Birthday: July 03, 1937
After years of composing music for stage shows, Yale-educated David Shire plunged into film scoring with 1971's One More Train to Rob. The soundtrack album of Shire's incidental score for Saturday Night Fever won him a 1977 Grammy Award, while his single "It Goes Like It Goes," written for 1979's Norma Rae, earned him an Oscar. In addition, Shire won a Tony for his work on the 1983 ...more- 1979
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Song
- Norma Rae
- win
- 1979
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Song
- The Promise
- nom
- 1977
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Original Score
- Saturday Night Fever
- nom
- 2009
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
- Composer (Music Score)
- 2007
- Zodiac
- Composer (Music Score)
- 2004
- The Tollbooth
- Composer (Music Score)
- 2002
- Two Against Time
- Composer (Music Score)
- 2002
- Ash Wednesday
- Composer (Music Score)












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