Awards & Winners

Saul Chaplin

Date of Birth 19-February-1912
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Saul Kaplan, Saul Elias Kaplan, Cahn and Chaplin, Chaplin
Profession Film Score Composer, Film Producer, Music Director
Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director. He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York. He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley. In film, he won four Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of An American in Paris, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and West Side Story. Following education at New York University's School of Commerce, where he studied accounting, Chaplin joined the ASCAP and started out penning tunes for the theatre, vaudeville and for New York's famous songwriting district, Tin Pan Alley. While in New York, Chaplin teamed with Sammy Cahn to compose original songs for Vitaphone movie shorts, filmed in Brooklyn by Warner Brothers. During this period the team was sometimes billed only by surname, in the manner of Rodgers and Hart or Gilbert and Sullivan. Cahn and Chaplin relocated to Hollywood and scored two films for Universal Pictures. Chaplin then moved to Columbia Pictures to score Cover Girl and The Jolson Story. While on the latter film, Chaplin and Al Jolson penned the million-selling hit tune The Anniversary Song. In the late 1940s, Chaplin moved to MGM to work on a long string of films including On the Town, Kiss Me Kate, High Society and Merry Andrew. For collaborating on such hits as Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen and Please Be Kind, Chaplin was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985. He won Academy Awards for his work on the scores of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, An American in Paris and West Side Story as well as nominations for Kiss Me Kate and High Society.

Awards by Saul Chaplin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Saul Chaplin.

1961


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)
Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : West Side Story

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

1956


Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical High Society

1954


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1953


Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Kiss Me Kate

1951


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : An American in Paris

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical An American in Paris