Anthony Adverse is a 1936 United States drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney was based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen....
       - Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein
      Leo F. Forbstein

      Leo F. Forbstein was an Academy Award-winning film Music supervision and Conducting who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period....
      , head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
      Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Academy Award-winning 20th century film and romantic music composer....
      )
      • The Charge of the Light Brigade
        The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)

        The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 in film historical film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B....
         - Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein
        Leo F. Forbstein

        Leo F. Forbstein was an Academy Award-winning film Music supervision and Conducting who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period....
        , head of department (Score by Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
        )
      • The Garden of Allah - Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
        , head of department (Score by Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
        )
      • The General Died at Dawn
        The General Died at Dawn

        The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 in film film that tells the story of a mercenary who meets a beautiful girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in war-torn China....
         - Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros
        Boris Morros

        Boris Morros was an United States Communist Party member, Paramount Studios Film producer and Soviet agent.Morros was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and emigrated with his family to America in 1922....
        , head of department (Score by Werner Janssen
        Werner Janssen

        Hans-Werner Janssen was an United States Conducting of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores....
        )
      • Winterset
        Winterset (film)

        Winterset is a 1936 in film crime film directed by Alfred Santell, based on Winterset by Maxwell Anderson. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Perry Ferguson and the other for Academy Award for Original Music Score by Nathaniel Shilkret....
         - RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Nathaniel Shilkret
        Nathaniel Shilkret

        File:NShilkretSeatedPortrait.jpgNathaniel Shilkret was born in New York City, to an Austrian immigrant family. He was an USA composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive , and music director ....
        , head of department (Score by Nathaniel Shilkret
        Nathaniel Shilkret

        File:NShilkretSeatedPortrait.jpgNathaniel Shilkret was born in New York City, to an Austrian immigrant family. He was an USA composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive , and music director ....
        )
  • 1937
    • MUSIC (Scoring): One Hundred Men and a Girl
      One Hundred Men and a Girl

      One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 in film musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kr?ly and directed by Henry Koster....
       -- Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department (no composer credit)
      • The Hurricane
        The Hurricane (1937 film)

        The Hurricane is a film, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, about a tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean. It stars Dorothy Lamour and also Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C....
         - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department, Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
        , head of department (Score by Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
        )
      • In Old Chicago
        In Old Chicago

        In Old Chicago is a 1937 in film dramatic film. It tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, with a fictionalized plot, the story of the two sons of Mrs....
         - 20th Century-Fox Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers
        Louis Silvers

        Louis Silvers was a Film score, whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. He was born on September 6, 1889 in New York and died of Congenital heart defect on March 26, 1954 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
        , head of department (no composer credit)
      • The Life of Emile Zola
        The Life of Emile Zola

        The Life of ?mile Zola is a 1937 in film biographical film of famous French author ?mile Zola. It depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul C?zanne and his involvement in the Dreyfus affair....
         - Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein
        Leo F. Forbstein

        Leo F. Forbstein was an Academy Award-winning film Music supervision and Conducting who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period....
        , head of department (Score by Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
        )
      • Lost Horizon - Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
        , head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
        Dimitri Tiomkin

        Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
        )
      • Make a Wish - Principal Productions, Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, musical director (Score by Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld)
      • Maytime - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
        )
      • Portia on Trial - Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo
        Alberto Colombo

        Alberto Colombo is a former racing driver from Italy. He unsuccessfully entered 3 Formula One Grands Prix in 1978 with ATS and Merzario . He enjoyed some success in Formula Two....
        , head of department (Score by Alberto Colombo
        Alberto Colombo

        Alberto Colombo is a former racing driver from Italy. He unsuccessfully entered 3 Formula One Grands Prix in 1978 with ATS and Merzario . He enjoyed some success in Formula Two....
        )
      • The Prisoner of Zenda
        The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)

        The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 in film black-and-white adventure film based on the Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda and the 1896 play. Of the many film adaptations, this is considered by many to be the definitive version....
         - Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
        , musical director (Score by Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
        )
      • Quality Street - RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb
        Roy Webb

        Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
        , musical director (Score by Roy Webb
        Roy Webb

        Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
        )
      • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
        Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

        Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full length animation feature film to be produced by Walt Disney, and the first American animated feature film in movie history....
         - Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline
        Leigh Harline

        Leigh Adrian Harline was an Academy Award-winning film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer....
        , head of department (Score by Frank Churchill
        Frank Churchill

        Frank Churchill was a United States composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"....
        , Leigh Harline
        Leigh Harline

        Leigh Adrian Harline was an Academy Award-winning film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer....
         and Paul J. Smith)
      • Something to Sing About
        Something to Sing About

        "Something to Sing About" is a patriotic song written by folk singer Oscar Brand that sings the praises of the many different regions of Canada....
         - Grand National Studio Music Department, C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director (Score by Victor Schertzinger
        Victor Schertzinger

        Victor L. Schertzinger was an United States composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar ....
        )
      • Souls at Sea
        Souls at Sea

        Souls at Sea is a 1937 in film seafaring film starring Gary Cooper and George Raft. The movie features Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Fix, and Tully Marshall, and was directed by Henry Hathaway....
         - Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros
        Boris Morros

        Boris Morros was an United States Communist Party member, Paramount Studios Film producer and Soviet agent.Morros was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and emigrated with his family to America in 1922....
        , head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder)
      • Way Out West
        Way Out West (1937 film)

        Way Out West is a Laurel and Hardy comedy film released in 1937. It was directed by James W. Horne, produced by Stan Laurel and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
         - Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley
        Marvin Hatley

        Thomas Marvin Hatley , professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an United States film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940....
        , head of department (Score by Marvin Hatley
        Marvin Hatley

        Thomas Marvin Hatley , professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an United States film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940....
        )
  • 1938
    • MUSIC (Original Score): The Adventures of Robin Hood
      The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)

      The Adventures of Robin Hood is an United States Swashbuckler films released in 1938 in film and directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley....
       - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
      Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Academy Award-winning 20th century film and romantic music composer....
      • Army Girl - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • Block-Heads
        Block-heads

        The Blockheads are clay animation characters in the Gumby television series, created by animator Art Clokey; they are a pair of humanoid, red-colored figures, who were Gumby's nemeses....
         - Marvin Hatley
        Marvin Hatley

        Thomas Marvin Hatley , professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an United States film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940....
      • Blockade - Werner Janssen
        Werner Janssen

        Hans-Werner Janssen was an United States Conducting of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores....
      • Breaking the Ice
        Breaking the Ice

        Breaking the Ice is a peace project founded by Heskel Nathaniel....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • The Cowboy and the Lady
        The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 film)

        The Cowboy and the Lady is a 1938 in film western film comedy film/romance film starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon. It was directed by H.C....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • If I Were King
        If I Were King

        If I Were King is a 1938 in film biopic historical drama film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet Fran?ois Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee....
         - Richard Hageman
        Richard Hageman

        Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American Conductor , pianist, composer, and actor....
      • Marie Antoinette
        Marie Antoinette (1938 film)

        Marie Antoinette is a 1938 in film film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was film director by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut and Gladys George....
         - Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
      • Pacific Liner - Russell Bennett
      • Suez
        Suez (film)

        Suez is a 1938 in film film account of the building of the Suez Canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps, played by Tyrone Power. It was so highly fictionalized that de Lesseps' descendants sued for libel....
         - Louis Silvers
        Louis Silvers

        Louis Silvers was a Film score, whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. He was born on September 6, 1889 in New York and died of Congenital heart defect on March 26, 1954 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
      • The Young in Heart
        The Young in Heart

        The Young in Heart is a comedy film starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, and Billie Burke.Made by Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists, the movie was directed by Richard Wallace and produced by David O....
         - Franz Waxman
        Franz Waxman

        Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
  • 1939
    • MUSIC (Original Score): The Wizard of Oz - Herbert Stothart
      Herbert Stothart

      Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
      • Dark Victory
        Dark Victory

        Dark Victory is a 1939 in film United States drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the unsuccessful 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • Eternally Yours
        Eternally Yours

        Eternally Yours is second album released by the Australia music group The Saints in 1978. For their follow up album the band chose a more bigger R & B driven sound, including the addition of a horn section....
         - Werner Janssen
        Werner Janssen

        Hans-Werner Janssen was an United States Conducting of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores....
      • Golden Boy
        Golden Boy (film)

        Golden Boy is a 1939 in film black-and-white Columbia Pictures drama film based on the Clifford Odets Golden Boy . It features William Holden in the role that made him a star: a promising violinist who wants to be a Boxing....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • Gone with the Wind
        Gone with the Wind (film)

        Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • Gulliver's Travels
        Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)

        Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 in film Academy Award nominated traditional animation Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • The Man in the Iron Mask
        The Man in the Iron Mask (film)

        There have been several movies which have been entitled The Man in the Iron Mask, or which have just been based on the final section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, p?re, which was itself based on the 18th century legend of The Man in the Iron Mask....
         - Lud Gluskin
        Lud Gluskin

        Ludwig Elias Gluskin was a jazz bandleader.Gluskin drummed for bands in France in the 1920s, including at the Casino de Paris. In 1927, he was offered the leadership of The Playboys, a Detroit jazz band which had been stranded in Paris; he led the group in Venice in 1927 and Paris in 1928, eventually expanding them into his own orchestra....
        , Lucien Moraweck
      • Man of Conquest
        Man of Conquest

        Man of Conquest is a 1939 in film Western directed by George Nichols Jr.. It was nominated for three Academy Awards for Academy Award for Original Music Score, Academy Award for Sound and Academy Award for Best Art Direction by John Victor Mackay....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
        Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

        Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an Cinema of the United States comedy film/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on Politics of the United States....
         - Dimitri Tiomkin
        Dimitri Tiomkin

        Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      • Nurse Edith Cavell - Anthony Collins
        Anthony Collins

        Anthony Collins , was an England philosopher, and a proponent of deism....
      • Of Mice and Men
        Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

        Of Mice and Men is a 1939 in film film based on the Of Mice and Men of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr....
         - Aaron Copland
        Aaron Copland

        Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
      • The Rains Came
        The Rains Came

        The Rains Came is the title of novel by Louis Bromfield, published in 1937 in literature, as well as the 1939 in film 20th Century Fox film version which followed it....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
         
      • Wuthering Heights
        Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

        Wuthering Heights is a film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the celebrated novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront?, although the film only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Hunchback of Notre Dame - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....


1940s

  • 1940
    • MUSIC (Original Score): Pinocchio
      Pinocchio (1940 film)

      Pinocchio is the second animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney and was originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7, 1940....
       - Leigh Harline
      Leigh Harline

      Leigh Adrian Harline was an Academy Award-winning film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer....
      , Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington
      Ned Washington

      Ned Washington was an United States lyricist....
      • Arizona
        Arizona (1940 film)

        Arizona is a 1940 in film western film starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William. It was directed by Wesley Ruggles.Victor Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score, while Lionel Banks and Robert Peterson were considered for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • The Dark Command - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • The Fight for Life - Louis Gruenberg
        Louis Gruenberg

        Louis Gruenberg was a Russian Lithuania-born American pianist and composer.Although born in Russia, his family emigrated to the United States months after his birth....
      • The Great Dictator
        The Great Dictator

        The Great Dictator is a comedy film Film director by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940 in film, it was Chaplin's first true talking picture, and more importantly was the only major film of its period to bitterly satirise Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism....
         - Meredith Willson
        Meredith Willson

        Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
      • The House of the Seven Gables
        The House of the Seven Gables

        The House of the Seven Gables is a Colonial architecture mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, as well as the title of a The House of the Seven Gables written in 1851 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne....
         - Frank Skinner
        Frank Skinner

        Frank Skinner is an English people writer and award-winning comedian, best known for the hit football song "Three Lions" with David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds, as well as television presenter, alongside Baddiel, the hit comedy show Fantasy Football League....
      • The Howards of Virginia
        The Howards of Virginia

        The Howards of Virginia is a film released by Columbia Pictures and based on the book The Tree of Liberty written by Elizabeth Page. The Howards of Virginia live through the American Revolutionary War, with Cary Grant starring as Matt Howard, Martha Scott starring as his wife Jane Peyton Howard, and Alan Marshal and Sir Cedric Hardw...
         - Richard Hageman
        Richard Hageman

        Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American Conductor , pianist, composer, and actor....
      • The Letter
        The Letter (1940 film)

        The Letter is a 1940 United States film noir directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham, The Letter ....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • The Long Voyage Home
        The Long Voyage Home

        The Long Voyage Home is an United States drama film and directed by John Ford. It features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell , Ian Hunter , Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson , John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond, among others....
         - Richard Hageman
        Richard Hageman

        Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American Conductor , pianist, composer, and actor....
      • The Mark of Zorro
        The Mark of Zorro (1940 film)

        'The Mark of Zorro' is a 1940 in film feature film film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and produced by 20th Century Fox. It starred Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega , Linda Darnell as his love interest, Lolita Quintero, Montagu Love as Don Alejandro Vega, Gale Sondergaard as the naughty Inez Quintero, Eugene Pallette as Father...
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • My Favorite Wife
        My Favorite Wife

        My Favorite Wife is a 1940 in film screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant that tells the story of a woman returning home to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for seven years....
         - Roy Webb
        Roy Webb

        Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
      • North West Mounted Police - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • One Million B.C.
        One Million B.C.

