David Newman, the famous film-composing son of firstly famous film composer Alfred Newman, is selling his Malibu beach house for $5.95 million. It was custom designed by Lloyd Wright, the renowned ...

The musical score of a film can really make it or break it. It can be the difference between making the film a cult classic ...

Alfred Newman, left, and Ken Darby accepting Oscars for “Camelot” in 1968 / Photo courtesy of AMPAS. Alfred Newman was the first Newman to be recognized by the Academy, picking up 43 ...

There’s an anecdote about Alfred Newman, the veteran film composer and longtime head of music at 20th Century Fox, when Alfred Hitchcock was questioning the realism of having a musical score in ...

Alfred Newman supported his nine siblings, the children of Jewish Russian immigrants, from an early age. He died in 1970 at age 69, a few weeks before David turned 16.

Newman is, of course, the son of famed composer Alfred Newman, whose work helped define the kind of lush, dramatic, orchestral film music to which "German" unabashedly pays homage. Skip to main ...

As the youngest child of Academy Award-winning film composer Alfred Newman, Maria Newman grew up “determined to never write a note of film music,” she said.

Alfred Newman was the first Newman to be recognized by the Academy, ... not the composer.) Alfred’s brother Lionel, meanwhile, landed 11 and won one (for the adapted score for “Hello, ...