Steven C. Smith
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Steven C. Smith

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Steven C. Smith is a four-time Emmy-nominated producer and author whose latest book is Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer (Oxford University Press; April 2020). His biography A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and served as the primary research source for the Oscar-nominated documentary Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann. He has written about film and music for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly and the Hollywood Reporter. A former supervising producer of the TV series A&E Biography and AMC Backstory, his 200-plus documentaries have received sixteen Telly Awards. They include The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg; The Lure of the Desert: Martin Scorsese on Lawrence of Arabia; and Thou Shalt Not! Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood. Smith lives in Los Angeles.
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