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name: "George Gershwin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/george-gershwin"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "26 September 1898"
died: "11 July 1937"
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average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T02:15:33.923088+00:00"
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# George Gershwin

Composer. Born 26 September 1898 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 11 July 1937.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 26 September 1898, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 11 July 1937
- **Also known as:** Jacob Gershowitz, Jacob Gershwine, Д. Гершвин
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123829, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006097/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20153

## Biography

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Born Jacob Gershwine in New York City on 26 September 1898, he died in Los Angeles on 11 July 1937.

His compositions, often written with his brother Ira, were used in numerous films. These include the original score for *Shall We Dance* (1937) and, after his death, the songs and music for *An American in Paris* (1951), *Ziegfeld Follies* (1945), *The Barkleys of Broadway* (1949), *Funny Face* (1957) and *Kiss Me, Stupid* (1964).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, biography.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *An American in Paris* (1951), Fi1m 76, Music, Songs, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/an-american-in-paris.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

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

- *New Year's Eve Concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 2025* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Badineries* (2025), Music
- *Gershwin in New York  - La Folle Journée de Nantes 2025* (2025), as Compositor
- *The New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyongyang Great moments in music* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Fazil Say @ Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *OSN: Musiche dall'America con Gianna Fratta e Alessandro Taverna* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Bernstein & Gershwin - Two Americans in Paris* (2024), as Compositor
- *The Chicken Hunter* (2024), Music
- *Magic Trap* (2024), Music
- *Martynas Levickis Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival* (2024), as Compositor
- *Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” with Yuja Wang With the Mahler Chamber Orchestra* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *New Year Concert with the Orchestre National de France Conducted by Stéphane Denève* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Summertime* (2023), Music
- *Maestro* (2022), Music Producer
- *The Director's Cut* (2022), as Compositor
- *Nick Crumbs and the Mystery of the Missing Cake* (2022), Music
- *Kissin performs Gershwin, Berg and Chopin Salzburg Festival 2021* (2022), as Compositor
- *Starstruck: Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet* (2021), Music
- *George Gershwin Alone* (2020), Music
- *Porgy and Bess - Metropolitan Opera* (2020), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *Ritorno alla musica* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Gershwin: The American Classic* (2018), Actor
- *An American in Paris: The Musical* (2018), Musical, Original Music Composer
- *Manhattan Magic* (2017), Music
- *Hudební perličky Pavla Šporcla* (2017), series, Original Music Composer
- *London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5* (2015), Music
- *The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess* (2009), as Songs
- *Butterfly* (2008), as Compositor
- *Porgy and Bess* (2002), Music
- *Fantasia 2000* (2000), Music
- *Crazy for You* (1999), Musical
- *Porgy and Bess* (1993), Music, Songs, Original Music Composer
- *A Strange Love Affair* (1985), Music
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Music
- *Contact* (1978), Music
- *Putting on the Ritz* (1974), Music
- *The Jazz Age* (1968), series, Music
- *Kiss Me, Stupid* (1964), as Songs
- *Porgy and Bess* (1959), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *Funny Face* (1957), Original Music Composer, Songs
- *Paris in the Springtime* (1956), as Songs
- *An American in Paris* (1951), as Songs · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/an-american-in-paris.md)
- *The Barkleys of Broadway* (1949), Music
- *The Shocking Miss Pilgrim* (1947), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *Ziegfeld Follies* (1945), as Songs
- *Rhapsody in Blue* (1945), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *Girl Crazy* (1943), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *Lady Be Good* (1941), Music, Songs
- *Strike Up the Band* (1940), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *The Goldwyn Follies* (1938), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *A Damsel in Distress* (1937), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *Shall We Dance* (1937), Original Music Composer, Songs
- *Girl Crazy* (1932), as Songs
- *Delicious* (1931), Original Music Composer, Songs
- *The Song of the Flame* (1930), as Songs
- *King of Jazz* (1930), Additional Music
- *Concerto Bernstein-Gershwin*, Original Music Composer

## Gallery

- ![George Gershwin](https://film.one/media/person/1236652/gallery-e6f0f321e475.jpg) George Gershwin — Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/George_Gershwin_1937.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![George Gershwin](https://film.one/media/person/1236652/gallery-3628835ccf3b.jpg) George Gershwin — Forest51690, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/George_gershwin.jpg/1280px-George_gershwin.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Publicity portrait of George Gershwin, with autograph.](https://film.one/media/person/1236652/gallery-f652a22610c5.jpg) Publicity portrait of George Gershwin, with autograph. — Mishkin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/George_Gershwin-signed.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Composer George Gershwin](https://film.one/media/person/1236652/gallery-7ff1bdcd95c9.jpg) Composer George Gershwin — Nicholas Ház, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/George_Gershwin_by_Nicholas_H%C3%A1z.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Title: George Gershwin, 1898-1937, half-length portrait, standing, facing left Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.](https://film.one/media/person/1236652/gallery-9f29b47262d1.jpg) Title: George Gershwin, 1898-1937, half-length portrait, standing, facing left Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print. — George Grantham Bain Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/George_Gershwin%2C_1898-1937%2C_half-length_portrait%2C_standing%2C_facing_left_LCCN2005678096.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Title: George Gershwin, 1898-1937, three-quarters length portrait, standing, facing right Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.](https://film.one/media/person/1236652/gallery-359dca71f979.jpg) Title: George Gershwin, 1898-1937, three-quarters length portrait, standing, facing right Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print. — George Grantham Bain Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/George_Gershwin%2C_1898-1937%2C_three-quarters_length_portrait%2C_standing%2C_facing_right_LCCN2006677753.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1938: Best Original Song (nominated), for *They Can't Take That Away from Me*

### Other awards — 3 won

- Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards 1998: Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (won)
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1998: star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (won)
- Grammy Trustees Award 1986: Grammy Trustees Award (won)

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

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