Leonard Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Barry Lyndon, Race with the Devil, and the animated The Lord of the Rings.

Life and career Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Amongst Rosenman's earliest film work were the scores for James Dean movies East of Eden (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). and it was Dean who introduced him to director Elia Kazan. Dean also lobbied George Stevens to let Rosenman score Giant, but Stevens preferred Dimitri Tiomkin.

Rosenman remarked, "The year I did my first film, I had five major performances in New York." But "the minute I did my first film, I didn't have a performance there for 20 years. They would never say, 'I don't like them'. They wouldn't look at them." Rosenman instead wrote a largely atonal score, with a recurring motif as the main "theme," building to a tonal conclusion.

He provided scores to science fiction movies like Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the horror movie Race with the Devil, the first animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (1978), and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).

Awards Leonard Rosenman earned two Academy Awards: Barry Lyndon (1975), for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation (music by Handel, Schubert and others) Bound for Glory (1976), for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score (the songs of Woody Guthrie)

He received two additional Academy Award nominations: Cross Creek (1983), for Best Music, Original Score Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), for Best Music, Original Score

He also received two Emmy Awards: Sybil (1976), for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special (Dramatic Underscore), with Alan and Marilyn Bergman Friendly Fire (1979), for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special

Filmography

East of Eden (1955) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) The Cobweb (1955) Edge of the City (1957) The Young Stranger (1957) Bombers B-52 (1957) Lafayette Escadrille (1958) Pork Chop Hill (1959) The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) The Bramble Bush (1960) The Savage Eye (1960) The Crowded Sky (1960) The Plunderers (1960) The Outsider (1961) The Chapman Report (1962) Hell Is for Heroes (1962) Convicts 4 (1962) Fantastic Voyage (1966) Stranger on the Run (1967) A Covenant with Death (1967) Countdown (1968) Hellfighters (1968) Any Second Now (1969) The Todd Killings (1970) Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) A Man Called Horse (1970) Banyon (1971) Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) The Cat Creature (1973) The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974) Race with the Devil (1975) Barry Lyndon (1975; Academy Award) Sybil (1976; Emmy Award) Bound for Glory (1976; Academy Award) The Possessed (1977) The Car (1977) Nero Wolfe (1977) September 30, 1955 (1977) The Lord of the Rings (1978) An Enemy of the People (1978) Prophecy (1979) Promises in the Dark (1979) Friendly Fire (1979; Emmy Award) The Jazz Singer (1980) Hide in Plain Sight (1980) Joshua's World (1980) City in Fear (1980) Murder in Texas (1981) Making Love (1982) Miss Lonelyhearts (1983) Cross Creek (1983) Heartsounds (1984) Heart of the Stag (1984) Sylvia (1985) First Steps (1985) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Promised a Miracle (1988) Body Wars (1989) RoboCop 2 (1990) The Color of Evening (1990) Ambition (1991) Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991) Keeper of the City (1991) The Face on the Milk Carton (1994) Mrs. Munck (1995) Levitation (1997) Jurij (2001)