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Monday, July 6th, 2020

Poll Suggestion: Multiple Oscar-Winning Composers

Which of these composers with two or more Oscars is your favorite?  ❒ IMDb List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls080827597/❒ IMDb Poll:   - by BONAFIDE BOSS

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as 
I know West Side Story was composed by Leonard Bernstein and An American In Paris by George Gershwin??

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West Side Story (1961)
Music by  Leonard Bernstein
Irwin Kostal ... (uncredited)

Music Department 
Leonard Bernstein ... music by
Richard Carruth ... music editor
Saul Chaplin ... musical supervisor
Johnny Green ... music conductor / musical supervisor
Irwin Kostal ... musical supervisor / orchestrator
Sid Ramin ... musical supervisor / orchestrator
Stephen Sondheim ... lyrics by
Robert Tucker ... vocal coach (as Bobby Tucker)
Betty Walberg ... musical assistant
Pete Candoli ... musician (uncredited)
Jack Dumont ... musician: saxophone (uncredited)
Walter A. Gest ... production music playback operator (uncredited)
Shelly Manne ... musician (uncredited)
Red Mitchell ... musician (uncredited)
Uan Rasey
... musician: trumpet soloist (uncredited)
Albert T. Viola
... musician (uncredited)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/awards
Academy Awards, USA 1962
Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
Saul Chaplin
Johnny Green
Sid Ramin
Irwin Kostal

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An American in Paris (1951)
Awards
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043278/awards
Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
Johnny Green
Saul Chaplin

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Max Steiner, who largely reintroduced scores to synchronized-sound films and whose grand style dominated scores for years thereafter and continues to be imitated in the works of John Williams and others.

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6 years ago


The Music Branch of the Academy has two different categories, Score and Song, so composers win awards in both of them.

It seems your list only includes the Score Oscars, but not the ones awarded for Song.


Alan Menken, for example, has won 8 Oscars, 4 in each category.

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Hi Pencho15,

Thanks for pointing this out. I've updated the question.
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Not all these awards were won for "Best Original Score". The categories have changed over the years. Something like this is more precise:

"who won an Oscar for a music score more than once"

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Peter,

Would "Best Score" be fine?
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Yes, I think that's probably fine.

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Thank you! ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ
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6 years ago

Santaolalla.

His Spanish guitar music are really fascinating.

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Clearly Mancini. He has the most admired style by me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBJfuSnmls
This music has heart and soul. Big band jazz mostly always gets me and he was a master!
Too bad, he already died  70 y.o., killed by cancer. What he could have done, further! :(
Morricone is on same level for me, this time I had to pick Mancini.