Leonard Bernstein Biography: Measurements, Net Worth, Relationship

Known for movies

Short Info

Died	October 14, 1990, New York City, New York, United States
Spouse	Felicia Montealegre
Fact	He selected November 14, 1954, as the date for his first television lecture (the famous Omnibus (1952) episode featuring Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony"), because he had made his professional conducting debut 11 years previously on the same date, and he felt it brought him good luck.

Leonard Bernstein was one of the most influential American classical music composers and conductors of the 20th century. He was born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrant parents. His father, Sam Bernstein, was a successful businessman and his mother, Jennie Bernstein, was a piano teacher. Leonard had two younger sisters, Shirley and Nina. He began taking piano lessons at the age of 10 and soon showed great promise as a musician. He attended the Boston Latin School and then the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Bernstein’s career began in the early 1940s when he became the assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. He made his debut as a conductor with the orchestra in 1943, substituting for the ailing Bruno Walter. The performance was a sensation, and Bernstein quickly became one of the most celebrated conductors in the world. He went on to lead some of the most prestigious orchestras in America and Europe, including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic. He also composed several highly acclaimed works, including the musicals “West Side Story” and “Candide.”

In addition to his conducting and composing career, Bernstein was also an outspoken advocate for social justice. He was an active supporter of the civil rights movement and spoke out against McCarthyism and other forms of political repression. He died of a heart attack on October 14, 1990, at the age of 72.

During his lifetime, Bernstein won numerous awards and honors, including 11 Grammy Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Kennedy Center Honors. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Today, his legacy continues to inspire musicians and music lovers around the world.

General Info

Full Name	Leonard Bernstein
Died	October 14, 1990, New York City, New York, United States
Profession	Teacher, Pianist, Author, Screenwriter, Film Score Composer, Music Director, Candide, Mass, Somewhere
Education	Boston Latin School, Harvard University, Curtis Institute of Music, Candide, Mass, Somewhere
Nationality	American

Family

Spouse	Felicia Montealegre
Children	Alexander Bernstein, Nina Maria Felicia Bernstein, Jamie Anne Maria Bernstein, Candide, Mass, Somewhere
Parents	Samuel Joseph Bernstein, Jennie Bernstein, Candide, Mass, Somewhere
Siblings	Burton Bernstein, Shirley Anne Bernstein, Candide, Mass, Somewhere

Accomplishments

Awards	Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance, Grammy Award for Best Classical Album, Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, Grammy Hall of Fame, Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, Grammy Award for Best Co...
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Grammy Award for Best Music Film, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, Brit Award for Best Classical Recording, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Program - Performing Arts, Drama Desk Award for ...
Movies	The Making of West Side Story, Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem, Bernstein in Australia: Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, Haydn: Die Schopfung, Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, the Ninth Symphony, Ode to Freedom: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Leonard Bernstein: Candide, Beethoven: Fidelio, Bernstein: Schuma...

