Elmer Bernstein - wikipedia Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein Bernstein guest conducting the U.S. Air Force Band in 1981 Background information ( 1922 - 04 - 04 ) April 4, 1922 New York City, New York, U.S. August 18, 2004 ( 2004 - 08 - 18 ) ( aged 82 ) Ojai, California, U.S. Genres Film scores Occupation ( s ) Composer, conductor, songwriter Instruments Keyboards Years active 1951 -- 2002 Elmer Bernstein ( April 4, 1922 -- August 18, 2004 ) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane !, The Rookies, Cape Fear, Animal House, and The Age of Innocence. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes, an Emmy, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Broadway 2.2 Politics 2.3 Association with John Landis 2.4 Cape Fear 2.5 Classical 3 Awards 4 Personal life and death 5 Influences 6 Influenced 7 List of works 7.1 Film 7.1. 1 1950s 7.1. 2 1960s 7.1. 3 1970s 7.1. 4 1980s 7.1. 5 1990s 7.1. 6 2000s 7.2 Television 7.2. 1 1950s 7.2. 2 1960s 7.2. 3 1970s 7.2. 4 1980s 7.2. 5 1990s 7.2. 6 2000s 7.3 Broadway theatre 8 References 9 External links Early life Bernstein was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Selma ( née Feinstein, 1901 - 1991 ), from Ukraine, and Edward Bernstein ( 1896 - 1968 ), from Austria - Hungary. Contrary to popular assumption, he was not related to the celebrated composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, but the two men were friends. Within the world of professional music, they were distinguished from each other by the use of the nicknames Bernstein West ( Elmer ) and Bernstein East ( Leonard ). They pronounced their last names differently ; Elmer pronounced his ( BERN - steen ), and Leonard 's was ( BERN - stine ). During his childhood, Bernstein performed professionally as a dancer and an actor, in the latter case playing the part of Caliban in The Tempest on Broadway, and he also won several prizes for his painting. He attended Manhattan 's progressive Walden School and gravitated toward music at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, a Juilliard teacher who guided him throughout his entire career as a pianist. She took him to play some of his improvisations for composer Aaron Copland, who was encouraging and selected Israel Citkowitz as a teacher for the young boy. Bernstein 's music has some stylistic similarities to Copland 's music, most notably in his western scores, particularly sections of Big Jake, in the Gregory Peck film Amazing Grace and Chuck, and in his spirited score for the 1958 film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell 's novel God 's Little Acre. Throughout his life, Bernstein demonstrated an enthusiasm for an even wider spectrum of the arts than his childhood interests would imply and, in 1959, when he was scoring The Story on Page One, he considered becoming a novelist and asked the film 's screenwriter, Clifford Odets, to give him lessons in writing fiction. Career Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), True Grit, The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf. Broadway In addition to his film music, Bernstein wrote the scores for two Broadway musicals, How Now, Dow Jones, with lyricist Carolyn Leigh, in 1967 and Merlin, with lyricist Don Black, in 1983. One of Bernstein 's tunes has since gained a lasting place in U.S. college sports culture. In 1968, University of South Carolina football head coach Paul Dietzel wrote new lyrics to `` Step to the Rear '', from How Now, Dow Jones. The South Carolina version of the tune, `` The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way '', has been the school 's fight song ever since. Politics Along with many in Hollywood, Bernstein faced censure during the McCarthy era of the early 1950s. Bernstein was called by the House Un-American Activities Committee when it was discovered that he had written some music