Awards & Winners

Adolph Deutsch

Date of Birth 20-October-1897
Place of Birth London
(England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
Nationality England, United States of America
Profession Conductor, Music Arranger, Film Score Composer
Adolph Deutsch was a composer, conductor and arranger. He was born in London, England. In 1914, Deutsch was "a Buffalo movie house musician", accompanying silent films. Deutsch began his composing career on Broadway in the 1920s and 1930s before working for Hollywood films beginning in the late 1930s. For Broadway, he orchestrated Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer and George and Ira Gershwin's Pardon My English. Deutsch won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma!, and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun. He was nominated for The Band Wagon and the 1951 film version of Show Boat, for which he conducted the orchestra. For Broadway and Hollywood, he conducted, composed and arranged music, but did not write songs, not even for the Broadway shows on which he worked. In addition to his music for westerns and his conducting of the scores for musicals, Deutsch composed for films noir, including The Mask of Dimitrios, The Maltese Falcon, and Nobody Lives Forever, and the Billy Wilder comedies Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment. He retired in 1961 and died in 1980 at his home in Palm Desert, California.

Awards by Adolph Deutsch

Check all the awards nominated and won by Adolph Deutsch.

1955


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : Oklahoma!

Nominations 1955 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Musical Oklahoma!

1954


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

Nominations 1954 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1953


Nominations 1953 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Musical The Band Wagon

1951


Nominations 1951 »

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Academy Award for Best Original Musical Show Boat

1950


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : Annie Get Your Gun

Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Annie Get Your Gun