{| class="infobox" style="width: 22em; text-align: left; font-size: 80%; vertical-align: middle;" |+ Elmer Bernstein awards and nominations |- | colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Bernstein guest conducting the U.S. Air Force Band in 1981 |- style="background:#d9e8ff; text-align:center;" !style="vertical-align: middle;"| Award | style="background:#cec; font-size:8pt; width:60px;"| Wins| style="background:#ecc; font-size:8pt; width:60px;"| Nominations |- style="background:#eef;" | style="text-align:center;"| Academy Awards
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|- style="background:#eef;" | style="text-align:center;"| Golden Globe Awards
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Elmer Bernstein is an American composer, conductor, and songwriter.
In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions.":BIOGRAPHY", Official Site of Elmer Bernstein, The Bernstein Family Trust. Retrieved August 2, 2018. For his work he received an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and Primetime Emmy Award. He also received seven Golden Globe Award, five Grammy Award, and two Tony Award nominations.
He composed and arranged scores for over 100 film scores including such films as Sudden Fear (1952), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Hud (1963), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), True Grit (1969), My Left Foot, The Grifters (1990), Cape Fear (1991) and Far from Heaven (2002).
Major associations Academy Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result 1956 Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture The Man with the Golden Arm 1961 The Magnificent Seven 1962 Summer and Smoke 1963 Music Score — Substantially Original To Kill a Mockingbird Best Original Song "Walk on the Wild Side", Walk on the Wild Side 1967 Best Original Score Hawaii Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment Return of the Seven Best Original Song My Wishing Doll, Hawaii 1968 Best Original Score Thoroughly Modern Millie 1970 Best Original Song "True Grit", True Grit 1975 "Wherever Love Takes Me", Gold 1984 Best Original Score Trading Places 1994 The Age of Innocence 2003 Far from Heaven
Emmy Award
Year Category Nominated work Result 1964 Outstanding Composing Original Music for Television The Making of the President 1960 1977 Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) Captains and the Kings (for "Chapter 8")
Golden Globe Award Year Category Nominated work Result 1962 Best Original Score Summer and Smoke 1963 To Kill a Mockingbird 1967 Hawaii 1968 Thoroughly Modern Millie 1970 Best Original Song "True Grit", True Grit 1977 "Hello and Goodbye", From Noon Till Three 2003 Best Original Score Far from Heaven
Grammy Award Year Category Nominated work Result 1963 Best Instrumentalist with an Orchestra Walk on the Wild Side Best Instrumental Theme 1985 "Ghostbusters Theme", Ghostbusters Best Score Written for a Motion Picture Ghostbusters 1994 The Age of Innocence
Tony Award Year Category Nominated work Result 1968 Best Original Score How Now, Dow Jones 1983 Merlin
Miscellaneous awards Chicago Film Critics Association Year Category Nominated work Result 2002 Best Original Score Far from Heaven
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Year Category Nominated work Result 1991 Lifetime Achievement Award 2002 Best Original Score Far from Heaven
National Board of Review Year Category Nominated work Result 2002 Career Achievement Award
Phoenix Film Critics Society Year Category Nominated work Result 2002 Best Original Score Far from Heaven
Seattle Film Critics Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2002 Best Music Far from Heaven
Telluride Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result 1992 Silver Medallion
Walk of Fame Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Star on the Walk of Fame
References