reviews for a Communist newspaper. After he refused to name names, pointing out that he had never attended a Communist Party meeting, he found himself composing music for movies such as Robot Monster and Cat - Women of the Moon, a step down from his earlier Sudden Fear and Saturday 's Hero. Association with John Landis John Landis grew up near Bernstein, and befriended him through his children. Years later, he requested that Bernstein compose the music for National Lampoon 's Animal House, over the studio 's objections. He explained to Bernstein that he thought that Bernstein 's score, playing it straight as if the comedic Delta frat characters were actual heroes, would emphasize the comedy further. The opening theme to the movie is based upon a slight inversion of a secondary theme from Brahms 's Academic Festival Overture. Bernstein accepted the job, and it sparked a second wave in his career, where he continued to compose music for high - profile comedies such as Ghostbusters, Stripes, Airplane ! and The Blues Brothers, as well as most of Landis 's films for the next 15 years, including the famed music video to the Michael Jackson song `` Thriller ''. Cape Fear When Martin Scorsese announced that he was re-making Cape Fear, Bernstein adapted Bernard Herrmann 's original score to the new film. Bernstein leapt at the opportunity to work with Scorsese, as well as to pay homage to Herrmann. Scorsese and Bernstein subsequently worked together on two more films, The Age of Innocence ( 1993 ) and Bringing Out the Dead ( 1999 ). Bernstein had previously conducted Herrmann 's original unused score for Alfred Hitchcock 's 1966 Torn Curtain. Classical Having studied composition under Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, and Stefan Wolpe, Bernstein also performed as a concert pianist between 1939 and 1950 and wrote numerous classical compositions, including three orchestral suites, two song cycles, various compositions for viola and piano and for solo piano, and a string quartet. As president of the Young Musicians Foundation, Bernstein became acquainted with classical guitarist Christopher Parkening and wrote a Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, which Parkening recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernstein 's baton for the Angel label in 1999. In addition, Bernstein was a professor at the University of Southern California 's Thornton School of Music and conductor of the San Fernando Valley Symphony in the early 1970s. Awards Over the course of his career, Bernstein won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. In addition, he was nominated for the Tony Award three times and a Grammy Award five times. He received 14 Academy Award nominations and was nominated at least once per decade from the 1950s until the 2000s, but his only win was for Thoroughly Modern Millie for Best Original Music Score. Bernstein was recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with Golden Globes for his scores for To Kill a Mockingbird and Hawaii. In 1963, he won the Emmy for Excellence in Television for his score of the documentary The Making of The President 1960. He is the recipient of Western Heritage Awards for The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and The Hallelujah Trail ( 1965 ). He received five Grammy Award nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and garnered two Tony Award nominations for the Broadway musicals How Now Dow Jones and Merlin. Additional honors included Lifetime achievement awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ), the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, the USA, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach and Flanders International Film Festivals and the Foundation for a Creative America. In 1996, Bernstein was honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard. In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Five Towns College in New York City and was honored by the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Bernstein again was honored by ASCAP with its marquee Founders Award in 2001 and with the NARAS Governors Award in June 2004. His scores for The Magnificent Seven and To Kill a Mockingbird were ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth and seventeenth greatest American film scores of all time, respectively, on the list of AFI 's 100 Years of Film Scores. Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, and Jerry Goldsmith are the only composers to have two scores listed, and are therefore in second place for the most scores on the list, behind John Williams, who has three. Other Bernstein film scores nominated for the list are as follows : The Age of Innocence ( 1993 ) Far from Heaven ( 2002 ) The Great Escape ( 1963 ) Hawaii ( 1966 ) The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ) Summer and Smoke ( 1961 ) Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ) The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) Walk on the Wild Side ( 1962 ) Personal life and death Bernstein made his home in Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, in the 1990s. He died of cancer at his Ojai, California, home on August 18, 2004. His publicist stated that Bernstein had had a lengthy illness. He was survived by his wife, Eve, and their two sons, Peter and Gregory, and two daughters, Emilie and Elizabeth. He had five grandchildren at the time of his death. Influences This section is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. You can help by converting this section to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is available. ( May 2018 ) Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Dimitri Tiomkin, Duke Ellington, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Jimmie Lunceford, Max Steiner, Victor Young, Aaron Copland, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe Influenced This section is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. You can help by converting this section to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is available. ( May 2018 ) Alan Silvestri, Georges Delerue, Howard Shore, James Newton Howard, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Dick Hyman, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Trevor Jones, Mark Isham, Alan Menken, Randy Newman, Danny Elfman List of works Film 1950s Saturday 's Hero ( 1951 ) Battles of Chief Pontiac ( 1952 ) Sudden Fear ( 1952 ) Cat - Women of the Moon ( 1953 ) Robot Monster ( 1953 ) Silent Raiders ( 1954 ) The Eternal Sea ( 1955 ) The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ) The View from Pompey 's Head ( 1955 ) The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) Men in War ( 1957 ) Drango ( 1957 ) Fear Strikes Out ( 1957 ) Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ) The Tin Star ( 1957 ) Desire Under the Elms ( 1958 ) Kings Go Forth ( 1958 ) God 's Little Acre ( 1958 ) The Buccaneer ( 1958 ) Some Came Running ( 1958 ) The Miracle ( 1959 ) 1960s The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) The Rat Race ( 1960 ) The Story on Page One ( 1960 ) From the Terrace ( 1960 ) The Comancheros ( 1961 ) By Love Possessed ( 1961 ) The Young Doctors ( 1961 ) Summer and Smoke ( 1961 ) To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962 ) Walk on the Wild Side ( 1962 ) A Girl Named Tamiko ( 1962 ) Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ) Kings of the Sun ( 1963 ) The Caretakers ( 1963 ) The Great Escape ( 1963 ) Love with the Proper Stranger ( 1963 ) Hud ( 1963 ) The Carpetbaggers ( 1964 ) The World of Henry Orient ( 1964 ) The Sons of Katie Elder ( 1965 ) The Hallelujah Trail ( 1965 ) Baby the Rain Must Fall ( 1965 ) 7 Women ( 1966 ) Return of the Seven ( 1966 ) Hawaii ( 1966 ) Cast A