Irwin Kostal

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Irwin Kostal (October 1, 1911-November 23, 1994) is the Academy Award winning musical arranger of films including:

  1. West Side Story (one of several orchestrators under musical director Johnny Green),
  2. Mary Poppins
  3. The Sound of Music
  4. Half a Sixpence
  5. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  6. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  7. Charlotte's Web
  8. The Blue Bird
  9. Pete's Dragon
  10. The Magic of Lassie

In 1982 Kostal was the conductor of the digital re-recording of the music to Walt Disney's 1940 animated feature Fantasia. Although he used Leopold Stokowski's original arrangements, many purists were upset about the change, and the studio re-instated the original Stokowski recordings in 1990.

In 1983 he wrote the musical score and theme song to the Oscar-nominated featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol.

He was made a posthumous Disney Legend in 2004.

[edit] Academy Awards

WON

  • Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: West Side Story (1961) (shared the award with Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, and Sid Ramin)
  • Best Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment: "The Sound of Music" (1965)

NOMINATED

  • Best Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment: Mary Poppins (1964)
  • Best Original Song Score and Adaptation: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
  • Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score: Pete's Dragon (1977)
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