---
name: "Max Steiner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/max-steiner"
fi1m_id: "max-steiner"
imdb_id: "nm0000070"
tmdb_id: 3249
wikidata_id: "Q350704"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "10 May 1888"
died: "28 December 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 27
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 27
updated: "2026-10-07T09:52:56.962780+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."
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# Max Steiner

## Identity

Max Steiner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/max-steiner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** max-steiner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000070
- **TMDB ID:** 3249
- **Wikidata ID:** Q350704
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Steiner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350704, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000070/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3249

Composer. Born 10 May 1888 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Died 28 December 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 10 May 1888, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- **Died:** 28 December 1971
- **Active:** 1933–1956
- **Also known as:** Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, Maximilian Raoul Steiner, Max R. Steiner
- **Frequently works with:** [Bette Davis](https://film.one/person/bette-davis.md), [Humphrey Bogart](https://film.one/person/humphrey-bogart.md), [Hal B. Wallis](https://film.one/person/hal-b-wallis.md), [Casey Robinson](https://film.one/person/casey-robinson.md), [Michael Curtiz](https://film.one/person/michael-curtiz.md), [Claude Rains](https://film.one/person/claude-rains.md), [David O. Selznick](https://film.one/person/david-o-selznick.md), [Howard Koch](https://film.one/person/howard-e-koch.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 3 Oscars (3 won · 18 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 78 (12), 1940s 78 (14), 1950s 76 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 78 across 17 titles
- **Score spread:** 10 at 80+, 17 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 22, Romance 11, Crime 7, Comedy 3, Thriller 3, War 3
- **Screen time:** 53 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $505m across 17 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Steiner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350704, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000070/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3249

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Now, Voyager*](https://film.one/film/now-voyager.md) (82), [*Dark Victory*](https://film.one/film/dark-victory.md) (79), [*Sergeant York*](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md) (66)
- **HBO Max:** [*Casablanca*](https://film.one/film/casablanca.md) (93), [*Gone with the Wind*](https://film.one/film/gone-with-the-wind.md) (74)
- **Pluto TV:** [*A Star Is Born*](https://film.one/film/a-star-is-born-1937.md) (78)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Caine Mutiny*](https://film.one/film/the-caine-mutiny.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Max Steiner was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. Born in Vienna in 1888, he was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta at the age of twelve and became a full-time professional composer, arranger or conductor at fifteen. He moved to Hollywood in 1929 and composed over 300 film scores, mainly for RKO and Warner Bros.

Steiner is known for his scores for *King Kong* (1933), *Gone with the Wind* (1939), *Casablanca* (1943), *The Searchers* (1956) and many others. He received 24 Academy Award nominations and won three: for *The Informer* (1935), *Now, Voyager* (1942) and *Since You Went Away* (1944). He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, for *Life with Father*.

Steiner collaborated frequently with directors including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Wyler and John Huston.

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

## On Fi1m (27)

- *The Caine Mutiny* (1954), Fi1m 76, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-caine-mutiny.md)
- *White Heat* (1949), Fi1m 86, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/white-heat.md)
- *Johnny Belinda* (1948), Fi1m 78, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-belinda.md)
- *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (1948), Fi1m 88, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre.md)
- *The Big Sleep* (1946), Fi1m 84, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sleep.md)
- *Mildred Pierce* (1945), Fi1m 83, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/mildred-pierce-1945.md)
- *Arsenic and Old Lace* (1944), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/arsenic-and-old-lace.md)
- *Since You Went Away* (1944), Fi1m 63, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/since-you-went-away.md)
- *Casablanca* (1943), Fi1m 93, Music, Original Music Composer, Music Arranger — [page](https://film.one/film/casablanca.md)
- *Watch on the Rhine* (1943), Fi1m 73, Music, Original Music Composer, Music Arranger — [page](https://film.one/film/watch-on-the-rhine.md)
- *Now, Voyager* (1942), Fi1m 82, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/now-voyager.md)
- *One Foot in Heaven* (1941), Fi1m 74, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/one-foot-in-heaven.md)
- *Sergeant York* (1941), Fi1m 66, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md)
- *All This, and Heaven Too* (1940), Fi1m 64, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/all-this-and-heaven-too.md)
- *The Letter* (1940), Fi1m 78, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-letter.md)
- *Dark Victory* (1939), Fi1m 79, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/dark-victory.md)
- *Gone with the Wind* (1939), Fi1m 74, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-with-the-wind.md)
- *Angels with Dirty Faces* (1938), Fi1m 82, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/angels-with-dirty-faces.md)
- *Four Daughters* (1938), Fi1m 75, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/four-daughters-1938.md)
- *Jezebel* (1938), Fi1m 78, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/jezebel.md)
- *A Star Is Born* (1937), Fi1m 78, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-star-is-born-1937.md)
- *The Life of Emile Zola* (1937), Fi1m 70, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-life-of-emile-zola.md)
- *Alice Adams* (1935), Fi1m 79, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/alice-adams.md)
- *The Informer* (1935), Fi1m 73, Original Music Composer, Music, Music Arranger — [page](https://film.one/film/the-informer.md)
- *Top Hat* (1935), Fi1m 87, Music Director — [page](https://film.one/film/top-hat.md)
- *The Gay Divorcee* (1934), Fi1m 79, Music Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-gay-divorcee.md)
- *King Kong* (1933), Fi1m 88, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/king-kong.md)

