Awards


 

Academy Awards
YearResultAwardCategory
1957 Won Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Posthumously.
Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
for: Written on the Wind (1956)
Shared with:
Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "Written on the Wind".
Victor Young's nomination was posthumous.
 
1951 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Samson and Delilah (1949)

 
1950 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
for: My Foolish Heart (1949)
Shared with:
Ned Washington (lyrics)
For the song "My Foolish Heart"
 
1949 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
for: The Emperor Waltz (1948)

 
1946 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song
for: Love Letters (1945)
Shared with:
Edward Heyman (lyrics)
For the song "Love Letters"
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Love Letters (1945)

 
1944 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

 
1943 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Flying Tigers (1942)

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Silver Queen (1942)

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
for: Take a Letter, Darling (1942)

 
1942 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture
for: Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

 
1941 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: Arizona (1940)

Best Music, Original Score
for: Dark Command (1940)

Best Music, Original Score
for: North West Mounted Police (1940)

Best Music, Score
for: Arise, My Love (1940)

 
1940 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: Golden Boy (1939)

Best Music, Original Score
for: Gulliver's Travels (1939)

Best Music, Original Score
for: Man of Conquest (1939)

Best Music, Scoring
for: Way Down South (1939)

 
1939 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Score
for: Army Girl (1938)

Best Music, Original Score
for: Breaking the Ice (1938)

 
Emmy Awards
YearResultAwardCategory
1955 Won Emmy Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Variety Program
for: Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) (TV)

Nominated Emmy Best Original Music Composed for TV
for: "Medic" (1954)

Best Original Music Composed for TV
for: Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) (TV)

 
Golden Globes
YearResultAwardCategory
1953 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Score
for: The Quiet Man (1952)

 
1952 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Score
for: September Affair (1950)