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Birthday: December 24, 1906
Franz Waxman was among Hollywood's most talented composers of musical scores, best known for his suspenseful scores of many Hitchcock films. He was born Franz Wachsmann in 1906 in what is now Chrozow, Poland, and began playing piano as a child. At age 17, he enrolled in the Dresden Music Academy and later in the Berlin Music Conservatory, working nights playing piano in nightclubs and ...more
- 1962
- Golden Globe
- Best Original Score
- Taras Bulba
- nom
- 1962
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Original Score
- Taras Bulba
- nom
- 1959
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Drama or Comedy Score
- The Nun's Story
- nom
- 1954
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Drama or Comedy Score
- The Silver Chalice
- nom
- 1951
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Drama or Comedy Score
- A Place in the Sun
- win
- 1995
- Hollywood Sound
- Featured Music
- 1967
- The Longest Hundred Miles
- Composer (Music Score)
- 1966
- The Lost Command
- Composer (Music Score)
- 1962
- Adventures of a Young Man
- Composer (Music Score)
- 1962
- Taras Bulba
- Composer (Music Score)
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