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0077086

Quotes

#	Quote
1	The "Rhapsody in Blue" is not a composition at all. It's a string of several paragraphs stuck together--with a thin paste of flour and water. It is not a real composition in the sense that whatever happens in it must seem inevitable, or even pretty inevitable. You can cut out parts of it without affecting the whole in any way except to make it shorter. You can remove any of these stuck-together sections and the piece still goes on as bravely as before. You can even interchange these sections with one another and no harm done. You can make cuts within a section, or add new cadenzas, or play it with any combination of instruments or on the piano alone. It can be a five-minute piece or a six-minute piece or a 12-minute piece. And, in fact, all these things are being done to it every day. It's still the "Rhapsody in Blue".
2	[on George Gershwin's "An American in Paris"] When you hear the piece, you rejoice in the first theme, then sit and wait through the "filler" until the next one comes along. In this way you can sit out two-thirds of the composition. The remaining third is marvelous because it consists of the themes themselves. But where's the composition? What's good in it is so good that it's irresistible. If you have to go along with some chaff in order to have the wheat, it's worth it.
3	[George Gershwin's] tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there, in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil. He was given only a little more than a decade to develop the roots of this transplantation and died, shockingly and maddeningly, in his thirties--a few years older than [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] was when he died. These two names may be felt to be an uncomfortable pairing, but they make a fascinating comparison. Both men were "naturals", each evolving a body of music that sprang like phenomena of nature from their respective soils, fertile and flourishing. But Mozart had no tracks to cross. His was one great continuing harvest from childhood to death. Gershwin, on the contrary, had to plough, sow, thresh and reap afresh over and over again. We can only speculate about what degree of mastery he might have attained if he had lived.
4	[on Ludwig van Beethoven] Form is only an empty word, a shell, without the gift of inevitability; a composer can write a string of perfectly molded sonata-allegro movements, with every rule obeyed, and still suffer from bad form. Beethoven broke all the rules, and turned out pieces of breathtaking rightness. Rightness--that's the word! When you get the feeling that whatever note succeeds the last is is the only possible note that can rightly happen in that instant, that context, then chances are you're listening to Beethoven. Our boy has the real goods, the stuff from Heaven, the power to make you feel at the finish, "Something is right in the world". There is something that checks throughout, that follows its own law consistently--something we can trust, that will never let us down.
5	Elvis Presley is the greatest cultural force in the 20th century. He introduced the beat to everything--music, language, clothes. It's a whole new social revolution--the '60s comes from it.
6	Natalie Wood played Maria, the Puerto Rican damsel, in "West Side Story". Natalie lost.
7	Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
8	[April 1962, remarks to the audience from his remarks to the audience during a concert at which time he publicly disassociated himself from Glenn Gould's interpretation of the Johannes Brahms' D minor piano concerto about to be performed] I have only once before in my life ever had to submit to a soloist's totally new and incompatible view, and that was the last time I accompanied Mr. Gould. But this time, the discrepancies between our views are so great that I feel I must make this small disclaimer.
9	I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing as [Arturo Toscanini] did, studying and restudying 50 pieces of music. It would bore me to death. I want to conduct, play the piano, compose.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins and his musical, "West Side Story" at the Paramount Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2016 Joseph Jefferson (Equity) Award for Large Musical Production.
2	In his series 20th Century Greats (2004), British composer and presenter Howard Goodall made a case for Bernstein as one of the four most important composers of the 20th century, along with Cole Porter, Bernard Herrmann and the Lennon (John Lennon)McCartney (Paul McCartney) songwriting partnership.
3	His musical, "Candide," at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1995 Drama-Logue Award for Production.
4	Brother of Shirley Bernstein.
5	Father of Jamie Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein and Nina Bernstein.
6	Was a fan of The Beatles. Whenever daughter Jamie would bring home a Beatles album, he would urge her to put on the record player and listen to it with his children.
7	Favorite drink was Ballantine's Scotch Whisky. A lifelong heavy smoker, his cigarette of choice was L&M.
8	He conducted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" on four occasions on the long-running New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958).
9	In 1945 Bernstein considered acting, and actually discussed the possibility of playing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in a film, opposite superstar Greta Garbo as the legendary composer's friend Mme. von Meck.
10	His musical, "Candide," at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2011 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Musical Production (Large).
11	He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6200 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
12	His last work for the musical theater, "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue", was one of his few failures in the medium. "Candide" had also been a failure when it first opened in 1956, but eventually became a hit in its 1974 revival. "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," with book and lyrics by Bernstein's old friend Alan Jay Lerner, attempted to tell the story of all the US Presidents who had occupied the White House in a single evening. Starring Ken Howard and Patricia Routledge, it had an extremely difficult pre-Broadway try-out period, marked by extensive re-writes, poor reviews and negative audience response. When it ultimately opened on Broadway, in May of 1976, it ran only seven performances. Bernstein ultimately re-cycled much of the music for other works, and the complete score went unrecorded (at Bernstein's insistence) for 24 years. At that time, some ten years after Bernstein's death and 14 years after Lerner's, it was recorded and issued as "White House Cantata".
13	Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
14	Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 94-98. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
15	Named to then-President Richard Nixon's famed "enemies list" for hosting a fund-raising party in 1970 for the Black Panthers, the Afro-American militant group, with a glamorous Who's Who of the New York City performing arts scene (for that era) in attendance. Journalist/novelist Tom Wolfe covered the event for New Yorker Magazine, later publishing his comments in book form as "Radical Chic".
16	Three of his New York Philharmonic albums all won consecutive Grammy Awards between 1962 and 1964, in the category "Best Children's Album". They were "Peter and the Wolf/ Nutcracker Suite", "Carnival of the Animals/ Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", and "Leonard Bernstein Conducts for Young People".
17	Was the first American-born and American-trained conductor of a major orchestra to become as famous as he did. There had been some American-born conductors before him, including Arthur Fiedler, who conducted the Boston Pops from 1930 to the late 1970s, and Alfred Wallenstein, who became conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1943. However, neither Fiedler nor Wallenstein were trained in the US, as Bernstein was. Bernstein is still the only American-trained US conductor to become so famous that his name is virtually a household word. Fiedler did become very well-known, but the Boston Pops played, and still play, mostly light classics, not pieces like Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" (as orchestras conducted by Bernstein did). Few other American-born conductors had even a fraction of the impact that Bernstein did, although the Boston Pops' recordings have always rivaled Bernstein's in popularity. Bernstein's many talents--conducting, composing, writing, teaching and piano-playing--aroused the admiration of the public, but also envy and resentment from a few major critics, such as Harold C. Schonberg, who was then the music critic of the New York Times. It was not until Bernstein was into his later years that some critics who had previously dismissed him (like Schonberg) began to show a grudging respect for him. Nowadays he is universally acknowledged as perhaps the greatest conductor that the US has ever produced.
18	Did not begin playing the piano until age ten.
19	He was the first conductor to make stereophonic recordings with the New York Philharmonic.
20	Won three Tony Awards: in 1953, as Best Composer and his music as part of a Best Musical win for "Wonderful Town;" and in 1969, a Special Tony Award. He was also Tony-nominated on two other occasions: in 1957, his music as part of a Best Musical nomination for "Candide;" and in 1958, his music as part of a Best Musical nomination for "West Side Story."
21	He led the New York Philharmonic in 40 works that they had never performed before.
22	In collaboration with conductors Bruno Walter and Dimitri Mitropoulos, both former conductors of the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein was the first conductor to lead an all-Gustav Mahler symphonic cycle in New York, in 1961. It was that cycle that spurred the revival of interest in Mahler's symphonies, which is still going on today.
23	It has been mistakenly assumed by some that all of Bernstein's New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958) have been issued on VHS and DVD. They have not. There were more than 50 "Young People's Concerts" broadcast on CBS-TV between 1958 and 1973. Only the 25 concerts that the Bernstein family deemed the best were issued. The rest, as of 2004, have yet to be issued or even re-broadcast on television.
24	He was one of the first conductors in the 20th century to record a performance of Georges Bizet's "Carmen" without the recitatives that composer Ernest Guiraud added to the opera to replace the dialogue after Bizet's death. Bernstein's production restored the spoken dialogue to its rightful place.
25	The production of Candide was awarded a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 (1999 season) for Outstanding Musical Production.
26	A sickly infant, he sometimes turned blue from asthma. He became a prodigious pianist, conductor, composer and lecturer, although he suffered from asthma throughout his life. Audiences often heard him wheezing above the orchestra.
27	Was appointed assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1943 and made his debut on November 14 of that year, substituting for Bruno Walter on short notice. Awoke the next morning to find himself famous.
28	He made at least one television appearance either conducting or teaching music (or both), nearly every year from 1954 until the year he died (1990). He is very likely the only symphony conductor ever to have done so.
29	He was the first conductor to conduct more than 1,000 concerts with the New York Philharmonic.
30	Was great friends with Aaron Copland
31	Such world-famous musicians as pianist Andre Watts, conductor Seiji Ozawa and conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn were first introduced to the general public on his New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958).
32	He selected November 14, 1954, as the date for his first television lecture (the famous Omnibus (1952) episode featuring Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony"), because he had made his professional conducting debut 11 years previously on the same date, and he felt it brought him good luck.
33	Because of his many appearances on television, Bernstein became the most popular and famous conductor in the US, and one of the most famous in the world, seen and loved by millions of families who tuned in to his pioneering New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958). Through these concerts, children all over the world were introduced to classical music.
34	He made his professional conducting debut on November 14, 1943, without even rehearsing the orchestra because there had not been enough time. He created a sensation partly because one of the pieces he conducted was Richard Strauss's enormously complicated symphonic poem "Don Quixote".
35	Was the first American-born and American-trained conductor to be appointed music director of the New York Philharmonic and to conduct at Milan's La Scala Opera House.
36	Graduated from Harvard.
37	Conducted the world premiere of Charles Ives'' "Second Symphony" in 1951.
38	Served as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1958-69; took a one-year sabbatical in 1964-65. Was named laureate conductor for life when he stepped down from the music director's post.
39	Caused a stir in April of 1962 when he informed the audience at a concert that he assumed no responsibility for the performance they were about to hear of Johannes Brahms' "D Minor Concerto" with soloist Glenn Gould.
40	Was also a concert pianist.
41	Died at home of a heart attack due to progressive lung failure.
42	Conductor/composer.

