Stephen Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998, music and lyrics), Enchanted (2007), and Disenchanted (2022). Schwartz has earned numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He has received nominations for six Tony Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. He received the Tony Award's Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2015. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Schwartz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- March 6, 1948 (78)
- New York City, New York, USA
- Writer, composer and actor, also producer
- 16 on MovieCove · 30 credits in all
What are Stephen Schwartz's films like?
Across their 11 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 11
Light 8 · Serious 2 · Dark 1
A split, not a type: Grounded 4 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 6
A split, not a type: Gentle 6 · Charged 2 · Intense 3
Steady 7 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 6 · Funny 1
A split, not a type: Slow burn 6 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 0
Casual 6 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 8 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 10 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy4
- Bittersweet6
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Stephen Schwartz's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 13 of their 16 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Disney+ (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Stephen Schwartz's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
30 credits, 16 with a MovieCove page; 13 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Wicked: For Good(2025)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Wicked(2024)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Children of Eden Jr. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Disenchanted(2022)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
tick, tick... BOOM!(2021)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Leonard Bernstein Mass (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Godspell (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Russian Broadway Shut Down (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Enchanted(2007)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Geppetto (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
The Prince of Egypt(1998)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Pocahontas(1995)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all filmsJagger und Spaghetti (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
The Magic Show (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)
Working (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)
American Playhouse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)
Leonard Bernstein's Mass (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Godspell(1973)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Hunchback (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Marley (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 29 titles, 27 of them dated from 1973 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Wicked (2024)
Highest rated
Wicked: One Wonderful Night (2025)
Most popular right now
Wicked (2024)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
3 Oscars, a Golden Globe and 4 other major awards from 30 major nominations, 1972–2026.
- Golden Globe, nominated ×2 · Best Original Song - Motion Picture
+2 other major bodies · 3 nominations
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Instrumental Composition
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Song
- Oscar, nominated · Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Musical Theater Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Musical Theater Album
- Grammy Award, nominated ×2 · Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
- Oscar, nominated ×3 · Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Song - Motion Picture
- Grammy Award, won · Best Musical Show Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
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- Oscar, won · Best Music, Original Song
- Oscar, nominated · Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Score - Motion Picture
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Song - Motion Picture
+1 other major body · 1 win
- Critics Choice Award, won · Best Song
- Oscar, nominated · Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score
- Oscar, won · Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score
- Oscar, won · Best Music, Original Song
- Golden Globe, won · Best Original Song - Motion Picture
+1 other major body · 1 win and 1 nomination
- Grammy Award, won · Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Musical Album for Children
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Score from the Original Cast Show Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Score from the Original Cast Show Album
- Grammy Award, won · Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Stephen Schwartz's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 82nd percentile, the median of all 16; across their 11 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 81st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up10
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 16 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Universally Panned1
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the dialogue 47/100 and the plot and story 39/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Stephen Schwartz work with?
People who share at least 2 of Stephen Schwartz's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Bonnie Comley shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Jon M. ChuShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Jon M. Chu
Writers
- Dana FoxShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Dana Fox
- Gregory MaguireShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Gregory Maguire
- Roger O. HirsonShared titles: Pippin: 50th Anniversary Concert (2025), Pippin: His Life and Times (1982)See all 2 shared titles with Roger O. Hirson
- Winnie HolzmanShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Winnie Holzman
Actors
- Ariana GrandeShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Ariana Grande
- Cynthia ErivoShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Cynthia Erivo
- Ethan SlaterShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Ethan Slater
- Jeff GoldblumShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Jeff Goldblum
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Alice BrooksShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Alice Brooks
- John PowellShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with John Powell
- Myron KersteinShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Myron Kerstein
- Wolfgang HeldShared titles: You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way) (2025), Studs Terkel: Listening to America (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Wolfgang Held
Producers
- Bonnie ComleyShared titles: Pippin: 50th Anniversary Concert (2025), You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way) (2025), Stephen Schwartz's Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook (2021)See all 3 shared titles with Bonnie Comley
- Stewart F. LaneShared titles: Pippin: 50th Anniversary Concert (2025), You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way) (2025), Stephen Schwartz's Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook (2021)See all 3 shared titles with Stewart F. Lane
- David NicksayShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with David Nicksay
- David StoneShared titles: Wicked: For Good (2025), Wicked (2024)See all 2 shared titles with David Stone
