ELMER BERNSTEIN

COMPOSER
ARTISTRY AWARD NOMINEE

Won 1 Oscar.
29 wins & 42 nominations.

KNOWN FOR:
Awards

Nominee

Best Music, Original Score
Far from Heaven

Nominee

Best Music, Original Score
The Age of Innocence

1983

Nominee

Best Music, Original Song Score
Trading Places

1974

Nominee

Best Music, Original Song
Gold
Shared with Don Black
For the song “Wherever Love Takes Me”

1969

Nominee

Best Music, Original Song
True Grit
Shared with Don Black
For the song “True Grit”

1967

Winner

Best Music, Original Score
Thoroughly Modern Millie

1966

Nominee

Best Music, Original Score
Hawaii

Nominee

Best Music, Scoring of Music,
Adaptation or Treatment

Return of the Seven

Nominee

Best Music, Original Song
Hawaii
Shared with Mack David
For the song “My Wishing Doll”

1962

Nominee

Best Music, Original Score
To Kill a Mockingbird

Nominee

Best Music, Original Song
Walk on the Wild Side
Shared with Mack David
For the song “Walk On The Wild Side”

1961

Nominee

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Summer and Smoke

1960

Nominee

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Magnificent Seven

1955

Nominee

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Man with the Golden Arm

Nominee

Best Original Score
Far from Heaven

1976

Nominee

Best Original Song
From Noon Till Three
Shared with Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
For the song “Hello And Goodbye”

1969

Nominee

Best Original Song
True Grit
Shared with Don Black
For the song “True Grit”

1967

Nominee

Best Original Score
Thoroughly Modern Millie

1966

Winner

Best Original Score
Hawaii

1962

Winner

Best Original Score
To Kill a Mockingbird

1961

Nominee

Best Original Score
Summer and Smoke

Nominee

Best Instrumental Composition
The Age of Innocence

1984

Nominee

Best Original Score Album
Ghostbusters

Nominee

Best Instrumental Arrangement
Ghostbusters
For “Ghostbusters (Main Title Theme)”

1962

Nominee

Best Instrumental Theme
Walk on the Wild Side
For the song “Walk On The Wild Side”