        One Million B.C. is a 1940 in film United States fantasy motion picture produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak....
         - Werner Heymann
      • Our Town - Aaron Copland
        Aaron Copland

        Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
         
      • Rebecca
        Rebecca (film)

        Rebecca is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first United States project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O....
         - Franz Waxman
        Franz Waxman

        Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
      • The Thief of Bagdad
        The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)

        The Thief of Bagdad is a British 1940 in film fantasy film directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan, with uncredited contributions by Alexander Korda, his brother Zoltan Korda and William Cameron Menzies....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • Waterloo Bridge - Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
  • 1941
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic Picture): All That Money Can Buy - Bernard Herrmann
      Bernard Herrmann

      Bernard Herrmann was an United States composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho , North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo ....
      • Back Street
        Back Street (1941 film)

        Back Street is a 1941 in film drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by Robert Stevenson . The film stars Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan....
         - Frank Skinner
        Frank Skinner

        Frank Skinner is an English people writer and award-winning comedian, best known for the hit football song "Three Lions" with David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds, as well as television presenter, alongside Baddiel, the hit comedy show Fantasy Football League....
      • Ball of Fire
        Ball of Fire

        Ball of Fire is a 1941 in film comedy film about a group of professors laboring for years to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Cheers for Miss Bishop
        Cheers for Miss Bishop

        Cheers for Miss Bishop is a film based on the novel Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldrich. It was directed by Tay Garnett and stars Martha Scott in the title role....
         - Edward Ward
        Edward Ward

        Edward Ward may refer to:*Edward Ward , American film score composer, nominated for seven Oscars between 1939-44;*Sir Edward Ward , British army officer, notable reformer of army administration;...
      • Citizen Kane
        Citizen Kane

        Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
         - Bernard Herrmann
        Bernard Herrmann

        Bernard Herrmann was an United States composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho , North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo ....
      • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
        Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)

        Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a horror film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner, is a remake of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the same title....
         - Franz Waxman
        Franz Waxman

        Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
      • Hold Back the Dawn
        Hold Back the Dawn

        Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 romantic film in which a Romanian gigolo marries an United Statesn woman in Mexico in order to gain entry to the United States, but winds up falling in love with her....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • How Green Was My Valley
        How Green Was My Valley (film)

        How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by John Ford. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written by Philip Dunne, and based on the Richard Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • King of the Zombies
        King of the Zombies

        King of the Zombies is a 1941 film....
         - Edward Kay
        Edward Kay

        Edward Kay is a Toronto-based writer with a background in both live-action and animated television comedy, as well as print journalism.Kay spent four years as a writer and producer on the political satire, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, before becoming supervising producer of The Itch, a comedy series starring Jason Jones of The Daily Show,...
      • Ladies in Retirement
        Ladies in Retirement

        Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 in film film starring Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy Smith which starred Flora Robson in the lead role....
         - Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
        , Ernst Toch
        Ernst Toch

        Ernst Toch was a composer of european classical music and film scores....
      • The Little Foxes
        The Little Foxes (film)

        The Little Foxes is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her The Little Foxes....
         - Meredith Willson
        Meredith Willson

        Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
      • Lydia
        Lydia (film)

        Lydia is a drama film, directed by Julien Duvivier. It stars Merle Oberon as Lydia, a woman who starts off immature and spoilt, but then grows to be bitter and resentful, until she is old, and accepting....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • Mercy Island - Cy Feuer
        Cy Feuer

        Cy Feuer was a Tony Award-winning United States theatrical producer, theatre director, composer, and musician.Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York, he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while attending New Utrecht High School....
        , Walter Scharf
        Walter Scharf

        Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
      • Sergeant York
        Sergeant York

        Sergeant York is a 1941 in film biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • So Ends Our Night - Louis Gruenberg
        Louis Gruenberg

        Louis Gruenberg was a Russian Lithuania-born American pianist and composer.Although born in Russia, his family emigrated to the United States months after his birth....
      • Sundown
        Sundown (film)

        Sundown is a 1941 in film war film directed by Henry Hathaway. It was nominated for three Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Alexander Golitzen and Richard Irvine....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • Suspicion
        Suspicion (film)

        Suspicion is a romance film psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple....
         - Franz Waxman
        Franz Waxman

        Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
      • Tanks a Million - Edward Ward
        Edward Ward

        Edward Ward may refer to:*Edward Ward , American film score composer, nominated for seven Oscars between 1939-44;*Sir Edward Ward , British army officer, notable reformer of army administration;...
      • That Uncertain Feeling
        That Uncertain Feeling

        That Uncertain Feeling is a comic novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1956.In 1962, the book was made into a film starring Peter Sellers, with the title changed to Only Two Can Play....
         - Werner Heymann
      • This Woman Is Mine - Richard Hageman
        Richard Hageman

        Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American Conductor , pianist, composer, and actor....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Dumbo
      Dumbo

      Dumbo is a 1941 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth film in the Disney animated features canon, Dumbo is based upon a child's book of the same name by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Perl....
       - Frank Churchill
      Frank Churchill

      Frank Churchill was a United States composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"....
      , Oliver Wallace
      Oliver Wallace

      Oliver George Wallace was a British-American composer and conductor. He was especially known for his film music compositions, which were written for many animation, Documentary film, and feature films from Walt Disney Studios....
      • All-American Co-Ed - Edward Ward
        Edward Ward

        Edward Ward may refer to:*Edward Ward , American film score composer, nominated for seven Oscars between 1939-44;*Sir Edward Ward , British army officer, notable reformer of army administration;...
      • Birth of the Blues - Robert Emmett Dolan
      • Buck Privates
        Buck Privates

        Buck Privates is the 1941 in film comedy film/World War II film that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bonafide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940....
         - Charles Previn
      • The Chocolate Soldier - Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
        , Bronislaw Kaper
        Bronislaw Kaper

        Bronislaw Kaper was a Poland film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the United States. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper....
         
      • Ice-Capades - Cy Feuer
        Cy Feuer

        Cy Feuer was a Tony Award-winning United States theatrical producer, theatre director, composer, and musician.Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York, he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while attending New Utrecht High School....
      • The Strawberry Blonde
        The Strawberry Blonde

        The Strawberry Blonde was a 1941 in film Warner Brothers feature film starring James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1941 for Academy Award for Original Music Score....
         - Heinz Roemheld
      • Sun Valley Serenade
        Sun Valley Serenade

        Sun Valley Serenade is a musical film starring Sonja Henie, Lynn Bari, John Payne , and Milton Berle. It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge....
         - Emil Newman
        Emil Newman

        Emil Newman was an United States composer and conductor who worked on over 200 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Academy award for musical direction on the classic Sun Valley Serenade ....
      • Sunny
        Sunny (1941 film)

        Sunny is a 1941 in film film adaptation of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny . It is the second film version of the musical; the first was made in 1930, with Marilyn Miller, the show's original star, repeating her stage role....
         - Anthony Collins
        Anthony Collins

        Anthony Collins , was an England philosopher, and a proponent of deism....
      • You'll Never Get Rich
        You'll Never Get Rich

        You'll Never Get Rich is a 1941 Hollywood musical film comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter....
         - Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
  • 1942
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Now, Voyager
      Now, Voyager

      Now, Voyager is a 1942 in film United States drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted...
       - Max Steiner
      Max Steiner

      Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • Arabian Nights
        Arabian Nights (1942 film)

        Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu Dastagir, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins . The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories....
         - Frank Skinner
        Frank Skinner

        Frank Skinner is an English people writer and award-winning comedian, best known for the hit football song "Three Lions" with David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds, as well as television presenter, alongside Baddiel, the hit comedy show Fantasy Football League....
      • Bambi - Frank Churchill
        Frank Churchill

        Frank Churchill was a United States composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"....
         (posthumous nomination
        List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

        This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
        ), Edward Plumb
      • The Black Swan
        The Black Swan (film)

        The Black Swan is a 1942 in film swashbuckler Technicolor film by Henry King , based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini, and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • The Corsican Brothers
        The Corsican Brothers

        The Corsican Brothers is a novella by Alexandre Dumas, p?re first published in 1844. It has been adapted many times on the stage and in film....
         - Dimitri Tiomkin
        Dimitri Tiomkin

        Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      • Flying Tigers
        Flying Tigers

        Flying Tigers was the popular name of the 1st American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China Air Force in 1941 and 1942. In essence, the group was a private military contractor, though the volunteers have also been called mercenary....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • The Gold Rush
        The Gold Rush

        The Gold Rush is a silent film Comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his The Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray , Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite....
         - Max Terr
      • I Married a Witch
        I Married a Witch

        I Married a Witch is a fantasy film romantic comedy film, directed by Ren? Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for revenge goes comically awry, with Frederic March as her foil....
         - Roy Webb
        Roy Webb

        Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
      • Joan of Paris
        Joan of Paris

        Joan of Paris is a 1942 in film war film about five Royal Air Force pilots shot down over Nazi Germany-occupied France during World War II and their attempt to escape to England....
         - Roy Webb
        Roy Webb

        Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
      • Jungle Book
        Jungle Book (1942 film)

        Jungle Book is an United States color 1942 in film action/adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling novel, The Jungle Book. The film was directed by Zolt?n Korda based on a screeplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • Klondike Fury - Edward Kay
        Edward Kay

        Edward Kay is a Toronto-based writer with a background in both live-action and animated television comedy, as well as print journalism.Kay spent four years as a writer and producer on the political satire, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, before becoming supervising producer of The Itch, a comedy series starring Jason Jones of The Daily Show,...
      • The Pride of the Yankees
        The Pride of the Yankees

        The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 biographical film directed by Sam Wood about the New York Yankees baseball player, first baseman Lou Gehrig, who had his career cut short at 36 years of age when he was stricken with the fatal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ....
         - Leigh Harline
        Leigh Harline

        Leigh Adrian Harline was an Academy Award-winning film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer....
      • Random Harvest - Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
      • The Shanghai Gesture
        The Shanghai Gesture

        The Shanghai Gesture is a United Artists film noir film starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson.It was adapted for the screen by Josef von Sternberg, based on the stage play by John Colton, produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists, and directed by von Sternberg....
         - Richard Hageman
        Richard Hageman

        Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American Conductor , pianist, composer, and actor....
      • Silver Queen
        Silver Queen

        Silver Queen is a 1942 in film Western directed by Lloyd Bacon. It was nominated for two Academy Awards for Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • Take a Letter, Darling
        Take a Letter, Darling

        Take a Letter, Darling is a 1942 in film comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It was nominated for three Academy Awards; Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • The Talk of the Town - Friedrich Hollaender
        Friedrich Hollaender

        Friedrich Hollaender was a Germany composer born in London. He was the son of composer Victor Hollander. The family returned to Germany and Frederick was educated at the Berlin Conservatory....
        , Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
      • To Be or Not to Be
        To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)

        To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 in film comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, about a troupe of actors in Nazism-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops....
         - Werner Heymann
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Yankee Doodle Dandy
      Yankee Doodle Dandy

      Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....
       - Ray Heindorf
      Ray Heindorf

      Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
      , Heinz Roemheld
      • Flying with Music - Edward Ward
        Edward Ward

        Edward Ward may refer to:*Edward Ward , American film score composer, nominated for seven Oscars between 1939-44;*Sir Edward Ward , British army officer, notable reformer of army administration;...
      • For Me and My Gal
        For Me and My Gal

        For Me and My Gal can refer to:*For Me and My Gal , a 1942 Judy Garland-Gene Kelly musical directed by Busby Berkeley*For Me and My Gal , a 1917 popular standard song by George W. Meyer, Edgar Leslie, and E. Ray Goetz...
         - Roger Edens
        Roger Edens

        Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood"....
        , Georgie Stoll
      • Holiday Inn
        Holiday Inn (film)

        Holiday Inn is a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which featured the music of Irving Berlin. The film features twelve new songs, one brief use of "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," written in 1917 for the World War I musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" which was reprised on Broadway in 1942 under the title "This Is the Army"...
         - Robert Emmett Dolan
      • It Started with Eve
        It Started with Eve

        It Started with Eve is a 1941 in film musical film romantic comedy film. A man's dying father wants to meet his new fianc?e, but she is unavailable, so he substitutes a hat-check girl....
         - Hans Salter, Charles Previn
      • Johnny Doughboy - Walter Scharf
        Walter Scharf

        Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
      • My Gal Sal
        My Gal Sal

        My Gal Sal is a 20th Century Fox musical starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature. The film is a biopic of 1890s composer and songwriter Paul Dresser and singer, Sally Elliot....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
         
      • You Were Never Lovelier
        You Were Never Lovelier

        You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 Hollywood musical film comedy film, set in Buenos Aires. It starred Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Johnny Mercer....
         - Leigh Harline
        Leigh Harline

        Leigh Adrian Harline was an Academy Award-winning film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer....
  • 1943
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Song of Bernadette
      The Song of Bernadette (film)

      The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
       - Alfred Newman
      Alfred Newman

      Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • The Amazing Mrs. Holliday - Frank Skinner
        Frank Skinner

        Frank Skinner is an English people writer and award-winning comedian, best known for the hit football song "Three Lions" with David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds, as well as television presenter, alongside Baddiel, the hit comedy show Fantasy Football League....
        , Hans J. Salter
        Hans J. Salter

        Hans J. Salter was an United States Film composers.He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Los Angeles.He composed mainly for Universal Studios, most famously for Universal Horror and science fiction films....
      • Casablanca
        Casablanca (film)

        Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • Commandos Strike at Dawn
        Commandos Strike at Dawn

        Commandos Strike at Dawn is a war film directed by John Farrow and written by Irwin Shaw from a story by C.S. Forester, starring Paul Muni,Anna Lee, Lillian Gish and Cedric Hardwicke....
         - Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
        , Louis Gruenberg
        Louis Gruenberg

        Louis Gruenberg was a Russian Lithuania-born American pianist and composer.Although born in Russia, his family emigrated to the United States months after his birth....
      • The Fallen Sparrow - Roy Webb
        Roy Webb

        Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
        , C. Bakaleinikoff
      • For Whom the Bell Tolls
        For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)

        For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 in film film in Technicolor based on the For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • Hangmen Also Die
        Hangmen Also Die

        Hangmen Also Die! is a war film directed by the legendary Austrian director Fritz Lang and written by John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht and Lang....
         - Hanns Eisler
        Hanns Eisler

        Hanns Eisler was a Germany and Austrian composer....
      • Hi Diddle Diddle
        Hi Diddle Diddle

        Hi Diddle Diddle is a black and white film comedy film made in 1943 in film, starring Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc, Billie Burke, and Pola Negri....
         - Phil Boutelje
        Phil Boutelje

        Phil Boutelje was an United States pianist, songwriter, composer, author and conducting.He was educated at the Philadelphia Music Academy. Phil was a pianist and arranger for the Paul Whiteman orchestra, and a military bandmaster during World War I....
      • In Old Oklahoma
        In Old Oklahoma

        In Old Oklahoma is a 1943 film starring John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, Gabby Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, and Dale Evans. The movie was directed by Albert S....
         - Walter Scharf
        Walter Scharf

        Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
      • Johnny Come Lately - Leigh Harline
        Leigh Harline

        Leigh Adrian Harline was an Academy Award-winning film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer....
      • The Kansan
        The Kansan

        The Kansan may refer to:* The Kansas City Kansan* The Newton Kansan...
         - Gerard Carbonara
        Gerard Carbonara

        Gerard Carbonara was an American film score composer.Carbonara began his film music career at the end of the silent film era. In the 1930s and 1940s he scored numerous films, among them Stagecoach ....
      • Lady of Burlesque
        Lady of Burlesque

        Lady of Burlesque is a 1943 in film mystery film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea , based on the novel The G-String Murders written by famous strip tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee ....
         - Arthur Lange
        Arthur Lange

        Arthur Lange was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run....
      • Madame Curie
        Madame Curie (film)

        Madame Curie is a 1943 in film biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H....
         - Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
      • The Moon and Sixpence
        The Moon and Sixpence

        The Moon and Sixpence is a short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged England stock broker who abandons his wife and childre...
         - Dimitri Tiomkin
        Dimitri Tiomkin

        Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      • The North Star
        The North Star (1943 film)

        The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman....
         - Aaron Copland
        Aaron Copland

        Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
         
      • Victory Through Air Power
        Victory Through Air Power

        Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 book by Alexander P. de Seversky, and a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated film based on the book.The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, but lost to "The Song of Bernadette"....
         - Edward H. Plumb
        Edward H. Plumb

        Edward Holcomb Plumb was a Film score best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He served as musical director of Fantasia and composed the score for Bambi, included its menacing man-theme, which may have been an influence for the shark-theme in Jaws ....
        , Paul Smith
        Paul Smith (composer)

        Paul J. Smith was an American music composer. He spent much of his life working at The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live-action alike, movie and television alike ....
        , Oliver G. Wallace
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): This Is the Army
      This Is the Army

      This Is the Army is a 1943 in film United States motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S....
       - Ray Heindorf
      Ray Heindorf

      Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
      • Coney Island
        Coney Island (1943 film)

        Coney Island is a 1943 Technicolor film released by Twentieth Century Fox and starring Betty Grable in one of her biggest hits. A "Gay Nineties" musical it also featured George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, and Phil Silvers, and was directed by Walter Lang....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Hit Parade of 1943
        Hit Parade of 1943

        Hit Parade of 1943 also known as Change of Heart is a 1943 in film musical film made by Republic Pictures. It was directed by Albert S....
         - Walter Scharf
        Walter Scharf

        Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
      • Phantom of the Opera
        Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)

        Phantom of the Opera is a Universal horror starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor....
         - Edward Ward
        Edward Ward

        Edward Ward may refer to:*Edward Ward , American film score composer, nominated for seven Oscars between 1939-44;*Sir Edward Ward , British army officer, notable reformer of army administration;...
      • Saludos Amigos
        Saludos Amigos

        Saludos Amigos is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in the List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features....
         - Charles Wolcott
        Charles Wolcott

        Charles Wolcott served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bah?'? Faith, between 1963 and 1987.Wolcott was born in Flint, Michigan, United States....
        , Edward H. Plumb
        Edward H. Plumb

        Edward Holcomb Plumb was a Film score best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He served as musical director of Fantasia and composed the score for Bambi, included its menacing man-theme, which may have been an influence for the shark-theme in Jaws ....
        , Paul J. Smith
      • The Sky's the Limit
        The Sky's the Limit

        The Sky's The Limit is a Musical film comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan and Eric Blore, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer....
         - Leigh Harline
        Leigh Harline

        Leigh Adrian Harline was an Academy Award-winning film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer....
      • Something to Shout About
        Something to Shout About (film)

        Something to Shout About is a 1943 in film Columbia Pictures musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff. The movie stars Don Ameche and Janet Blair and was nominated for two Academy Award....
         - Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
      • Stage Door Canteen
        Stage Door Canteen

        Stage Door Canteen is a musical film produced by Sol Lesser Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Frank Borzage and features many cameo appearances by celebrities, and the majority of the film is essentially a filmed concert although there is also a storyline to the film....
         - Frederic E. Rich
        Fred Rich

        Frederic Efrem "Fred" Rich was a Poland-born United States bandleader and composer who was active from the 1920s to the 1950s. Among the famous musicians in his band included the Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti, Bunny Berigan and Benny Goodman....
      • Star Spangled Rhythm
        Star Spangled Rhythm

        Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 in film all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster. Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war, generally musicals, frequently with flimsy storylines, and with the specific intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back...
         - Robert Emmett Dolan
      • Thousands Cheer
        Thousands Cheer

        Thousands Cheer was an United States musical film-comedy released by MGM in 1943.Produced at the height of the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families....
         - Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
  • 1944
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Since You Went Away
      Since You Went Away

      Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder....
       - Max Steiner
      Max Steiner

      Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • Address Unknown
        Address Unknown (1944 film)

        Address Unknown is a 1944 in film drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies. It was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
         - Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
        , Ernst Toch
        Ernst Toch

        Ernst Toch was a composer of european classical music and film scores....
      • The Adventures of Mark Twain
        The Adventures of Mark Twain

        The Adventures of Mark Twain is a 1944 live action biographical film.The film stars Fredric March as Samuel Clemens and Alexis Smith as his wife, Olivia....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
        The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944 film)

        The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1944 in film drama film made by Benedict Bogeaus Productions and released by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Rowland V....
         - Dimitri Tiomkin
        Dimitri Tiomkin

        Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      • Casanova Brown
        Casanova Brown

        Casanova Brown is a 1944 in film film starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan. The film was written by Thomas Mitchell , Floyd Dell, and Nunnally Johnson, and directed by Sam Wood....
         - Arthur Lange
        Arthur Lange

        Arthur Lange was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run....
      • Christmas Holiday
        Christmas Holiday

        Christmas Holiday is a 1944 in film drama directed by Robert Siodmak. The black-and-white film noir is based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham....
         - H. J. Salter
      • Double Indemnity - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • The Fighting Seabees
        The Fighting Seabees

        The Fighting Seabees is a war film starring John Wayne, Dennis O'Keefe and Susan Hayward. It portrays a heavily fictionalized account of the dilemma that led to the creation of the U.S....
         - Walter Scharf
        Walter Scharf

        Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
        , Roy Webb
        Roy Webb

        Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
      • The Hairy Ape
        The Hairy Ape

        The Hairy Ape is an expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill ....
         - Edward Paul, Michel Michelet
      • It Happened Tomorrow
        It Happened Tomorrow

        It Happened Tomorrow is a fantasy film starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and Sig Ruman. It was directed by Ren? Clair....
         - Robert Stolz
        Robert Stolz

        Robert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian songwriter and Conducting as well as a composer of operettas and Film score....
      • Jack London
        Jack London (1943 film)

        Jack London, also known as The Story of Jack London, is a 1943 in film biographical film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by United Artists....
         - Frederic Efrem Rich
        Fred Rich

        Frederic Efrem "Fred" Rich was a Poland-born United States bandleader and composer who was active from the 1920s to the 1950s. Among the famous musicians in his band included the Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti, Bunny Berigan and Benny Goodman....
      • Kismet
        Kismet (1944 film)

        Kismet is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates. James Craig played the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Edward Arnold was the treacherous but likeable Grand Vizier....
         - Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
      • None but the Lonely Heart - Hanns Eisler
        Hanns Eisler

        Hanns Eisler was a Germany and Austrian composer....
        , C. Bakaleinikoff
      • The Princess and the Pirate
        The Princess and the Pirate

        The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 comedy film released by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo. This was the only appearance in a Goldwyn film by Paramount Pictures star Hope....
         - David Rose
        David Rose

        David Rose was a British-born United States songwriter, composer, arranger, and orchestra leader. His most famous compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody"....
      • Summer Storm
        Summer Storm

        Summer Storm is a multi award-winning, Germany coming of age film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner. Released in 2004 in film, the film stars Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda, and Marlon Kittel....
         - Karl Hajos
      • Three Russian Girls
        Three Russian Girls

        Three Russian Girls is a 1943 in film World War II pro-Soviet propaganda film produced by R-F Productions and distributed by United Artists....
         - Franke Harling
      • Up in Mabel's Room - Edward Paul
      • Voice in the Wind - Michel Michelet
      • Wilson
        Wilson (film)

        Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell , Ruth Nelson , Eddie Foy Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Matthew Moore and Vincent Price....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Woman of the Town - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Cover Girl
      Cover Girl (1944 film)

      Cover Girl is a 1944 in film United States musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film tells the story of a chorus girl given a chance at stardom when she's offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl....
       - Morris Stoloff
      Morris Stoloff

      Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
      , Carmen Dragon
      Carmen Dragon

      Carmen Dragon was an American conductor, composer, and arranger.Dragon was born in Antioch, California. He was very active in pops music conducting and composed scores for several films, including At Gunpoint , Invasion of the Body Snatchers , Night into Tomorrow , and Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye ....
      • Brazil - Walter Scharf
        Walter Scharf

        Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
      • Higher and Higher
        Higher and Higher (film)

        Higher and Higher is a musical film starring Mich?le Morgan, Jack Haley, and Frank Sinatra, loosely based on a Higher and Higher written by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan....
         - C. Bakaleinikoff
      • Hollywood Canteen
        Hollywood Canteen (1944 film)

        Hollywood Canteen is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves, and is notable for featuring many stars in cameo appearance....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
      • Irish Eyes Are Smiling - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Knickerbocker Holiday
        Knickerbocker Holiday

        Knickerbocker Holiday is a Broadway theatre musical theater written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson ; it was directed by Joshua Logan. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 19 1938 and closed on March 11 1939 after 168 performances....
         - Werner R. Heymann, Kurt Weill
        Kurt Weill

        Kurt Julian Weill , was a Germany, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the theatre....
      • Lady in the Dark
        Lady in the Dark (film)

        Lady in the Dark is a 1944 in film musical film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated three Academy Awards; for Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
         - Robert Emmett Dolan
      • Lady, Let's Dance
        Lady, Let's Dance

        Lady, Let's Dance is a 1944 black and white film directed by Frank Woodruff that was nominated for two Academy Awards. Produced by Monogram Studios, the film is unique as an ice skating Musical theatre....
         - Edward Kay
        Edward Kay

        Edward Kay is a Toronto-based writer with a background in both live-action and animated television comedy, as well as print journalism.Kay spent four years as a writer and producer on the political satire, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, before becoming supervising producer of The Itch, a comedy series starring Jason Jones of The Daily Show,...
      • Meet Me in St. Louis
        Meet Me in St. Louis

        Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 in film Romance film musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of four sisters living in St....
         - Georgie Stoll
      • The Merry Monahans - H. J. Salter
      • Minstrel Man
        Minstrel Man

        Minstrel Man is a 1980 album by country music singer Willie Nelson....
         - Ferde Grofe
        Ferde Grofé

        Ferde Grof? was an United States pianist, arrangement and composer....
        , Leo Erdody
      • Sensations of 1945
        Sensations of 1945

        Sensations of 1945 is a 1944 in film United States musical film-comedy film which was released by United Artists.This film was an attempt to recapture the ensemble style of films such as Broadway Melody of 1936 by showcasing a number of top musical and comedy acts of the day, in a film linked together by a loose storyline....
         - Mahlon Merrick
      • Song of the Open Road
        Song of the Open Road

        Song of the Open Road is a 1944 in film Musical film comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, from a screenplay by Irving Phillip and Edward Verdier....
         - Charles Previn
      • Up in Arms - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
        , Louis Forbes
  • 1945
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Spellbound
      Spellbound (1945 film)

      Spellbound is a psychological thriller Mystery Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims....
       - Miklós Rózsa
      Miklós Rózsa

      Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • The Bells of St. Mary's
        The Bells of St. Mary's

        The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down....
         - Robert Emmett Dolan
      • Brewster's Millions
        Brewster's Millions

        Brewster's Millions is a novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves. It was adapted into a play in 1906, which opened at the Gielgud Theatre , and the novel or play has been made into a Film nine times ....
         - Lou Forbes
      • Captain Kidd
        Captain Kidd (1945 film)

        Captain Kidd is a film starring Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, and John Carradine, directed by Rowland V. Lee, produced by Benedict Bogeaus and James Nasser, music conduced by Werner Janssen, and released by United Artists....
         - Werner Janssen
        Werner Janssen

        Hans-Werner Janssen was an United States Conducting of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores....
      • The Enchanted Cottage
        The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film)

        The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 in film romantic film starring Robert Young , Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick. It was based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero....
         - Roy Webb
        Roy Webb

        Roy Webb was a film music composer.Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores....
      • Flame of Barbary Coast
        Flame of Barbary Coast

        Flame of Barbary Coast is a 1945 in film western film starring John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, and Virginia Grey....
         - Morton Scott, Dale Butts
      • G. I. Honeymoon - Edward J. Kay
      • The Story of G.I. Joe
        The Story of G.I. Joe

        The Story of G.I. Joe is a war film directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's only nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor....
         - Louis Applebaum
        Louis Applebaum

        Louis Applebaum, Order of Canada was a Canada composer, administrator, and conducting.He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He composed music for numerous films....
        , Ann Ronell
        Ann Ronell

        Ann Ronell was an United States composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard "Willow Weep for Me" ....
      • Guest in the House - Werner Janssen
        Werner Janssen

        Hans-Werner Janssen was an United States Conducting of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores....
      • Guest Wife
        Guest Wife

        Guest Wife is a 1945 in film film directed by Sam Wood, written by Bruce Manning and John Klorer, and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and Dick Foran....
         - Daniele Amfitheatrof
        Daniele Amfitheatrof

        Daniele Amfitheatrof was a Russian composer and conductor....
      • The Keys of the Kingdom
        The Keys of the Kingdom

        The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1941 in literature novel by A. J. Cronin. Spanning six decades, it tells the story of Father Francis Chisholm, an unconventional Scotland Catholic priest who struggles to establish a mission in China....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • The Lost Weekend - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • Love Letters
        Love Letters (1945 film)

        Love Letters is a 1945 film adapted by Ayn Rand from the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie. It was directed by William Dieterle and stars Jennifer Jones , Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards , Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • The Man Who Walked Alone - Karl Hajos
      • Objective, Burma!
        Objective, Burma!

        Objective, Burma! is a 1945 in film movie which depicts American commandos fighting extensively in the China Burma India Theater of World War II....
         - Franz Waxman
        Franz Waxman

        Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
      • Paris--Underground - Alexander Tansman
      • A Song to Remember
        A Song to Remember

        A Song to Remember is a 1945 in film Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a ficitonalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
        , Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
      • The Southerner
        The Southerner (1945 film)

        The Southerner is a film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score and Sound....
         - Werner Janssen
        Werner Janssen

        Hans-Werner Janssen was an United States Conducting of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores....
      • This Love of Ours - H. J. Salter
      • The Valley of Decision
        The Valley of Decision

        The Valley of Decision is a film set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which tells the story of a young house maid who falls in love with the son of the local steel mill owner....
         - Herbert Stothart
        Herbert Stothart

        Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
      • The Woman in the Window
        The Woman in the Window

        The Woman in the Window , is a film noir directed by Fritz Lang that tells the story of psychology professor Richard Wanley who meets and becomes enamored with a young femme fatale....
         - Arthur Lange
        Arthur Lange

        Arthur Lange was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run....
        , Hugo Friedhofer
        Hugo Friedhofer

        Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Anchors Aweigh
      Anchors Aweigh (film)

      Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 musical comedy film, directed by George Sidney in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
       - Georgie Stoll
      • Belle of the Yukon - Arthur Lange
        Arthur Lange

        Arthur Lange was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run....
      • Can't Help Singing
        Can't Help Singing

        Can't Help Singing is a 1944 Musical film Western filmed in Technicolor starring Deanna Durbin. The film was produced by Felix Jackson and directed by Frank Ryan....
         - Jerome Kern
        Jerome Kern

        Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
         (posthumous nomination
        List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

        This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
        ), H. J. Salter
      • Hitchhike to Happiness - Morton Scott
      • Incendiary Blonde
        Incendiary Blonde

        Incendiary Blonde is a 1945 Musical film Biographical film of 1920s nightclub star Texas Guinan. Filmed in Technicolor by director George Marshall , it starred actress Betty Hutton in the title role....
         - Robert Emmett Dolan
      • Rhapsody in Blue
        Rhapsody in Blue (film)

        Rhapsody in Blue is a 1945 biopic of George Gershwin. Starring Robert Alda as Gershwin, the film features a few of Gershwin's acquaintances ....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
        , Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • State Fair
        State Fair (1945 film)

        State Fair is a 1945 in film directed by Walter Lang. The film is a remake of the State Fair . This version has original music by Rodgers and Hammerstein....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
        , Charles Henderson
      • Sunbonnet Sue - Edward J. Kay
      • The Three Caballeros
        The Three Caballeros

        The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, that plots an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and traditional animation....
         - Charles Wolcott
        Charles Wolcott

        Charles Wolcott served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bah?'? Faith, between 1963 and 1987.Wolcott was born in Flint, Michigan, United States....
        , Edward Plumb, Paul J. Smith
      • Tonight and Every Night
        Tonight and Every Night

        Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 in film musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman, about wartime romance and tragedy in a London music hall that was determined not to miss a single performance during the Blitz....
         - Marlin Skiles, Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
      • Why Girls Leave Home - Walter Greene
        Walter Greene

        Walter Greene was a film and television composer who worked on numerous productions for over 30 years.While Greene composed for a variety of genres, he is arguably most well known for his work at United Artists, providing the musical scores for numerous Pink Panther animated shorts in the 1960s and 1970s, starting with the 21st entry...
      • Wonder Man
        Wonder Man (film)

        Wonder Man is a 1945 in film film starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. It is based on a short story by Arthur Sheekman, adapted for the screen by a staff of writers led by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran, film producer by Samuel Goldwyn, and film director by H....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
        , Lou Forbes
  • 1946
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Best Years of Our Lives
      The Best Years of Our Lives

      The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....
       - Hugo Friedhofer
      Hugo Friedhofer

      Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
      • Anna and the King of Siam - Bernard Herrmann
        Bernard Herrmann

        Bernard Herrmann was an United States composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho , North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo ....
      • Henry V
        Henry V (1944 film)

        Henry V is a 1944 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V . The on-screen title is The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France ....
         - William Walton
        William Walton

        Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
      • Humoresque
        Humoresque (film)

        Humoresque is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield in an older woman/younger man tale about a violinist and his patroness....
         - Franz Waxman
        Franz Waxman

        Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
      • The Killers
        The Killers (1946 film)

        The Killers is an United States film noir about the investigation of a mob murder. It is based in part on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): The Jolson Story
      The Jolson Story

      The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson....
       - Morris Stoloff
      Morris Stoloff

      Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
      • Blue Skies
        Blue Skies (film)

        Blue Skies is a 1946 in film Hollywood musical film comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Olga San Juan and Billy De Wolfe, with music, lyrics and story by Irving Berlin; most of the songs were recycled from earlier works....
         - Robert Emmett Dolan
      • Centennial Summer
        Centennial Summer

        Centennial Summer is a 1946 in film film Film director by Otto Preminger. The Musical film, that stars Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde, is based on a novel by Albert E....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • The Harvey Girls - Lennie Hayton
        Lennie Hayton

        Leonard George Hayton was a Jewish American composer, conductor and arranger. He was initially a pianist in jazz groups led by Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others....
         
      • Night and Day - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
        , Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
  • 1947
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): A Double Life
      A Double Life

      A Double Life is a 1947 in film film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso....
       - Miklós Rózsa
      Miklós Rózsa

      Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • The Bishop's Wife
        The Bishop's Wife

        The Bishop's Wife is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy film feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems....
         - Hugo Friedhofer
        Hugo Friedhofer

        Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
      • Captain from Castile
        Captain from Castile

        Captain from Castile is a swashbuckling, action adventure film released by 20th Century Fox in 1947 in film. Directed by Henry King, the Technicolor film starred Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, and Cesar Romero....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Forever Amber
        Forever Amber (film)

        Forever Amber is a 1947 film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Linda Darnell and Cornell Wilde. " It was based on the Forever Amber . It also starred Richard Greene, George Sanders , Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Dolores Hart, and Jessica Tandy....
         - David Raksin
        David Raksin

        David Raksin was an American composer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music." One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score to Modern Times ....
      • Life with Father
        Life with Father (film)

        Life with Father is a 1947 in film comedy film....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Mother Wore Tights
      Mother Wore Tights

      Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 in film musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers. This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young....
       - Alfred Newman
      Alfred Newman

      Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Fiesta - Johnny Green
        Johnny Green

        Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
         
      • My Wild Irish Rose - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
        , Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • Road to Rio
        Road to Rio

        Road to Rio is a 1947 comedy film, film director by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby as Scat Sweeney, Bob Hope as "Hot Lips" Barton, and Dorothy Lamour as Lucia Maria de Andrade....
         - Robert Emmett Dolan
      • Song of the South
        Song of the South

        Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris....
         - Daniele Amfitheatrof
        Daniele Amfitheatrof

        Daniele Amfitheatrof was a Russian composer and conductor....
        , Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott
        Charles Wolcott

        Charles Wolcott served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bah?'? Faith, between 1963 and 1987.Wolcott was born in Flint, Michigan, United States....
  • 1948
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Red Shoes
      The Red Shoes (film)

      The Red Shoes is a United Kingdom feature film about ballet, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as Powell and Pressburger....
       - Brian Easdale
      Brian Easdale

      Brian Easdale was a British composer, born in Manchester, England. He was educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School and the Royal College of Music....
      • Hamlet
        Hamlet (1948 film)

        Hamlet is a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films....
         - William Walton
        William Walton

        Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
      • Joan of Arc
        Joan of Arc (1948 film)

        Joan of Arc is a 1948 in film Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the Joan of Arc. It was produced by Walter Wanger....
         - Hugo Friedhofer
        Hugo Friedhofer

        Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
      • Johnny Belinda
        Johnny Belinda (1948 film)

        Johnny Belinda is a 1948 in film drama film based on the Play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and film director by Jean Negulesco....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • The Snake Pit
        The Snake Pit

        The Snake Pit is a 1948 film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens , Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi and Lee Patrick....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Easter Parade - Johnny Green
      Johnny Green

      Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
      , Roger Edens
      Roger Edens

      Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood"....
      • The Emperor Waltz
        The Emperor Waltz

        The Emperor Waltz is a 1948 comedy musical film film, directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett. It was released by Paramount Pictures....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
      • The Pirate
        The Pirate

        The Pirate is a 1948 in film United States musical film feature film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It starred Gene Kelly and Judy Garland with co-stars Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, and George Zucco....
         - Lennie Hayton
        Lennie Hayton

        Leonard George Hayton was a Jewish American composer, conductor and arranger. He was initially a pianist in jazz groups led by Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others....
      • Romance on the High Seas
        Romance on the High Seas

        Romance on the High Seas is a 1948 in film musical film romantic comedy film starring Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, and Doris Day in her film debut....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
      • When My Baby Smiles at Me
        When My Baby Smiles at Me

        When My Baby Smiles at Me is the name of a popular song and of a motion picture....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
  • 1949
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Heiress
      The Heiress

      The Heiress is a 1949 drama film by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 The Heiress that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James....
       - Aaron Copland
      Aaron Copland

      Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
      • Beyond the Forest
        Beyond the Forest

        Beyond the Forest is a Warner Brothers film noir directed by King Vidor, produced by Henry Blanke with Jack L. Warner as executive producer from a screenplay by Lenore J....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • Champion
        Champion (1949 film)

        Champion is a United States film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxing "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring....
         - Dimitri Tiomkin
        Dimitri Tiomkin

        Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): On the Town
      On the Town (film)

      On the Town is a 1949 in film musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green....
       - Roger Edens
      Roger Edens

      Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood"....
      , Lennie Hayton
      Lennie Hayton

      Leonard George Hayton was a Jewish American composer, conductor and arranger. He was initially a pianist in jazz groups led by Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others....
      • Jolson Sings Again
        Jolson Sings Again

        Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson....
         - Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
        , George Duning
        George Duning

        George Duning was an United States musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco....
      • Look for the Silver Lining - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....


