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Academy Award for Best Original Score

Motion picture award for music

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name	Academy Award for Best Original Score
image	Daniel blumberg 2024 (cropped).jpg
caption	2024 recipient: Daniel Blumberg
presenter	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
country	United States
year	(for films released in 1934)
holder_label	Most recent winner
holder	Daniel Blumberg
The Brutalist (2024)
website
most_wins	Alfred Newman (9)	most_nominations=John Williams (49)

The Brutalist (2024)

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. Some pre-existing music is allowed, though, but a contending film must include a minimum of original music. This minimum since 2021 is established as 35% of the music, which is raised to 80% for sequels and franchise films. Fifteen scores are shortlisted before nominations are announced.

History

The Academy began awarding movies for their scores in 1935. The category was originally called Best Scoring. At the time, winners and nominees were a mix of original scores and adaptations of pre-existing material. Following the controversial win of Charles Previn for One Hundred Men and a Girl in 1938, a film without a credited composer that featured pre-existing classical music, the Academy added a Best Original Score category in 1939. In 1942, the distinction between the two Scoring categories changed slightly as they were renamed to Best Music Score of a Dramatic Picture and Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. This marked the first time the category was split into separate genres. From 1942 to 1985, musical scores had their own category, with the exception of 1958, 1981, and 1982. During that time, both categories had many name changes:

;1. Non-musical scores

Best Music Score of a Dramatic Picture (1942)
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (1943–1962)
Best Music Score—substantially original (1963–1966)
Best Original Music Score (1967–1968)
Best Original Score—for a motion picture [not a musical] (1969–1970)
Best Original Score (1971, 1976–1995, 2000–present)
Best Original Dramatic Score (1972–1975, 1996–1999)

;2. Musical scores

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (1942–1962)
Best Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment (1963–1968)
Best Score of a Musical Picture—original or adaptation (1969–1970)
Best Original Song Score (1971)
Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score (1972–1973)
Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation (1974–1976)
Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score (1977–1978)
Best Adaptation Score (1979)
Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation -or- Adaptation Score (1980, 1983)
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score (1984)
Best Original Song Score (1985)
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score (1996–1999)

Following the wins of four Walt Disney Feature Animation films in six years from 1990 to 1995 (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King) during a period called the Disney Renaissance, it was decided to once again split the Best Original Score category by genres, this time by combining comedies and musicals together. As Alan Bergman, the chairman of the Academy's music branch said, "People were voting for the songs, not the underscores. We felt that Academy members outside the music branch didn't distinguish between the two. So when a score like The Lion King is competing against a drama like Forrest Gump, it's apples and oranges – not in the quality of the score, but in the way it functions in the movie. There's a big difference." The category was therefore split into Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Musical or Comedy Score in 1996. This change proved unpopular in the other branches of the Academy as Charles Bernstein, chairman of the Academy's rules committee, noted that "no other Oscar category depended on a film's genre" and "the job of composing an underscore for a romantic comedy is not substantially different from working on a heavy drama." This split was reverted in 2000.

In 2020, rules were changed to require that a film's score include a minimum of 60% original music. Franchise films and sequels must include a minimum of 80% new music. In 2021, the rules were changed again, lowering the minimum percentage of original music from 60% to 35% of the total music in the film.

Academy Award for Best Original Musical

The Academy Award for Best Original Musical is a category that was re-established in 2000 after the Best Original Musical or Comedy Score category was retired. It has never been awarded in its present form due to a prolonged drought of films meeting the sufficient eligibility requirements. The Music Branch Executive Committee of the Academy decides whether there are enough quality submissions to justify its activation.

According to the rules, the Best Original Musical is defined as follows:

Winners and nominees

The following is the list of nominated composers organized by year, and listing both films and composers. The years shown in the following list of winners are the production years, thus a reference to 1967 means the Oscars presented in 1968 for films released in 1967.

