Alfred Newman

Sound

Born: 1901-03-17

Died: 1970-02-17

From: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.5

Also Known As

Pappy

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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"

Awards & Nominations10 won · 45 nominated

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

Airport

1971

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

Camelot

1968

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

Camelot

1968

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1966

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

How the West Was Won

1964

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Flower Drum Song

1962

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Best of Everything

1960

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Diary of Anne Frank

1960

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

South Pacific

1959

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

The King and I

1957

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Anastasia

1957

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

The King and I

1957

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1956

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1956

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Daddy Long Legs

1956

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

There's No Business Like Show Business

1955

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Call Me Madam

1954

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Call Me Madam

1954

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

With a Song in My Heart

1953

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

With a Song in My Heart

1953

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

David and Bathsheba

1952

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

On the Riviera

1952

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

All About Eve

1951

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Song

Through a Long and Sleepless Night

1950

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

When My Baby Smiles at Me

1949

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Snake Pit

1949

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Mother Wore Tights

1948

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Captain from Castile

1948

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Mother Wore Tights

1948

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Centennial Summer

1947

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

State Fair

1946

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Keys of the Kingdom

1946

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Wilson

1945

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Irish Eyes Are Smiling

1945

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Song of Bernadette

1944

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

Coney Island

1944

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Song of Bernadette

1944

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

My Gal Sal

1943

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

The Black Swan

1943

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Ball of Fire

1942

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

How Green Was My Valley

1942

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

Tin Pan Alley

1941

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Mark of Zorro

1941

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

Tin Pan Alley

1941

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

Wuthering Heights

1940

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1940

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

They Shall Have Music

1940

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Rains Came

1940

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1939

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1939

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Cowboy and the Lady

1939

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Goldwyn Follies

1939

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Hurricane

1938

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

The Prisoner of Zenda

1938

🏆 Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Alfred Newman

Also Known As

Biography

Awards & Nominations10 won · 45 nominated

Acting2 titles

How to Marry a Millionaire

They Shall Have Music

Sound211 titles

Modern Times

City Lights

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Wuthering Heights

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

How the West Was Won

The Robe

All About Eve

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Black Swan

Miracle on 34th Street

Broken Arrow

Airport

My Darling Clementine

Nevada Smith

The Grapes of Wrath

How to Marry a Millionaire

Bus Stop

The Seven Year Itch

Camelot

The King and I

South Pacific

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Gunfighter

How Green Was My Valley

Viva Zapata!

Foreign Correspondent

The Egyptian

Dead End

Beau Geste

Carousel

David and Bathsheba

Anastasia

Yellow Sky

Firecreek

Blood and Sand

The Razor's Edge

The Affairs of Cellini

Twelve O'Clock High

The Little Foxes

Gentleman's Agreement

Dragonwyck

Gunga Din

Call Northside 777

The Mark of Zorro

The Counterfeit Traitor

Drums Along the Mohawk

The Keys of the Kingdom

Leave Her to Heaven

Heaven Can Wait

Daddy Long Legs

Stella Dallas

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Man Hunt

O. Henry's Full House

The Desert Rats

Thieves' Highway

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Ball of Fire

Dodsworth

Belle Starr

Prince of Foxes

Pinky

The Prisoner of Zenda

There's No Business Like Show Business

The Blue Bird

Young Mr. Lincoln

The Best of Everything

The Song of Bernadette

Claudia

The Snake Pit

Les Misérables