1950s

  • 1950
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Sunset Boulevard - Franz Waxman
      Franz Waxman

      Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
      • All About Eve
        All About Eve

        All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • The Flame and the Arrow
        The Flame and the Arrow

        The Flame and the Arrow is a 1950 in film adventure film made by Warner Bros. and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Harold Hecht and Frank Ross from a screenplay by Waldo Salt....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • No Sad Songs for Me - George Duning
        George Duning

        George Duning was an United States musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco....
      • Samson and Delilah
        Samson and Delilah (1949 film)

        Samson and Delilah is a film made by Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters....
         - Victor Young
        Victor Young

        Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Annie Get Your Gun
      Annie Get Your Gun (film)

      Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 United States musical film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the Annie Get Your Gun , was directed by George Sidney....
       - Adolph Deutsch
      Adolph Deutsch

      Adolph Deutsch was an Academy Awards-winning composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! , and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun ....
      , Roger Edens
      Roger Edens

      Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood"....
      • Cinderella
        Cinderella (1950 film)

        Cinderella is a 1950 animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and released to theaters on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. The twelfth animated feature in the List of Disney animated features, the film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, based the fairy tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault....
         - Oliver Wallace
        Oliver Wallace

        Oliver George Wallace was a British-American composer and conductor. He was especially known for his film music compositions, which were written for many animation, Documentary film, and feature films from Walt Disney Studios....
        , Paul J. Smith
      • I'll Get By - Lionel Newman
        Lionel Newman

        Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
      • Three Little Words
        Three Little Words (film)

        Three Little Words is a Hollywood musical film biography of the Tin Pan Alley songwriting partnership of Kalmar and Ruby and stars Fred Astaire as lyricist Bert Kalmar, Red Skelton as composer Harry Ruby, along with Vera-Ellen and Arlene Dahl as their wives, with Debbie Reynolds in a small but notable role as singer Helen Kane....
         - Andre Previn
        André Previn

        Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
      • The West Point Story
        The West Point Story (film)

        The West Point Story is a 1950 in film musical film comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Doris Day....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
  • 1951
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): A Place in the Sun
      A Place in the Sun

      A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
       - Franz Waxman
      Franz Waxman

      Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
      • David and Bathsheba
        David and Bathsheba

        David and Bathsheba is a 1951 in film historical film epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Death of a Salesman
        Death of a Salesman

        Death of a Salesman is a 1949 Play by American playwright Arthur Miller and is a classic of American theater. The play ran for 742 performances, directed by Elia Kazan with Lee J....
         - Alex North
        Alex North

        Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
      • Quo Vadis
        Quo Vadis (1951 film)

        Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • A Streetcar Named Desire - Alex North
        Alex North

        Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): An American in Paris
      An American in Paris (film)

      An American in Paris is a MGM musical film inspired by the An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner....
       - Johnny Green
      Johnny Green

      Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
      , Saul Chaplin
      Saul Chaplin

      Saul Chaplin was one of Hollywood's preeminent composers and musical directors.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley....
      • Alice in Wonderland
        Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

        Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally premiered in London, England on July 26, 1951 by RKO Pictures....
         - Oliver Wallace
        Oliver Wallace

        Oliver George Wallace was a British-American composer and conductor. He was especially known for his film music compositions, which were written for many animation, Documentary film, and feature films from Walt Disney Studios....
      • The Great Caruso
        The Great Caruso

        The Great Caruso is a 1951 in film biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L....
         - Peter Herman Adler
        Peter Herman Adler

        Peter Herman Adler was an United States conducting born in Austria?Hungary in Jablonec nad Nisou which is now in the Czech Republic.Adler was the music and artistic director of the NBC Opera....
        , Johnny Green
        Johnny Green

        Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
      • On the Riviera
        On the Riviera

        On the Riviera is a 1951 in film comedy musical film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Show Boat
        Show Boat (1951 film)

        Show Boat is a film based on the Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and the novel by Edna Ferber.Filmed previously in 1936, the Kern-Hammerstein musical was remake in 1951 in film by MGM in Technicolor, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, with Joe E....
         - Adolph Deutsch
        Adolph Deutsch

        Adolph Deutsch was an Academy Awards-winning composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! , and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun ....
        , Conrad Salinger
        Conrad Salinger

        Conrad Salinger was an United States arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He is credited with orchestrating nine productions on Broadway theatre from 1931 to 1938, and over seventy-five motion pictures from 1931 in film to 1962 in film....
  • 1952
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): High Noon
      High Noon

      High Noon is an Cinema of the United States 1952 in film western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself....
       - Dimitri Tiomkin
      Dimitri Tiomkin

      Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      • Ivanhoe
        Ivanhoe (1952 film)

        Ivanhoe is a 1952 in film historical film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The cast featured Robert Taylor , Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Finlay Currie and Felix Aylmer....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
        The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

        The Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima is a feature film made in 1952.It was promoted as a fact-based treatment of the events surrounding the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • The Thief
        The Thief (1952 film)

        The Thief is a 1952 in film black-and white Cold War spy film directed by Russell Rouse. The film is unusual because there is no dialog spoken throughout the film....
         - Herschel Burke Gilbert
        Herschel Burke Gilbert

        Herschel Burke Gilbert was a prolific composer of television and film theme songs, including the musical scores of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Robert Taylor 's The Detectives, Gene Barry's Burke's Law, and Bob Denver's Gilligan's Island....
      • Viva Zapata!
        Viva Zapata!

        Viva Zapata! is a 1952 in film biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film....
         - Alex North
        Alex North

        Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): With a Song in My Heart
      With a Song in My Heart (film)

      With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal, but entertained the troops in World War...
       - Alfred Newman
      Alfred Newman

      Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Hans Christian Andersen
        Hans Christian Andersen (film)

        Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 in film Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser. It is a fictionalised, romanticised story revolving around the life of the Denmark poet and story-teller Hans Christian Andersen....
         - Walter Scharf
        Walter Scharf

        Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
      • The Jazz Singer
        The Jazz Singer (1952 film)

        The Jazz Singer is the remake of the famous 1927 talking picture, The Jazz Singer . It starred Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, and Eduard Franz and was nominated for an Oscar in 1953....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
        , Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • The Medium
        The Medium

        The Medium is a short two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by Columbia University, its first performance was there on 8 May 1946....
         - Gian-Carlo Menotti
      • Singin' in the Rain
        Singin' in the Rain (film)

        Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 in film comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography....
         - Lennie Hayton
        Lennie Hayton

        Leonard George Hayton was a Jewish American composer, conductor and arranger. He was initially a pianist in jazz groups led by Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others....
  • 1953
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Lili
      Lili

      Lili is an United States film. Considered one among many classic MGM releases, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly na?ve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets....
       - Bronislau Kaper
      • Above and Beyond
        Above and Beyond (film)

        Above and Beyond is a 1952 in film film about Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. It starred Robert Taylor as Tibbets and Eleanor Parker as his wife....
         - Hugo Friedhofer
        Hugo Friedhofer

        Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
      • From Here to Eternity
        From Here to Eternity

        From Here to Eternity is a 1953 in film Academy Award winning drama film based on the From Here to Eternity by James Jones . It deals with the troubles of soldiers stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor....
         - Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
        , George Duning
        George Duning

        George Duning was an United States musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco....
      • Julius Caesar
        Julius Caesar (1953 film)

        Julius Caesar is an MGM film adaptation of the Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman....
         - Miklós Rózsa
        Miklós Rózsa

        Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • This is Cinerama
        This is Cinerama

        This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer's peripheral vision is involved....
         - Louis Forbes
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Call Me Madam
      Call Me Madam (film)

      Call Me Madam is a 1953 in film musical film directed by Walter Lang, based on the musical of the Call Me Madam.The film, with a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman, starred Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, Billy DeWolfe, George Sanders , and Walter Slezak....
       - Alfred Newman
      Alfred Newman

      Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • The Band Wagon
        The Band Wagon

        The Band Wagon is a 1953 in film musical comedy musical film that many critics rank as the finest of the MGM musicals, although it was only a modest box-office success....
         - Adolph Deutsch
        Adolph Deutsch

        Adolph Deutsch was an Academy Awards-winning composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! , and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun ....
      • Calamity Jane
        Calamity Jane (1953 film)

        Calamity Jane is a Western film released in 1953 in film. It is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores an alleged romance between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the American Old West....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
      • The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
        The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

        The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. is a 1953 in film musical film fantasy film. It is best known for being the only feature film ever written by Theodor Seuss Geisel , who was responsible for the story, screenplay, and lyrics....
         - Friedrich Hollaender
        Friedrich Hollaender

        Friedrich Hollaender was a Germany composer born in London. He was the son of composer Victor Hollander. The family returned to Germany and Frederick was educated at the Berlin Conservatory....
        , Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
      • Kiss Me, Kate
        Kiss Me, Kate (film)

        Kiss Me, Kate is the 1953 MGM film adaptation of the Kiss Me, Kate.Inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, it tells the tale of two once-married, now-divorced musical theater actors, Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, who are performing opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katherine in a Broadway theatre-bound musical version...
         - Andre Previn
        André Previn

        Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
        , Saul Chaplin
        Saul Chaplin

        Saul Chaplin was one of Hollywood's preeminent composers and musical directors.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley....
  • 1954
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The High and the Mighty
      The High and the Mighty (film)

      The High and the Mighty is a 1954 CinemaScope drama adventure film with a star laden ensemble cast released through Warner Bros.. The film starred and was co-produced by John Wayne, directed by William A....
       - Dimitri Tiomkin
      Dimitri Tiomkin

      Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      • The Caine Mutiny
        The Caine Mutiny (film)

        The Caine Mutiny is a drama film set during World War II, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 in literature Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • Genevieve
        Genevieve (film)

        Genevieve is a 1953 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom directed by Henry Cornelius and starring John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More and Kay Kendall as two couples in a car race....
         - Larry Adler
        Larry Adler

        Lawrence "Larry" Cecil Adler, , was an United States musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players. Composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin composed works for him....
         (Front: Muir Mathieson
        Muir Mathieson

        James Muir Mathieson was a British conducting. Mathieson was almost always described as a "Musical Director" because he worked in films.After attending Stirling High School, Mathieson went to the Royal College of Music in London....
        )
      • On the Waterfront
        On the Waterfront

        On the Waterfront is a United States drama film about mob violence and corruption among stevedore. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg....
         - Leonard Bernstein
        Leonard Bernstein

        Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
      • The Silver Chalice
        The Silver Chalice (film)

        The Silver Chalice is a 1954 in film from Warner Bros., based on Thomas B. Costain's 1952 in literature The Silver Chalice....
         - Franz Waxman
        Franz Waxman

        Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Adolph Deutsch
      Adolph Deutsch

      Adolph Deutsch was an Academy Awards-winning composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! , and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun ....
      , Saul Chaplin
      Saul Chaplin

      Saul Chaplin was one of Hollywood's preeminent composers and musical directors.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley....
      • Carmen Jones
        Carmen Jones

        Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway theatre musical theatre, later made into a 1954 musical film; the play also ran for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007....
         - Herschel Burke Gilbert
        Herschel Burke Gilbert

        Herschel Burke Gilbert was a prolific composer of television and film theme songs, including the musical scores of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Robert Taylor 's The Detectives, Gene Barry's Burke's Law, and Bob Denver's Gilligan's Island....
      • The Glenn Miller Story
        The Glenn Miller Story

        The Glenn Miller Story is a 1953 United States film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their first non-western movie collaboration....
         - Joseph Gershenson, Henry Mancini
        Henry Mancini

        Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
      • A Star Is Born
        A Star Is Born (1954 film)

        A Star Is Born is a 1954 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Moss Hart is an adaptation of the A Star Is Born , which was based on a story by William A....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
      • There's No Business Like Show Business
        There's No Business Like Show Business (film)

        There's No Business Like Show Business is a 20th Century Fox film that was released on December 16, 1954. The title is borrowed from the There's No Business Like Show Business in the musical Annie Get Your Gun ....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
        , Lionel Newman
        Lionel Newman

        Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
  • 1955
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
      Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)

      Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 film. Set in 1950s in Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married but separated American reporter , who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from Mainland China , only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society....
       - Alfred Newman
      Alfred Newman

      Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Battle Cry
        Battle Cry (film)

        Battle Cry is a 1955 film, starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray and James Whitmore. The movie is based on the Battle Cry by Leon Uris, who also wrote the screenplay, and was produced and directed by Raoul Walsh....
         - Max Steiner
        Max Steiner

        Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
      • The Man with the Golden Arm
        The Man with the Golden Arm

        The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a morphine addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world....
         - Elmer Bernstein
        Elmer Bernstein

        'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
      • Picnic
        Picnic (film)

        Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope film in Technicolor which tells the story of an ex-college football star turned drifter who arrives in a small Kansas town on Labor Day and is drawn to a girl who's already spoken for....
         - George Duning
        George Duning

        George Duning was an United States musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco....
      • The Rose Tattoo
        The Rose Tattoo (film)

        The Rose Tattoo is a 1955 film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo. It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet....
         - Alex North
        Alex North

        Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Oklahoma!
      Oklahoma! (film)

      The 1943 musical play Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II , was adapted into a musical film in 1955, starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones , Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore and Eddie Albert....
       - Robert Russell Bennett
      Robert Russell Bennett

      Robert Russell Bennett was an United States composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway theatre musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers....
      , Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch
      Adolph Deutsch

      Adolph Deutsch was an Academy Awards-winning composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! , and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun ....
      • Daddy Long Legs
        Daddy Long Legs (film)

        Daddy Long Legs is a 1955 Hollywood Musical film comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Guys and Dolls
        Guys and Dolls (film)

        Guys and Dolls is a 1955 in film musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The movie was made by the Samuel Goldwyn Company, released by MGM, directed by Joseph L....
         - Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge
        Cyril J. Mockridge

        Cyril J. Mockridge was an England film and television composer who worked on such films as Grand Canary , Wake Up and Dream , Nightmare Alley and Road House ....
      • It's Always Fair Weather
        It's Always Fair Weather

        It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM musical film scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, scored by Andre Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray....
         - Andre Previn
        André Previn

        Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
      • Love Me or Leave Me
        Love Me or Leave Me (film)

        Love Me or Leave Me is a biographical film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star. It stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as Martin Snyder, and Cameron Mitchell ....
         - Percy Faith
        Percy Faith

        Percy Faith was a Canadian-born band-leader, orchestrator and composer, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas music standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s....
        , George Stoll
  • 1956
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Around the World in Eighty Days
      Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

      Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
       - Victor Young
      Victor Young

      Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
       (posthumous award
      List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

      This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
      )
      • Anastasia
        Anastasia (1956 film)

        Anastasia is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • Between Heaven and Hell
        Between Heaven and Hell (film)

        Between Heaven and Hell is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox Cinemascope colour war film based on the novel The Day the Century Ended by Francis Gwaltney that the film follows closely....
         - Hugo Friedhofer
        Hugo Friedhofer

        Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
      • Giant
        Giant (film)

        Giant is a drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman....
         - Dimitri Tiomkin
        Dimitri Tiomkin

        Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      • The Rainmaker
        The Rainmaker (1956 film)

        The Rainmaker is a 1956 in film film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his The Rainmaker . The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain....
         - Alex North
        Alex North

        Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): The King and I
      The King and I (1956 film)

      The King and I is a 1956 in film musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F....
       - Alfred Newman
      Alfred Newman

      Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      , Ken Darby
      Ken Darby

      Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
      • The Best Things in Life Are Free - Lionel Newman
        Lionel Newman

        Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
      • The Eddy Duchin Story
        The Eddy Duchin Story

        The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 in film biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. The George Sidney-helmed film, written by Samuel A. Taylor, starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak....
         - Morris Stoloff
        Morris Stoloff

        Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
        , George Duning
        George Duning

        George Duning was an United States musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco....
      • High Society
        High Society

        High Society is musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C....
         - Johnny Green
        Johnny Green

        Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
        , Saul Chaplin
        Saul Chaplin

        Saul Chaplin was one of Hollywood's preeminent composers and musical directors.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley....
      • Meet Me in Las Vegas
        Meet Me in Las Vegas

        Meet Me in Las Vegas is an MGM musical comedy produced by Joe Pasternack and directed by Roy Rowland filmed in Eastman Color and CinemaScope....
         - George Stoll, Johnny Green
        Johnny Green

        Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
  • 1957
    • MUSIC (Score): The Bridge on the River Kwai
      The Bridge on the River Kwai

      The Bridge on the River Kwai is a Cinema of the United Kingdom 1957 in film World War II film by David Lean; based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle....
       - Malcolm Arnold
      Malcolm Arnold

      Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, Order of the British Empire was an England composer and Symphony.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, by age thirty his life was devoted to composition....
      • An Affair to Remember
        An Affair to Remember

        An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey.The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute....
         - Hugo Friedhofer
        Hugo Friedhofer

        Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
      • Boy on a Dolphin
        Boy on a Dolphin

        Boy on a Dolphin was a 1957 in film 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and made in CinemaScope. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Samuel G....
         - Hugo Friedhofer
        Hugo Friedhofer

        Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
         
      • Perri
        Perri

        Perri is a surname or given name, and may refer to:As a surname:* Fortunato N. Perri Jr., attorney* Leslie Perri , American science fiction fan, writer, and illustrator...
         - Paul Smith
        Paul Smith (composer)

        Paul J. Smith was an American music composer. He spent much of his life working at The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live-action alike, movie and television alike ....
      • Raintree County
        Raintree County (film)

        Raintree County is a 182 minute 1957 in film drama film about the American Civil War. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk.It was adapted from the novel of the Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr....
         - Johnny Green
        Johnny Green

        Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
  • 1958
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Old Man and the Sea - Dimitri Tiomkin
      Dimitri Tiomkin

      Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
      • The Big Country
        The Big Country

        The Big Country is a 1958 United States Western film directed by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors....
         - Jerome Moross
        Jerome Moross

        Jerome Moross was an American-born composer for the stage, and a composer, conductor and orchestrator for motion pictures.He was born in New York City in 1913....
      • Separate Tables
        Separate Tables (film)

        Separate Tables is a 1958 in film American drama film based on Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name....
         - David Raksin
        David Raksin

        David Raksin was an American composer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music." One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score to Modern Times ....
      • White Wilderness
        White Wilderness

        White Wilderness is a nature documentary produced by Walt Disney Pictures in 1958 noted for its splendid visuals as well as its propagation of the myth of lemming suicide....
         - Oliver Wallace
        Oliver Wallace

        Oliver George Wallace was a British-American composer and conductor. He was especially known for his film music compositions, which were written for many animation, Documentary film, and feature films from Walt Disney Studios....
      • The Young Lions
        The Young Lions

        The Young Lions is a novel by Irwin Shaw and a 1958 film based upon the book starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin....
         - Hugo Friedhofer
        Hugo Friedhofer

        Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was a German-American film music composer born in San Francisco. Born into a musical family, Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13....
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Gigi
      Gigi (1958 film)

      Gigi is a 1958 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella Gigi by Colette....
       - Andre Previn
      André Previn

      Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
      • The Bolshoi Ballet - Yuri Faier, G. Rozhdestvensky
      • Damn Yankees
        Damn Yankees (film)

        Damn Yankees is a 1958 in film musical film made by Warner Bros., a modern version of the Faust legend set in 1950 involving the New York Yankees baseball team....
         - Ray Heindorf
        Ray Heindorf

        Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
      • Mardi Gras - Lionel Newman
        Lionel Newman

        Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
      • South Pacific - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
        , Ken Darby
        Ken Darby

        Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
  • 1959
    • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Ben-Hur
      Ben-Hur (1959 film)

      Ben-Hur is a 1959 in film movie directed by William Wyler, and is the third film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur . It premiered at Loews Cineplex Entertainment in New York City on November 18, 1959....
       - Miklós Rózsa
      Miklós Rózsa

      Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
      • The Diary of Anne Frank
        The Diary of Anne Frank (film)

        The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 in film film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Diary of Anne Frank , which was based on the The Diary of a Young Girl of Anne Frank....
         - Alfred Newman
        Alfred Newman

        Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
      • The Nun's Story
        The Nun's Story (film)

        The Nun's Story is the title of a dramatic film that was released by Warner Bros. in 1959 in film....
         - Franz Waxman
        Franz Waxman

        Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
      • On the Beach
        On the Beach (1959 film)

        On the Beach is a 1959 in film Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction drama film based on Nevil Shute's On the Beach featuring Gregory Peck , Ava Gardner , Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins ....
         - Ernest Gold
        Ernest Gold

        Ernest Gold , born Ernst Gold, was an United States award-winning composer. Born in Vienna, Austria; Gold wrote nearly 100 film and television scores between 1945 and 1992....
      • Pillow Talk - Frank DeVol
    • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Porgy and Bess
      Porgy and Bess (1959 film)

      Porgy and Bess is a 1959 movie based on George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. It is set in the fictional Catfish Row in early 1900s Charleston, South Carolina....
       - Andre Previn
      André Previn

      Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
      , Ken Darby
      Ken Darby

      Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
      • The Five Pennies
        The Five Pennies

        The Five Pennies was a semi-biographical 1959 film starring Danny Kaye as cornet player and bandleader Red Nichols. Other cast members included Barbara Bel Geddes, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Susan Gordon , and Tuesday Weld....
         - Leith Stevens
        Leith Stevens

        Leith Stevens was an United States composer.Born in Mount Moriah, Missouri, the former child prodigy worked as an arranger for CBS radio and went on to become a prolific composer of film scores....
      • Li'l Abner
        Li'l Abner (film)

        Li'l Abner is a 1959 musical film based on the comic strip Li'l Abner created by Al Capp. It was also based on a successful Broadway theatre musical theater that opened in 1956....
         - Nelson Riddle
        Nelson Riddle

        Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was a well-known United States bandleader, arrangement and Orchestration whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s....
        , Joseph J. Lilley
      • Say One for Me - Lionel Newman
        Lionel Newman

        Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
      • Sleeping Beauty
        Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)

        Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution....
         - George Bruns
        George Bruns

        George Bruns was a composing of music for film and television who worked on many The Walt Disney Company films. He was nominated for four Academy Awards for his work....


1960s

1960 *MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Exodus
Exodus (film)

Exodus is a 1960 epic film war film made by Alpha and Carlyle Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo from the 1958 novel, Exodus , by Leon Uris....
 - Ernest Gold
Ernest Gold

Ernest Gold , born Ernst Gold, was an United States award-winning composer. Born in Vienna, Austria; Gold wrote nearly 100 film and television scores between 1945 and 1992....
 ** The Alamo
The Alamo (1960 film)

The Alamo is a 1960 in film USA War film released by United Artists, starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett, Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B....
 - Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
 ** Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry (film)

Elmer Gantry is a drama film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis and stars Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons....
 - Andre Previn
André Previn

Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
 ** The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 in film American western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from bandits....
 - Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein

'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
 ** Spartacus
Spartacus (film)

Spartacus is a 1960 in film historical film drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the Spartacus by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War....
 - Alex North
Alex North

Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
 *MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt)
Song Without End

Song Without End, subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt is a biographical film romance film made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Charles Vidor, who died during the shooting of the picture and was replaced by George Cukor....
 - Morris Stoloff
Morris Stoloff

Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
, Harry Sukman ** Bells Are Ringing
Bells Are Ringing (film)

Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 in film romantic comedy film-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli....
 - Andre Previn
André Previn

Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
 ** Can-Can
Can-Can (film)

Can-Can is a 1960 in film musical film made by Suffolk-Cummings productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Jack Cummings and Saul Chaplin, from a screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer, based on the Can-Can by Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Cole Porter....
 - Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle

Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was a well-known United States bandleader, arrangement and Orchestration whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s....
 **Let's Make Love
Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love is a comedy film film musical made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller....
 - Lionel Newman
Lionel Newman

Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
, Earle H. Hagen ** Pepe
Pepe (film)

Pepe is a 1960 movie starring Cantinflas in the title role, directed by George Sidney. A multitude of cameo appearances attempted to replicate the success of Mario Moreno's American debut, Around the World in Eighty Days , produced by Mike Todd in 1956....
 - Johnny Green
Johnny Green

Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
  1961 *MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 in film United States film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney....
 - Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
 ** El Cid
El Cid (film)

El Cid is a 1961 in film List of historical drama films epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions in association with The Rank Organisation and released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
 - Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa

Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
 ** Fanny
Fanny (film)

Fanny is a 1961 in film film drama about a young woman and the man she loves. He is torn between leaving his boring life for adventures at sea or staying behind with the girl....
 - Morris Stoloff
Morris Stoloff

Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop music fan , he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 40 hit record that paired the swing music era tune "Moonglow " with Picnic from the film, Picnic ....
, Harry Sukman ** The Guns of Navarone
The Guns of Navarone (film)

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 film based on the The Guns of Navarone about World War II by Scotland Thriller writer Alistair MacLean. It stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Anthony Quayle and Stanley Baker....
 - Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
 ** Summer and Smoke
Summer and Smoke (film)

