Awards & Winners

Morris Stoloff

Date of Birth 01-August-1898
Place of Birth Philadelphia
(Pennsylvania, United States of America, Area code 215, Area code 267, Area codes 215 and 267)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Morris Stollof, M.W.Stoloff, M.W. Stoloff, M. Stoloff
Profession Film Score Composer, Music Director
Morris Stoloff was a musical composer. Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop fans, he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 10 hit that paired the swing era tune "Moonglow" with the love theme from the movie Picnic. A child prodigy on the violin, Stoloff was taken under the wing of W. A. Clark. After studying with Leopold Auer for several years, Stoloff was touring the U.S. as a featured soloist at the age of 16, and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic a year later as its youngest member ever. When sound came to motion pictures, studios came looking for musicians to provide it, and Stoloff was one of the first to cross over from classical music to movies. He was the first concertmaster on Paramount Pictures' payroll, and he worked with setting up the mechanics of a system that had to provide a steady stream of music for everything from epic dramas to serials and comedy shorts. In 1936, Stoloff moved over to Columbia Pictures, where he took the title of music director, a new position unique to the studio system. As music director, he was the chief executive responsible for providing musical production support to every film the studio released. This meant matching up composers, orchestrators, conductors, musicians and recording facilities to meet the creative scope of each project as well as its schedule and budget.

Awards by Morris Stoloff

Check all the awards nominated and won by Morris Stoloff.

1961


Nominations 1961 »

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

1960


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : Song Without End

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Academy Award for Best Original Musical Song Without End

1956


Nominations 1956 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Musical The Eddy Duchin Story

1953


Nominations 1953 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Music Score From Here to Eternity
Academy Award for Best Original Musical The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

1949


Nominations 1949 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Musical Jolson Sings Again

1946


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : The Jolson Story

Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical The Jolson Story

1945


Nominations 1945 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Music Score A Song to Remember
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Tonight and Every Night

1944


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : Cover Girl

Nominations 1944 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Address Unknown
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Cover Girl

1943


Nominations 1943 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Commandos Strike at Dawn
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Something to Shout About

1942


Nominations 1942 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Talk of the Town

1941


Nominations 1941 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Ladies in Retirement
Academy Award for Best Original Musical You'll Never Get Rich

1938


Nominations 1938 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Musical Girls' School

1937


Nominations 1937 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Lost Horizon
Columbia Studio Music Department