Alfred Newman's "Railroad Suite" from His Epic Score to How the West was Won (1962/1963)

Re-posted by N.S.

Alfred Newman's "Railroad Suite" from His Epic Score to How the West was Won (1962/1963)





""@nedland20 Alfred Newman's score for HTWWW was on of the finest scores ever written and to lose the Academy Award that year to John Adison's Tom Jones was a real insult."

N.S.: You're right, of course. And yet, I blame MGM. In a bit of hubris, the studio staggered the picture's worldwide release over the course of at least six months, with it hitting foreign cities in Europe and Asia beginning in 1962, and only being released in L.A. in 1963. Thus, it was only eligible for the 1964 Oscars.

However, had MGM released it in L.A. in 1962, it might still have lost, because it would would have been up against Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre) and To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein).

John Addison benefited from Tom Jones' coattails, and from a very weak year.

At least Al Newman won nine Oscars, a record which still stands.