Elmer Bernstein
Sound
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1968 Best Original Score Won Thoroughly Modern Millie
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Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies.
Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames.
In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf.
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Cape Fear
The Magnificent Seven
Ghostbusters
Airplane!
Trading Places
An American Werewolf in London
Cape Fear
The Great Escape
The Blues Brothers
The Ten Commandments
Michael Jackson's Thriller
The Rainmaker
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wild Wild West
The Field
The Black Cauldron
Bringing Out the Dead
The Good Son
Animal House
True Grit
Airplane II: The Sequel
¡Three Amigos!
Stripes
Spies Like Us
Hoodlum
Heavy Metal
The Shootist
Oscar
The Age of Innocence
The Comancheros
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Bulletproof
Meatballs
Saturn 3
The Deep End of the Ocean
The Grifters
Legal Eagles
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Keeping the Faith
Far from Heaven
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Tin Star
The Sons of Katie Elder
McQ
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Hud
Big Jake
The Silencers
Zulu Dawn
Class
Return of the Seven
The Bridge at Remagen
Cahill: United States Marshal
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Birdman of Alcatraz
Sweet Smell of Success
Twilight
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The Oscars
Fallen Angels
An American Werewolf in London
Cape Fear
Bringing Out the Dead
Legal Eagles
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Sweet Smell of Success
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