André Previn

Sound

Born 1929-04-06 Died 2019-02-28 Berlin, Germany 99 credits Academy Awards 4 Grammy Awards 4 Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1 Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement 1

Awards

Won 4 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 4 won · 8 nominated

1968 Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Nominated Thoroughly Modern Millie
1965 Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Won My Fair Lady
1964 Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Won Irma la Douce
1963 Best Original Song Nominated Song from Two for the Seesaw
1961 Best Original Song Nominated The Faraway Part of Town
1961 Best Original Musical Score Nominated Bells Are Ringing
1961 Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Nominated Elmer Gantry
1960 Best Original Musical Score Won Porgy and Bess
1959 Best Original Musical Score Won Gigi
1956 Best Original Musical Score Nominated It's Always Fair Weather
1954 Best Original Musical Score Nominated Kiss Me Kate
1951 Best Original Musical Score Nominated Three Little Words

Grammy Awards 4 won

1962 Best Jazz Instrumental Album Won André Previn Plays Songs by Harold Arlen
1961 Best Jazz Instrumental Album Won West Side Story
1960 Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television Won Porgy and Bess
1959 Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television Won Gigi

Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1 won

— Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Won

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 won

2012 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Won

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1 won

2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Won

Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement 1 won

2008 Lifetime Achievement Won

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer. Starting by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Previn was involved in the music for over 50 films over his entire career. He won four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings (and one more for his Lifetime Achievement). He had been the music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Oslo Philharmonic, as well as the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.