Charles Bernstein

Birth Name:

Charles Bernstein

Birth Place:

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Profession

Composer, Music department

Was nominated for a CableACE Award for Original Score for "The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains" in 1989
Was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Music for "The Entity" in 1984
Was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship and a Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship
Won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award for his writings about music
Studied Composition at the Juilliard School and trained with musical master Roy Harris
Began writing and conducting orchestral music at the age of 16
Quote: "Our lives are probably all those things that we leave out of our biographies․"
Quote: "I think that the art of film scoring is to let each film have its own unique taste and flavour; its own musical language and its own unique sound․"
Best known as a composer for film and television who has worked on "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Entity," and "Cujo․"
Several of his songs, including "White Lightning" and the theme music from "A Nightmare on Elm Street," have appeared in other films like "Inglourious Basterds" and "Kill Bill: Vol․ 1․"

1984Saturn Award - Best Music:Nominated
1989ACE - Original Score:Nominated
1993Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore):Nominated
2000Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special:Nominated
2023OFTA Film Hall of Fame - Score:Winner

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