Baal_T'shuvah
Aug 18 2004, 09:16 PM
This just came in from IMDb...
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Elmer Bernstein: 1922-2004
Elmer Bernstein, the amazingly prolific composer who wrote the memorable theme for The Magnificent Seven among other scores, died Wednesday in his sleep at his home in Ojai, California; he was 82. |
Here's a list of his Oscar nominations ....
Academy Awards, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2003 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: Far from Heaven (2002)
1994 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: Age of Innocence, The (1993)
1984 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score
for: Trading Places (1983)
1975 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
for: Gold (1974)
Shared with:
Don Black (lyrics)
For the song "Wherever Love Takes Me"
1970 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
for: True Grit (1969)
Shared with:
Don Black (lyrics)
For the song "True Grit"
1968 Won Oscar Best Music, Original Music Score
for: Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
1967 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Music Score
for: Hawaii (1966)
Best Music, Original Song
for: Hawaii (1966)
Shared with:
Mack David (lyrics)
For the song "My Wishing Doll"
Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
for: Return of the Seven (1966)
1963 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
for: Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Shared with:
Mack David (lyrics)
For the song "Walk on the Wild Side"
Best Music, Score - Substantially Original
for: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
1962 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Summer and Smoke (1961)
1961 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
1956 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Man with the Golden Arm, The (1955)
Peter T Chattaway
Aug 19 2004, 12:49 AM
You mean he WASN'T nominated for the 1956 version of The Ten Commandments? Huh. I rather like that CD, myself.
Alvy
Aug 19 2004, 02:19 AM
How sad.
His score for To Kill a Mockingbird was a masterpiece.
Ron Reed
Aug 21 2004, 02:43 AM
Heard the NPR piece this evening, an interview with E.B. around the time of his score for THE GRIFTERS (which sounded quite intriguing - may add that to my list of movies to catch up on). Seemed a happy, engaged man, not at all full of himself.
They played, of course, his theme from MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. I was struck by how much it echoed Aaron Copeland - "Rodeo" and "Billy The Kid" in particular. Gorgeous stuff, utterly American.
Peter T Chattaway
Aug 21 2004, 11:54 AM
Ron wrote:
: Gorgeous stuff, utterly American.
Yeah, one of the articles I read made the point that, while one of Bernstein's first big breaks may have been the score to the 1956 version of The Ten Commandments, that ALSO happened to be the year in which he scored The Man with the Golden Arm (which, FWIW, I have never seen or heard for myself), which was one of the first movie soundtracks to make significant use of jazz and similar American idioms; until then, movie soundtracks had been much more influenced by European music.
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