Giant Shadow ( 1966 ) The Silencers ( 1966 ) Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ) The Scalphunters ( 1968 ) I Love You, Alice B. Toklas ( 1968 ) Powers of Ten ( 1968 ) The Gypsy Moths ( 1969 ) The Bridge at Remagen ( 1969 ) Guns of the Magnificent Seven ( 1969 ) True Grit ( 1969 ) 1970s The Liberation of L.B. Jones ( 1970 ) Cannon for Cordoba ( 1970 ) A Walk in the Spring Rain ( 1970 ) Big Jake ( 1971 ) Doctors ' Wives ( 1971 ) See No Evil ( 1971 ) The Amazing Mr. Blunden ( 1972 ) The Magnificent Seven Ride ! ( 1972 ) Cahill U.S. Marshal ( 1973 ) Gold ( 1974 ) McQ ( 1974 ) Nightmare Honeymoon ( 1974 ) The Trial of Billy Jack ( 1974 ) Mr Quilp ( 1975 ) Report to the Commissioner ( 1975 ) From Noon Till Three ( 1976 ) The Incredible Sarah ( 1976 ) The Shootist ( 1976 ) Slap Shot ( 1977 ) Powers of Ten ( 1977 ) National Lampoon 's Animal House ( 1978 ) Billy Jack Goes to Washington ( 1978 ) Bloodbrothers ( 1978 ) Zulu Dawn ( 1979 ) The Great Santini ( 1979 ) Meatballs ( 1979 ) 1980s Airplane ! ( 1980 ) The Blues Brothers ( 1980 ) Saturn 3 ( 1980 ) Heavy Metal ( 1981 ) Honky Tonk Freeway ( 1981 ) Going Ape ! ( 1981 ) The Chosen ( 1981 ) An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 ) Stripes ( 1981 ) Genocide ( 1982 ) Five Days One Summer ( 1982 ) Airplane II : The Sequel ( 1982 ) Michael Jackson 's Thriller ( 1983 ) Class ( 1983 ) Trading Places ( 1983 ) Spacehunter : Adventures in the Forbidden Zone ( 1983 ) Prince Jack ( 1984 ) Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie ( 1984 ) Bolero ( 1984 ) Ghostbusters ( 1984 ) The Black Cauldron ( 1985 ) Spies Like Us ( 1985 ) ¡ Three Amigos ! ( 1986 ) Legal Eagles ( 1986 ) Leonard Part 6 ( 1987 ) Amazing Grace and Chuck ( 1987 ) Funny Farm ( 1988 ) The Good Mother ( 1988 ) Da ( 1988 ) My Left Foot ( 1989 ) Slipstream ( 1989 ) 1990s The Field ( 1990 ) The Grifters ( 1990 ) Cape Fear ( 1991 ) Rambling Rose ( 1991 ) A Rage in Harlem ( 1991 ) Oscar ( 1991 ) Mad Dog and Glory ( 1993 ) The Age of Innocence ( 1993 ) Lost in Yonkers ( 1993 ) The Cemetery Club ( 1993 ) The Good Son ( 1993 ) Roommates ( 1995 ) Search and Destroy ( 1995 ) Canadian Bacon ( 1995 ) Devil in a Blue Dress ( 1995 ) Frankie Starlight ( 1995 ) Bulletproof ( 1996 ) Buddy ( 1997 ) The Rainmaker ( 1997 ) Hoodlum ( 1997 ) Twilight ( 1998 ) Bringing Out the Dead ( 1999 ) Wild Wild West ( 1999 ) The Deep End of the Ocean ( 1999 ) 2000s Keeping the Faith ( 2000 ) Far from Heaven ( 2002 ) Television 1950s General Electric Theater ( 1958 -- 59 ; 8 episodes ) Johnny Staccato ( 1959 -- 60 ; 23 episodes ) Riverboat ( 1959 -- 60 ; 18 episodes ) 1960s The Beachcomber ( 1962 ; 13 episodes ) The Dick Powell Show ( 1962 ; 1 episode ) The DuPont Show of the Week ( 1962 ; 1 episode ) The Making of the President, 1960 ( 1963 ; Television film ) Hollywood and the Stars ( 1963 -- 64 ; 7 episodes ) National Geographic Specials ( 1966 ; 1 episode ) ABC Stage 67 ( 1966 -- 67 ; 2 episodes ) The Big Valley ( 1967 -- 68 ; 24 episodes ) Julia ( 1968 -- 70 ; 60 episodes ) 1970s Owen Marshall : Counselor at Law ( 1971 -- 74 ; 20 episodes ) Gunsmoke ( 1972 ; 1 episode ) The Rookies ( 1972 -- 74 ; 12 episodes ) Ellery Queen ( 1975 -- 76 ; 17 episodes ) Serpico ( 1976 ; Pilot episode ) Captains and the Kings ( 1976 ; Miniseries - 8 episodes ) Once an Eagle ( 1976 -- 77 ; Miniseries - 7 episodes ) Seventh Avenue ( 1977 ; Miniseries - 2 episodes ) Little Women ( 1978 ; Miniseries - 2 episodes ) The Chisholms ( 1979 ; Miniseries - 4 episodes ) 1980s Guyana Tragedy : The Story of Jim Jones ( 1980 ; Television film ) This Year 's Blonde ( 1980 ; Television film ) Ripley 's Believe It or Not ! ( 1983 ; 1 episode ) Gulag ( 1985 ; Television film ) 1990s The Bogie Man ( 1992 ; Television film ) Fallen Angels ( 1993 -- 95 ; 10 episodes ) Rough Riders ( 1997 ; Miniseries - 2 episodes ) Introducing Dorothy Dandridge ( 1999 ; Television