best musical composer (nominations)
by 14icedbears88 | created - 10 Jun 2019 | updated - 13 Jul 2022 | Public
1. 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 ...
1) "Rhapsody in Blue" (with Max Steiner) (1/13)
2. Max Steiner
Composer | Gone with the Wind
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 ...
1) "Rhapsody in Blue" (with Ray Heindorf) (1/4)
3. Victor Young
Composer | Around the World in Eighty Days
Violinist and conductor Victor Young was a prolific composer and arranger, who worked on more than 300 film scores over a period of twenty years. He came from an impoverished, but musical background and was trained on the violin at the Warsaw Imperial Conservatory, later studying piano in Paris ...
"The Emperor Waltz" +
4. Oliver Wallace
Composer | Dumbo
Oliver Wallace was born on August 6, 1887 in London, England, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for Dumbo (1941), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Cinderella (1950). He was married to Claire Burch Wallace. He died on September 15, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1) "Cinderella" (with Paul J. Smith) (1/2)
5. Paul J. Smith
Composer | Pinocchio
Paul J. Smith was the son of Joseph J. and Anna M. Smith of Caldwell, Idaho. Joseph J. Smith was the band director at the College of Idaho for many years and was penned by Idaho's former governor Robert Smylie as "The Father of Music" in the Boise Valley, as he taught all musical instruments.
My ...
1) "Cinderella" (with Oliver Wallace) (1/4)
6. Herschel Burke Gilbert
Music_department | Carmen Jones
Composer, arranger and orchestrator of prolific output. Trained on violin and leader of his own dance band by the age of fifteen. Studied at the Juilliard Institute of Musical Art (1939-41), subsequently learned composition under the tutelage of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Lukas Foss. ...
"Carmen Jones" +
7. Jay Blackton
Music_department | Oklahoma!
Composer, conductor, pianist and arranger who gave his first piano concerto at the Brooklyn Academy of Music at age 12. He conducted the New York Opera Comique, the Federal Grand Opera Project and the Federal Gilbert and Sullivan Project, the St. Louis Municipal Opera, and the Delaware Philharmonic...
"Guys and Dolls" (with Cyril J. Mockridge) +
8. Cyril J. Mockridge
Music_department | Guys and Dolls
Cyril J. Mockridge was born on August 6, 1896 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Guys and Dolls (1955), My Darling Clementine (1946) and Miracle on 34th Street (1947). He was married to Betty J Mockridge. He died on January 18, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
"Guys and Dolls" (with Jay Blackton) +
9. Lionel Newman
Music_department | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lionel Newman was the youngest of a triumvirate of accomplished virtuosos, composers and conductors, who dominated the music department at 20th Century Fox for more than four decades. Already a highly regarded pianist by the age of 15, Lionel went on the national vaudeville circuit as accompanist ...
1) "Let's Make Love" (with Earle Hagen) (1/6)
10. Earle Hagen
Composer | I Spy
Earle Hagen was born on July 9, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for I Spy (1965), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Tango & Cash (1989). He was married to Laura Roberts (Gunn) and Lou Sidwell. He died on May 26, 2008 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.
"Let's Make Love" (with Lionel Newman) +
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