Pictures

Movies

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
The Magic of David Copperfield	1978	TV Special performer: "An American in Paris"
Het is weer zo laat!	1978	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Fidelio	1978	TV Movie performer: "Fidelio"
Pink Lips	1977	writer: "Tonight" - uncredited
Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Gala	1977	TV Movie music: "Take Care of This House"
America at the Movies	1976	Documentary music: "America"
The Story of Eloise	1976	writer: "New York, New York" - uncredited
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard	1976	TV Mini-Series performer - 6 episodes
Bernstein in London	1976	TV Movie documentary "A Lincoln Portrait" / music: "An American in Paris", "The Unanswered Question", "The Stars and Stripes Forever", "Rhapsody in Blue"
Turn Me 'Round	1975	music: "Something's Coming" - uncredited
The Ernie Sigley Show	1974-1975	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Bernstein in Australia	1974	TV Movie performer: "Symphony No. 6 Pathetique"
Conrack	1974	performer: "Fifth Symphony"
Pen Pals	1974	writer: "New York, New York" - uncredited
That's Entertainment!	1974	music: "New York, New York" 1944 - uncredited
Mary Tyler Moore	1974	TV Series music - 1 episode
Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra	1973	TV Special documentary writer: "New York, New York"
The Graham Kennedy Show	1973	TV Series writer - 1 episode
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Present the One-to-One Concert	1972	TV Movie writer: "Somewhere"
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts		TV Series 1 episode, 1967 performer - 28 episodes, 1958 - 1972 music - 3 episodes, 1961 - 1963 writer - 1 episode, 1964
Four Ways to Say Farewell	1971	TV Movie performer: "Symphony No. 9" excerpts
Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna	1970	TV Special documentary music: "Piano Concerto No. 1" excerpt / performer: "Fidelio" excerpts, "Symphony No. 9 in d Minor: Ode to Joy"
Liza	1970	TV Movie writer: "New York, New York"
Die Rudi Carrell Show	1969	TV Series music - 1 episode
Journey to Jerusalem	1968	Documentary "Violin Concerto in E Minor", "Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Resurrection", "Hatikvah"
Bewitched	1967	TV Series music - 1 episode
The Monkees	1967	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Danny Kaye Show	1963-1966	TV Series music - 2 episodes
The Hollywood Palace	1966	TV Series music - 1 episode
La señora	1965	Short writer: "West Side Story" fragments
Shindig!	1965	TV Series music - 1 episode
Jazz 625	1964	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Daimei no nai ongakukai	1964	TV Series writer: "Candide"
John F. Kennedy Memorial Concert	1963	TV Movie performer: "Symphony No. 2" Resurrection
Je connais une blonde	1963	TV Movie music: "Tonight"
The Lively Ones	1963	TV Series music - 1 episode
Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall	1962	TV Special documentary writer: "History of Musical Comedy
The Bell Telephone Hour	1962	TV Series music - 1 episode
Tell It to Groucho	1962	TV Series writer - 1 episode
A Joyful Noise	1961	TV Movie performer: "Tres Petites Liturgies", "Gloria", "Psalm 98", "For Unto Us a Child is Born", "Magnificat", "Hodie"
West Side Story	1961	music: "Jet Song" 1957, "Something's Coming" 1957, "Maria" 1957 1957, "America" 1957, "Tonight" 1957, "Gee, Officer Krupke!" 1957, "I Feel Pretty" 1957, "One Hand, One Heart" 1957, "Quintet" 1957, "Somewhere" 1957, "Cool" 1957, "A Boy Like That/I Have a Love" 1957, "Somewhere" reprise 1957 - uncredited / writer: "Overture" 1957, "Prologue" 1957, "Dance at the Gym" 1957, "Intermission" 1957, "The Rumble" 1957, "End Credits" 1957 - uncredited
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall	1960	TV Series music - 1 episode
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Berlin	1960	TV Movie documentary music: "Piano Concerto No. 1"
Rhythm	1960	TV Movie performer: "Symphony No. 7 excerpt, "Symphony in D" 4th Movement, "El Salon Mexico"
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: To the Ladies	1960	TV Special music: "Lonely Town" - uncredited
The Creative Performer	1960	TV Movie documentary "Concerto in D Major for Harpsichord", "Suicidio"
The Infinite Variety of Music	1959	TV Movie performer: "Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No. 2" opening, "Death and Transfiguration" finale, "Symphony No. 5 Fourth Movement", final trio from "Der Rosenkavalier"
Wonderful Town	1958	TV Movie music: "Christopher Street", "Ohio", "One Hundred Easy Ways", "What a Waste", "A Little Bit in Love", "Conversation Piece", "A Quiet Girl", "Conga!", "My Darlin' Eileen", "Swing!", "It's Love", "Ballet at the Village Vortex" Instrumental, "Wrong Note Rag", "Finale: It's Love reprise"
The Ed Sullivan Show	1958	TV Series music - 1 episode
The Frank Sinatra Show	1958	TV Series music - 3 episodes
The Lux Show	1957	TV Series music - 1 episode
Satchmo the Great	1957	Documentary performer: "St Louis Blues"
Omnibus		TV Series performer - 5 episodes, 1954 - 1957 music - 2 episodes, 1955 - 1956
Rear Window	1954	music: "Excerpt from 'Fancy Free'" 1944 - uncredited
The Frank Sinatra Show	1950	TV Series music - 1 episode
On the Town	1949	music: "New York, New York", "Miss Turnstiles", "Come Up to My Place", "A Day in New York", "I Feel Like I'm Not Out of Bed Yet" uncredited
Strictly Come Dancing		TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 2014 - 2016 music - 1 episode, 2016
Who's Doing the Dishes?	2016	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Am I Ugly?	2016	Documentary short music: "I Feel Pretty" - uncredited
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	2014-2016	TV Series music - 3 episodes
Show Jana Krause		TV Series lyrics - 1 episode, 2016 music - 1 episode, 2016
Castle	2015	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Voice	2015	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The 69th Annual Tony Awards	2015	TV Movie music: "Lucky to Be Me", "New York, New York", "Times Square Ballet"
