Awards & Winners

Alfred Newman

Date of Birth 17-March-1901
Place of Birth New Haven
(Connecticut, United States of America, New Haven County, Area code 203, Area code 475)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Pappy, Pappy
Profession Conductor, Film Score Composer, Music Arranger, Composer
Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music, and was also the head of a family of major Hollywood film composers, among them his brothers Emil and Lionel, his sons David and Thomas, and his nephew Randy. In a career which spanned over forty years, Newman composed music for over 200 films. He was one of the most respected film score composers of his time, and is today regarded as one of the greatest musicians ever to work in film. Along with composers Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, Newman is considered one of the "three godfathers of film music," and played a major part in creating the tradition of composing original music for films. Newman also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals, as well as many original Hollywood musicals. He won Oscars for adapting the scores of such noted musicals as The King and I, Camelot, and Call Me Madam, as well as for adapting the songs in such Hollywood musicals as the Betty Grable vehicle Mother Wore Tights. He conducted the orchestra for all of the film adaptations of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals except for Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music, and the animated cartoon version of The King and I, made long after his death. He also conducted the orchestra for the only musical that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote specifically for film, State Fair, and its 1962 remake.

Awards by Alfred Newman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alfred Newman.

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Airport

1970


Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition
Honored for : Airport Love Theme
(Composer)

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Airport Love Theme
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Airport

1967


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : Camelot
(Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment)

Nominations 1967 »

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

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Greatest Story Ever Told

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score How the West Was Won

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Flower Drum Song

1959


Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Diary of Anne Frank
Academy Award for Best Original Song The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything

1958


Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical South Pacific

1956


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : The King and I

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Anastasia
Academy Award for Best Original Musical The King and I

1955


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Daddy Long Legs

1954


Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical There's No Business Like Show Business

1953


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : Call Me Madam

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Call Me Madam

1952


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : With a Song in My Heart

Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical With a Song in My Heart

1951


Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score David and Bathsheba
Academy Award for Best Original Musical On the Riviera

1950


Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score All About Eve

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Song Through A Long And Sleepless Night
Come to the Stable

1948


Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Snake Pit
Academy Award for Best Original Musical When My Baby Smiles at Me

1947


Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Honored for : Mother Wore Tights

Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Captain from Castile
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Mother Wore Tights

1946


Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Centennial Summer

1945


Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Keys of the Kingdom
Academy Award for Best Original Musical State Fair

1944


Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Wilson
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Irish Eyes Are Smiling

1943


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : The Song of Bernadette

Nominations 1943 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Song of Bernadette
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Coney Island

1942


Nominations 1942 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Black Swan
Academy Award for Best Original Musical My Gal Sal

1941


Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Ball of Fire
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score How Green Was My Valley

1940


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : Tin Pan Alley

Nominations 1940 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Mark of Zorro
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Tin Pan Alley

1939


Nominations 1939 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Rains Came
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Wuthering Heights
Academy Award for Best Original Musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Academy Award for Best Original Musical They Shall Have Music

1938


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : Alexander's Ragtime Band

Nominations 1938 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Cowboy and the Lady
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Alexander's Ragtime Band
Academy Award for Best Original Musical The Goldwyn Follies

1937


Nominations 1937 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Hurricane
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Prisoner of Zenda
Selznick International Pictures Music Department","Score by Alfred Newman.