Jerry Goldsmith received the Best Score Oscar for The Omen, starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick.
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It represented the first time that the award was given to an horror film.
Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring.
He composed scores for 5 films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, Alien, Poltergeist, Medicine Man, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, and The Mummy.
He also composed the fanfares accompanying the production logos used by multiple major film studios, and music for the Disney attraction Soarin’.
He collaborated with directors including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Richard Donner, Richard Fleischer, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton, Roman Polanski, Gordon Douglas, Fred Schepisi, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J. Schaffner.
His work for Donner and Scott also involved a rejected score for Timeline and a controversially edited score for Alien, where music by Howard Hanson replaced Goldsmith’s end titles and Goldsmith’s own work on Freud: The Secret Passion was used without his approval in several scenes.
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Goldsmith was nominated for 6 Grammy Awards, 5 Primetime Emmy Awards, 9 Golden Globe Awards, 4 British Academy Film Awards, and 18 Oscar Awards (winning in 1976 for The Omen).