The Bronze	2015	writer: "Ohio"
Cristela	2014	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Naeildo kantabille	2014	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Dancing with the Stars		TV Series writer - 1 episode, 2014 music - 1 episode, 2009
Great Performances		TV Series music - 5 episodes, 1999 - 2014 writer - 2 episodes, 2006 - 2014 lyrics - 1 episode, 2005
So You Think You Can Dance	2009-2014	TV Series music - 3 episodes
Beauty & the Beat: Tarja Turunen & Mike Terrana	2014	Video writer: "I Feel Pretty"
Naked	2013/IV	Short performer: "Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437"
Six by Sondheim	2013	TV Movie documentary music: "Something's Coming" / writer: "Prologue and Jet Song"
The Paul O'Grady Show	2013	TV Series writer - 1 episode
1st Independent Video Film Festival of Youtube 2013	2013	TV Movie music: "I Feel Pretty"
Secret Voices of Hollywood	2013	TV Movie documentary writer: "I Feel Pretty/A Boy Like That" from West Side Story
Bad Words	2013	performer: "Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, 1. Adagio Molto; Allegro Con Brio"
14.000.000.000$!!!	2013	TV Series music - 7 episodes
The Vision of Paolo Soleri: Prophet in the Desert	2013	Documentary performer: "Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 op.67 4th Movement"
From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook	2013	TV Movie writer: "Somewhere"
Home & Family	2013	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The 67th Annual Tony Awards	2013	TV Movie documentary music: "I Like to Be on a TV Show/You Gotta Get a Series/Television Sucks/What I Did for Love"
Òpera en texans	2013	TV Series music - 1 episode
Something's Coming	2012	TV Short music: "Something's Coming"
The Simpsons	1999-2012	TV Series music - 4 episodes
Silver Linings Playbook	2012	writer: "Maria"
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology	2012	Documentary performer: "Symphony No.9 in D Minor"
BBC Proms		TV Series music - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	2012	writer: "New York, New York"
Moonrise Kingdom	2012	"Volière, from Le Carnaval des animaux", "Pianistes, from Le Carnaval des animaux", "Le Coucou au Fond des Bois, from Le Carnaval des animaux", "Aquarium, from Le Carnaval des animaux" / performer: "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34: Themes A.-F.", "Volière, from Le Carnaval des animaux", "Pianistes, from Le Carnaval des animaux", "Le Coucou au Fond des Bois, from Le Carnaval des animaux", "Aquarium, from Le Carnaval des animaux", "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 3
Die Harald Schmidt Show	2012	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Game Change	2012	TV Movie writer: "I Feel Pretty"
Banda sonora	2012	TV Series music - 1 episode
Grey's Anatomy	2012	TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts	2011	TV Movie music: "Make Our Garden Grow"
Gent de paraula	2011	TV Series music - 2 episodes
Glee		TV Series music - 4 episodes, 2009 - 2011 writer - 3 episodes, 2011
LA Phil Live	2011	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Misfits	2010	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Chico & Rita	2010	writer: "On the Town"
Britain's Got Talent	2010	TV Series music - 2 episodes
Lights Out	2010	writer: "Somewhere" from "West Side Story", 1957
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard - September 26,2009	2010	Video writer: "Some Other Time"
Saturday Night Live	2010	TV Series music - 1 episode
50 años de	2009-2010	TV Series music - 2 episodes
Snow White	2009	TV Movie "Sehr langsam: O Mensch! Gib acht! - Partie II"
Curb Your Enthusiasm	2009	TV Series music - 1 episode
Dancing with the Stars	2009	TV Series writer - 1 episode
David Garrett Live in Berlin	2009	TV Movie writer: "Somewhere"
The 63rd Annual Tony Awards	2009	TV Special music: "The Rumble Tonight", "Tonight", "Tonight Finale" / writer: "Dance at the Gym"
La véritable histoire du Chat Botté	2009	writer: "I Feel Pretty"
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing	2009	Video documentary music: "New York, New York" - uncredited
Precious	2009/II	performer: "No. 7 Librera Me"
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	2008	writer: "Prologue"
Los grandes éxitos... y mucho más	2008	Video music: "Tonight"
Nancy LaMott: I'll Be Here with You	2008	Video writer: "Some Other Time"
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure	2008	TV Movie documentary music: "New York, New York" - uncredited
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos	2007	Video music: "Piano Concerto No. 3", "Piano Concerto No. 4", "Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor"
Venezuelan Brass Ensemble: Gran Fanfare	2007	Video writer: "Dances from West Side Story"
Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64	2007	Video music: "I Feel Pretty", "Maria" - uncredited
Kurt Masur: A Life in Music	2007	TV Movie music: "Mambo from West Side Story"
Ugly Betty		TV Series music - 1 episode, 2007 writer - 1 episode, 2006
Austin City Limits	2006	TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
The 60th Annual Tony Awards	2006	TV Special music: "Tonight"
Last Holiday	2006	writer: "I Feel Pretty"
The Berlin Concert	2006	TV Movie documentary writer: "West Side Story - Tonight"
The 59th Annual Tony Awards	2005	TV Special writer: "Somewhere"
SpongeBob SquarePants	2005	TV Series performer - 1 episode
American Idol	2004-2005	TV Series writer - 4 episodes
La neuvième	2004	TV Movie documentary performer: "9th Symphony"
The 58th Annual Tony Awards	2004	TV Special music: "Swing!"
The 76th Annual Academy Awards	2004	TV Special music: "Lost in Translation"
Harvie Krumpet	2003	Short performer: "Dies Irae from Messa da Requiem"
Australian Idol	2003	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The 57th Annual Tony Awards	2003	TV Special music: "New York, New York"
I Am David	2003	performer: "Winter from The Four Seasons"
Anger Management	2003	writer: "I Feel Pretty"
