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Alfred Newman

Career

Active from 1930 to 1970, busiest in 1940 with 17 main titles.

Leading roles
1
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score66/100
Highest rated
Poster for All About Eve
All About Eve
GoodWatch score92/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

  • Academy Awards · Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

    1968 · Won · 40th Academy Awards

    Camelot

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Musical Score

    1957 · Won · 29th Academy Awards

    The King and I

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

    1956 · Won · 28th Academy Awards

    Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Musical Score

    1954 · Won · 26th Academy Awards

    Call Me Madam

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Musical Score

    1953 · Won · 25th Academy Awards

    With a Song in My Heart

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Musical Score

    1948 · Won · 20th Academy Awards

    Mother Wore Tights

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

    1944 · Won · 16th Academy Awards

    The Song of Bernadette

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

    1941 · Won · 13th Academy Awards

    Tin Pan Alley

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

    1939 · Won · 11th Academy Awards

    Alexander's Ragtime Band

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Music (Original Score)

    1971 · Nominated · 43rd Academy Awards

    Airport

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Music (Original Score)

    1966 · Nominated · 38th Academy Awards

    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Music (Original Score)

    1964 · Nominated · 36th Academy Awards

    How the West Was Won

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Musical Score

    1962 · Nominated · 34th Academy Awards

    Flower Drum Song

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Music (Original Song)

    1960 · Nominated · 32nd Academy Awards

    The Best of Everything

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

    1960 · Nominated · 32nd Academy Awards

    The Diary of Anne Frank

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Musical Score

    1959 · Nominated · 31st Academy Awards

    South Pacific

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

    1957 · Nominated · 29th Academy Awards

    Anastasia

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Musical Score

    1956 · Nominated · 28th Academy Awards

    Daddy Long Legs

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Musical Score

    1955 · Nominated · 27th Academy Awards

    There's No Business Like Show Business

    Source: Wikidata

  • Academy Awards · Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

    1952 · Nominated · 24th Academy Awards

    David and Bathsheba

    Source: Wikidata

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 178 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.1 versus catalog average 4.5EnergyHeart: 5.1 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.4 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.6 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.3 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.9 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Alfred Newman Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Contemporary Realism
    1.5, average 5.4
  • Uncanny
    1.2, average 2.5
  • Scare
    1.3, average 2.6
  • Tech & Humanity
    0.6, average 1.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Historical Drama 25
  • Classic Hollywood 24
  • Social Commentary 22
  • Character Study 13
  • Historical Setting 12
  • Nostalgic 11
  • Political Intrigue 9
  • Class Conflict 8
  • Period Piece 8
  • Character-Driven 7
  • Nostalgic Charm 6
  • Moral Ambiguity 6

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

262
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

1980s

1 title
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued (1981)

Songs

1970s

2 titles · average score 65
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
GoodWatch score 70

Thanks

Airport
Airport (1970)
GoodWatch score 60

Original Music Composer

1960s

9 titles · average score 59
Firecreek
Firecreek (1968)
GoodWatch score 57

Original Music Composer

Camelot
Camelot (1967)
GoodWatch score 58

Original Music Composer, Music

Nevada Smith
Nevada Smith (1966)
GoodWatch score 58

Original Music Composer

The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
GoodWatch score 53

Original Music Composer

How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won (1962)
GoodWatch score 62

Conductor, Original Music Composer

The Counterfeit Traitor
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
GoodWatch score 73

Original Music Composer

State Fair
State Fair (1962)
GoodWatch score 35

Original Music Composer

Flower Drum Song
Flower Drum Song (1961)
GoodWatch score 73

Conductor, Original Music Composer

The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
GoodWatch score 62

Original Music Composer

1950s

46 titles · average score 66
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
GoodWatch score 70

Original Music Composer

South Pacific
South Pacific (1958)
GoodWatch score 69

Original Music Composer, Conductor

The King and I
The King and I (1956)
GoodWatch score 78

Original Music Composer

The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
GoodWatch score 77

Original Music Composer, Conductor

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
GoodWatch score 56

Original Music Composer

How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
GoodWatch score 75

as Orchestra Conductor in Prologue (uncredited)

The Robe
The Robe (1953)
GoodWatch score 70

Original Music Composer

Viva Zapata!
Viva Zapata! (1952)
GoodWatch score 62

Original Music Composer

Fourteen Hours
Fourteen Hours (1951)
GoodWatch score 67

Original Music Composer

All About Eve
All About Eve (1950)
GoodWatch score 92

Original Music Composer

The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter (1950)
GoodWatch score 84

Conductor, Original Music Composer

Panic in the Streets
Panic in the Streets (1950)
GoodWatch score 84

Original Music Composer, Conductor

1940s

107 titles · average score 68
Twelve O'Clock High
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
GoodWatch score 86

Original Music Composer

A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
GoodWatch score 88

Original Music Composer

Dragonwyck
Dragonwyck (1946)
GoodWatch score 67

Original Music Composer

Leave Her to Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
GoodWatch score 81

Music Director, Original Music Composer

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
GoodWatch score 87

Original Music Composer

Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
GoodWatch score 80

Original Music Composer

The Gang's All Here
The Gang's All Here (1943)
GoodWatch score 82

Original Music Composer

The Black Swan
The Black Swan (1942)
GoodWatch score 75

Original Music Composer, Music Director

How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
GoodWatch score 83

Original Music Composer

The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
GoodWatch score 90

Original Music Composer, Music Director

The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
GoodWatch score 84

Original Music Composer

Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
GoodWatch score 80

Original Music Composer

1930s

97 titles · average score 66
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
GoodWatch score 75

Original Music Composer

Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (1939)
GoodWatch score 68

Original Music Composer

Young Mr. Lincoln
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
GoodWatch score 85

Original Music Composer

Drums Along the Mohawk
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
GoodWatch score 74

Original Music Composer

Gunga Din
Gunga Din (1939)
GoodWatch score 79

Original Music Composer

The Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
GoodWatch score 64

Original Music Composer, Music Director

You Only Live Once
You Only Live Once (1937)
GoodWatch score 86

Music Director, Original Music Composer

Dead End
Dead End (1937)
GoodWatch score 77

Original Music Composer, Music Director

The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
GoodWatch score 83

Original Music Composer

History Is Made at Night
History Is Made at Night (1937)
GoodWatch score 86

Music Director, Original Music Composer

Dodsworth
Dodsworth (1936)
GoodWatch score 84

Music Director, Original Music Composer

Call of the Wild
Call of the Wild (1935)
GoodWatch score 63

Original Music Composer