Max Steiner

Sound

Born: 1888-05-10

Died: 1971-12-28

From: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.3

Also Known As

Maximilian Raoul Walter SteinerMaximilian Raoul SteinerMax R. Steiner

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen. Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), Casablanca (1942), The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind (1939). He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Dieterle, William Wyler, Raoul Walsh, John Huston, Irving Pichel, King Vidor, and Frank Capra.

Awards & Nominations4 won · 24 nominated

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Battle Cry

1956

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Caine Mutiny

1955

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

The Jazz Singer

1953

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

1953

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Flame and the Arrow

1951

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Beyond the Forest

1950

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Johnny Belinda

1949

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Life with Father

1948

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

My Wild Irish Rose

1948

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Night and Day

1947

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Rhapsody in Blue

1946

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Since You Went Away

1945

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Since You Went Away

1945

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1945

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Casablanca

1944

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Now, Voyager

1943

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Now, Voyager

1943

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Sergeant York

1942

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Letter

1941

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

Dark Victory

1940

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

Gone with the Wind

1940

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

Jezebel

1939

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Garden of Allah

1937

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Informer

1936

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Informer

1936

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Gay Divorcee

1935

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Lost Patrol

1935

🏆 Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Max Steiner

Also Known As

Biography

Awards & Nominations4 won · 24 nominated

Acting2 titles

Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music

Hollywood's Musical Moods

Sound294 titles

The Past of Mary Holmes

Young Donovan's Kid

The Fountain

My Girl Tisa

The Delightful Rogue

Portrait of a Mobster

Casablanca

The Runaround

Cracked Nuts

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Rio Rita

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

Gone with the Wind

The Searchers

White Heat

The Big Sleep

Mildred Pierce

Arsenic and Old Lace

King Kong

Angels with Dirty Faces

Key Largo

Diplomaniacs

Now, Voyager

Condemned Women

The Letter

The Corn Is Green

My Reputation

The Silver Cord

Two Alone

The Soldier and the Lady

The Caine Mutiny

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Sergeant York

All This, and Heaven Too

A Star Is Born

Top Hat

Caged

The Old Maid

Flamingo Road

The Breaking Point

Roberta

Jezebel

Kid Galahad

The Great Lie

Fanny Foley Herself

The Bride Came C.O.D.

Cheyenne

Gold Is Where You Find It

Chatterbox

The Most Dangerous Game

City for Conquest

Dark Victory

One Foot in Heaven

The Adventures of Mark Twain

In This Our Life

Watch on the Rhine

State's Attorney

Dodge City

The Three Musketeers

The Gay Divorcee

The Fountainhead

Johnny Belinda

Spencer's Mountain

The Voice of the Turtle

What Price Hollywood?

Busses Roar

Are These Our Children?

The Dawn Patrol

Fort Dobbs

The McConnell Story

Roughly Speaking

Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain