Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
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Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann is a 1992 documentary film
directed by Joshua Waletzky. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Joshua Waletzky. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Academy Award for Documentary Feature
The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
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Cast
- Elmer BernsteinElmer BernsteinElmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions...
- Himself - Claudine Bouché - Herself
- Royal S. Brown - Himself
- Claude ChabrolClaude ChabrolClaude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
- Himself - Norman CorwinNorman CorwinNorman Lewis Corwin was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing...
- Himself - Don Cristlieb - Himself
- Lucille FletcherLucille FletcherLucille Fletcher was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her full name was Violet Lucille Fletcher...
- Herself - Bernard HerrmannBernard HerrmannBernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...
- Himself - Paul HirschPaul Hirsch (film editor)Paul Hirsch is an American motion picture editor.A native of New York City, after graduating from Columbia he began to pursue a career in editing. In the late 1960s, while editing trailers in NYC, he was introduced by his brother, Charles, to then unknown filmmaker Brian De Palma...
- Himself - Louis KaufmanLouis KaufmanLouis Kaufman was an American violinist and possibly the most recorded musical artist of the 20th century. He played the soundtrack on as many as 500 movies and over 100 musical recordings...
- Himself - Virginia Majewski - Herself
- Christopher Palmer - Himself
- David RaksinDavid RaksinDavid Raksin was an American composer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music." One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score...
- Himself - Alan RobinsonAlan RobinsonAlan M. Robinson is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller. Robinson was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.Robinson was born in Toronto, Ontario, and...
- Himself - Martin ScorseseMartin ScorseseMartin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
- Himself - James G. StewartJames G. StewartJames Graham Stewart was an American pioneer in the field of sound recording and re-recording. His career spanned more than five decades , during which he made substantial contributions to the evolution of the art and science of film and television sound.- Career :In 1928, James G...
- Himself