List of awards and nominations received by Elmer Bernstein

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Elmer Bernstein awards and nominations
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Academy Awards
114
Emmy Awards
12
Golden Globe Awards
27
Grammy Awards
05
Tony Awards
02

Elmer Bernstein is an American composer, conductor, and songwriter.

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In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. [1] For his work he received an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and Primetime Emmy Award. He also received seven Golden Globe Award, five Grammy Award, and two Tony Award nominations.

He composed and arranged scores for over 100 film scores including such films as Sudden Fear (1952), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Hud (1963), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), True Grit (1969), My Left Foot , The Grifters (1990), Cape Fear (1991) and Far from Heaven (2002).

Major associations

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1956 Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture The Man with the Golden Arm Nominated
1961 The Magnificent Seven Nominated
1962 Summer and Smoke Nominated
1963 Music Score — Substantially Original To Kill a Mockingbird Nominated
Best Original Song "Walk on the Wild Side", Walk on the Wild Side Nominated
1967 Best Original Score Hawaii Nominated
Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment Return of the Seven Nominated
Best Original Song My Wishing Doll, HawaiiNominated
1968 Best Original Score Thoroughly Modern Millie Won
1970 Best Original Song "True Grit", True Grit Nominated
1975 "Wherever Love Takes Me", Gold Nominated
1984 Best Original Score Trading Places Nominated
1994 The Age of Innocence Nominated
2003 Far from Heaven Nominated

Emmy Award

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1964 Outstanding Original Composition for Television The Making of the President 1960Won
1977 Outstanding Music Composition for a Series Captains and the Kings Nominated

Golden Globe Award

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1962 Best Original Score Summer and SmokeNominated
1963 To Kill a Mockingbird Won
1967 Hawaii Won
1968 Thoroughly Modern Millie Nominated
1970 Best Original Song "True Grit", True Grit Nominated
1977 "Hello and Goodbye", From Noon Till Three Nominated
2003 Best Original Score Far from Heaven Nominated

Grammy Award

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1963 Best Instrumentalist with an Orchestra Walk on the Wild SideNominated
Best Instrumental Theme Nominated
1985 "Ghostbusters Theme", Ghostbusters Nominated
Best Score Written for a Motion Picture Ghostbusters Nominated
1994 The Age of Innocence Nominated

Tony Award

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1968 Best Original Score How Now, Dow Jones Nominated
1983 Merlin Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

Chicago Film Critics Association

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2002Best Original Score Far from Heaven Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1991Lifetime Achievement AwardReceived
2002Best Original ScoreFar from HeavenWon

National Board of Review

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2002Career Achievement AwardReceived

Phoenix Film Critics Society

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2002Best Original ScoreFar from HeavenWon

Seattle Film Critics Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2002Best MusicFar from HeavenWon

Telluride Film Festival

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1992Silver MedallionReceived

Walk of Fame

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1996Star on the Walk of FameReceived

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References

  1. ":BIOGRAPHY", Official Site of Elmer Bernstein, The Bernstein Family Trust. Retrieved August 2, 2018.