Awards & Winners

Robert Russell Bennett

Date of Birth 15-June-1894
Place of Birth Kansas City
(Kansas, United States of America, Wyandotte County)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Rocert Russell Bennett, Russell Bennett
Profession Film Score Composer, Orchestrator, Music Arranger, Musician, Conductor
Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards recognizing his orchestrations for Broadway shows. Early in his career he was often billed as Russell Bennett.

Awards by Robert Russell Bennett

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Russell Bennett.

2008


Special Tony Award
(in recognition of his historic contribution to American musical theatre in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway this season by Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific.)

1963


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composing Original Music for Television
Honored for : Project XX

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composing Original Music for Television Project XX

1962


Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composing Original Music for Television Project XX
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed for 1962

1959


Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Album of the Year Victory at Sea, Volume 1

1958


Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Musical Contribution For Television Project XX
For episode The Innocent Years

1955


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : Oklahoma!

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Oklahoma!

1938


Nominations 1938 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Pacific Liner