He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. Lloyd Webber started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine. His score for Victor/Victoria was adapted for the 1995 Broadway musical of the same name.Īndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre, the elder son of organist William Lloyd Webber and brother of the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. All three of the films for which he won were directed by Blake Edwards. His next eleven nominations went for naught, but he finally garnered one last statuette working with lyricist Leslie Bricusse on the score for Victor/Victoria, which won the "Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score" award for 1983. The following year, he and Mercer took another Best Song award for "Days of Wine and Roses," another eponymous theme song. However, Mancini did receive two Oscars that year: one in the same category, for the song "Moon River" (shared with lyricist Johnny Mercer), and one for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for Breakfast at Tiffany's. In 1962 he was nominated in the Best Music, Original Song category for "Bachelor in Paradise" from the film of the same name, in collaboration with lyricist Mack David. He lost out to Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. He was first nominated for an Academy Award in 1955 for his original score of The Glenn Miller Story, on which he collaborated with Joseph Gershenson. Mancini won a total of four Oscars for his music in the course of his career. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmys. Additionally he was nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four. Mancini was nominated for an unprecedented 72 Grammys, winning 20.
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His best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme (from the so-named series) and "Moon River". Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Henry Mancini (Ap– June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger.
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