List of awards and nominations received by Elmer Bernstein

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.[1] 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

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1955	Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	The Man with the Golden Arm	Nominated
1960		The Magnificent Seven	Nominated
1961		Summer and Smoke	Nominated
1962	Music Score — Substantially Original	To Kill a Mockingbird	Nominated
1962	Best Original Song	"Walk on the Wild Side", Walk on the Wild Side	Nominated
1966	Best Original Score	Hawaii	Nominated
	Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment	Return of the Seven	Nominated
	Best Original Song	My Wishing Doll, Hawaii	Nominated
1967	Best Original Score	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Won
1969	Best Original Song	"True Grit", True Grit	Nominated
1974	Best Original Song	"Wherever Love Takes Me", Gold	Nominated
1983	Best Original Score	Trading Places	Nominated
1993		The Age of Innocence	Nominated
2002		Far from Heaven	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1964	Outstanding Original Composition for Television	The Making of the President 1960	Won
1977	Outstanding Music Composition for a Series	Captains and the Kings	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1961	Best Original Score	Summer and Smoke	Nominated
1962		To Kill a Mockingbird	Won
1966		Hawaii	Won
1967		Thoroughly Modern Millie	Nominated
1969	Best Original Song	"True Grit", True Grit	Nominated
1976	Best Original Song	"Hello and Goodbye", From Noon Till Three	Nominated
2002	Best Original Score	Far from Heaven	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1963	Best Instrumentalist with an Orchestra	Walk on the Wild Side	Nominated
1963	Best Instrumental Theme	Walk on the Wild Side	Nominated
1985	Best Instrumental Theme	"Ghostbusters Theme", Ghostbusters	Nominated
1985	Best Score Written for a Motion Picture	Ghostbusters	Nominated
1994	Best Score Written for a Motion Picture	The Age of Innocence	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Original Score	How Now, Dow Jones	Nominated
1983	Best Original Score	Merlin	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Original Score	Far from Heaven	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1991	Lifetime Achievement Award		Received
2002	Best Original Score	Far from Heaven	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Career Achievement Award		Received

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Original Score	Far from Heaven	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Music	Far from Heaven	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1992	Silver Medallion		Received

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Star on the Walk of Fame		Received

":BIOGRAPHY", Official Site of Elmer Bernstein, The Bernstein Family Trust. Retrieved August 2, 2018.

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