1930s

Year	Film	Nominees	1934
(7th)
1935
(8th)	1936
(9th)	1937
(10th)
1938
(11th)	1939
(12th)
One Night of Love	Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (Thematic music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn)
The Gay Divorcee	RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Kenneth Webb and Sam Hoffenstein)
The Lost Patrol	RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner)
The Informer	RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner)
Captain Blood (write-in)	Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
Mutiny on the Bounty	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart)
Peter Ibbetson	Paramount Studio Music Department, Irvin Talbot, head of department (Score by Ernst Toch)
Anthony Adverse	Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
The Garden of Allah	Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner)
The General Died at Dawn	Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by Werner Janssen)
Winterset	RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Nathaniel Shilkret, head of department (Score by Shilkret)
One Hundred Men and a Girl	Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department (no composer credit)
The Hurricane	Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Newman)
In Old Chicago	20th Century-Fox Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (no composer credit)
The Life of Emile Zola	Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
Lost Horizon	Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin)
Make a Wish	Principal Productions, Hugo Riesenfeld, head of department (Score by Riesenfeld)
Maytime	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart)
Portia on Trial	Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo, head of department (Score by Colombo)
The Prisoner of Zenda	Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Newman)
Quality Street	RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb, head of department (Score by Webb)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by Frank Churchill, Harline and Paul Smith)
Something to Sing About	Grand National Studio Music Department, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, head of department (Score by Victor Schertzinger)
Souls at Sea	Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder)
Way Out West	Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley, head of department (Score by Hatley)
Original Score
The Adventures of Robin Hood	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Army Girl	Victor Young
Block-Heads	Marvin Hatley
Blockade	Werner Janssen
Breaking the Ice	Victor Young
The Cowboy and the Lady	Alfred Newman
If I Were King	Richard Hageman
Marie Antoinette	Herbert Stothart
Pacific Liner	Russell Bennett
Suez	Louis Silvers
The Young in Heart	Franz Waxman
Scoring
Alexander's Ragtime Band	Alfred Newman
Carefree	Victor Baravalle
Girls' School	Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone
The Goldwyn Follies	Alfred Newman
Jezebel	Max Steiner
Mad About Music	Charles Previn and Frank Skinner
Storm Over Bengal	Cy Feuer
Sweethearts	Herbert Stothart
There Goes My Heart	Marvin Hatley
Tropic Holiday	Boris Morros
The Young in Heart	Franz Waxman
Original Score
The Wizard of Oz	Herbert Stothart
Dark Victory	Max Steiner
Eternally Yours	Werner Janssen
Golden Boy	Victor Young
Gone with the Wind	Max Steiner
Gulliver's Travels	Victor Young
The Man in the Iron Mask	Lud Gluskin and Lucien Moraweck
Man of Conquest	Victor Young
Nurse Edith Cavell	Anthony Collins
Of Mice and Men	Aaron Copland
The Rains Came	Alfred Newman
Wuthering Heights
Scoring
Stagecoach	Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken
Babes in Arms	Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll
First Love	Charles Previn
The Great Victor Herbert	Phil Boutelje and Arthur Lange
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Alfred Newman
Intermezzo	Louis Forbes
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Dimitri Tiomkin
Of Mice and Men	Aaron Copland
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
She Married a Cop	Cy Feuer
Swanee River	Louis Silvers
They Shall Have Music	Alfred Newman
Way Down South	Victor Young

