Joseph Gershenson is American conductor and composer, US film industry fig- ure, producer and music director of films in Hollywood (Universal Pictures), twice nominated for the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts Awards Oscar (1955, 1967). In 1917 he moved with his parents to the United States. Since 1920 he hasbeen aconductor and director of theater orchestras accompanying silent films. He worked for Universal Pictures, where he was director of the music de- partment from 1940 until his retirement in 1969. He was the musical director of virtually al of the studio's films between 1949 and 1969. As a producer and director from 1940 to 1948 he also performed under the pseudonym Joseph Sanford. He was the conductor and director of The Universal International Orchestra, who took part in recording soundtracks for films of the film studio, and in solo activities and recor- ding (the orchestra, in particular, accompanied Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.). Joseph Gershenson was nominated for "Oscar" in 1955 for the motion picture The of Glenn Miller Story, with James Stewart in the lead role, and in 1967 for the musical motion picture Thoroughly Modern Millie, starring Julie Andrews. Author of music for the American version of the Soviet animated film Snow Queen (1959, with Frank Skinner). Among the famous movie Joseph Gershenson - Spartacus, Father Goose, Imitation ofLife. He worked especially fruitfully in the western genre.