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Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Hugo Friedhofer Sound - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
Feb 5, 2014 · 32nd Academy Awards (1959): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. Anatomy of a Murder – Otto Preminger. Ben-Hur – Sam Zimbalist. The Diary of Anne Frank – George Stevens. The Nun’s Story – Henry Blanke. Room at the Top – John Woolf, James Woolf. DIRECTING. Ben-Hur – William Wyler.
31st Academy Awards (1958): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. Auntie Mame – Warner Bros. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Lawrence Weingarten. The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer. Gigi – Arthur Freed. Separate Tables – Harold Hecht. DIRECTING. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks. The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer.
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. The night was dominated by Gigi, which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront .
The 31st Academy Awards took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre on Monday, April 6, 1959 and were hosted by Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven and Laurence Olivier. Best Picture Gigi broke the previous record of most wins taking home nine Oscars out of nine nominations.
1. One Night of Love (1934) 1934: Best Music, Score* Louis Silvers, Head of Department, Columbia Studio Music Department - (Thematic Music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn) for One Night of Love. Other Nominees: Max Steiner, Head of Department, RKO Radio Studio Music Dept. (Score by Kenneth Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein) for The Gay Divorcee.