1940s

Year	Film	Nominees	1940
(13th)	1941
(14th)	1942
(15th)	1943
(16th)	1944
(17th)	1945
(18th)	1946
(19th)	1947
(20th)	1948
(21st)	1949
(22nd)
Original Score
Pinocchio	Leigh Harline, Paul Smith and Ned Washington
Arizona	Victor Young
Dark Command
The Fight for Life	Louis Gruenberg
The Great Dictator	Meredith Willson
The House of the Seven Gables	Frank Skinner
The Howards of Virginia	Richard Hageman
The Letter	Max Steiner
The Long Voyage Home	Richard Hageman
The Mark of Zorro	Alfred Newman
My Favorite Wife	Roy Webb
North West Mounted Police	Victor Young
One Million B.C.	Werner Heymann
Our Town	Aaron Copland
Rebecca	Franz Waxman
The Thief of Bagdad	Miklós Rózsa
Waterloo Bridge	Herbert Stothart
Scoring
Tin Pan Alley	Alfred Newman
Arise, My Love	Victor Young
Hit Parade of 1941	Cy Feuer
Irene	Anthony Collins
Our Town	Aaron Copland
The Sea Hawk	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Second Chorus	Artie Shaw
Spring Parade	Charles Previn
Strike Up the Band	Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Devil and Daniel Webster	Bernard Herrmann
Back Street	Frank Skinner
Ball of Fire	Alfred Newman
Cheers for Miss Bishop	Edward Ward
Citizen Kane	Bernard Herrmann
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Franz Waxman
Hold Back the Dawn	Victor Young
How Green Was My Valley	Alfred Newman
King of the Zombies	Edward Kay
Ladies in Retirement	Morris Stoloff and Ernst Toch
The Little Foxes	Meredith Willson
Lydia	Miklós Rózsa
Mercy Island	Cy Feuer and Walter Scharf
Sergeant York	Max Steiner
So Ends Our Night	Louis Gruenberg
Sundown	Miklós Rózsa
Suspicion	Franz Waxman
Tanks a Million	Edward Ward
That Uncertain Feeling	Werner Heymann
This Woman Is Mine	Richard Hageman
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Dumbo	Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace
All-American Co-Ed	Edward Ward
Birth of the Blues	Robert E. Dolan
Buck Privates	Charles Previn
The Chocolate Soldier	Herbert Stothart and Bronisław Kaper
Ice-Capades	Cy Feuer
The Strawberry Blonde	Heinz Roemheld
Sun Valley Serenade	Emil Newman
Sunny	Anthony Collins
You'll Never Get Rich	Morris Stoloff
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Now, Voyager	Max Steiner
Arabian Nights	Frank Skinner
Bambi	Frank Churchill (p.n.) and Edward Plumb
The Black Swan	Alfred Newman
The Corsican Brothers	Dimitri Tiomkin
Flying Tigers	Victor Young
The Gold Rush	Max Terr
I Married a Witch	Roy Webb
Joan of Paris
Jungle Book	Miklós Rózsa
Klondike Fury	Edward Kay
The Pride of the Yankees	Leigh Harline
Random Harvest	Herbert Stothart
The Shanghai Gesture	Richard Hageman
Silver Queen	Victor Young
Take a Letter, Darling
The Talk of the Town	Friedrich Hollaender and Morris Stoloff
To Be or Not to Be	Werner Heymann
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Yankee Doodle Dandy	Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld
Flying with Music	Edward Ward
For Me and My Gal	Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll
Holiday Inn	Robert E. Dolan
It Started with Eve	Hans J. Salter and Charles Previn
Johnny Doughboy	Walter Scharf
My Gal Sal	Alfred Newman
You Were Never Lovelier	Leigh Harline
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Song of Bernadette	Alfred Newman
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday	Frank Skinner and Hans J. Salter
Casablanca	Max Steiner
Commandos Strike at Dawn	Morris Stoloff and Louis Gruenberg
The Fallen Sparrow	Roy Webb and Constantin Bakaleinikoff
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Victor Young
Hangmen Also Die!	Hanns Eisler
Hi Diddle Diddle	Phil Boutelje
In Old Oklahoma	Walter Scharf
Johnny Come Lately	Leigh Harline
The Kansan	Gerard Carbonara
Lady of Burlesque	Arthur Lange
Madame Curie	Herbert Stothart
The Moon and Sixpence	Dimitri Tiomkin
The North Star	Aaron Copland
Victory Through Air Power	Edward Plumb, Paul Smith and Oliver Wallace
Scoring of a Musical Picture
This Is the Army	Ray Heindorf
Coney Island	Alfred Newman
Hit Parade of 1943	Walter Scharf
Phantom of the Opera	Edward Ward
Saludos Amigos	Edward Plumb, Paul Smith and Charles Wolcott
The Sky's the Limit	Leigh Harline
Something to Shout About	Morris Stoloff
Stage Door Canteen	Fred Rich
Star Spangled Rhythm	Robert E. Dolan
Thousands Cheer	Herbert P. Stothart
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Since You Went Away	Max Steiner
