Jewish Recipients of the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Motion Picture

JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE ACADEMY AWARD
FOR BEST MUSICAL SCORING OF A MOTION PICTURE
(50% of recipients)

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The following list covers Academy Awards given in all categories of motion picture musical score composition, including best original and best adapted musical score, best score for a musical and for a non-musical picture, and awards for song scores. The complete list can be found by searching on "Music (Scoring)" in the Awards Database of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Gus Kahn (1934), One Night of Love
Louis Silvers (1934), One Night of Love
Max Steiner (1935), The Informer
Leo Forbstein (1936), Anthony Adverse
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1936), Anthony Adverse
Charles Previn (1937), One Hundred Men and a Girl
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1938), The Adventures of Robin Hood
Alfred Newman (1938), Alexander's Ragtime Band
Leo Shuken (1939), Stagecoach
Alfred Newman (1940), Tin Pan Alley
Bernard Herrmann (1941), All That Money Can Buy
Max Steiner (1942), Now, Voyager
Alfred Newman (1943), The Song of Bernadette
Max Steiner (1944), Since You Went Away
Morris Stoloff (1944), Cover Girl
Miklós Rózsa (1945), Spellbound
Morris Stoloff (1946), The Jolson Story
Miklós Rózsa (1947), A Double Life
Alfred Newman (1947), Mother Wore Tights
Johnny Green (1948), Easter Parade
Aaron Copeland (1949), The Heiress
Lennie Hayton (1949), On the Town
Franz Waxman (1950), Sunset Boulevard
Adolph Deutsch (1950), Annie Get Your Gun
Franz Waxman (1951), A Place in the Sun
Saul Chaplin (1951), An American in Paris
Johnny Green (1951), An American in Paris
Dmitri Tiomkin (1952), High Noon
Alfred Newman (1952), With a Song in My Heart
Bronislau Kaper (1953), Lili
Alfred Newman (1953), Call Me Madam
Dmitri Tiomkin (1954), The High and the Mighty
Saul Chaplin (1954), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Adolph Deutsch (1954), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Alfred Newman (1955), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Jay Blackton (1955), Oklahoma!
Adolph Deutsch (1955), Oklahoma!
Victor Young (1956), Around the World in 80 Days
Alfred Newman (1956), The King and I
Dmitri Tiomkin (1958), The Old Man and the Sea
André Previn (1958), Gigi
Miklós Rózsa (1959), Ben-Hur
André Previn (1959), Porgy and Bess
Ernest Gold (1960), Exodus
Morris Stoloff (1960), Song Without End
Harry Sukman (1960), Song Without End
Saul Chaplin (1961), West Side Story
Johnny Green (1961), West Side Story
Irwin Kostal (1961), West Side Story
Sid Ramin (1961), West Side Story
André Previn (1963), Irma La Douce
Richard Sherman (1964), Mary Poppins
Robert Sherman (1964), Mary Poppins
André Previn (1964), My Fair Lady
Irwin Kostal (1965), The Sound of Music
Elmer Bernstein (1967), Thoroughly Modern Millie
Alfred Newman (1967), Camelot
Johnny Green (1968), Oliver!
Burt Bacharach (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Lennie Hayton (1969), Hello, Dolly!
Lionel Newman (1969), Hello, Dolly!
Marvin Hamlisch (1973), The Way We Were
Marvin Hamlisch (1973), The Sting
Leonard Rosenman (1975), Barry Lyndon
Jerry Goldsmith (1976), The Omen
Leonard Rosenman (1976), Bound for Glory
Jonathan Tunick (1977), A Little Night Music
Michael Gore (1980), Fame
Alan Bergman (1983), Yentl
Marilyn Bergman (1983), Yentl
Dave Grusin¹ (1988), The Milagro Beanfield War
Alan Menken (1989), The Little Mermaid
Alan Menken (1991), Beauty and the Beast
Alan Menken (1992), Aladdin
Alan Menken (1995), Pocahontas
Stephen Schwartz (1995), Pocahontas
James Horner (1997), Titanic
John Corigliano² (1999), The Red Violin
Howard Shore (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Elliot Goldenthal (2002), Frida
Howard Shore (2003), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

NOTES
1. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see tenth paragraph of http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=25260.

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