## Complete filmography (310)

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

- *RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”* (2008), Music
- *The Howie Rubin Story* (1990), as Songs
- *A Strange Love Affair* (1985), Music
- *Casta Diva* (1982), Music
- *The Letter* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Two on a Guillotine* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Those Calloways* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Youngblood Hawke* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *A Distant Trumpet* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Spencer's Mountain* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *FBI Code 98* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Rome Adventure* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *A Majority of One* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Susan Slade* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Parrish* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Portrait of a Mobster* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Sins of Rachel Cade* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Dark at the Top of the Stairs* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond* (1960), Additional Music
- *Cash McCall* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Ice Palace* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *A Summer Place* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Adventures in Paradise* (1959), series, Music Coordinator
- *The FBI Story* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *John Paul Jones* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *The Hanging Tree* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Marjorie Morningstar* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Fort Dobbs* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Darby's Rangers* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Escapade in Japan* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *All Mine to Give* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Band of Angels* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *The Giant Claw* (1957), Music
- *China Gate* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Death of a Scoundrel* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Bandido!* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *The Searchers* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Come Next Spring* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Helen of Troy* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Hell on Frisco Bay* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Illegal* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The McConnell Story* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Command* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Battle Cry* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The Violent Men* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *King Richard and the Crusaders* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *The Caine Mutiny* (1954), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-caine-mutiny.md)
- *The Boy from Oklahoma* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *So Big* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *So This Is Love* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *The Charge at Feather River* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *The Desert Song* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Trouble Along the Way* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *By the Light of the Silvery Moon* (1953), Music
- *The Jazz Singer* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *The Iron Mistress* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Springfield Rifle* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *This Is Cinerama* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *The Lion and the Horse* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Mara Maru* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *This Woman Is Dangerous* (1952), Additional Music
- *Room for One More* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Distant Drums* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Come Fill the Cup* (1951), Additional Music
- *Close to My Heart* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Jim Thorpe – All-American* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Force of Arms* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *On Moonlight Bay* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *I Was a Communist for the FBI* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Lightning Strikes Twice* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Raton Pass* (1951), Music
- *Sugarfoot* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Operation Pacific* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Dallas* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Rocky Mountain* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *The Breaking Point* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *The Glass Menagerie* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *The Flame and the Arrow* (1950), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Caged* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *The Damned Don't Cry* (1950), Additional Music
- *Young Man with a Horn* (1950), Music
- *Backfire* (1950), Additional Music
- *Mrs. Mike* (1949), Music, Original Music Composer
- *The Lady Takes a Sailor* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Without Honor* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Beyond the Forest* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *White Heat* (1949), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/white-heat.md)
- *The Fountainhead* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Flamingo Road* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *A Kiss in the Dark* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *South of St. Louis* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Adventures of Don Juan* (1948), Music
- *The Decision of Christopher Blake* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Fighter Squadron* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Johnny Belinda* (1948), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-belinda.md)
- *Key Largo* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Silver River* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *The Woman in White* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Winter Meeting* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *April Showers* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *My Girl Tisa* (1948), Music
- *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (1948), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre.md)
- *The Voice of the Turtle* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *My Wild Irish Rose* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Life with Father* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Dark Passage* (1947), Additional Music
- *Deep Valley* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *The Unfaithful* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Cheyenne* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Love and Learn* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Pursued* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *The Beast with Five Fingers* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *The Man I Love* (1946), Additional Music
- *Cloak and Dagger* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *The Big Sleep* (1946), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sleep.md)
- *Night and Day* (1946), Additional Music
- *One More Tomorrow* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *A Stolen Life* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Tomorrow Is Forever* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *My Reputation* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *San Antonio* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Saratoga Trunk* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Mildred Pierce* (1945), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mildred-pierce-1945.md)
- *Rhapsody in Blue* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *The Corn Is Green* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Roughly Speaking* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *The Conspirators* (1944), Original Music Composer
- *Arsenic and Old Lace* (1944), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/arsenic-and-old-lace.md)
- *The Adventures of Mark Twain* (1944), Original Music Composer
- *Since You Went Away* (1944), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/since-you-went-away.md)
- *Up in Arms* (1944), Original Music Composer
- *Passage to Marseille* (1944), Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
- *Northern Pursuit* (1943), Music
- *Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Watch on the Rhine* (1943), Original Music Composer, Music Arranger — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/watch-on-the-rhine.md)
- *Mission to Moscow* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Casablanca* (1943), Original Music Composer, Music Arranger — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/casablanca.md)
- *Now, Voyager* (1942), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/now-voyager.md)
- *Desperate Journey* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *Busses Roar* (1942), Music
- *The Gay Sisters* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *Spy Ship* (1942), Additional Music
- *In This Our Life* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *Murder in the Big House* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *I Was Framed* (1942), Additional Music
- *Captains of the Clouds* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *They Died with Their Boots On* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *One Foot in Heaven* (1941), Music — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/one-foot-in-heaven.md)