Address Unknown	Morris Stoloff and Ernst Toch
The Adventures of Mark Twain	Max Steiner
The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Dimitri Tiomkin
Casanova Brown	Arthur Lange
Christmas Holiday	Hans J. Salter
Double Indemnity	Miklós Rózsa
The Fighting Seabees	Walter Scharf and Roy Webb
The Hairy Ape	Michel Michelet and Edward Paul
It Happened Tomorrow	Robert Stolz
Jack London	Fred Rich
Kismet	Herbert Stothart
None but the Lonely Heart	Constantin Bakaleinikoff and Hanns Eisler
The Princess and the Pirate	David Rose
Summer Storm	Karl Hajos
Three Russian Girls	Franke Harling
Up in Mabel's Room	Edward Paul
Voice in the Wind	Michel Michelet
Wilson	Alfred Newman
The Woman of the Town	Miklós Rózsa
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Cover Girl	Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon
Brazil	Walter Scharf
Higher and Higher	Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Hollywood Canteen	Ray Heindorf
Irish Eyes Are Smiling	Alfred Newman
Knickerbocker Holiday	Werner Heymann and Kurt Weill
Lady in the Dark	Robert Emmett Dolan
Lady, Let's Dance	Edward Kay
Meet Me in St. Louis	Georgie Stoll
The Merry Monahans	Hans J. Salter
Minstrel Man	Ferde Grofé and Leo Erdody
Sensations of 1945	Mahlon Merrick
Song of the Open Road	Charles Previn
Up in Arms	Louis Forbes and Ray Heindorf
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Spellbound	Miklós Rózsa
The Bells of St. Mary's	Robert E. Dolan
Brewster's Millions	Louis Forbes
Captain Kidd	Werner Janssen
The Enchanted Cottage	Roy Webb
Flame of Barbary Coast	Morton Scott and Dale Butts
G. I. Honeymoon	Edward J. Kay
G. I. Joe	Louis Applebaum and Ann Ronell
Guest in the House	Werner Janssen
Guest Wife	Daniele Amfitheatrof
The Keys of the Kingdom	Alfred Newman
The Lost Weekend	Miklós Rózsa
Love Letters	Victor Young
The Man Who Walked Alone	Karl Hajos
Objective, Burma!	Franz Waxman
Paris Underground	Alexandre Tansman
A Song to Remember	Miklós Rózsa and Morris Stoloff
The Southerner	Werner Janssen
This Love of Ours	Hans J. Salter
The Valley of Decision	Herbert Stothart
The Woman in the Window	Arthur Lange and Hugo Friedhofer
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Anchors Aweigh	Georgie Stoll
Belle of the Yukon	Arthur Lange
Can't Help Singing	Jerome Kern (p.n.) and Hans J. Salter
Hitchhike to Happiness	Morton Scott
Incendiary Blonde	Robert E. Dolan
Rhapsody in Blue	Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner
State Fair	Alfred Newman and Charles Henderson
Sunbonnet Sue	Edward J. Kay
The Three Caballeros	Edward Plumb, Paul Smith and Charles Wolcott
Tonight and Every Night	Marlin Skiles and Morris Stoloff
Why Girls Leave Home	Walter Greene
Wonder Man	Louis Forbes and Ray Heindorf
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Best Years of Our Lives	Hugo Friedhofer
Anna and the King of Siam	Bernard Herrmann
Henry V	William Walton
Humoresque	Franz Waxman
The Killers	Miklós Rózsa
Scoring of a Musical Picture
The Jolson Story	Morris Stoloff
Blue Skies	Robert Emmett Dolan
Centennial Summer	Alfred Newman
The Harvey Girls	Lennie Hayton
Night and Day	Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
A Double Life	Miklós Rózsa
The Bishop's Wife	Hugo Friedhofer
Captain from Castile	Alfred Newman
Forever Amber	David Raksin
Life with Father	Max Steiner
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Mother Wore Tights	Alfred Newman
Fiesta	Johnny Green
My Wild Irish Rose	Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner
Road to Rio	Robert Emmett Dolan
Song of the South	Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul Smith and Charles Wolcott
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Red Shoes	Brian Easdale
Hamlet	William Walton
Joan of Arc	Hugo Friedhofer
Johnny Belinda	Max Steiner
The Snake Pit	Alfred Newman
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Easter Parade	Johnny Green and Roger Edens
The Emperor Waltz	Victor Young
The Pirate	Lennie Hayton
Romance on the High Seas	Ray Heindorf
When My Baby Smiles at Me	Alfred Newman
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Heiress	Aaron Copland
Beyond the Forest	Max Steiner
Champion	Dimitri Tiomkin
Scoring of a Musical Picture
On the Town	Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton
Jolson Sings Again	Morris Stoloff and George Duning
Look for the Silver Lining	Ray Heindorf

