Awards & Winners

Franz Waxman

Date of Birth 24-December-1906
Place of Birth Chorzów
(Silesian Voivodeship, Poland)
Nationality United States of America, German Empire, German Reich
Also know as Franz Wachsmann, F. Wachsmann, F. Waxman, Franz Wachsmann, F. Waxman, Franz Wachsmann
Profession Film Score Composer, Composer, Bank teller
Franz Waxman was a German-born, Jewish-American composer, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. Waxman was the composer of such film scores as The Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, and Rear Window. He also composed concert works, including the oratorio Joshua, and The Song of Terezin, a work for orchestra, chorus, and children's chorus based upon poetry written by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Waxman also founded the Los Angeles Music Festival in 1947 with which he conducted a number of West Coast premieres by fellow film composers, and concert composers alike.

Awards by Franz Waxman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Franz Waxman.

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Taras Bulba

1962


Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Taras Bulba

1959


Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Nun's Story

1954


Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Silver Chalice

1951


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : A Place in the Sun
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
Honored for : Sunset Boulevard

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Sunset Boulevard
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score A Place in the Sun

1950


Academy Award for Best Original Music Score
Honored for : Sunset Boulevard

Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Sunset Boulevard

1946


Nominations 1946 »

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

1945


Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Objective, Burma!

1941


Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Suspicion

1940


Nominations 1940 »

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

1938


Nominations 1938 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score The Young in Heart
Academy Award for Best Original Musical The Young in Heart