---
name: "Dmitri Shostakovich"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dmitri-shostakovich"
fi1m_id: "dmitri-shostakovich"
imdb_id: "nm0006291"
tmdb_id: 957523
wikidata_id: "Q80135"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "25 September 1906"
died: "9 August 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T04:33:05.403394+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dmitri Shostakovich

## Identity

Dmitri Shostakovich

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dmitri-shostakovich
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dmitri-shostakovich
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006291
- **TMDB ID:** 957523
- **Wikidata ID:** Q80135
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80135, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006291/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/957523

Composer. Born 25 September 1906 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Died 9 August 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 25 September 1906, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- **Died:** 9 August 1975
- **Also known as:** Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович, Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič, Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch, Дзмітрый Дзмітрыевіч Шастаковіч, Д. Шостакович, Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Dmitri Chostakovitch,  Dmitri Chostakovitch
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (1), 2000s 65 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80135, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006291/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/957523

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Fantasia 2000*](https://film.one/film/fantasia-2000.md) (65)

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## Biography

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) was a Soviet composer. Born in Saint Petersburg, he studied piano and composition at the Petrograd Conservatory from 1919 to 1925.

He composed original scores for more than thirty films, including *October* (1928), *Hamlet* (1964) and *King Lear* (1971), often in collaboration with director Grigori Kozintsev. His Piano Concerto No. 2 featured in the 2000 Disney film *Fantasia 2000*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, letterboxd.com, filmreference.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Fantasia 2000* (2000), Fi1m 65, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/fantasia-2000.md)
- *Ariel* (1988), Fi1m 80, Additional Music — [page](https://film.one/film/ariel.md)

## Complete filmography (122)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Danse macabre* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Tabita Berglund and Julian Steckel* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk* (2025), Writer, Original Music Composer
- *The French Youth Orchestra plays Shostakovich & Rimsky-Korsakov With Alexandre Tharaud* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' @ Gewandhaus, Leipzig* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Flâneur* (2025), as Compositor
- *Alain Altinoglu conducts Shostakovich Symphony no.8* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* (2025), Original Music Composer, Writer
- *OSN: I Folk Songs diretti da Treviño per il centenario della nascita di Luciano Berio* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Daniel Trifonov Shostakovich Festival in Leipzig* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *P-FACTOR Piano Musical Duels* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Echo Sonata* (2023), Music
- *Summertime* (2023), Music
- *Preludi e Fughe - Geografia Antropica* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *... But You Can't Hide* (2021), Music
- *The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Un viaggio tra le brume della Scozia con Mendelssohn, J. Feddeck e l'OSN* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Blockade Architecture* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* (2019), Original Music Composer, Writer
- *Suburbia* (2019), Music
- *Shostakovich: Katerina Izmailova* (2016), Music
- *Bolshoi Ballet: The Golden Age* (2016), Music
- *Like Dew in the Sun* (2016), Music
- *Chostakovitch: Lady Macbeth de Mzensk* (2016), Original Music Composer, Writer
- *Dirty Hands* (2015), Music
- *Hypothetically Murdered* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5* (2015), Music
- *Orango* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose* (2013), Original Music Composer, Writer
- *Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *The D Train* (2011), Music
- *Three Ballets by Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations/The Judas Tree/Concerto* (2010), Music
- *Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* (2009), Music, Writer
- *Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* (2007), Writer, Original Music Composer
- *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *After the Reconciliation* (2000), Music
- *Fantasia 2000* (2000), Music — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/fantasia-2000.md)
- *Casas Viejas: el grito del sur* (1997), Music
- *Sky. Last Dream* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *We're All Still Here* (1997), Music
- *The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin* (1997), as (archival footage)
- *Lou Didn’t Say No* (1994), Music
- *Oh, Woe Is Me* (1993), Music
- *Germany Year 90 Nine Zero* (1993), Music
- *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* (1992), Music
- *Simone Weil Avenue* (1992), Music
- *No Return* (1991), Music
- *The Horse, the Violin and a Little Bit Nervous* (1991), Music
- *Ariel* (1988), Additional Music — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ariel.md)
- *Eine Bewegung der Zeit* (1987), Music
- *Poodle* (1985), Music
- *Ninth January* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Planet Parade* (1984), Music
- *The Chosen Ones* (1983), Music
- *You Should Survive* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Invitation to Life* (1981), Music
- *Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola* (1981), Actor
- *Flower Music* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *We Looked in the Death's Face* (1980), Music
- *Bells of Autumn* (1979), Music
- *The Nose* (1979), Writer, Original Music Composer
- *And We Had Silence...* (1977), Music
- *On Thursday and Never Again* (1977), Music
- *Spring of the Twenty-Ninth* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *The Monument* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *The Star Hour* (1973), Music
- *Messengers of Eternity* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Little Tragedies* (1971), Music
- *King Lear* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *One Hour With Kozintsev* (1970), Music
- *Sons of the Fatherland* (1969), as (Music)Passacaglia: Andante. Violin Concerto #1 · Music
- *25 October, the First Day* (1968), Music
- *Sofiya Perovskaya* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *12 Chairs* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Katerina Izmailova* (1966), Music
- *Little Tragedies* (1966), Music
- *Year as Long as Life* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Hamlet* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Cherry Town* (1963), Original Music Composer, Opera
- *The Condemned of Altona* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Magueyes* (1962), Music
- *Five Days, Five Nights* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Khovanshchina* (1959), Music, Screenplay
- *Leningrad Symphony* (1957), Music
- *The First Echelon* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The Beast with a Million Eyes* (1955), Music
- *The Gadfly* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Song of the Rivers* (1954), Music
- *Belinsky* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *The Unforgettable Year 1919* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Farewell, America!* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *The Fall of Berlin* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Meeting on the Elbe* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Michurin* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Young Guard* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Pirogov* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Simple People* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *The Fall of Berlin* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Zoya* (1944), Original Music Composer
- *Adventures of Korzinkina* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Концерт-вальс* (1941), Actor
- *The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *The Vyborg Side* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *Friends* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *Great Citizen* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *The Defense of Volotchayevsk* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *The Man with the Gun* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *The Return of Maxim* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *The Girlfriends* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *Love and Hate* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *The Youth of Maxim* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Counterplan* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Alone* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Golden Mountains* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *The New Babylon* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *October (Ten Days that Shook the World)* (1928), Original Music Composer
- *The Russian Waltz*, Music
- *A Vivid Nightmare*, Sound

