Alex North

Biography

Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia page Alex North, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

• ★Academy Honorary Award · 1986
• ★Primetime Emmy Award · 1976
• ★Guggenheim Fellowship
• ☆Academy Award — Best Original Score · 1985 · nominated
• ☆Academy Award — Best Original Score · 1982 · nominated