I asked him why. He said he wanted the picture to be the first hip science fiction movie. I said that's a great idea for an advertising agency, but it doesn't fit the film." He provided scores to science fiction films such as Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), the first animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (1978), and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). In the 1970s, he composed Bass Concerto Chamber Music 4 for bassist Buell Neidlinger and four string quartets with a second bass. In 1983, he composed the score for Cross Creek, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. In 1995, Nonesuch Records issued an album of music from both East of Eden and Rebel Without A Cause, played by the London Sinfonietta conducted by John Adams. In his seventies, Rosenman was diagnosed with Frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain condition with symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease. He died March 4, 2008, of a heart attack at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. Awards Leonard Rosenman earned two Academy Awards: Barry Lyndon (1975), for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation (music by Handel, Schubert and others) Bound for Glory (1976), for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score (the songs of Woody Guthrie) After receiving his second Oscar he quipped, "I write original music too, you know!" He received two additional Academy Award nominations: Cross Creek (1983), for Best Music, Original Score Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), for Best Music, Original Score He also received two Emmy Awards: Sybil (1976), for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special (Dramatic Underscore), with Alan and Marilyn Bergman Friendly Fire (1979), for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special Filmography East of Eden (1955) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) The Cobweb (1955) Edge of the City (1957) The Young Stranger (1957) Bombers B-52 (1957) Lafayette Escadrille (1958) Pork Chop Hill (1959) The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) The Bramble Bush (1960) The Savage Eye (1960) The Crowded Sky (1960) The Plunderers (1960) The Outsider (1961) The Chapman Report (1962) Hell Is for Heroes (1962) Convicts 4 (1962) Fantastic Voyage (1966) Stranger on the Run (1967) A Covenant with Death (1967) Countdown (1968) Hellfighters (1968) Any Second Now (1969) The Todd Killings