- *Sergeant York* (1941), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md)
- *Nine Lives Are Not Enough* (1941), Music Score Producer
- *Dive Bomber* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *The Bride Came C.O.D.* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Shining Victory* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *The Great Lie* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Santa Fe Trail* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *The Letter* (1940), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-letter.md)
- *A Dispatch from Reuters* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *City for Conquest* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *All This, and Heaven Too* (1940), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/all-this-and-heaven-too.md)
- *Murder in the Air* (1940), Music
- *An Angel from Texas* (1940), Additional Music
- *It All Came True* (1940), Music
- *Virginia City* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *Invisible Stripes* (1939), Additional Music
- *Four Wives* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *The Mad Empress* (1939), Music
- *Gone with the Wind* (1939), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/gone-with-the-wind.md)
- *Intermezzo: A Love Story* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *Dust Be My Destiny* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *Each Dawn I Die* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *The Old Maid* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *Daughters Courageous* (1939), Music
- *Confessions of a Nazi Spy* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *Dark Victory* (1939), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/dark-victory.md)
- *Dodge City* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *The Oklahoma Kid* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *They Made Me a Criminal* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *The Dawn Patrol* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *Angels with Dirty Faces* (1938), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/angels-with-dirty-faces.md)
- *The Sisters* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *Four Daughters* (1938), Music — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/four-daughters-1938.md)
- *The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *White Banners* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *Crime School* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *Jezebel* (1938), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/jezebel.md)
- *Condemned Women* (1938), Music
- *Gold Is Where You Find It* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* (1938), Music
- *Tovarich* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *First Lady* (1937), Music
- *Submarine D-1* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *Breakfast for Two* (1937), Additional Music
- *The Life of Emile Zola* (1937), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-life-of-emile-zola.md)
- *That Certain Woman* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *Slim* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *Kid Galahad* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *A Star Is Born* (1937), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/a-star-is-born-1937.md)
- *The Soldier and the Lady* (1937), Music
- *Green Light* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *God's Country and the Woman* (1937), Music, Original Music Composer
- *The Charge of the Light Brigade* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *The Garden of Allah* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *The Ex-Mrs. Bradford* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *Little Lord Fauntleroy* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *Follow the Fleet* (1936), Music Director
- *Chatterbox* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *I Dream Too Much* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *The Three Musketeers* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Top Hat* (1935), Music Director — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/top-hat.md)
- *Alice Adams* (1935), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/alice-adams.md)
- *She* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Break of Hearts* (1935), Music Director
- *The Informer* (1935), Original Music Composer, Music Arranger — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-informer.md)
- *Star of Midnight* (1935), Music Director
- *Roberta* (1935), Music Director
- *The Little Minister* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Anne of Green Gables* (1934), Music Director
- *Wednesday's Child* (1934), Music Director
- *The Gay Divorcee* (1934), Music Director — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/the-gay-divorcee.md)
- *The Age of Innocence* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *The Fountain* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Their Big Moment* (1934), Music Director
- *Bachelor Bait* (1934), Music Director
- *Of Human Bondage* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *We're Rich Again* (1934), Music Director
- *Let's Try Again* (1934), Music Director
- *Murder on the Blackboard* (1934), Original Music Composer, Music Director
- *The Life of Vergie Winters* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Stingaree* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Where Sinners Meet* (1934), Music Director
- *Finishing School* (1934), Music Director
- *This Man Is Mine* (1934), Music Director
- *The Crime Doctor* (1934), Music
- *Spitfire* (1934), Music Director
- *The Lost Patrol* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Two Alone* (1934), Music Director
- *The Son of Kong* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Flying Down to Rio* (1933), Music Director
- *Little Women* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *The Right To Romance* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *After Tonight* (1933), Music Director
- *Chance at Heaven* (1933), Music Director
- *Rafter Romance* (1933), Music Director
- *Morning Glory* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Blind Adventure* (1933), Music Director
- *Before Dawn* (1933), Music Director
- *Headline Shooter* (1933), Music Director
- *Bed of Roses* (1933), Music Director, Additional Music
- *Melody Cruise* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Cross Fire* (1933), Sound
- *The Silver Cord* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Diplomaniacs* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Sweepings* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *King Kong* (1933), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/king-kong.md)
- *Scarlet River* (1933), Music Director
- *Christopher Strong* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Lucky Devils* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *The Cheyenne Kid* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *The Past of Mary Holmes* (1933), Music Director
- *The Monkey's Paw* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *The Animal Kingdom* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *The Half-Naked Truth* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *The Penguin Pool Murder* (1932), Music Director, Original Music Composer
- *Secrets of the French Police* (1932), Music Director
- *The Conquerors* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Little Orphan Annie* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *The Phantom of Crestwood* (1932), Music Director
- *A Bill of Divorcement* (1932), Music Director, Original Music Composer
- *The Most Dangerous Game* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Thirteen Women* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Bird of Paradise* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Roar of the Dragon* (1932), Music Director
- *What Price Hollywood?* (1932), Original Music Composer, Music Director
- *Is My Face Red?* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Westward Passage* (1932), Music Director
- *State's Attorney* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Symphony of Six Million* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Carnival Boat* (1932), Music Director
- *The Lost Squadron* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Lady with a Past* (1932), Music Director
- *Girl of the Rio* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Peach-o-Reno* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Consolation Marriage* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Secret Service* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Way Back Home* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Are These Our Children?* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Fanny Foley Herself* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Friends and Lovers* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *The Gay Diplomat* (1931), Music Director, Original Music Composer
- *The Runaround* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *High Stakes* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *The Public Defender* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Transgression* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Young Donovan's Kid* (1931), Music
- *Everything’s Rosie* (1931), Music Director
- *Cracked Nuts* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Bachelor Apartment* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *The Lady Refuses* (1931), Music Director
- *Kept Husbands* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Cimarron* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Beau Ideal* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *The Royal Bed* (1931), Music Director
- *Dixiana* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *The Delightful Rogue* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *Rio Rita* (1929), Orchestrator
- *Side Street* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *The Bondman* (1929), Music
- *The Bondman* (1916), Music