1950s

Year	Film	Nominees	1950
(23rd)	1951
(24th)	1952
(25th)	1953
(26th)	1954
(27th)	1955
(28th)	1956
(29th)	1957
(30th)
1958
(31st)	1959
(32nd)
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Sunset Boulevard	Franz Waxman
All About Eve	Alfred Newman
The Flame and the Arrow	Max Steiner
No Sad Songs for Me	George Duning
Samson and Delilah	Victor Young
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Annie Get Your Gun	Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens
Cinderella	Paul Smith and Oliver Wallace
I'll Get By	Lionel Newman
Three Little Words	André Previn
The West Point Story	Ray Heindorf
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
A Place in the Sun	Franz Waxman
David and Bathsheba	Alfred Newman
Death of a Salesman	Alex North
Quo Vadis	Miklós Rózsa
A Streetcar Named Desire	Alex North
Scoring of a Musical Picture
An American in Paris	Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green
Alice in Wonderland	Oliver Wallace
The Great Caruso	Peter Herman Adler and Johnny Green
On the Riviera	Alfred Newman
Show Boat	Adolph Deutsch and Conrad Salinger
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
High Noon	Dimitri Tiomkin
Ivanhoe	Miklós Rózsa
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima	Max Steiner
The Thief	Herschel Burke Gilbert
Viva Zapata!	Alex North
Scoring of a Musical Picture
With a Song in My Heart	Alfred Newman
Hans Christian Andersen	Walter Scharf
The Jazz Singer	Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner
The Medium	Gian Carlo Menotti
Singin' in the Rain	Lennie Hayton
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Lili	Bronisław Kaper
Above and Beyond	Hugo Friedhofer
From Here to Eternity	George Duning and Morris Stoloff
Julius Caesar	Miklós Rózsa
This Is Cinerama	Louis Forbes
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Call Me Madam	Alfred Newman
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.	Friedrich Hollaender and Morris Stoloff
The Band Wagon	Adolph Deutsch
Calamity Jane	Ray Heindorf
Kiss Me Kate	Saul Chaplin and André Previn
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The High and the Mighty	Dimitri Tiomkin
The Caine Mutiny	Max Steiner
Genevieve	Larry Adler
On the Waterfront	Leonard Bernstein
The Silver Chalice	Franz Waxman
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Saul Chaplin and Adolph Deutsch
Carmen Jones	Herschel Burke Gilbert
The Glenn Miller Story	Joseph Gershenson and Henry Mancini
A Star Is Born	Ray Heindorf
There's No Business Like Show Business	Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	Alfred Newman
Battle Cry	Max Steiner
The Man with the Golden Arm	Elmer Bernstein
Picnic	George Duning
The Rose Tattoo	Alex North
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Oklahoma!	Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch
Daddy Long Legs	Alfred Newman
Guys and Dolls	Jay Blackton and Cyril J. Mockridge
It's Always Fair Weather	André Previn
Love Me or Leave Me	Percy Faith and Georgie Stoll
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Around the World in 80 Days	Victor Young (p.r.)
Anastasia	Alfred Newman
Between Heaven and Hell	Hugo Friedhofer
Giant	Dimitri Tiomkin
The Rainmaker	Alex North
Scoring of a Musical Picture
The King and I	Ken Darby and Newman
The Best Things in Life Are Free	Lionel Newman
The Eddy Duchin Story	George Duning and Morris Stoloff
High Society	Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green
Meet Me in Las Vegas	Johnny Green and Georgie Stoll
The Bridge on the River Kwai	Malcolm Arnold
An Affair to Remember	Hugo Friedhofer
Boy on a Dolphin
Perri	Paul Smith
Raintree County	Johnny Green
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Old Man and the Sea	Dimitri Tiomkin
The Big Country	Jerome Moross
Separate Tables	David Raksin
White Wilderness	Oliver Wallace
The Young Lions	Hugo Friedhofer
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Gigi	André Previn
The Bolshoi Ballet	Yuri Fayer and Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Damn Yankees	Ray Heindorf
Mardi Gras	Lionel Newman
South Pacific	Ken Darby and Alfred Newman
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Ben-Hur	Miklós Rózsa
The Diary of Anne Frank	Alfred Newman
The Nun's Story	Franz Waxman
On the Beach	Ernest Gold
Pillow Talk	Frank De Vol
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Porgy and Bess	Ken Darby and André Previn
The Five Pennies	Leith Stevens
Li'l Abner	Joseph J. Lilley and Nelson Riddle
Say One for Me	Lionel Newman
Sleeping Beauty	George Bruns

