Multiple Oscar-Winning Composers
by BonaFideBOSS | created - 05 Jul 2020 | updated - 04 Apr 2022 | PublicWhich of these composers, who won an Oscar for Best Score more than once, is your favorite?
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1. Alfred Newman
Music_department | The King and I
Alfred Newman is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.
From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated ...
2. John Williams
Composer | Jurassic Park
As one of the best known, awarded, and financially successful composers in US history, John Williams is as easy to recall as John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland or Leonard Bernstein, illustrating why he is "America's composer" time and again. With a massive list of awards that includes over 52 Oscar ...
3. Johnny Green
Music_department | West Side Story
Composer-pianist-arranger Johnny Green was born in Far Rockaway, New York. The son of musical parents, Green was accepted by Harvard at the age of 15, and entered the University in 1924. Between semesters, bandleader Guy Lombardo heard his Harvard Gold Coast Orchestra and hired him to create dance ...
Wins: 4
For:
1. Easter Parade (1948)
2. An American in Paris (1951)
3. West Side Story (1961)
4. Oliver! (1968)
4. André Previn
Music_department | My Fair Lady
German-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor André George Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin, in Berlin) was for eight decades a hugely influential and prolific figure in jazz, as well as classical and film music. Being Jewish, Previn's family was forced to leave Hitler's Germany in ...
Wins: 4
For:
1. Gigi (1958)
2. Porgy and Bess (1959)
3. Irma la Douce (1963)
4. My Fair Lady (1964)
5. John Barry
Soundtrack | Out of Africa
John Barry was born in York, England in 1933, and was the youngest of three children. His father, Jack, owned several local cinemas and by the age of fourteen, Barry was capable of running the projection box on his own - in particular, The Rialto in York. As he was brought up in a cinematic ...
Wins: 4
For:
1. Born Free (1966)
2. The Lion in Winter (1968)
3. Out of Africa (1985)
4. Dances with Wolves (1990)
6. Alan Menken
Soundtrack | Beauty and the Beast
Alan Menken is an American composer, songwriter, music conductor, director and record producer.
Menken is best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and ...
Wins: 4
For:
1. The Little Mermaid (1989)
2. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
3. Aladdin (1992)
4. Pocahontas (1995)
7. Max Steiner
Composer | Casablanca
Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. He was born Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria, the son of Marie Mizzi (Hasiba) and Gabor Steiner, an impresario, and the grandson of actor and theater director and ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. The Informer (1935)
2. Now, Voyager (1942)
3. Since You Went Away (1944)
8. Ray Heindorf
Music_department | The Music Man
Raymond John Heindorf was born August 25, 1908. in Haverstraw, New York. He grew up in Mechanicville, New York, where he moved to when he was about 10 years old. In 1926 he graduated from Mechanicville High School. He was interested in cars and machinery; he loved to play pool with his father, the ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
2. This Is the Army (1943)
3. The Music Man (1962)
9. Morris Stoloff
Music_department | From Here to Eternity
Morris Stoloff was born on August 1, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for From Here to Eternity (1953), In a Lonely Place (1950) and Gilda (1946). He died on April 16, 1980 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Wins: 3
For:
1. Cover Girl (1944)
2. The Jolson Story (1946)
3. Song Without End (1960)
10. Miklós Rózsa
Composer | Ben-Hur
A child prodigy, Miklos Rózsa learned to play the violin at the age of five and read music before he was able to read words. In 1926, he began studying at the Leipzig Conservatory where he was considered a brilliant student. He obtained his doctorate in music in 1930. Moving to Paris the following ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. Spellbound (1945)
2. A Double Life (1947)
3. Ben-Hur (1959)
11. Dimitri Tiomkin
Soundtrack | High Noon
Dimitri Tiomkin was a Russian Jewish composer who emigrated to America and became one of the most distinguished and best-loved music writers of Hollywood. He won a hallowed place in the pantheon of the most successful and productive composers in American film history, earning himself four Oscars ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. High Noon (1952)
2. The High and the Mighty (1954)
3. The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
12. Maurice Jarre
Composer | Lawrence of Arabia
Unlike many musicians who started to learn music while still in their childhood, Maurice Jarre was already late in his teens when he discovered music and decided to make a career in that field. Against his father's will, he enrolled at Conservatoire de Paris where he studied percussions, ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
3. A Passage to India (1984)
13. Ken Darby
Music_department | The King and I
Composer ("How the West Was Won"), songwriter ("Make Mine Music"), choral director, conductor, arranger, singer and author, educated at Christian College and a student of Tibor Serly, Ernst Toch, Herman Hand, and Victor Young.
