---
name: "Miklós Rózsa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/miklos-rozsa"
fi1m_id: "miklos-rozsa"
imdb_id: "nm0000067"
tmdb_id: 7647
wikidata_id: "Q319396"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "18 April 1907"
died: "27 July 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 12
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 12
updated: "2026-09-25T08:20:35.243741+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."
---

# Miklós Rózsa

## Identity

Miklós Rózsa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/miklos-rozsa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** miklos-rozsa
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000067
- **TMDB ID:** 7647
- **Wikidata ID:** Q319396
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319396, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7647

Composer. Born 18 April 1907 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. Died 27 July 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 18 April 1907, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- **Died:** 27 July 1995
- **Active:** 1944–1959
- **Also known as:** Miklos Rozsa, ロージャ・ミクローシュ
- **Frequently works with:** [Billy Wilder](https://film.one/person/billy-wilder.md), [Edmond O'Brien](https://film.one/person/edmond-obrien.md), [John Huston](https://film.one/person/john-huston.md), [Louis Calhern](https://film.one/person/louis-calhern.md), [Robert Taylor](https://film.one/person/robert-taylor-82216.md), [Sam Zimbalist](https://film.one/person/sam-zimbalist.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 3 Oscars (3 won · 13 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 78 (6), 1950s 76 (6)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 74 across 9 titles
- **Score spread:** 6 at 80+, 6 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 8, Crime 5, Romance 5, Thriller 5, History 4, Mystery 3
- **Screen time:** 24 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $232m across 9 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319396, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7647

## Coming up

- *Charmed Lives: A Family Romance* (2028-05-11), Music

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Adam's Rib*](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md) (82), [*Ben-Hur*](https://film.one/film/ben-hur.md) (76), [*Julius Caesar*](https://film.one/film/julius-caesar.md) (76), [*Ivanhoe*](https://film.one/film/ivanhoe.md) (70)
- **HBO Max:** [*Quo Vadis*](https://film.one/film/quo-vadis.md) (65)

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

## Biography

Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer of film scores and concert music. Born in Budapest in 1907, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory before working in Paris and London. He moved to the United States in 1940 and became an American citizen in 1946.

Rózsa composed scores for nearly one hundred films. His credits include *Double Indemnity* (1944) and *Ben-Hur* (1959). He won Academy Awards for the scores of *Spellbound* (1945), *A Double Life* (1947) and *Ben-Hur* (1959). Throughout his career he also wrote concert works, including orchestral pieces performed by artists such as Jascha Heifetz.

Rózsa died in Los Angeles in 1995.

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

## On Fi1m (12)

- *Ben-Hur* (1959), Fi1m 76, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/ben-hur.md)
- *Cairo Station* (1958), Fi1m 80, Additional Music — [page](https://film.one/film/cairo-station.md)
- *Julius Caesar* (1953), Fi1m 76, Original Music Composer, Conductor, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/julius-caesar.md)
- *Ivanhoe* (1952), Fi1m 70, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/ivanhoe.md)
- *Quo Vadis* (1951), Fi1m 65, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/quo-vadis.md)
- *The Asphalt Jungle* (1950), Fi1m 88, Music, Conductor, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-asphalt-jungle.md)
- *Adam's Rib* (1949), Fi1m 82, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md)
- *Secret Beyond the Door* (1947), Fi1m 60, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/secret-beyond-the-door.md)
- *The Killers* (1946), Fi1m 84, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-killers.md)
- *Spellbound* (1945), Fi1m 66, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *The Lost Weekend* (1945), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-weekend.md)
- *Double Indemnity* (1944), Fi1m 92, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/double-indemnity.md)