Six Feet Under	2003	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Lea Salonga Live	2003	Video documentary writer: "Something's Comin'"
Analyze That	2002	music: "Tonight" 1957, "I Feel Pretty" 1957, "Maria" 1957, "America" 1957, "Somewhere" 1957
Contact	2002	TV Movie performer: "Anitra's Dance", "Waltz", "Farandole"
Last Dance	2002	Documentary performer: "Songs to Poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn"
The 56th Annual Tony Awards	2002	TV Special music: "New York, New York", "America"
Death to Smoochy	2002	writer: "I Feel Pretty"
Sex and the City	2002	TV Series music - 1 episode
Salvador Escamilla: 40 anys d'ofici	2002	TV Movie music: "Escamilla Maria"
Eden	2001/I	performer: "Langsam schleppend wie ein Naturlaut Symphony n°1"
Friends	2001	TV Series music - 1 episode
Top Ten	2001	TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Monarch of the Glen	2000	TV Series music - 1 episode
The Closer You Get	2000	writer: "America"
Man on the Moon	1999	performer: "Bartered Bride Overture" 1866
Bringing Out the Dead	1999	performer: "Le Sacre du Pintemps/The Rite of Spring"
Frasier	1999	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Österreich - Unser Jahrhundert		TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 1999 writer - 1 episode, 1999
Sarah Brightman in Concert	1998	TV Movie music: "Somewhere", "I Feel Pretty", "Tonight"
Rock Family Trees	1998	TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
The Cruise	1998	Documentary performer: "Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Minor"
He Got Game	1998	performer: "Interlude"
It's Tough to Be a Bug	1998	Short music: "I Feel Pretty", "Tonight"
Leonard Bernstein's New York	1997	TV Movie documentary music: "Tonight"
Pet Shop Boys: Somewhere	1997	Video documentary writer: "Somewhere"
The 51st Annual Tony Awards	1997	TV Special music: "Bon Voyage"
Mystery Science Theater 3000		TV Series music - 13 episodes, 1989 - 1997 writer - 1 episode, 1993
Afterglow	1997	writer: "Somewhere"
The Devil's Own	1997	performer: "Voices of Spring, Op. 410"
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates	1996	TV Series music - 1 episode
Eddie	1996	writer: "NEW YORK, NEW YORK"
Kansanhuvit	1996	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Sunchaser	1996	performer: "Appalachian Spring"
3rd Rock from the Sun	1996	TV Series music - 1 episode
Grumpier Old Men	1995	writer: "'Maria' From 'West Side Story'"
It Takes Two	1995	performer: "Hoe Down"
Barbra: The Concert	1995	TV Special documentary music: "Somewhere" 1957 - uncredited
Hamish Macbeth	1995	TV Series music - 1 episode
100 Years at the Movies	1994	TV Short documentary writer: "On the Waterfront" - uncredited
Bert	1994	TV Series 1 episode
The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994	1994	TV Special music: "America" / writer: "Candide Overture"
Northern Exposure	1994	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Nanny	1994	TV Series music - 1 episode
My Life	1993	performer: "William Tell-Overture"
The Age of Innocence	1993	performer: "Artist's Life"
Malcolm X	1992	writer: "Big Stuff"
The Wonder Years		TV Series music - 1 episode, 1992 writer - 1 episode, 1989
Quantum Leap	1992	TV Series writer - 1 episode
MGM: When the Lion Roars	1992	TV Mini-Series documentary music - 1 episode
Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez	1992	TV Series music - 1 episode
Waiting for God	1991	TV Series music - 1 episode
The Metropolitan Opera Presents	1991	TV Series music - 1 episode
Defending Your Life	1991	music: "Something's Coming"
Sleeping with the Enemy	1991	music: "THE JET SONG"
Designing Women	1991	TV Series music - 1 episode
Breakfast with the Arts	1991	TV Series music - 1 episode
Alice Cooper Trashes the World	1990	Video writer: "Gutter Cat Vs The Jets"
Leonard Bernstein in Salzau	1990	Video performer: "Romeo et Juliette" excerpts
The Earth Day Special	1990	TV Special music: "Somewhere"
The 43rd Annual Tony Awards	1989	TV Special writer: "Dance at the Gym"
Another Woman	1988	"Symphony No.4 in G Major" 1901
Jean Sibelius: Symphonie No. 2 D-dur	1988	TV Movie performer: "Symphony No. 2 in D Major"
A Capitol Fourth	1987	TV Movie writer: "Candide Overture"
It's Garry Shandling's Show.	1987	TV Series music - 2 episodes
A Musical Toast: The Stars Shine on Public Television	1987	TV Movie music: "Some Other Time" / performer: "Some Other Time"
Zeppelin - Das fliegende Schiff	1987	Video documentary performer: "Mars, the Bringer of War" - uncredited
The 40th Annual Tony Awards	1986	TV Special music: "It's Love", "America"
One Voice	1986	TV Special documentary writer: "Somewhere", "Something's Coming"
Beyond Picasso	1986	Short "Overture Candide"
The Making of 'West Side Story'	1985	TV Movie documentary "West Side Story" / music: "West Side Story"
That's Dancing!	1985	Documentary music: "Cool"
The 38th Annual Tony Awards	1984	TV Special music: "Something's Comming"
Bernstein: Conductor, Soloist, Teacher	1984	TV Movie performer: "Piano Concerto No. 17", "Symphony No. 39"
Terms of Endearment	1983	music: "Gee, Officer Krupke" 1961
The Return of Captain Invincible	1983	music: "New York, New York"
The Magic of David Copperfield V	1983	TV Movie performer: "An American in Paris" - uncredited
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy	1982	performer: "Symphony No. 3 Scottish in A Minor" 1842
Sinatra: Concert for the Americas	1982	Video music: "Prologue" from 'West Side Story', "The Jet Song" From 'West Side Story' - uncredited
The Dick Cavett Show	1980-1981	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Heaven's Gate	1980	performer: "An der schönen, blauen Donau On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314" as "The Blue Danube Waltz"
The 34th Annual Tony Awards	1980	TV Special music: "America"
The Late Late Lien Show	1979	TV Series music - 1 episode
De Mike Burstyn show	1979	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Muppet Show		TV Series music - 2 episodes, 1978 - 1979 writer - 1 episode, 1976