1960s

Year	Film	Nominees	1960
(33rd)	1961
(34th)	1962
(35th)	1963
(36th)	1964
(37th)	1965
(38th)	1966
(39th)	1967
(40th)	1968
(41st)	1969
(42nd)
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Exodus	Ernest Gold
The Alamo	Dimitri Tiomkin
Elmer Gantry	André Previn
The Magnificent Seven	Elmer Bernstein
Spartacus	Alex North
Scoring of a Musical Picture
Song Without End	Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman
Bells Are Ringing	André Previn
Can-Can	Nelson Riddle
Let's Make Love	Earle Hagen and Lionel Newman
Pepe	Johnny Green
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Breakfast at Tiffany's	Henry Mancini
El Cid	Miklós Rózsa
Fanny	Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman
The Guns of Navarone	Dimitri Tiomkin
Summer and Smoke	Elmer Bernstein
Scoring of a Musical Picture
West Side Story	Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Irwin Kostal and Sid Ramin
Babes in Toyland	George Bruns
Flower Drum Song	Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
Khovanshchina	Dmitri Shostakovich
Paris Blues	Duke Ellington
Music Score — Substantially Original
Lawrence of Arabia	Maurice Jarre
Freud	Jerry Goldsmith
Mutiny on the Bounty	Bronisław Kaper
Taras Bulba	Franz Waxman
To Kill a Mockingbird	Elmer Bernstein
Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment
The Music Man	Ray Heindorf
Billy Rose's Jumbo	Georgie Stoll
Gigot	Michel Magne
Gypsy	Frank Perkins
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	Leigh Harline
Music Score — Substantially Original
Tom Jones	John Addison
55 Days at Peking	Dimitri Tiomkin
Cleopatra	Alex North
How the West Was Won	Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Ernest Gold
Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment
Irma la Douce	André Previn
Bye Bye Birdie	Johnny Green
A New Kind of Love	Leith Stevens
Sundays and Cybele	Maurice Jarre
The Sword in the Stone	George Bruns
Music Score — Substantially Original
Mary Poppins	Sherman Brothers
Becket	Laurence Rosenthal
The Fall of the Roman Empire	Dimitri Tiomkin
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Frank De Vol
The Pink Panther	Henry Mancini
Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment
My Fair Lady	André Previn
A Hard Day's Night	George Martin
Mary Poppins	Irwin Kostal
Robin and the 7 Hoods	Nelson Riddle
The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliott, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson and Leo Shuken
Music Score — Substantially Original
Doctor Zhivago	Maurice Jarre
The Agony and the Ecstasy	Alex North
The Greatest Story Ever Told	Alfred Newman
A Patch of Blue	Jerry Goldsmith
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand
Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment
The Sound of Music	Irwin Kostal
Cat Ballou	Frank De Vol
The Pleasure Seekers	Sandy Courage and Lionel Newman
A Thousand Clowns	Don Walker
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Michel Legrand
Original Music Score
Born Free	John Barry
The Bible: In the Beginning...	Toshiro Mayuzumi
Hawaii	Elmer Bernstein
The Sand Pebbles	Jerry Goldsmith
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Alex North
Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Ken Thorne
The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Luis Bacalov
Return of the Seven	Elmer Bernstein
The Singing Nun	Harry Sukman
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off	Al Ham
Original Music Score
Thoroughly Modern Millie	Elmer Bernstein
Cool Hand Luke	Lalo Schifrin
Doctor Dolittle	Leslie Bricusse
Far from the Madding Crowd	Richard Rodney Bennett
In Cold Blood	Quincy Jones
Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment
Camelot	Ken Darby and Alfred Newman
Doctor Dolittle	Sandy Courage and Lionel Newman
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Frank De Vol
Thoroughly Modern Millie	Joseph Gershenson and André Previn
Valley of the Dolls	John Williams
Original Score — For a Motion Picture (Not a Musical)
The Lion in Winter	John Barry
The Fox	Lalo Schifrin
Planet of the Apes	Jerry Goldsmith
The Shoes of the Fisherman	Alex North
The Thomas Crown Affair	Michel Legrand
Scoring of a Musical Picture — Original or Adaptation
Oliver!	Johnny Green (adaptation score)
Finian's Rainbow	Ray Heindorf (adaptation score)
Funny Girl	Walter Scharf (adaptation score)
Star!	Lennie Hayton (adaptation score)
The Young Girls of Rochefort	Michel Legrand (music and adaptation score) and Jacques Demy (lyrics)
Original Score — For a Motion Picture (Not a Musical)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Burt Bacharach
Anne of the Thousand Days	Georges Delerue
The Reivers	John Williams
The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Ernest Gold
The Wild Bunch	Jerry Fielding
Scoring of a Musical Picture — Original or Adaptation
Hello, Dolly!	Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman (adaptation score)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Leslie Bricusse (music and lyrics) and John Williams (adaptation score)
Paint Your Wagon	Nelson Riddle (adaptation score)
Sweet Charity	Cy Coleman (adaptation score)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Johnny Green and Albert Woodbury (adaptation score)