## Complete filmography (116)

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

- *Charmed Lives: A Family Romance* (2028), Music
- *In Search of the Papin Sisters* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *The Man Who Saved the World* (1982), Music
- *Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Eye of the Needle* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Time After Time* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *Last Embrace* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *Fedora* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *Providence* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *The Golden Voyage of Sinbad* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *The Green Berets* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The Power* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The V.I.P.s* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Sodom and Gomorrah* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *El Cid* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *King of Kings* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Ben-Hur* (1959), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/ben-hur.md)
- *The World, the Flesh and the Devil* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Cairo Station* (1958), Additional Music — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/cairo-station.md)
- *A Time to Love and a Time to Die* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Van Gogh: Darkness into Light* (1957), Music
- *Tip on a Dead Jockey* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *The Seventh Sin* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Something of Value* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Lust for Life* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Somebody Up There Likes Me* (1956), Music Director
- *Bhowani Junction* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Tribute to a Bad Man* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Diane* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Inside Detroit* (1955), Music
- *The King's Thief* (1955), Conductor, Original Music Composer
- *Moonfleet* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops* (1955), Music
- *Green Fire* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Valley of the Kings* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Seagulls Over Sorrento* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Men of the Fighting Lady* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Knights of the Round Table* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *All the Brothers Were Valiant* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Julius Caesar* (1953), Original Music Composer, Conductor — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/julius-caesar.md)
- *Young Bess* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *The Story of Three Loves* (1953), as Conductor · Original Music Composer
- *Plymouth Adventure* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Horizons West* (1952), Additional Music
- *The Duel at Silver Creek* (1952), Additional Music
- *Ivanhoe* (1952), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/ivanhoe.md)
- *The Turning Point* (1952), Additional Music
- *One Who Came Back* (1952), Music
- *The Light Touch* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Quo Vadis* (1951), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/quo-vadis.md)
- *The Strange Door* (1951), Music
- *Detective Story* (1951), Music
- *Iron Man* (1951), Music
- *Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man* (1951), Music
- *Shakedown* (1950), Music
- *Crisis* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *The Asphalt Jungle* (1950), Original Music Composer, Conductor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-asphalt-jungle.md)
- *Woman in Hiding* (1950), Additional Music
- *East Side, West Side* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Adam's Rib* (1949), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/adams-rib.md)
- *Border Incident* (1949), Additional Music
- *Abandoned* (1949), Music
- *The Red Danube* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Madame Bovary* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Great Gatsby* (1949), Additional Music
- *Johnny Stool Pigeon* (1949), Music
- *Criss Cross* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Bribe* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Command Decision* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Kiss the Blood Off My Hands* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *The Naked City* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *A Woman's Vengeance* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *A Double Life* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Secret Beyond the Door* (1947), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/secret-beyond-the-door.md)
- *Desert Fury* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Brute Force* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *The Other Love* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Time Out of Mind* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *The Macomber Affair* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Song of Scheherazade* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *The Red House* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *The Killers* (1946), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-killers.md)
- *The Strange Love of Martha Ivers* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Because of Him* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *The Lost Weekend* (1945), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-weekend.md)
- *Spellbound* (1945), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *Lady on a Train* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Blood on the Sun* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *The Man in Half Moon Street* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Dark Waters* (1944), Original Music Composer, Music Director
- *Double Indemnity* (1944), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/double-indemnity.md)
- *Ministry of Fear* (1944), Additional Music
- *The Hour Before the Dawn* (1944), Original Music Composer
- *The Woman of the Town* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Sahara* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *So Proudly We Hail* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Five Graves to Cairo* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Jacaré* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *Jungle Book* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *Sundown* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Lydia* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *New Wine* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *The Saint's Vacation* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *That Hamilton Woman* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Ten Days in Paris* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *The Thief of Bagdad* (1940), Original Music Composer, Story, Songs
- *On the Night of the Fire* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *The Spy in Black* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *The Four Feathers* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *The Divorce of Lady X* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *The Green Cockatoo* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *The Squeaker* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *Knight Without Armour* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *Thunder in the City* (1937), Original Music Composer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 3 won, 13 nominated

- 1962: Best Original Song (nominated), for *Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)*
- 1962: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *El Cid*
- 1960: Best Original Score (won), for *Ben-Hur*
- 1960: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Ben-Hur*
- 1954: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Julius Caesar*
- 1953: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Ivanhoe*
- 1952: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Quo Vadis*
- 1948: Best Original Score (won), for *A Double Life*
- 1948: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *A Double Life*
- 1947: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *The Killers*
- 1946: Best Original Score (won), for *Spellbound*
- 1946: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Spellbound*
- 1945: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *The Woman of the Town*
- 1943: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Jungle Book*
- 1942: Best Original Dramatic Score (nominated), for *Lydia*
- 1941: Best Original Score (nominated), for *The Thief of Bagdad*

### Other awards — 1 won

- César Award for Best Music Written for a Film 1978: César Award for Best Music Written for a Film (won), for *Providence*

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

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