Summer and Smoke is a drama film directed by Peter Glenville and was based on the play of the Summer and Smoke.It starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman....
 - Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein

'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
 *MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): West Side Story
West Side Story (film)

West Side Story is a 1961 in film Cinema of the United States film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story, which itself was adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
 - Saul Chaplin
Saul Chaplin

Saul Chaplin was one of Hollywood's preeminent composers and musical directors.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley....
, Johnny Green
Johnny Green

Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal
Irwin Kostal

Irwin Kostal was an Academy Award-winning United States musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway theatre musical theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kostal opted not to attend college, instead teaching himself musical arranging by studying the symphony scores available at his local library....
 ** Babes in Toyland
Babes in Toyland (1961 film)

Babes in Toyland is a 1961 in film Christmas musical film in Technicolor, film director by Jack Donohue, produced by Walt Disney, and distributed to theatres by Buena Vista Distribution....
 - George Bruns
George Bruns

George Bruns was a composing of music for film and television who worked on many The Walt Disney Company films. He was nominated for four Academy Awards for his work....
 ** Flower Drum Song (film)
Flower Drum Song (film)

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 Academy Award nominated film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway theatre musical theatre play Flower Drum Song, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II....
 - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
, Ken Darby
Ken Darby

Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
 ** Khovanshchina
Khovanshchina

Khovanshchina is an opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources....
 - Dimitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
 ** Paris Blues
Paris Blues

Paris Blues is an American feature film filmed on location in Paris, starring Sidney Poitier as expatriate jazz musician Eddie Cook, and Paul Newman as trombone-playing Ram Bowen....
 - Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
 1962 *MUSIC (Original Music Score): Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia (film)

Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 in film UK epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel , from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson ....
 - Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre is a France composer and Conducting. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia , Doctor Zhivago , and A Passage to India ....
 ** Freud - Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
 ** Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 in film film starring Marlon Brando, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall....
 - Bronislau Kaper ** Taras Bulba
Taras Bulba (film)

Taras Bulba is a 1962 in film based on Nikolai Gogol's short novel, Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner in the title role, and Tony Curtis as his son, Andrei, leaders of a Cossack clan on the Ukraine steppes....
 - Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman

Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
 ** To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
 - Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein

'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
 *MUSIC (Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment): The Music Man
The Music Man (1962 film)

The Music Man is a 1962 film musical starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 The Music Man of the same name by Meredith Willson....
 - Ray Heindorf
Ray Heindorf

Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
 ** Billy Rose's Jumbo
Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)

Billy Rose's Jumbo is a musical film, produced by MGM and starring Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. It featured Busby Berkeley's choreography....
 - George Stoll ** Gigot - Michel Magne ** Gypsy
Gypsy (1962 film)

Gypsy is a 1962 in film Musical film made by Warner Bros., about the life of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. It was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy....
 - Frank Perkins
Frank Perkins

Frank Perkins was a United Kingdom engineer, businessman, creator of the Perkins Diesel Engine, and founder of the Perkins Engines....
  ** The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin. George P?l was the producer and was also in charge of the stop motion animation....
 - Leigh Harline
Leigh Harline

Leigh Adrian Harline was an Academy Award-winning film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer....
 1963 *MUSIC (Original Music Score): Tom Jones
Tom Jones (film)

Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
 - John Addison
John Addison

John Mervyn Addison was a United Kingdom composer.Addison is best known for his film scores. He won an Academy Awards for the music to the 1963 film, Tom Jones , BAFTA Award for A Bridge Too Far and Grammy Award in the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media category fo...
 ** Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1963 film)

Cleopatra is a 1963 in film film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L....
 - Alex North
Alex North

Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
 ** 55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking is a 1963 in film historical film epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
 - Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
 ** How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won (film)

How the West Was Won is a 1962 in film Epic Western Western which follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean....
 - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
, Ken Darby
Ken Darby

Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
 ** It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 in film American film comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 of stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers....
 - Ernest Gold
Ernest Gold

Ernest Gold , born Ernst Gold, was an United States award-winning composer. Born in Vienna, Austria; Gold wrote nearly 100 film and television scores between 1945 and 1992....
 *MUSIC (Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment): Irma la Douce
Irma la Douce

Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
 - Andre Previn
André Previn

Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
 ** Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie (film)

The stage musical Bye Bye Birdie was first adapted to film in 1963 in film. The screenplay was written by Michael Stewart and Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams....
 - Jack N. Green
Jack N. Green

John Newton Green , often credited as Jack N. Green, is an United States cinematographer. He was born in San Francisco, California, California....
  ** A New Kind of Love
A New Kind of Love

A New Kind of Love is a 1963 in film romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, George Tobias, and Maurice Chevalier....
 - Leith Stevens
Leith Stevens

Leith Stevens was an United States composer.Born in Mount Moriah, Missouri, the former child prodigy worked as an arranger for CBS radio and went on to become a prolific composer of film scores....
 ** Sundays and Cybele
Sundays and Cybele

Sundays and Cybele is a 1962 French film directed by Serge Bourguignon. Its original French title is Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray , referring to the Ville-d'Avray suburb of Paris....
 - Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre is a France composer and Conducting. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia , Doctor Zhivago , and A Passage to India ....
 ** The Sword in the Stone
The Sword in the Stone (film)

The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 in film animated feature film produced by Walt Disney originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963....
 - George Bruns
George Bruns

George Bruns was a composing of music for film and television who worked on many The Walt Disney Company films. He was nominated for four Academy Awards for his work....
 1964 *MUSIC (Original Music Score): Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 in film musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and produced by Walt Disney, based on the Mary Poppins children's literature by P....
 - Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman

Richard Morton Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, "...
, Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman

Robert Bernard Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the them...
 ** Becket
Becket (film)

Becket is a 1964 in film film adaptation of the play Becket by Jean Anouilh made by Hal Wallis Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....
 - Laurence Rosenthal
Laurence Rosenthal

Laurence Rosenthal is an United States composer, arranger, and conductor for theater, television, and films.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Rosenthal attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, New York, where he studied piano and Musical composition....
 ** The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)

The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 in film English language epic film produced by Samuel Bronston Productions and The Rank Organisation, and released by Paramount Pictures....
 - Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
 ** Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a 1964 in film United States horror film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead....
 - Frank DeVol ** The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther (1963 film)

The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, is a comedy film, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale....
 - Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
 *MUSIC (Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment): My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady (film)

My Fair Lady is a musical film film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, My Fair Lady, based in turn on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw....
 - Andre Previn
André Previn

Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
 ** A Hard Day's Night
A Hard Day's Night (film)

A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 Cinema of the United Kingdom comedy film written by Alun Owen starring The Beatles?John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr?during the Beatlemania....
 - George Martin
George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom record producer, arrangement and composer. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"?a title that he owes to his work as producer or co-producer of all of The Beatles' original records as well as playing piano on some of The Beatles tracks?and is considered one o...
 ** Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 in film musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and produced by Walt Disney, based on the Mary Poppins children's literature by P....
 - Irwin Kostal
Irwin Kostal

Irwin Kostal was an Academy Award-winning United States musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway theatre musical theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kostal opted not to attend college, instead teaching himself musical arranging by studying the symphony scores available at his local library....
 ** Robin and the 7 Hoods
Robin and the 7 Hoods

Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 United States musical film that transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting. Directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Frank Sinatra, with a screenplay by David R....
 - Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle

Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was a well-known United States bandleader, arrangement and Orchestration whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s....
 ** The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Robert Armbruster
Robert Armbruster

Robert Armbruster was a Philadelphia-born American composer, conductor, pianist and songwriter. After studying with Constantin von Sternberg he became a concert pianist, then branched out into conducting and a composing for radio, then television and film....
, Leo Arnaud
Leo Arnaud

Leo Arnaud or L?o Arnaud was a French-American composer of film scores, best known for scoring Bugler's Dream, which is used as the theme for the Olympic Games....
, Jack Elliott
Jack Elliott

Jack Elliott was an United States television and Film score, Conducting, Arrangement, and television producer....
, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson
Calvin Jackson

Calvin Jackson was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.Jackson played piano from childhood and studied at Juilliard School and New York University....
, Leo Shuken
Leo Shuken

Leo Shuken was an American film music composer, arranger, and musical director.Shuken composed for the music industry from the end of the 1930s until shortly before his death, contributing music to over 100 films ....
 1965 *MUSIC (Original Music Score): Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)

Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 in film Cinema of the United States epic film or drama film-romance film-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak....
 - Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre is a France composer and Conducting. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia , Doctor Zhivago , and A Passage to India ....
 ** The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)

The Agony and the Ecstasy is a 1965 film directed by Carol Reed, starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo Buonarroti and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II....
 - Alex North
Alex North

Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
 ** The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 in film U.S. motion picture epic film produced and directed by George Stevens and distributed by United Artists....
 - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
 ** A Patch of Blue
A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue is a 1965 in film film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between an African American man, Gordon , and a Blindness White people female teenager, Selina , and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America....
 - Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
 ** The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
, Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of Fran?ois Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the gol...
 *MUSIC (Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment): The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music (film)

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews in the lead role. The film is based on the Broadway theatre The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and R...
 - Irwin Kostal
Irwin Kostal

Irwin Kostal was an Academy Award-winning United States musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway theatre musical theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kostal opted not to attend college, instead teaching himself musical arranging by studying the symphony scores available at his local library....
 ** Cat Ballou
Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou is a 1965 in film comedy-western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the man she hires is not what she expected....
 - DeVol ** The Pleasure Seekers
The Pleasure Seekers

The Pleasure Seekers is a 1964 in film 20th Century Fox film starring Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, and Carol Lynley, with Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin, Brian Keith, and Gene Tierney....
 - Lionel Newman
Lionel Newman

Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
, Alexander Courage
Alexander Courage

Alexander Mair Courage Jr. was an United States orchestration, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and motion pictures....
 ** A Thousand Clowns
A Thousand Clowns

A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 in film film which tells the story of a young boy who lives with his eccentric uncle Murray, who is forced to conform to society in order to keep custody of the boy....
 - Don Walker
Don Walker (orchestrator)

Don Walker was a Broadway theatre orchestrator, who also composed music for one film. Among the scores that he orchestrated were those for Carousel , Finian's Rainbow, Call Me Madam, The Pajama Game, The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret , Of Thee I Sing and Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle....
 ** The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
 1966 *MUSIC (Original Music Score): Born Free
Born Free

Born Free is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy Adamson and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of Kenya....
 - John Barry
John Barry (composer)

John Barry, Order of the British Empire is a renowned Golden Globe Award and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond movies and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style....
 ** The Bible: In the Beginning
The Bible: In The Beginning

The Bible: In the Beginning is a 1966 in film Biblical epic film recounting the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis. It was a joint American/Italian production conceived by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston....
 - Toshiro Mayuzumi ** Hawaii
Hawaii (film)

Hawaii is a 1966 in film United States motion picture based on the novel of the Hawaii by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student who, along with his new bride , becomes a Calvinism missionary in the Hawaiian Islands....
 - Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein

'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
 ** The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles (film)

The Sand Pebbles, a 1966 in film film directed by Robert Wise, is a period war story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy Machinist Mate sailor aboard the USS San Pablo gunboat on "show the flag" river patrols in 1920s China....
 - Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
 ** Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 film adaptation of the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. It was the first film directed by Mike Nichols, and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha and Richard Burton as George, with George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey....
 - Alex North
Alex North

Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
 *MUSIC (Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment): A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film, based on the A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....
 - Ken Thorne
Ken Thorne

Kenneth Thorne is an Academy Award-winning British-American television and film score composer....
 ** The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew is a 1964 in film Cinema of Italy film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.The dialogue is primarily taken directly from the Gospel, as Pasolini felt that "images could never reach the poetic heights of the text." He reportedly chose the Gospel of Matthew over the others because he had decided that "Gosp...
 - Luis Enrique Bacalov ** Return of the Seven
Return of the Seven

Return of the Seven , is the first sequel to the 1960 Western , The Magnificent Seven. Made in 1966, Yul Brynner is the sole returning cast member from the first film, portraying Chris Adams....
 - Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein

'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
 ** The Singing Nun
The Singing Nun (film)

The Singing Nun is a 1966 in film semi-biographical film about the life of The Singing Nun, a nun who recorded the chart-topping hit song "Dominique"....
 - Harry Sukman ** Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off

Stop the World - I Want to Get Off is a musical theatre with a book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss' daughter....
 - Al Ham
Al Ham

Albert W. Ham was an United States of America composer and jingle writer. He was notable as the composer of the Move Closer to Your World music package used since the 1970s on WPVI-TV's Action News broadcasts in Philadelphia, as well as many on many other newscasts in the United States throughout the 1970s and 80s....
 1967 *MUSIC (Original Music Score): Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie

This article is about the 1967 film. For the Broadway musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie .Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 in film musical film comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing, Beatrice Lillie , Pat Morita and Jack Soo....
 - Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein

'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
 ** Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke is a Cinema of the United States drama film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Pearce....
 - Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin

Lalo Schifrin is an Argentina piano and composer. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the Mission Impossible theme. He has received four Grammy Awards and six Academy Award nominations....
 ** Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle (film)

Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 musical film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on the series of childrens books by Hugh Lofting, which tells the story of a doctor, Doctor Dolittle, who learns from his pet parrot to talk to animals....
 - Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
 ** Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)

Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 in film feature film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted from the Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy....
 - Richard Rodney Bennett
Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an England composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works....
 ** In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood (film)

In Cold Blood is a film based on Truman Capote's In Cold Blood . Richard Brooks prepared the adaptation and directed the film. Some scenes were filmed on the locations of the original events, in Garden City and Holcomb, Kansas including the Clutter residence, the site of the murders....
 - Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
  *MUSIC (Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment): Camelot
Camelot (film)

Camelot is the 1967 in film film version of the Camelot . Richard Harris appears as King Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere and Franco Nero as Lancelot....
 - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
, Ken Darby
Ken Darby

Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
 ** Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle (film)

Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 musical film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on the series of childrens books by Hugh Lofting, which tells the story of a doctor, Doctor Dolittle, who learns from his pet parrot to talk to animals....
 - Lionel Newman
Lionel Newman

Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
, Alexander Courage
Alexander Courage

Alexander Mair Courage Jr. was an United States orchestration, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and motion pictures....
 ** Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Katharine Houghton....
 - DeVol ** Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie

This article is about the 1967 film. For the Broadway musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie .Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 in film musical film comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing, Beatrice Lillie , Pat Morita and Jack Soo....
 - Andre Previn
André Previn

Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
, Joseph Gershenson ** Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls (film)

Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 in film United States drama film based on the 1966 Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. The "dolls" within the title is a slang term for depressant, mood-altering drugs....
 - John Williams
John Williams

John Towner Williams is an United States composer, conducting and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars music, Superman music, Born on the Fourth of July , Harry Potter music and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature fil...
 1968 *MUSIC (Original Score): The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter (1968 film)

The Lion in Winter is a 1968 in film historical film costume drama made by Embassy Pictures, based on the Broadway theatre play by James Goldman....
 - John Barry
John Barry (composer)

John Barry, Order of the British Empire is a renowned Golden Globe Award and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond movies and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style....
 ** The Fox - Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin

Lalo Schifrin is an Argentina piano and composer. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the Mission Impossible theme. He has received four Grammy Awards and six Academy Award nominations....
 ** Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes (1968 film)

Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner loosely based on the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle....
 - Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
 ** The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Shoes of the Fisherman

'The Shoes of the Fisherman' is a 1963 novel by the Australian author Morris West, as well as a 1968 in film film based on the novel.The book reached #1 on the The New York Times bestseller list for adult fiction on June 30, 1963, and became the #1 bestselling novel in the United States for that year, according to Publishers Weekly'...
 - Alex North
Alex North

Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
 ** The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)

The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 in film movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. A The Thomas Crown Affair was released in 1999 in film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo....
 - Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
 *MUSIC (Score of a Musical Picture-original or adaptation): Oliver!
Oliver! (film)

Oliver! is a 1968 in film musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart....
 - Adaptation score by Johnny Green
Johnny Green

Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
 ** Finian's Rainbow
Finian's Rainbow (film)

Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 in film United States film musical theatre directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy is based on their Finian's Rainbow....
 - Adaptation score by Ray Heindorf
Ray Heindorf

Ray Heindorf was an Academy Award-winning United States songwriter, composer, conducting, and arranger.Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in the movie house in Mechanicville, New York in his early teens....
 ** Funny Girl
Funny Girl (film)

Funny Girl is a musical film based on Funny Girl . The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway theatre and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein....
 - Adaptation score by Walter Scharf
Walter Scharf

Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
 ** Star!
Star! (film)

Star! is a 1968 in film United States musical film biographical film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is a highly fictionalized account of the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence....
 - Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton
Lennie Hayton

Leonard George Hayton was a Jewish American composer, conductor and arranger. He was initially a pianist in jazz groups led by Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others....
 ** The Young Girls of Rochefort - Music and adaptation score by Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
; lyrics by Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of Fran?ois Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the gol...
 1969 *MUSIC (Original Score): Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a American Revisionist Western that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy and his partner Harry Longabaugh , based loosely on historical fact....
 - Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
 ** Anne of the Thousand Days
Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 in film film genre made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B....
 - Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue

'Georges Delerue' was a renowned France film composer who composed over 350 film score for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize , Emmy Award , Genie Award , ACE Award and Academy Award in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations ....
 ** The Reivers
The Reivers

The Reivers, published in 1962, is the last novel by the United States author William Faulkner. The bestselling novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963....
 - John Williams
John Williams

John Towner Williams is an United States composer, conducting and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars music, Superman music, Born on the Fourth of July , Harry Potter music and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature fil...
 ** The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria is a 1969 in film made by Stanley Kramer Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and co-produced by George Glass from a screenplay by Ben Maddow and William Rose....
 - Ernest Gold
Ernest Gold

Ernest Gold , born Ernst Gold, was an United States award-winning composer. Born in Vienna, Austria; Gold wrote nearly 100 film and television scores between 1945 and 1992....
 ** The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch , directed by Sam Peckinpah, is a Western film about an aging outlaw gang at the Texas-Mexico border trying to exist in the modern world of 1913....
 - Jerry Fielding
Jerry Fielding

Jerry Fielding was an United States radio, record, Film score and television composer, Conducting, and Music director....
 *MUSIC (Score of a Musical Picture-original or adaptation): Hello, Dolly! - Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton
Lennie Hayton

Leonard George Hayton was a Jewish American composer, conductor and arranger. He was initially a pianist in jazz groups led by Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others....
 and Lionel Newman
Lionel Newman

Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
 ** Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1969 in film United States musical film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Terrence Rattigan is based on James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr....
 - Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
; adaptation score by John Williams
John Williams

John Towner Williams is an United States composer, conducting and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars music, Superman music, Born on the Fourth of July , Harry Potter music and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature fil...
 ** Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon (film)

Paint Your Wagon is a musical film released in 1969 in film, adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Lowe, set in a mining camp in California Gold Rush-era California....
 - Adaptation score by Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle

Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was a well-known United States bandleader, arrangement and Orchestration whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s....
 ** Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity (film)

Sweet Charity is a 1969 in film musical movie directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and starring Shirley MacLaine....
 - Adaptation score by Cy Coleman
Cy Coleman

For the fictional principal Seymour Kaufman, see Room 222.Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist....
 ** They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1969 in film United States drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by James Poe and Robert E....
 - Adaptation score by John Green
John Green (composer)

John Green was a composer and conductor....
 and Albert Woodbury

1970s

1970 *Original Score: Love Story
Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 in film romantic drama film written by Erich Segal based on his 1970 best-seller Love Story . It was directed by Arthur Hiller....
 - Francis Lai
Francis Lai

Francis Lai is a composer noted for his film scores.While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene....
 **Airport
Airport (film)

Airport is a 1970 in film film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey Airport . This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 in flight....
 - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
 (posthumous nomination
List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
) **Cromwell
Cromwell (film)

Cromwell is a film, based on the life of Oliver Cromwell who led the Parliament of England forces during the English Civil War and, as Lord Protector, ruled The Protectorate in the mid-17th century....
 - Frank Cordell **Patton
Patton (film)

Patton is a Biography film war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates , and Karl Michael Vogler....
 - Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
 **I Girasoli
I Girasoli

I Girasoli is a 1970 Italy drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is known in North America as Sunflower, and was the first occidental film to be filmed in the USSR....
 - Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
 *Original Song Score: Let It Be
Let It Be (film)

Let It Be is a 1970 film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. Released 12 days after the album, it was the last original Beatles release....
 - music and lyrics
Let It Be (album)

Let It Be is the twelfth U.K album, the nineteenth U.S. album, and the final original album released by The Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970 by the band's Apple Records label shortly after the group's announced breakup....
 by The Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
 **The Baby Maker
The Baby Maker

The Baby Maker is a film directed by James Bridges and released by Twentieth Century Fox....
 - music by Fred Karlin
Fred Karlin

Fred Karlin was an Academy Award-winning United States composer of more than one hundred scores for feature films and television movies. He also was an accomplished trumpeter adept at playing jazz, blues, classical music, rock music, and medieval music....
; lyrics by Tylwyth Kymry **A Boy Named Charlie Brown
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969 film)

A Boy Named Charlie Brown is a 1969 in film Academy Award-nominated Animation, produced by CBS and Lee Mendelson Films for National General Pictures and directed by Bill Mel?ndez, it is the first feature film based on the Peanuts comic strip....
 - music by Rod McKuen
Rod McKuen

Rod McKuen is a bestselling American poet, composer, and singer, instrumental in the revitalization of popular poetry that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s....
, John Scott Trotter; lyrics by Rod McKuen
Rod McKuen

Rod McKuen is a bestselling American poet, composer, and singer, instrumental in the revitalization of popular poetry that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s....
, Bill Meléndez
Bill Melendez

Jos? Cuauht?moc "Bill" Mel?ndez was a Mexican character animator, film director and film producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers and the Peanuts series....
; Al Shean
Al Shean

Al Shean was the stage name for comedian Albert Sch?nberg. He is most remembered for being half of the vaudeville team Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx Brothers....
; adaptation score by Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi

Vincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi was an United States jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip....
 **Darling Lili
Darling Lili

Darling Lili is a 1970 in film United States musical film. The screenplay was written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, who also directed....
 - Music by Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
; lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
 **Scrooge
Scrooge (1970 film)

Scrooge is a 1970 in film musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. It was filmed in London, directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney in the title role....
 - music by Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
; lyrics by Ian Fraser
Ian Fraser

Ian Fraser, or Ian Frazer, may refer to:* Ian Fraser , New Zealand television interviewer and executive* Ian Fraser , Australian naturalist...
; Herbert W. Spencer
Herbert W. Spencer

Herbert Winfield Spencer was a film and television composer and Orchestration.Spencer gained industry fame when he teamed up with fellow 20th Century Fox orchestrator Earle Hagen in 1953 to create the Spencer-Hagen Orchestra....
 1971 *Original Score: Summer of '42
Summer of '42

Summer of '42 is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States "Bildungsroman" film drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Doro...
 - Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
 ** Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (film)

Mary, Queen of Scots is a Universal Pictures biographical feature film based on the life of Queen Mary I of Scotland. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave as the titular character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I....
 - John Barry
John Barry (composer)

John Barry, Order of the British Empire is a renowned Golden Globe Award and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond movies and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style....
 ** Nicholas and Alexandra
Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra is a 1971 in film biographical film which tells the story of the last of Russia's monarchs, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse....
 - Richard Rodney Bennett
Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an England composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works....
 ** Shaft
Shaft (1971 film)

Shaft is a 1971 in film USA blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster....
 - Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an United Statesn Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s....
 ** Straw Dogs
Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs is a 1971 in film film directed by Sam Peckinpah which stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George . A dark, domestic drama psychological thriller, the screenplay by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman is based on the novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams....
 - Jerry Fielding
Jerry Fielding

Jerry Fielding was an United States radio, record, Film score and television composer, Conducting, and Music director....
 *Original Song Score and Adaptation: Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof (film)

Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 Cinema of the United States film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three Academy Awards, including one for arranger-conductor John Williams....
 - Adaptation Score by John Williams
John Williams

John Towner Williams is an United States composer, conducting and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars music, Superman music, Born on the Fourth of July , Harry Potter music and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature fil...
 ** Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions which combines live action and animation; it premiered on October 7 1971....
 - Song Score by Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman

Richard Morton Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, "...
, Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman

Robert Bernard Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the them...
; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
Irwin Kostal

Irwin Kostal was an Academy Award-winning United States musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway theatre musical theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kostal opted not to attend college, instead teaching himself musical arranging by studying the symphony scores available at his local library....
 ** The Boy Friend
The Boy Friend

The Boy Friend is a musical theater by Sandy Wilson. The musical was written at a time when the United Kingdom was still recovering from the devastating effects of World War II and is set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring 1920s, a similar period of peace and gradual recovery after the rigours of World War I....
 - Adaptation Score by Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
, Peter Greenwell ** Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
 - Adaptation Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
 ** Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 in film film based on the 1964 in literature Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....
 - Song Score by Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
, Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley

Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
; Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf
Walter Scharf

Walter Scharf was an United States film composers.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway theatre musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vall...
 1972 *Original Score: Limelight
Limelight (film)

Limelight is a 1952 in film comedy film-drama film film written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, co-starring Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton....
 - Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch
Raymond Rasch

Ray Rasch was a prominent pianist and arranger on the Hollywood scene in 1950's and 1960's. Rasch is perhaps best known for winning an Academy Award in 1972 for "Best Original Music Score" for Chaplin's 1952 film limelight ....
 (posthumous award
List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

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), Larry Russell (posthumous award
List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
) (Note: This film was originally released in 1952, but did not play in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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 until 1972, at which point it become eligible for nomination) ** The Godfather
The Godfather

The Godfather is an Cinema of the United States crime film