Awards & Winners

Irwin Kostal

Date of Birth 01-October-1911
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Conductor, Songwriter, Screenwriter, Film Score Composer, Publisher, Orchestrator
Irwin Kostal was an American musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway musicals. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kostal opted not to attend college, instead teaching himself musical arranging by studying the symphonic scores available at his local library. His first professional job was as a staff arranger for Design for Listening, an NBC radio show based in his hometown. Irwin was one of four children born to James and Emma Kostal. His siblings James, Jerome and Violet all remained in the Chicago area. After moving to New York City, Kostal was hired for Sid Caesar's popular variety series Your Show of Shows, and followed this with a stint at The Garry Moore Show. In the latter part of the decade he began working on Broadway, orchestrating for Shinbone Alley, The Music Man, Fiorello!, and West Side Story. His work on the latter resulted in his being hired to score the 1961 screen adaptation with Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, and Sid Ramin. The quartet won both an Oscar and a Grammy Award for their contributions. Kostal later went on to collaborate with Saul Chaplin for the 1965 film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music and won an Oscar for Best Music Scoring.

Awards by Irwin Kostal

Check all the awards nominated and won by Irwin Kostal.

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score Pete's Dragon

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Music Direction - Variety, Music or Dramatic Program Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1966


Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement In Music The Julie Andrews Show
Individual Achievements in Music - Conducting

1965


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : The Sound of Music
(Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment)

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Sound of Music

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Mary Poppins

1961


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : West Side Story
Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television
Honored for : West Side Story (1957 original Broadway cast)
(Music Directors)

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television West Side Story (1957 original Broadway cast)
Academy Award for Best Original Musical West Side Story