Awards & Winners

Max Steiner

Date of Birth 10-May-1888
Place of Birth Vienna
(Austria)
Nationality United States of America, Austria-Hungary
Also know as Steiner, Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, Max R. Steiner, Maximilian Raoul Steiner, Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner, Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, Max R. Steiner, Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, Max R. Steiner, Maximilian Raoul Steiner, the father of film music
Profession Music Arranger, Conductor, Composer, Film Score Composer, Songwriter
Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner 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. He worked in England, then Broadway, and moved to Hollywood in 1929 where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Steiner is referred to as "the father of film music" and is considered one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema. Along with such composers as Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman and Miklós Rózsa, Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films. Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer, Now, Voyager, and Since You Went Away. Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong, Little Women, Jezebel, Casablanca, and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind.

Awards by Max Steiner

Check all the awards nominated and won by Max Steiner.

2005


Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Gone With The Wind (Original Soundtrack Album)

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Song of the Year Theme from A Summer Place

1955


Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Battle Cry

1954


Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Caine Mutiny

1952


Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Academy Award for Best Original Musical The Jazz Singer

1950


Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Flame and the Arrow

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Beyond the Forest

1948


Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
Honored for : Life with Father

Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Life with Father
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Johnny Belinda

1947


Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Life with Father
Academy Award for Best Original Musical My Wild Irish Rose

1946


Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Night and Day

1945


Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Rhapsody in Blue

1944


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : Since You Went Away

Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Since You Went Away
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Adventures of Mark Twain

1943


Nominations 1943 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Casablanca

1942


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : Now, Voyager

Nominations 1942 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Now, Voyager

1941


Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Sergeant York

1940


Nominations 1940 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Letter

1939


Nominations 1939 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Dark Victory
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Gone with the Wind

1938


Nominations 1938 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Jezebel

1936


Nominations 1936 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Garden of Allah
Selznick International Pictures Music Department","Score by Max Steiner

1935


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : The Informer
(RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Score by Max Steiner)

Nominations 1935 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Informer
RKO Radio Studio Music Department","Score by Max Steiner

1934


Nominations 1934 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Gay Divorcee
RKO Radio Studio Music Department","Score by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein","came in 2nd
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Lost Patrol
RKO Radio Studio Music Department","Score by Max Steiner","came in 3rd