Biography for
Alfred Newman

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Geburtstag

17 March 1901, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Todestag

17 February 1970, Hollywood, California, USA (emphysema)

Spitzname

Pappy

Körpergröße

5' 6" (1.68 m)

Verheiratet mit

Martha Montgomery

(1947 - 17 February 1970) (his death) 5 children

Dies und das

Newman system for movie music scoring.

Composed the 20th Century Pictures logo theme, retained when the company merged with Fox films and became 20th Century-Fox. It is still in use today.

Brother of composer Lionel Newman.

Father of composers Thomas Newman, Maria Newman and David Newman. Brother of composer Emil Newman. Uncle of composer Randy Newman. Great Uncle of composer Joey Newman.

He is one of the few arranger/conductors to work on two film versions of the same musical ("State Fair").

Until the morning of January 31, 2006, when John Williams received his 44th and 45th Oscar nominations, Newman held the record for the most Oscar-nominated composer/conductor ever, and he won a record nine Oscars in all.

In 1940, he achieved the astonishing feat of garnering four Oscar nominations for four different films!

He is one of two film composers to have received four Oscar nominations in the same year - the other being Victor Young, who achieved it twice.

Nominated for an Academy Award 20 years in succession, from 1938 to 1957. This includes a nine year stretch from 1938 to 1946 in which he was nominated for at least two different movie scores in each of those years.

Pictured on one of six 33¢ USA commemorative postage stamps in the Legends of American Music series, honoring Hollywood Composers, issued 21 September 1999. Issued in panes of 20 stamps. Others honored in the set were Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

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