1970s

Year	Film	Nominees	1970
(43rd)	1971
(44th)	1972
(45th)	1973
(46th)	1974
(47th)	1975
(48th)	1976
(49th)	1977
(50th)	1978
(51st)	1979
(52nd)
Original Score
Love Story	Francis Lai
Airport	Alfred Newman (p.n.)
Cromwell	Frank Cordell
Patton	Jerry Goldsmith
Sunflower	Henry Mancini
Original Song Score
Let It Be	The Beatles (music and lyrics)
The Baby Maker	Fred Karlin (music) and Tylwyth Kymry (lyrics)
A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Rod McKuen (music and lyrics), John Scott Trotter (music), Bill Melendez, Al Shean (lyrics), Vince Guaraldi (adaptation score)
Darling Lili	Henry Mancini (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Scrooge	Leslie Bricusse (music and lyrics), Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer (adaptation score)
Original Dramatic Score
Summer of '42	Michel Legrand
Mary, Queen of Scots	John Barry
Nicholas and Alexandra	Richard Rodney Bennett
Shaft	Isaac Hayes
Straw Dogs	Jerry Fielding
Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score
Fiddler on the Roof	John Williams (adaptation score)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Sherman Brothers (song score) and Irwin Kostal (adaptation score)
The Boy Friend	Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell (adaptation score)
Tchaikovsky	Dimitri Tiomkin (adaptation score)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory	Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (song score) and Walter Scharf (adaptation score)
Original Dramatic Score
Limelight	Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch (p.r.) and Larry Russell (p.r.)
The Godfather (nomination revoked)	Nino Rota
Images	John Williams
Napoleon and Samantha	Buddy Baker
The Poseidon Adventure	John Williams
Sleuth	John Addison
Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score
Cabaret	Ralph Burns (adaptation score)
Lady Sings the Blues	Gil Askey (adaptation score)
Man of La Mancha	Laurence Rosenthal (adaptation score)
Original Dramatic Score
The Way We Were	Marvin Hamlisch
Cinderella Liberty	John Williams
The Day of the Dolphin	Georges Delerue
Papillon	Jerry Goldsmith
A Touch of Class	John Cameron
Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation
The Sting	Marvin Hamlisch (adaptation score)
Jesus Christ Superstar	André Previn, Herbert W. Spencer and Andrew Lloyd Webber (adaptation score)
Tom Sawyer	Sherman Brothers (song score) and John Williams (adaptation score)
Original Dramatic Score
The Godfather Part II	Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola
Chinatown	Jerry Goldsmith
Murder on the Orient Express	Richard Rodney Bennett
Shanks	Alex North
The Towering Inferno	John Williams
Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation
The Great Gatsby	Nelson Riddle (adaptation score)
The Little Prince	Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (song score), Douglas Gamley and Angela Morley (adaptation score)
Phantom of the Paradise	Paul Williams (song and adaptation score) and George Tipton (adaptation score)
Original Score
Jaws	John Williams
Birds Do It, Bees Do It	Gerald Fried
Bite the Bullet	Alex North
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Jack Nitzsche
The Wind and the Lion	Jerry Goldsmith
Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation
Barry Lyndon	Leonard Rosenman (adaptation score)
Funny Lady	Peter Matz (adaptation score)
Tommy	Pete Townshend (adaptation score)
Original Score
The Omen	Jerry Goldsmith
Obsession	Bernard Herrmann (p.n.)
The Outlaw Josey Wales	Jerry Fielding
Taxi Driver	Bernard Herrmann (p.n.)
Voyage of the Damned	Lalo Schifrin
Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
Bound for Glory	Leonard Rosenman (adaptation score)
Bugsy Malone	Paul Williams (song and adaptation score)
A Star Is Born	Roger Kellaway (adaptation score)
Original Score
Star Wars	John Williams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	John Williams
Julia	Georges Delerue
Mohammad, Messenger of God	Maurice Jarre
The Spy Who Loved Me	Marvin Hamlisch
Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
A Little Night Music	Jonathan Tunick (adaptation score)
Pete's Dragon	Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha (song score) and Irwin Kostal (adaptation score)
The Slipper and the Rose	Sherman Brothers (song score) and Angela Morley (adaptation score)
Original Score
Midnight Express	Giorgio Moroder
The Boys from Brazil	Jerry Goldsmith
Days of Heaven	Ennio Morricone
Heaven Can Wait	Dave Grusin
Superman	John Williams
Adaptation Score
The Buddy Holly Story	Joe Renzetti
Pretty Baby	Jerry Wexler
The Wiz	Quincy Jones
Original Score
A Little Romance	Georges Delerue
10	Henry Mancini
The Amityville Horror	Lalo Schifrin
The Champ	Dave Grusin
Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Jerry Goldsmith
Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
All That Jazz	Ralph Burns (adaptation score)
Breaking Away	Patrick Williams (adaptation score)
The Muppet Movie	Paul Williams (song and adaptation score) and Kenny Ascher (song score)

