Fiction
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Warner Brothers, Elia Kazan, director; Marlon Brando; Vivien Leigh
Academy Award Nomination, Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Death of a Salesman (1951)
Columbia, Laslo Benedek, director; Fredric March; Mildred Dunnock
Academy Award Nomination, Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The 13th Letter (1951)
Fox, Otto Preminger, director; Linda Darnell; Charles Boyer
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Fox, Elia Kazan, director; Marlon Brando; Anthony Quinn
Academy Award Nomination, Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Les Misèrables (1952)
Fox, Lewis Milestone, director; Michael Rennie; Debra Paget
Pony Soldier (1952)
Fox, Joseph M. Newman, director; Tyrone Power; Cameron Mitchell
The Member of the Wedding (1952)
Columbia, Fred Zinnemann, director; Ethel Waters; Julie Harris
Go, Man, Go! (1954)
UA, James Wong Howe, director; Dane Clark; Pat Bresun
Desireè (1954)
Fox, Henry Koster, director; Marlon Brando; Jean Simmons
Unchained (1955)
Warner Brothers, Hall Bartlett, director; Elroy Hirsch; Barbara Hale
Academy Award Nomination, Best Song
Man with the Gun (1955)
UA, Richard Wilson, director; Robert Mitchum; Jan Sterling
The Racers (1955)
Fox, Henry Hathaway, director; Kirk Douglas; Bella Darvi
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Paramount, Daniel Mann, director; Anna Magnani; Burt Lancaster
Academy Award Nomination, Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
MGM, Daniel Mann, director; Susan Hayward; Richard Conte
The Bad Seed (1956)
Warner Brothers, Mervyn LeRoy, director; Patty McCormack; Nancy Kelly
The Rainmaker (1956)
Paramount, Joseph Anthony, director; Burt Lancaster; Katharine Hepburn
Academy Award Nomination, Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Four Girls in Town (1956)
Universal, Jack Sher, director; George Nader; Julie Adams
The King and Four Queens (1956)
UA, Raoul Walsh, director; Clark Gable; Eleanor Parker
The Bachelor Party (1957)
UA, Delbert Mann, director; Don Murray; E.G. Marshall
The Long Hot Summer (1958)
Fox, Martin Ritt, director; Paul Newman; Joanne Woodward
Stage Struck (1958)
RKO, Sidney Lumet, director; Henry Fonda; Susan Strasberg
Hot Spell (1958)
Paramount, Daniel Mann, director; Shirley Booth; Anthony Quinn
South Seas Adventure (1958)
Cinerama, Francis D. Lyon, director; Tommy Zahn; Diane Bredmore
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Martin Ritt, director; Yul Brynner; Joanne Woodward
The Wonderful Country (1959)
UA, Robert Parrish, director; Robert Mitchum; Julie London
Academy Award Nomination, Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Spartacus (1960)
Universal, Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann (opening sequence), directors; Kirk Douglas; Laurence Olivier
The Children's Hour (1961)
UA, William Wyler, director; Audrey Hepburn; Shirley MacLaine
Sanctuary (1961)
Fox, Tony Richardson, director; Lee Remick; Yves Montand
The Misfits (1961)
UA, John Huston, director; Clark Gable; Marilyn Monroe
All Fall Down (1962)
MGM, John Frankenheimer, director; Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty
Cleopatra (1963)
Fox, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, director; Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor
Academy Award Nomination, Best Music Score - substantially original
The Outrage (1964)
MGM, Martin Ritt, director; Paul Newman; Laurence Harvey
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Warner Brothers, John Ford, director; Richard Widmark; Carroll Baker
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Fox, Carol Reed, director; Charlton Heston; Rex Harrison
Academy Award Nomination, Best Music Score - substantially original
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Warner Brothers, Mike Nichols, director; Elizabeth Taylor; Richard Burton
Academy Award Nomination, Best Original Music Score
Africa (1967)
ABC TV documentary, James Fleming, James Littell, producers; Gregory Peck, narrator
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
UA, Andrew V. McLaglen, director; William Holden; Cliff Robertson
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
MGM, Michael Anderson, director; Anthony Quinn; Laurence Olivier
Academy Award Nomination, Best Original - for a motion picture (not a musical)
Golden Globe Award Winner
A Dream of Kings (1969)
Schermer, Daniel Mann, director; Anthony Quinn; Irene Papas
Hard Contact (1969)
Fox, S. Lee Pogostin, director; James Coburn; Lee Remick
Willard (1971)
Crosby/Cinerama, Daniel Mann, director; Bruce Davison; Elsa Lanchester
Pocket Money (1972)
First Artists, Stuart Rosenberg, director; Paul Newman; Lee Marvin
Rebel Jesus (1972)
Perpetua Films; Larry Buchanan, director; Gene Otis Shane, Lee Cavanaugh
Once Upon a Scoundrel (1973)
Carlyle, George Schaefer, director; Zero Mostel; Katy Jurado
Lost in the Stars (1973)
American Film Theater; Kurt Weill, music; Alex North, music director; Brock Peters; Melba Moore
Shanks (1974)
William Castle Productions, William Castle, director; Marcel Marceau; Tsilla Chelton
Academy Award Nomination, Best Original Dramatic Score
Journey Into Fear (1975)
New World, Daniel Mann, director; Sam Waterston; Zero Mostel
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Columbia, Richard Brooks, director; Gene Hackman; Candice Bergen
Academy Award Nomination, Best Original Score
The Passover Plot (1976)
Atlas Film, Michael Campus, director; Zalman King; Harry Andrews
Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
Columbia, Lamont Johnson, director; Farrah Fawcett; Jeff Bridges
Wise Blood (1979)
Ithaca-Anthea, John Huston, director; Brad Dourif; Ned Beatty
Carny (1980)
Lorimar, Robert Kaylor, director; Gary Busey; Jodie Foster
Dragonslayer (1981)
Paramount/Disney, Matthew Robbins, director; Peter MacNicol; Ralph Richardson
Academy Award Nomination, Best Original Score
Under the Volcano (1984)
Ithaca, John Huston, director; Albert Finney; Jacqueline Bissett
Academy Award Nomination, Best Original Score
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
ABC, John Huston, director; Jack Nicholson; Kathleen Turner
Death of a Salesman (1985)
Roxbury & Punch, Volker Schlondorff, director; Dustin Hoffman; Kate Reid
The Dead (1987)
Liffey/Vestron, John Huston, director; Anjelica Huston; Donal McCann
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Disney, Barry Levinson, director; Robin Williams; Forest Whitaker
The Penitent (1988)
Ithaca, Cliff Osmond, director; Raul Julia; Armand Assante
The Last Butterfly (1990)
HTV, Karel Kachyna, director; Tom Courtenay; Brigette Fossey
List compiled by Michael McDonagh