Writer

Title	Year	Status
Trouble in Tahiti	2001	TV Movie libretto
Candide	1991	TV Movie lyrics / narrative written by
Teachers and Teaching: An Autobiographical Essay by Leonard Bernstein	1988	TV Movie documentary
Bernstein on Mahler	1985	TV Movie documentary script
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard		TV Mini-Series script - 5 episodes, 1976 script and narration for 'Oedipus Rex' - 1 episode, 1976
Leonard Bernstein Rehearses Mahler	1975	TV Movie documentary uncredited
What Makes a Gershwin Tune a Gershwin Tune?	1974	TV Movie commentary
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts		TV Series 25 episodes, 1959 - 1972 script - 22 episodes, 1958 - 1968 written by - 3 episodes, 1969 - 1970 script by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964 writer - 1 episode, 1963
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde	1971	TV Movie documentary commentary
Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna	1970	TV Special documentary
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution	1967	TV Movie documentary Mr. Bernstein's material
The Drama of Carmen	1962	TV Movie documentary
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Japan	1962	TV Movie documentary
Drama Into Opera: Oedipus Rex	1961	TV Movie
Romanticism in Music	1961	TV Movie
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Berlin	1960	TV Movie documentary
Rhythm	1960	TV Movie
The Creative Performer	1960	TV Movie documentary
The New York Philharmonic in Venice: The Ageless Mozart	1959	TV Movie
The Infinite Variety of Music	1959	TV Movie script
Preview: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony	1958	TV Movie script
Omnibus		TV Series 1 episode, 1957 script - 5 episodes, 1954 - 1958
Trouble in Tahiti	1952	TV Movie

