Oscar nominations and two wins for movie scores.

US composer Leonard Rosenman won an Oscar for the score of the 1976 Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon. The composer began his career in Hollywood by composing the music for East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. He won a second Oscar in 1976 for composing the music to Bound for Glory and was nominated twice more, for Cross Creek and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. He was 83.

He also did the score for the animated Lord of the Rings. I always liked his work, but I thought his score for ST IV was out of place with the feel of the other films. I liked it, but it had that familiar "seventies" feel to it that didn't jibe with way the scores in the other films had and were going.

There were points in that film when I thought I was hearing music from the late 60's and early 70's Lassie movies.

Rosenman was a versatile composer who experimented with musical idioms other than the traditional Western chromatic scale. His twelve-tone score for Fantastic Voyage is unique and distinctive, and, unlike every other aspect of the film, doesn't seem dated today.

He once commented that his wife called it his "root-canal music"!