## Gallery

- ![Unveiling of the memorial plaque commemorating Max Steiner's 100th birthday in 1988 at Steiner's birthplace, the Hotel Nordbahn (Vienna, Praterstraße 72) by (f.](https://film.one/media/person/58993/gallery-92a532b2ea03.jpg) Unveiling of the memorial plaque commemorating Max Steiner's 100th birthday in 1988 at Steiner's birthplace, the Hotel Nordbahn (Vienna, Praterstraße 72) by (f. — Austria Classic Hotel Wien, CC BY-SA 2.0 at, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/1988-Steiner-Max-Austria-Classic-Hotel-Wien-Vienna-23_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![13 parts. Words by Herman L. Gantvoort, music by Rupert W. Graves ; arr. by M.R. Steiner. (1916)](https://film.one/media/person/58993/gallery-d0c6f4d42372.jpg) 13 parts. Words by Herman L. Gantvoort, music by Rupert W. Graves ; arr. by M.R. Steiner. (1916) — Graves, Rupert W, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/I_want_to_be_wooed_by_a_toreador_-_sung_by_Helen_Trix_at_Shubert%27s_44th_Street_Theatre_-_DPLA_-_8ed6d1263612346b62fd436ac3e78b49_%28page_1%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Max Steiner](https://film.one/media/person/58993/gallery-1b768a152e43.png) Max Steiner — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Max_Steiner_%28c._1945%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award presented by the City of Vienna, Austria, to James Newton Howard in 2015 for The Dark Knight, Hunger Games, Signs and T](https://film.one/media/person/58993/gallery-a5d0a7394959.jpg) Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award presented by the City of Vienna, Austria, to James Newton Howard in 2015 for The Dark Knight, Hunger Games, Signs and T — Mbalgavy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Max_Steiner_Film_Music_Achievement_Award.jpg/1280px-Max_Steiner_Film_Music_Achievement_Award.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 3 won, 18 nominated

- 1956: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Battle Cry*
- 1955: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *The Caine Mutiny*
- 1953: Best Original Musical Score (nominated), for *The Jazz Singer*
- 1953: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima*
- 1951: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *The Flame and the Arrow*
- 1950: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Beyond the Forest*
- 1949: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Johnny Belinda*
- 1948: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Life with Father*
- 1948: Best Original Musical Score (nominated), for *My Wild Irish Rose*
- 1947: Best Original Musical Score (nominated), for *Night and Day*
- 1946: Best Original Musical Score (nominated), for *Rhapsody in Blue*
- 1945: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (won), for *Since You Went Away*
- 1944: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Casablanca*
- 1943: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (won), for *Now, Voyager*
- 1942: Best Original Dramatic Score (nominated), for *Sergeant York*
- 1941: Best Original Score (nominated), for *The Letter*
- 1940: Best Original Score (nominated), for *Dark Victory*
- 1939: Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment (nominated), for *Jezebel*
- 1937: Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment (nominated), for *The Garden of Allah*
- 1936: Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment (won), for *The Informer*
- 1935: Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment (nominated), for *The Gay Divorcee*

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

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