Charles Bernstein Biography

Fast Facts

• Was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship and a Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship
• 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
• 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․"