American composer

Alex North

Film score

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American composer

Genres

Film score

Record Labels

RCA Victor

Awards Received

Guggenheim Fellowship

Primetime Emmy Award

Nominated For

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Score, no Musical

Music

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 fourteen nominations.