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In the early 1930s he orchestrated Frederick Hollander's score for the 1930 film Blue Angel (1930) and wrote original scores for several German films. With the Nazis in power he worked briefly in France, composing the music for Fritz Lang's French version of "Liliom", but arrived in the United States by 1935. He received 12 Academy Award nominations, winning in consecutive years for Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun. Blue Angel might be used to refer to several different things: three movies based on Heinrich Manns novel Professor Unrat (1905), about the downfall of a teacher, obsessed with love: The Blue Angel (1930 movie), (in English) starring Marlene Dietrich as Lola, featuring the song Falling in Love Again... Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 - August 2, 1976) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Sunset Boulevard (also known as Sunset Blvd. ... A Place in the Sun is a 1951 film which tells the story of a young man who is entangled with two women who work for his uncles factory. ...

Waxman died of cancer at age 60.

Selected filmography

• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Fury (1936)
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• A Christmas Carol (1938)
• The Young in Heart (1938) (2 Academy Award nominations)
• Rebecca (1940) (Academy Award nomination)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940)
• Suspicion (1941) (Academy Award nomination)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) (Academy Award nomination)
• Objective, Burma! (1945) (Academy Award nomination)
• Humoresque (1946) (Academy Award nomination)
• Dark City (1950)
• The Furies (1950)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950) (Academy Award)
• He Ran All the Way (1951)
• A Place in the Sun (1951) (Academy Award)
• Rear Window (1954)
• The Silver Chalice (1954) (Academy Award nomination)
• Mister Roberts (1955)
• Peyton Place (1957)
• The Nun's Story (1959) (Academy Award nomination)
• Taras Bulba (1962) (Academy Award nomination)

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External links

• Franz Waxman at the Internet Movie Database
• Franz Waxman: extensive list of works