1960Winner
Best Performance
Spartacus
Alex North
Actor · Director
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
December 4, 1910
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1963Nominee
Best Performance
Cleopatra
1987Nominee
Best Performance
Good Morning, Vietnam
Career Highlights
1951Highlight
Best Performance
A Streetcar Named Desire
1966Highlight
Best Performance
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Spartacus
Cleopatra
Good Morning, Vietnam