When Martin Scorsese announced that he was re-making Cape Fear, he requested Bernstein do the job of adapting Bernard Hermann's original score to the new film. Bernstein leapt at the opportunity to work with Scorsese, and to pay homage to Hermann; Scorsese and Bernstein subsequently worked together on two more films in the 1990s.

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Awards

Bernstein was recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with Golden Globes for his scores for To Kill a Mockingbird and Hawaii. In 1963 he was awarded the Emmy for Excellence in Television for his score of The Making of The President, 1960. He is the recipient of Western Heritage Awards for The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Hallelujah Trail (1965). He received five Grammy nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and garnered two of Broadway's coveted Tony Award nominations for How Now Dow Jones and Merlin.

Additional honors included Lifetime achievement awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), The Society for the Preservation of Film Music, the USA, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach and Flanders International Film Festivals and the Foundation for a Creative America. In 1996, Bernstein was honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard. In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Five Towns College in New York and was honored by the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Bernstein again was honored by ASCAP with its marquee Founders Award in 2001, and with the NARAS Governors Award in June 2004. He received 14 Academy Award nominations, nominated at least once per decade from the 1950s thru 2000s, but his only win was for Thoroughly Modern Millie.

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Death

Bernstein died of cancer in his sleep, at his home in Ojai, California, on August 18, 2004.

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Partial filmography

Gangs of New York (rejected) (2002) Far from Heaven (2002) Rat Race (rejected) (2001) Bringing out the Dead (1999) Wild Wild West (1999) The Deep End of the Ocean (1999) Hoodlum (1997) The Rainmaker (1997) Last Man Standing (rejected) (1996) Frankie Starlight (1995) The Scarlet Letter (rejected) (1997) Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) Canadian Bacon (1995) I Love Trouble (rejected) (1994) The Age of Innocence (1993) Lost in Yonkers (1993) Mad Dog and Glory (1993) A River Runs Through It (rejected) (1992) Rambling Rose (1991) A Rage in Harlem (1991) Oscar (1991) Murder in Mississippi (rejected) (1990) The Grifters (1990) My Left Foot (1989) Trust Me (rejected) (1989) Slipstream (1989) Stars and Bars (rejected) (1988) A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (rejected) (1988) Good Mother (1988) Da (1988) ¡Three Amigos! (1986) Legal Eagles (1986) National Geographic Explorer (1985) TV series (theme) The Black Cauldron (1985) Disney Animation The Journey of Natty Gann (rejected) (1985) Spies Like Us (1985) Bolero (1984) Ghostbusters (1984) Thriller (1983) (music video) Class (1983) Trading Places (1983) Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) Airplane II: The Sequel (Themes) (1982) Heavy Metal (1981) Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) The Chosen (1981) An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Stripes (1981) Airplane! (1980) The Blues Brothers (1980) Saturn 3 (1980) Zulu Dawn (1979) The Great Santini (1979) Meatballs (1979) Casey's Shadow (rejected) (1978) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Powers of Ten (1977) Once an Eagle (1976) TV miniseries (theme) The Shootist (1976) Ellery Queen (1975) TV series McQ (1974) Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) The Rookies (1972) (TV) The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) The Gypsy Moths (1969) The Bridge at Remagen (1969) Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) True Grit (1969) I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) Return of the Seven (1966) Hawaii (film) (1966) The Silencers (film) (1966) The Big Valley (1965) TV Series The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) The Hallelujah Trail Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) National Geographic Specials (1964) TV series The Carpetbaggers (1964) The World of Henry Orient (1964) The Great Escape (1963) Hud (1963) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Walk on the Wild Side (1962) Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) The Comancheros (1961) The Young Doctors (1961) The Magnificent Seven (1960) The Rat Race (1960) God's Little Acre (1958) Men In War (film) (1957) The Tin Star (1957) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) The Ten Commandments (1956) The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Gunsmoke (1955) TV series Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) Robot Monster (1953) Sudden Fear (1952)

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Works for Broadway theater

• Peter Pan (1954) - Incidental music composer
• How Now, Dow Jones (1967) - Composer - Tony Co-Nomination for Best Musical, Tony Co-Nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist
• Merlin (1982) - Composer and Incidental music composer - Tony Co-Nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Elmer Bernstein at the Internet Movie Database Retrieved on 2009-01-24
• Elmer Bernstein at the Internet Broadway Database Retrieved on 2009-01-24
• SWF movie with soundtracks
• BBC obituary
• Discography at SonyBMG Masterworks
• Fan Website http://filmmusic.homestead.com/elmer.html

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