Oscar Face-Off: Alfred Newman vs. John Williams
by Dibyayan_Chakravorty | created - 02 Mar 2015 | updated - 15 Feb 2018 | PublicAlfred Newman has won the most Academy Awards in the Best Original Score category; John Williams has been nominated the most number of times in the same category.
Who do you prefer?
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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 ...
51 nominations, won 5 of them.
Won for:
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Jaws (1975)
Star Wars (1977)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Schindler's List (1993)
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