Music Department

Title	Year	Status
West Side Story	2016	Video stock music completed
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC	2016	TV Movie
American Classics with Audra McDonald & American Ballet Theatre	2015	Video stock music
Bernstein & Bizet	2015	Video stock music
Live from Lincoln Center		TV Series composer - 2 episodes, 2013 orchestrator - 1 episode, 1986
Great Performances		TV Series music by - 1 episode, 2005 orchestrator - 1 episode, 2005
Leonard Bernstein: Candide	2003	TV Movie music by
Candide	1991	TV Movie conductor / music by / orchestrator
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem	1988	TV Special conductor
Side by Side by Sondheim	1987	TV Movie music: from "West Side Story"
Haydn: Die Schöpfung	1986	TV Special conductor
Der Rosenkönig	1986	conductor: "The Unanswered Question"
The Making of 'West Side Story'	1985	TV Movie documentary orchestrator
Schumann: The Symphonies	1984	TV Mini-Series conductor - 1 episode
Fidelio	1978	TV Movie conductor
Franz Liszt: Faust-Symphonie in drei Charakterstudie nach Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe	1976	TV Special conductor
Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 8	1975	TV Movie documentary conductor
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde	1972	TV Movie conductor
Oedipus Rex	1972	TV Special conductor
Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna	1970	TV Special documentary conductor / musician: piano
Bernstein in London: Verdi's Requiem	1970	TV Special conductor
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts		TV Series conductor - 1 episode, 1964 music director - 1 episode, 1963 musician - 1 episode, 1962
West Side Story	1961	music by
Romanticism in Music	1961	TV Movie conductor
Gunmen from Laredo	1959	composer: stock music - uncredited
Screaming Mimi	1958	composer: stock music
The Case Against Brooklyn	1958	composer: stock music - uncredited
Omnibus	1954-1958	TV Series conductor - 6 episodes
On the Town	1949	based upon the musical play: lyrics by / based upon the musical play with music by
The Black Parachute	1944	composer: stock music - uncredited

Composer

Title	Year	Status
West Side Storytime	2014	Short original music by
Loistokaupunki	1966	TV Movie
West Side Story	1961
Wonderful Town	1958	TV Movie
The Lark	1957	TV Movie
On the Waterfront	1954
Trouble in Tahiti	1952	TV Movie

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Candide	1991	TV Movie	Commentator
Schumann: The Symphonies	1984	TV Mini-Series	Dirigent
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts	1964	TV Series	With
Omnibus	1956	TV Series	Leonard Bernstein

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
Anita no perd el tren	2001	grateful acknowledgment
Shrunken Heads	1994	acknowledgment
Clive James' Postcard from...	1990	TV Series documentary with thanks to - 1 episode
That's Entertainment!	1974	acknowledgment: composer of the words and music

