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Eight composers have won Oscars two years in a row: Ray Heindorf won for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and This Is the Army (1943). Franz Waxman won for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951). Alfred Newman won for With a Song in My Heart (1952) and Call Me Madam (1953). He won again two years in a row for Love Is a Many-Splendored ...
- Alfred Newman – 9 Wins
- Alan Menken – 8 Wins
- John Williams – 5 Wins
- John Barry – Also 5 Wins
- Johnny Green – Also 5 Wins
The 20th century American composer, Alfred Newman, received 45 nominations during his lifetime (1900 - 1970) for his soundtracks. Along with two of his fellow composers, Max Steinerand Dimitri Tiomkin, was considered one of the “three godfathers of film music”. Over his forty year career he scored over 200 films, and was one of the most respected f...
Known for his spectacular scores to Disney’s Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Pocahontas, American composer, Alan Menken is part of an elite group of EGOT holders(winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award). The composer also has a won a whopping eleven Grammy Awards. Menken won both Best Original Score and Best Original Song for all four of the fo...
John Williamshas received more than 50 Oscar nominations to date – more than any other living composer – so it’s no surprise the composer comes a very close third on this list. Since winning Best Original Score for Fiddler on the Roof at the 44th annual ceremony in 1972, the American composer has continued to mesmerise audiences with his soundtrack...
With a total of five Oscar wins, English composer and conductor John Barryhas also found success with the Academy. In 1967, he took home Best Original Score and Best Original Song for his soundtrack to Born Free– a heartwarming true story about Elsa the lion. Subsequent wins have included for his scores for The Lion In Winter (1969),Out of Africa (...
American composer, John Waldo Green, was nominated for an Oscar thirteen times, and won five awards. The twentieth century composer won for the musical scores of films including An American in Paris (1951), West Side Story (1961), and Oliver! (1968). Multiple high profile composers have received four or three Academy Awards each. Composers who have...
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Most awards or nominations. Most awards won by a single film: 11. Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories. Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories.
The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat. 2018: Desplat's second Oscar win in three years, 'The Shape of Water' beat soundtracks by John Williams, Jonny Greenwood, Carter Burwell and Hans Zimmer to the title of Best Original Score. 8. La La Land – Justin Hurwitz. 2017: What a year for Justin Hurwitz.
Top of the most music Oscars list is composer Alfred Newman with nine Oscars. Newman is one of the fathers of film music as we know it. He was the music director at Twentieth Century Fox for a long time and won his first Oscar in 1938 (for Alexander’s Ragtime Band); he won his last in 1967 (for Camelot).
Apr 11, 2021 · All best original score Oscar Winners. 1934, Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn, One Night of Love. 1935, Max Steiner, The Informer. 1936, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Anthony Adverse. 1937, No composer credit, One Hundred Men and a Girl. 1938, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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Jan 20, 2024 · Howard Shore. Howard Shore ’s stunning orchestral evocations of Tolkien’s Middle Earth have shot him into the ranks of all-time great film composers. His score for The Lord of the Rings, voted the nation’s favourite in our Classic FM Movie Music Hall of Fame poll last year, is an epic set of 80 themes, ranging from the chilling and ...
