TCM's mini-marathon pays tribute to composers

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The past few weeks have been rough on the film music community with the deaths of Jerry Goldsmith, David Raksin and, last week, Elmer Bernstein. The trio, who combined for more than 30 Oscar nominations and multiple wins, will be honored by Turner Classic Movies with a mini-marathon Sept. 3.
Although all three composers will be saluted with movies, much of the focus will be on Bernstein, who died at the age of 82. TCM will show six of the films Bernstein scored, highlighting his Oscar nominated work on "Hawaii" and "The Magnificent Seven." Also featured are "Kings Go Forth," "Birdman of Alcatraz," "The Hallelujah Trail" and "The Carpetbaggers."
Bernstein won his only Oscar for 1967's "Thoroughly Modern Millie."
TCM will show 1975's "The Wind and the Lion," for which Goldsmith earned an Oscar nomination for original score. Although he wrote scores for some of cinema's greatest movies, including "Chinatown" and "Patton," Goldsmith's lone Oscar was for the 1976 film "The Omen." He died July 21 at 75.
Raksin died Aug. 9 at the age of 92. Perhaps best known for the haunting score to Otto Preminger's "Laura," he earned an Oscar nomination for 1958 film "Separate Tables," which will air on TCM.