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos	2007	Video	Himself - Conductor
Brahms: The Piano Concertos	2007	Video	Himself (conductor)
The Love of Three Orchestras	1993	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Jean Sibelius: Symphonie No. 1, E moll	1991	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
Leonard Bernstein in Salzau	1990	Video	Himself (conductor)
Clive James' Postcard from...	1990	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Berlin Celebration Concert	1989	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Conductor and Commentator
Great Performances	1974-1989	TV Series	Himself
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem	1988	TV Special	Dirigent
Jean Sibelius: Symphonie No. 2 D-dur	1988	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
Teachers and Teaching: An Autobiographical Essay by Leonard Bernstein	1988	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Narrator and Conductor
American Masters	1987	TV Series documentary	Himself
Carnegie Hall: The Grand Reopening	1987	TV Movie	Himself
A Musical Toast: The Stars Shine on Public Television	1987	TV Movie	Himself
Leonard Bernstein: 'The Rite of Spring' in Rehearsal	1987	TV Movie	Himself
Haydn: Die Schöpfung	1986	TV Special	Himself - Conductor
Karsh: The Searching Eye	1986	Documentary	Himself
The Making of 'West Side Story'	1985	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Conductor
Night of 100 Stars II	1985	TV Movie	Himself
The 27th Annual Grammy Awards	1985	TV Special	Himself
Bernstein on Mahler	1985	TV Movie documentary	Narrator / Conductor
Tanglewood: A Place to Make Music	1985	TV Movie	Himself
Wurlitzer	1985	TV Series	Himself
Bernstein: Conductor, Soloist, Teacher	1984	TV Movie	Himself
Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli	1984	TV Movie	Himself
The Metropolitan Opera: Centennial Gala	1983	TV Special	Himself
Seven Portraits	1983	Short	Himself
Zubin and the I.P.O.	1983	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Levin Interviews	1982	TV Series	Himself
Bernstein/Beethoven	1982	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself (conductor)
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts	1980	TV Special	Himself - Honoree
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was...	1979	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts	1979	TV Special	Himself - Presenter: Aaron Copland
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts	1978	TV Movie	Himself
Leonard Bernstein: Reflections	1978	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Gala	1977	TV Movie	Himself
Chichester Psalms/Symphony #1 'Jeremiah'/Symphony #2 'The Age of Anxiety'	1977	TV Special documentary	Himself - Conductor
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard	1976	TV Mini-Series	Himself - Conductor and Commentator / Himself - Commentator and Conductor
Bernstein in London	1976	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Conductor
Franz Liszt: Faust-Symphonie in drei Charakterstudie nach Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe	1976	TV Special	Leitung
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto	1976	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 8	1975	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Dirigent
The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People	1974-1975	TV Series	Himself (conductor and commentator) / Himself
Leonard Bernstein Rehearses Mahler	1975	TV Movie documentary	Himself (narrator and conductor)
What Is Noise and What Is Music?	1975	TV Movie	Himself
Bernstein in Australia	1974	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)	1974	TV Movie	Himself (conductor)
P.I. Tschaikowsky: Symphony No. 5	1974	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
What Makes a Gershwin Tune a Gershwin Tune?	1974	TV Movie	Himself
A Musical Celebration to Stephen Sondheim	1973	TV Movie	Himself
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde	1972	TV Movie	Himself - Dirigent
Oedipus Rex	1972	TV Special	Conductor
C'è musica & musica	1972	TV Series documentary	Himself
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts	1958-1972	TV Series	Himself - Commentator and Conductor / Himself - Conductor and Commentator
The 14th Annual Grammy Awards	1972	TV Special	Himself
Musik zum Ansehen	1972	TV Series	Himself
Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction	1972	TV Movie documentary	Himself (conductor and commentator)
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9	1972	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
Music on 2	1971	TV Series	Himself - Conductor
Four Ways to Say Farewell	1971	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde	1971	TV Movie documentary	Himself (conductor and commentator)
Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna	1970	TV Special documentary	Himself / Narrator
Aquarius	1970	TV Series	Himself
Bernstein in London: Verdi's Requiem	1970	TV Special	Conductor
Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven - The Ninth Symphony in D Minor	1970	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
The 23rd Annual Tony Awards	1969	TV Special	Himself - Winner: Special Award
Tienerklanken	1966-1968	TV Series	Himself - Conductor of New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Journey to Jerusalem	1968	Documentary	Himself
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution	1967	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Sunday Night	1966	TV Series documentary	Himself
John F. Kennedy Memorial Concert	1963	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
Opening Night at Lincoln Center	1962	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The 14th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1962	TV Special	Himself - Winner
The Drama of Carmen	1962	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Commentator and Conductor
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Japan	1962	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Commentator and Conductor
A Joyful Noise	1961	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor
Drama Into Opera: Oedipus Rex	1961	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor and Commentator
Romanticism in Music	1961	TV Movie	Himself - Commentator and Conductor
Omnibus	1954-1961	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Conductor and Commentator / Himself - Conductor
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Berlin	1960	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Commentator and Conductor
Rhythm	1960	TV Movie	Himself (commentator and conductor)
The Creative Performer	1960	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Commentator and Conductor
Startime	1959	TV Series	Himself
The New York Philharmonic in Venice: The Ageless Mozart	1959	TV Movie	Himself - Commentator and Conductor
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Moscow	1959	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Commentator and Conductor
Monitor	1959	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Infinite Variety of Music	1959	TV Movie	Himselfs-sConductor / Commentator
Preview: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony	1958	TV Movie	Himself - Conductor and Commentator
The Ed Sullivan Show	1958	TV Series	Himself
Satchmo the Great	1957	Documentary	Himself - Leonard Bernstein - Orchestra Leader
Person to Person	1955	TV Series documentary	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Duels	2016	TV Series documentary	Himself
60 Minutes	2006-2012	TV Series documentary	Himself / Himself (segment "The Entertainers")
Great Performances	1993-2007	TV Series	Himself
Live from Lincoln Center	2006	TV Series	Himself
Secrets of New York	2005	TV Series documentary	Himself
20th Century Greats	2004	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
La neuvième	2004	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Fanfare for America: The Composer Aaron Copland	2001	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Life and Times	2000	TV Series documentary	Himself
Österreich - Unser Jahrhundert	1999	TV Series documentary	Himself
American Masters	1998	TV Series documentary	Himself
Harmoniques	1998	TV Series documentary	Himself
Biography	1995	TV Series documentary	Himself
Carnegie Hall at 100: A Place of Dreams	1991	Video documentary	Himself
Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies	1982	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2016	OFTA Film Hall of Fame	Online Film & Television Association	Behind the Scenes	Music
2014	IFMCA Award	International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)	Best Archival Release of an Existing Score - Re-Release or Re-Recording	On the Waterfront (1954)
1987	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Individual Achievement - Classical Music/Dance Programming - Performing	Carnegie Hall: The Grand Reopening (1987)
1976	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Classical Music Program	Great Performances (1971)
1972	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Single Program - Variety or Musical - Classical Music	Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein (1970)
1965	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment - Actors and Performers	New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958)
1961	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Music for Television	Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Berlin (1960)
1958	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Musical Contribution for Television	Omnibus (1952)
1957	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Musical Contribution for Television	Omnibus (1952)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2015	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Musical Theater Album
1991	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Music Video - Long Form
1985	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts	Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story (1985)
1984	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts	Great Performances (1971)
1982	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts	Bernstein/Beethoven (1982)
1975	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Classical Music Program	Great Performances (1971)
1957	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Best Male Personality - Continuing Performance
1955	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	On the Waterfront (1954)