Alfred Newman
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Awards
Won 6 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 6 won
- 1956 Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Won Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
- 1954 Best Original Musical Score Won Call Me Madam
- 1953 Best Original Musical Score Won With a Song in My Heart
- 1944 Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Won The Song of Bernadette
- 1941 Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Won Tin Pan Alley
- 1939 Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Won Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, How Green Was My Valley, The Song of Bernadette, Captain from Castile, All About Eve, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Anastasia, The Diary of Anne Frank, How The West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his final score, Airport, all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards.
Newman was also highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, and Irving Berlin. He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals.
He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood. Newman and two of his fellow composers, Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, were considered the "three godfathers of film music"
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How the West Was Won
All About Eve
The Seven Year Itch
Wuthering Heights
Foreign Correspondent
The Grapes of Wrath
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Airport
The King and I
The Robe
The Greatest Story Ever Told
How to Marry a Millionaire
How Green Was My Valley
The Black Swan
The Diary of Anne Frank
Viva Zapata!
Dragonwyck
Firecreek
Gentleman's Agreement
The Gunfighter
Young Mr. Lincoln
Twelve O'Clock High
The Keys of the Kingdom
Ball of Fire
The Mark of Zorro
Drums Along the Mohawk
The Egyptian
Bus Stop
Nevada Smith
Leave Her to Heaven
The Song of Bernadette
David and Bathsheba
South Pacific
Blood and Sand
Fourteen Hours
Cry of the City
Pinky
Call Northside 777
The Counterfeit Traitor
Brigham Young
Camelot
Belle Starr
The Razor's Edge
O. Henry's Full House
Heaven Can Wait
The Prisoner of Zenda
Gunga Din
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Daddy Long Legs
Anastasia
Hell and High Water
Acting
20 credits
Modern Times
City Lights
How the West Was Won
Miracle on 34th Street
The Seven Year Itch
The Grapes of Wrath
My Darling Clementine
How to Marry a Millionaire
Broken Arrow
The Black Swan
The Gunfighter
Bus Stop
Leave Her to Heaven
The Little Foxes
South Pacific
Call Northside 777
There's No Business Like Show Business
Jesse James
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