## Gallery

- ![Народный артист СССР, Герой Социалистического Труда, композитор Д. Д. Шостакович. Москва. Начало 1970-х годов.](https://film.one/media/person/3926551/gallery-13054b9e7f65.jpg) Народный артист СССР, Герой Социалистического Труда, композитор Д. Д. Шостакович. Москва. Начало 1970-х годов. — В. Мастюков, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%281970-%D0%B5%29.jpg/1280px-%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%281970-%D0%B5%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dmitri Shostakovich](https://film.one/media/person/3926551/gallery-945f28278a3d.jpg) Dmitri Shostakovich — Fotothek_df_roe-neg_0002792_002_Portrait_Dmitri_Dmitrijewitsch_Schostakowitchs_im_Publikum_der_Bachfeier.jpg: Roger & Renate Rössing, credit Deutsche Fotothek.
derivative work: Improvist (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Dmitri_Shostakovich_credit_Deutsche_Fotothek_adjusted.jpg/1280px-Dmitri_Shostakovich_credit_Deutsche_Fotothek_adjusted.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Дмитрий Шостакович за роялем (1950)](https://film.one/media/person/3926551/gallery-d5c708b81a5c.jpg) Дмитрий Шостакович за роялем (1950) — Vsevolod Tarasevich, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Композитор Д.Д. Шостакович (1940)](https://film.one/media/person/3926551/gallery-a5688f3899b4.jpg) Композитор Д.Д. Шостакович (1940) — Главархив Москвы / Леонид Доренский, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Dmitry_Shostakovich_1940.jpg/1280px-Dmitry_Shostakovich_1940.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dmitri Shostakovich](https://film.one/media/person/3926551/gallery-546a4ccaef4f.jpg) Dmitri Shostakovich — Image via TMDB
- ![MS Mikhail Lermontov (Soviet Union ocean liner) in New York Harbor. Don McMillan and Dmitri Shostakovich pictured. Photos by Bill Andrews.: Jun 11, 1973](https://film.one/media/person/3926551/gallery-5f85519b055b.png) MS Mikhail Lermontov (Soviet Union ocean liner) in New York Harbor. Don McMillan and Dmitri Shostakovich pictured. Photos by Bill Andrews.: Jun 11, 1973 — Bill Andrews for the Daily World, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/MS_Mikhail_Lermontov_%28Soviet_Union_ocean_liner%29_in_New_York_Harbor._Don_McMillan_and_Dmitri_Shostakovich_pictured._Photos_by_Bill_Andrews._Jun_11%2C_1973_Slide_10.png/1280px-thumbnail.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1962: Best Original Musical Score (nominated), for *Khovanshchina*

### Other awards — 27 won

- Shevchenko National Prize 1976: Shevchenko National Prize (won)
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1974: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (won)
- Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR 1974: Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (won)
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize 1973: Léonie Sonning Music Prize (won)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples 1972: Order of Friendship of Peoples (won)
- People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR 1972: People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (won)
- Star of People's Friendship 1972: Star of People's Friendship (won)
- Order of the October Revolution 1971: Order of the October Revolution (won)
- USSR State Prize 1968: USSR State Prize (won)
- Great Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria 1967: Great Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (won)
- "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal 1966: "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (won)
- Order of Lenin 1966: Order of Lenin (won)
- Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal 1966: Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (won)
- Lenin Prize 1958: Lenin Prize (won), for *Symphony No. 11*
- Wihuri Sibelius Prize 1958: Wihuri Sibelius Prize (won)
- Order of Lenin 1956: Order of Lenin (won)
- People's Artist of the USSR 1954: People's Artist of the USSR (won)
- World Peace Council prizes 1954: World Peace Council prizes (won)
- Stalin Prize 1952: Stalin Prize (won)
- Stalin Prize 1950: Stalin Prize (won), for *The Fall of Berlin*
- People's Artist of the RSFSR 1947: People's Artist of the RSFSR (won)
- Order of Lenin 1946: Order of Lenin (won)
- Stalin Prize 1946: Stalin Prize (won)
- Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 1942: Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (won)
- Stalin Prize 1942: Stalin Prize (won), for *Symphony No. 7*
- Stalin Prize 1941: Stalin Prize (won)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour 1940: Order of the Red Banner of Labour (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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