Biography
Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor. He composed scores for numerous films and television productions over a career spanning more than fifty years.
His credits include music for The Grifters (1990) and The Age of Innocence (1993). He adapted Bernard Herrmann's score for the 1991 film Cape Fear, and his work from that production is used in the 2026 series of the same name. Other notable scores encompass The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Ghostbusters (1984) and Airplane! (1980).
Bernstein won an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and received fourteen Oscar nominations in total. He also won two Golden Globes.