He originated The King's Men male vocal quartet in 1929 and appeared on ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. The King and I (1956)
2. Porgy and Bess (1959)
3. Camelot (1967)
14. Roger Edens
Soundtrack | On the Town
Roger Edens was born on November 9, 1905 in Hillsboro, Texas, USA. He was a producer and composer, known for On the Town (1949), Strike Up the Band (1940) and Funny Face (1957). He died on July 13, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Wins: 3
For:
1. Easter Parade (1948)
2. On the Town (1949)
3. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
15. Saul Chaplin
Music_department | West Side Story
Composer, songwriter ("Bei Mir Bist Du Schon," "Until the Real Thing Comes Along," "Anniversary Song"), pianist, conductor, arranger, author and producer, educated at the NYU School of Commerce. As a young man, he joined an orchestra as pianist, and Sammy Cahn was in that orchestra as a violinist. ...
16. Adolph Deutsch
Music_department | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
London-born piano child prodigy Adolph Deutsch trained at the Royal Academy of Music from the age of eight and composed his first piece, a waltz for piano, entitled "La Charmeuse", two years later. He moved to the U.S. in 1910 and got his first job working for a publishing house, during which time ...
Wins: 3
For:
1. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
2. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
3. Oklahoma! (1955)
17. Alexandre Desplat
Composer | The King's Speech
Composer and conductor Alexandre Desplat, Oscar winner and seven-time Academy Award nominated, for his prolific filmography and his collaborations with Stephen Frears, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Kathryn Bigelow, Jacques Audiard, Wes Anderson, Roman Polanski, George Clooney or Matteo Garrone is one ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
2. The Shape of Water (2017)
18. Franz Waxman
Composer | Sunset Blvd.
Franz Waxman (Wachsmann) pursued his dream of a career in music despite his family's misgivings. He worked for several years as a bank teller and paid for piano, harmony and composition lessons with his salary. He later moved to Berlin, where he continued his study and progress as a musician. He ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
2. A Place in the Sun (1951)
19. Henry Mancini
Soundtrack | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, but brought up in Pennsylvania, where he played the flute in a local band, as a youth, before sending some arrangements to Benny Goodman. Goodman offered him a job and, after serving in WWII, he joined the rearranged Glenn Miller band. In 1952, he was given a two-week ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
2. Victor/Victoria (1982)
20. Lennie Hayton
Music_department | Singin' in the Rain
Composer, MGM music director (1940-1953), conductor, arranger and pianist in the jazz groups of 'Frankie Trumbauer', Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others. He was also with the Paul Whiteman orchestra. He also was music director for Lena Horne, his wife. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. On the Town (1949)
2. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
21. Michel Legrand
Composer | The Thomas Crown Affair
Michel Legrand is a three-time Academy Award-winning French composer, conductor and pianist who composed over 200 film and television scores as well as recorded over a hundred albums of jazz, popular and classical music.
He was born on February 24, 1932, in Becon-les-Bruyeres, in the Paris suburbs, ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Summer of '42 (1971)
2. Yentl (1983)
22. Irwin Kostal
Music_department | West Side Story
Irwin Kostal was born on October 1, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a composer, known for West Side Story (1961), Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). He died on November 23, 1994 in Studio City, California, USA.
Wins: 2
For:
1. West Side Story (1961)
2. The Sound of Music (1965)
23. Marvin Hamlisch
Composer | The Spy Who Loved Me
Musical talent ran in Marvin Hamlisch's family - his father was an accordionist, and at seven Hamlisch was the youngest student ever accepted by Manhattan's Julliard School of Music. Hamlich furthered his education by taking night classes at Queens College and working during the day as a rehearsal ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Sting (1973)
2. The Way We Were (1973)
24. Leonard Rosenman
Composer | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Leonard Rosenman was born on September 7, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Barry Lyndon (1975) and The Lord of the Rings (1978). He was married to Judie Gregg, Lyn Furr, Kay Scott and Adele Bracker. He died on March 4...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Barry Lyndon (1975)
2. Bound for Glory (1976)
25. Ralph Burns
Music_department | All That Jazz
Songwriter ("Early Autumn", "Bijou"), bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist, educated at the New England Conservatory. He studied piano with Marion Deviney. He was a pianist and arranger for the Charlie Barnet orchestra, and later with Woody Herman for seven years. He arranged for ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Cabaret (1972)
2. All That Jazz (1979)
26. Howard Shore
Music_department | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Howard Shore is a Canadian composer, born in Toronto. He was born in a Jewish family. He started studying music when 8-years-old, and played as a member of bands by the time he was 13-years-old. He was interested in a professional career in music as a teenager. He studied music at the Berklee ...
27. Gustavo Santaolalla
Music_department | Brokeback Mountain
Argentine musician and leader of the now defunct bands "Arco Iris" and "Soluna", Gustavo Santaolalla was one of the references of his country's national music by the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. During the 70s he relocated to the United States, where he formed the band Wet Picnic, ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
2. Babel (2006)
28. Hans Zimmer
Composer | Gladiator
German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents. He featured in the music video for The Buggles' single "Video Killed the Radio Star", which became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to ...
Wins: 2
For:
1. The Lion King (1994)
2. Dune (2021)
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