Alexander was nominated for six Academy Awards. Irving Berlin won for best score.
I wish they would remake it...probably wouldn’t be a money maker but the music in DTS or Dolby Digital would sound fantastic!
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“Alexander was nominated for six Academy Awards. Irving Berlin won for best score.”
Irving Berlin deserved to win a dozen Oscars at least, but from what I’ve heard he only ever won one, for White Christmas.
This review is spot on in saying that the music, and musical presentation, was the best part of the film. Alice Faye is spellbinding and then, of course, there was the young Ethel Merman. Quite a combination.
Irving Berlin was one of the very few composers who provided every note of music for the films he worked on and I’m pretty sure its safe to say that he had more films like that than anyone else. Apart from anything else, he had the clout to insist on it.