film ) 2000s Cecil B. De Mille -- American Epic ( 2004 ; Television film ) Broadway theatre Peter Pan ( 1954 ) -- composer of incidental music How Now, Dow Jones ( 1967 ) -- Composer -- Tony Co-Nomination for Best Musical, Tony Co-Nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist Merlin ( 1982 ) -- Composer and incidental - music composer -- Tony co-nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist References Jump up ^ The Guardian : `` Elmer Bernstein - Prolific Hollywood composer whose scores ranged from The Magnificent Seven to Far From Heaven '' Michael Freedland 19 August 2004 Jump up ^ Biography Archived 2009 - 07 - 21 at the Wayback Machine. elmerbernstein.com Jump up ^ `` Great Escape composer dies at 82 ''. BBC News. August 19, 2004. Jump up ^ `` Introduction ''. Bernstein West. Retrieved 2012 - 04 - 10. ^ Jump up to : Biography songwritershalloffame.org, retrieved December 21, 2009 ^ Jump up to : Internet Broadway Database listing ibdb.com, retrieved December 21, 2009 Jump up ^ Susman, Gary ( August 19, 2004 ). `` Goodbye ''. EntertainmentWeekly.com. Retrieved 2009 - 02 - 27. `` Composer Elmer Bernstein Dead at 82 ''. MSNBC.com. Associated Press. August 19, 2004. Retrieved 2009 - 02 - 27. ^ Jump up to : Woodward, Josef, Sounds Around Town -- Elmer Bernstein : A First in His Career : Composer : From ' Cape Fear ' to ' The Grifters, ' all of his film scores this year are different. On purpose. Los Angeles Times, December 5, 1991 Jump up ^ `` Talk on the Wild Side '' bernardherrmann.org, June 2003 Jump up ^ Patrick Russ, liner notes for Christopher Parkening Elmer Bernstein Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra for Two Christophers ( Angel CD 7243 5 56859 2 6 ), New York, Angel Records, 2000. ^ Jump up to : Internet Movie Database listing, Awards imdb.com, retrieved December 21, 2009 ^ Jump up to : Biography filmreference.com, retrieved December 21, 2009 Jump up ^ Hollywood Star Walk - Elmer Bernstein, Composer Star on the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard Jump up ^ `` Great Escape composer dies at 82 '', BBC News, 19 August 2004 ^ Jump up to : Luther, Claudia, Elmer Bernstein, 82 ; Composer Who Won Oscar ' Could Do It All ', Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2004 External links Biography portal Official website Elmer Bernstein on IMDb Elmer Bernstein at the Internet Broadway Database Elmer Bernstein at the TCM Movie Database Discography at SonyBMG Masterworks Lifetime Achievement Sammy Film Music Award BernsteinWest.com, a fan tribute site Awards for Elmer Bernstein Academy Award for Best Original Score 1930s Louis Silvers ( 1934 ) Max Steiner ( 1935 ) Leo F. Forbstein ( 1936 ) Charles Previn ( 1937 ) Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Alfred Newman ( 1938 ) Herbert Stothart / Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken ( 1939 ) 1940s Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington / Alfred Newman ( 1940 ) Bernard Herrmann / Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace ( 1941 ) Max Steiner / Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld ( 1942 ) Alfred Newman / Ray Heindorf ( 1943 ) Max Steiner / Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon ( 1944 ) Miklós Rózsa / Georgie Stoll ( 1945 ) Hugo Friedhofer / Morris Stoloff ( 1946 ) Miklós Rózsa / Alfred Newman ( 1947 ) Brian Easdale / Johnny Green and Roger Edens ( 1948 ) Aaron Copland / Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton ( 1949 ) 1950s Franz Waxman / Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens ( 1950 ) Franz Waxman / Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin ( 1951 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Alfred Newman ( 1952 ) Bronisław Kaper / Alfred Newman ( 1953 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin ( 1954 ) Alfred Newman / Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch ( 1955 ) Victor Young / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby ( 1956 ) Malcolm Arnold ( 1957 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Andre Previn ( 1958 ) Miklós Rózsa / Andre Previn and Ken Darby ( 1959 ) 1960s Ernest Gold / Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman ( 1960 ) Henry Mancini / Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal ( 1961 ) Maurice Jarre / Ray Heindorf ( 1962 ) John Addison / Andre Previn ( 1963 ) Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman / Andre Previn ( 1964 ) Maurice Jarre / Irwin Kostal ( 1965 ) John Barry / Ken Thorne ( 1966 ) Elmer Bernstein / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby ( 1967 ) John Barry / Johnny Green ( 1968 ) Burt Bacharach / Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman ( 1969 ) 1970s Francis Lai / The Beatles ( John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ) ( 1970 ) Michel Legrand / John Williams ( 1971 ) Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell / Ralph Burns ( 1972 ) Marvin Hamlisch / Marvin Hamlisch ( 1973 ) Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola / Nelson Riddle ( 1974 ) John Williams / Leonard Rosenman ( 1975 ) Jerry Goldsmith / Leonard Rosenman ( 1976 ) John Williams / Jonathan Tunick ( 1977 ) Giorgio Moroder / Joe Renzetti ( 1978 ) Georges Delerue / Ralph Burns ( 1979 ) 1980s Michael Gore ( 1980 ) Vangelis ( 1981 ) John Williams / Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse ( 1982 ) Bill Conti / Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman ( 1983 ) Maurice Jarre / Prince ( 1984 ) John Barry ( 1985 ) Herbie Hancock ( 1986 ) Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su ( 1987 ) Dave Grusin ( 1988 ) Alan Menken ( 1989 ) 1990s John Barry ( 1990 ) Alan Menken ( 1991 ) Alan Menken ( 1992 ) John Williams ( 1993 ) Hans Zimmer ( 1994 ) Luis Enríquez Bacalov / Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz ( 1995 ) Gabriel Yared / Rachel Portman ( 1996 ) James Horner / Anne Dudley ( 1997 ) Nicola Piovani / Stephen Warbeck ( 1998 ) John Corigliano ( 1999 ) 2000s Tan Dun ( 2000 ) Howard Shore ( 2001 ) Elliot Goldenthal ( 2002 ) Howard Shore ( 2003 ) Jan A.P. Kaczmarek ( 2004 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2005 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2006 ) Dario Marianelli ( 2007 ) A.R. Rahman ( 2008 ) Michael Giacchino ( 2009 ) 2010s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross ( 2010 ) Ludovic Bource ( 2011 ) Mychael Danna ( 2012 ) Steven Price ( 2013 ) Alexandre Desplat ( 2014 ) Ennio Morricone ( 2015 ) Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) Alexandre Desplat ( 2017 ) Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score 1940s Life with Father -- Max Steiner ( 1947 ) The Red Shoes -- Brian Easdale ( 1948 ) The Inspector General -- Johnny Green ( 1949 ) 1950s Sunset Boulevard -- Franz Waxman ( 1950 ) September Affair -- Victor Young ( 1951 ) High Noon -- Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1952 ) On the Beach -- Ernest Gold ( 1959 ) 1960s The Alamo -- Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1960 ) The Guns of Navarone -- Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1961 ) To Kill a Mockingbird -- Elmer Bernstein ( 1962 ) ( 1963 ) The Fall of the Roman Empire -- Dimitri Tiomkin ( 1964 ) Doctor Zhivago -- Maurice Jarre ( 1965 ) Hawaii -- Elmer Bernstein ( 1966 ) Camelot -- Frederick Loewe ( 1967 ) The Shoes of the Fisherman -- Alex North ( 1968 ) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- Burt Bacharach ( 1969 ) 1970s Love Story -- Francis Lai ( 1970 ) Shaft -- Isaac Hayes ( 1971 ) The Godfather -- Nino Rota ( 1972 ) Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- Neil Diamond ( 1973 ) The Little Prince -- Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe ( 1974 ) Jaws -- John Williams ( 1975 ) A Star is Born -- Kenneth Ascher, Paul Williams ( 1976 ) Star Wars -- John Williams ( 1977 ) Midnight Express -- Giorgio Moroder ( 1978 ) Apocalypse Now -- Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola ( 1979 ) 1980s The Stunt Man -- Dominic Frontiere ( 1980 ) ( 1981 ) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial -- John Williams ( 1982 ) Flashdance -- Giorgio Moroder ( 1983 ) A Passage to India -- Maurice Jarre ( 1984 ) Out of Africa -- John Barry ( 1985 ) The Mission -- Ennio Morricone ( 1986 ) The Last Emperor -- David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cong Su ( 1987 ) Gorillas in the Mist -- Maurice Jarre ( 1988 ) The Little Mermaid -- Alan Menken ( 1989 ) 1990s The Sheltering Sky -- Richard Horowitz, Ryuichi Sakamoto ( 1990 ) Beauty and the Beast -- Alan Menken ( 1991 ) Aladdin -- Alan Menken ( 1992 ) Heaven & Earth -- Kitarō ( 1993 ) The Lion King -- Hans Zimmer ( 1994 ) A Walk in the Clouds -- Maurice Jarre ( 1995 ) The English Patient -- Gabriel Yared ( 1996 ) Titanic -- James Horner ( 1997 ) The Truman Show -- Burkhard Dallwitz, Philip Glass ( 1998 ) 1900 -- Ennio Morricone ( 1999 ) 2000s Gladiator -- Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer ( 2000 ) Moulin Rouge ! -- Craig Armstrong ( 2001 ) Frida -- Elliot Goldenthal ( 2002 ) The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King -- Howard Shore ( 2003 ) The Aviator -- Howard Shore ( 2004 ) Memoirs of a Geisha -- John Williams ( 2005 ) The Painted Veil -- Alexandre Desplat ( 2006 ) Atonement -- Dario Marianelli ( 2007 ) Slumdog Millionaire -- A.R. Rahman ( 2008 ) Up -- Michael Giacchino ( 2009 ) 2010s The Social Network -- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross ( 2010 ) The Artist -- Ludovic Bource ( 2011 ) Life of Pi -- Mychael Danna ( 2012 ) All Is Lost -- Alex Ebert ( 2013 ) The Theory of Everything -- Jóhann Jóhannsson ( 2014 ) The Hateful Eight -- Ennio Morricone ( 2015 ) La La Land -- Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) The Shape of Water - Alexandre Desplat ( 2017 ) BIBSYS : 4020028 BNE : XX840042 BNF : cb13891432s ( data ) GND : 12925021X ISNI : 0000 0001 1454 1797 LCCN : n87103156 MusicBrainz : e2c7d7a5 - b520 - 4232 - b7cf - aaceead17b6c NDL : 001152846 SNAC : w6s46zgg SUDOC : 08304812X VIAF : 104815465 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elmer_Bernstein&oldid=844224632 '' Categories : 1922 births 2004 deaths 20th - century classical composers American film score composers American male classical composers American people of Austrian - Jewish descent American people of Ukrainian - Jewish descent American classical composers American military personnel of World War II American musical theatre composers Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners Deaths from cancer in California Imperial Records artists Jewish American classical composers Juilliard School alumni Male film score composers Musicians from New York City Pupils of Roger Sessions Thornton School of Music faculty 20th - century American composers Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Articles with hCards Articles needing cleanup from May 2018 All pages needing cleanup Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from May 2018 Articles with IBDb links Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Български Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Español Euskara فارسی Français Gaeilge 한국어 Հայերեն Italiano ქართული Lëtzebuergesch Magyar Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Plattdüütsch Polski Português Русский Simple English Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Українська 中文 21 more Edit links This page was last edited on 3 June 2018, at 14 : 03 ( UTC ). 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Question: who wrote the musical score for to kill a mockingbird
Answer: Elmer Bernstein