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He also received seven Golden Globe Award, five Grammy Award, and two Tony Award nominations. He composed and arranged scores for over 100 film scores including such films as Sudden Fear (1952), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird ...
31 wins & 43 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 2003 Nominee Oscar. Best Music, Original Score. Far from Heaven. 1994 Nominee Oscar. Best Music, Original Score. The Age of Innocence. 1984 Nominee Oscar. Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score. Trading Places. 1975 Nominee Oscar. Best Music, Original Song. Gold.
Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein discusses his work as musical director for the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970 in this interview from the Academy Film Archive.
Elmer Bernstein (/ ˈ b ɜːr n s t iː n / BURN-steen; April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores , as well as scores for nearly 80 television ...
Elmer Bernstein (born April 4, 1922, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 18, 2004, Ojai, California, U.S.) was an American film composer who created the scores for more than 200 motion pictures during a career that spanned half a century and produced some of Hollywood’s most memorable film music.
His original scores for films range over an enormous variety of styles, with his groundbreaking jazz score for The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), light musical comedies such as his Oscar-winning Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) score, and perhaps his most familiar score, for the western The Magnificent Seven (1960). Between 1963 and 1969 ...
Aug 19, 2004 · Elmer Bernstein, the Academy Award-winning composer who created some of the most recognizable music in American films, died Wednesday at his home in Ojai after a lengthy illness, his publicist...
