1940Nominee
Best Performance
Fantasia
Leopold Stokowski
Actor
London, England, UK
April 18, 1882
Biography
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was an English conductor of Jewish-Polish and Irish descent. One of the leading and influential conductors of the early and mid-20th Century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and for appearing in the film Fantasia. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2000Nominee
Best Performance
Fantasia 2000
1937Nominee
Best Performance
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Career Highlights
1947Highlight
Best Performance
Carnegie Hall
2017Highlight
Best Performance
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts