Morris Stoloff - Awards & Nominations

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

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical	Song Without End

1956

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical	The Eddy Duchin Story

1953

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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 »

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

1943

Nominations 1943 »

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

1942

Nominations 1942 »

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

1941

Nominations 1941 »

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

1938

Nominations 1938 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical	Girls' School

1937

Nominations 1937 »

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

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