1980s

Year	Film	Nominees	1980
(53rd)	1981
(54th)	1982
(55th)	1983
(56th)	1984
(57th)	1985
(58th)	1986
(59th)	1987
(60th)	1988
(61st)	1989
(62nd)
Fame	Michael Gore
Altered States	John Corigliano
The Elephant Man	John Morris
The Empire Strikes Back	John Williams
Tess	Philippe Sarde
Chariots of Fire	Vangelis
Dragonslayer	Alex North
On Golden Pond	Dave Grusin
Ragtime	Randy Newman
Raiders of the Lost Ark	John Williams
Original Score
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	John Williams
Gandhi	George Fenton and Ravi Shankar
An Officer and a Gentleman	Jack Nitzsche
Poltergeist	Jerry Goldsmith
Sophie's Choice	Marvin Hamlisch
Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
Victor/Victoria	Henry Mancini (song and adaptation score) and Leslie Bricusse (song score)
Annie	Ralph Burns (adaptation score)
One from the Heart	Tom Waits (song score)
Original Score
The Right Stuff	Bill Conti
Cross Creek	Leonard Rosenman
Return of the Jedi	John Williams
Terms of Endearment	Michael Gore
Under Fire	Jerry Goldsmith
Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
Yentl	Michel Legrand (song and adaptation score) and Alan and Marilyn Bergman (song score)
The Sting II	Lalo Schifrin (adaptation score)
Trading Places	Elmer Bernstein (adaptation score)
Original Score
A Passage to India	Maurice Jarre
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	John Williams
The Natural	Randy Newman
The River	John Williams
Under the Volcano	Alex North
Original Song Score
Purple Rain	Prince
The Muppets Take Manhattan	Jeff Moss
Songwriter	Kris Kristofferson
Out of Africa	John Barry
Agnes of God	Georges Delerue
The Color Purple	Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Andraé Crouch, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Randy Kerber, Jeremy Lubbock, Joel Rosenbaum, Caiphus Semenya, Fred Steiner and Rod Temperton
Silverado	Bruce Broughton
Witness	Maurice Jarre
Round Midnight	Herbie Hancock
Aliens	James Horner
Hoosiers	Jerry Goldsmith
The Mission	Ennio Morricone
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Leonard Rosenman
The Last Emperor	Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su
Cry Freedom	George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa
Empire of the Sun	John Williams
The Untouchables	Ennio Morricone
The Witches of Eastwick	John Williams
The Milagro Beanfield War	Dave Grusin
The Accidental Tourist	John Williams
Dangerous Liaisons	George Fenton
Gorillas in the Mist	Maurice Jarre
Rain Man	Hans Zimmer
The Little Mermaid	Alan Menken
Born on the Fourth of July	John Williams
The Fabulous Baker Boys	Dave Grusin
Field of Dreams	James Horner
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	John Williams

1990s

Year	Film	Nominees	1990
(63rd)	1991
(64th)	1992
(65th)	1993
(66th)	1994
(67th)	1995
(68th)
1996
(69th)	1997
(70th)	1998
(71st)	1999
(72nd)
Dances With Wolves	John Barry
Avalon	Randy Newman
Ghost	Maurice Jarre
Havana	Dave Grusin
Home Alone	John Williams
Beauty and the Beast	Alan Menken
Bugsy	Ennio Morricone
The Fisher King	George Fenton
JFK	John Williams
The Prince of Tides	James Newton Howard
Aladdin	Alan Menken
Basic Instinct	Jerry Goldsmith
Chaplin	John Barry
Howards End	Richard Robbins
A River Runs Through It	Mark Isham
Schindler's List	John Williams
The Age of Innocence	Elmer Bernstein
The Firm	Dave Grusin
The Fugitive	James Newton Howard
The Remains of the Day	Richard Robbins
The Lion King	Hans Zimmer
Forrest Gump	Alan Silvestri
Interview with the Vampire	Elliot Goldenthal
Little Women	Thomas Newman
The Shawshank Redemption
Original Dramatic Score
The Postman	Luis Bacalov
Apollo 13	James Horner
Braveheart
Nixon	John Williams
Sense and Sensibility	Patrick Doyle
Original Musical or Comedy Score
Pocahontas	Alan Menken (music and orchestral score) and Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
The American President	Marc Shaiman
Sabrina	John Williams
Toy Story	Randy Newman
Unstrung Heroes	Thomas Newman
Original Dramatic Score
The English Patient	Gabriel Yared
Hamlet	Patrick Doyle
Michael Collins	Elliot Goldenthal
Shine	David Hirschfelder
Sleepers	John Williams
Original Musical or Comedy Score
Emma	Rachel Portman
The First Wives Club	Marc Shaiman
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Alan Menken (music and orchestral score) and Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
James and the Giant Peach	Randy Newman
The Preacher's Wife	Hans Zimmer
Original Dramatic Score
Titanic	James Horner
Amistad	John Williams
Good Will Hunting	Danny Elfman
Kundun	Philip Glass
L.A. Confidential	Jerry Goldsmith
Original Musical or Comedy Score
The Full Monty	Anne Dudley
Anastasia	Stephen Flaherty (music), Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and David Newman (orchestral score)
As Good as It Gets	Hans Zimmer
Men in Black	Danny Elfman
My Best Friend's Wedding	James Newton Howard
Original Dramatic Score
Life Is Beautiful	Nicola Piovani
Elizabeth	David Hirschfelder
Pleasantville	Randy Newman
Saving Private Ryan	John Williams
The Thin Red Line	Hans Zimmer
Original Musical or Comedy Score
Shakespeare in Love	Stephen Warbeck
A Bug's Life	Randy Newman
Mulan	Matthew Wilder (music), David Zippel (lyrics) and Jerry Goldsmith (orchestral score)
Patch Adams	Marc Shaiman
The Prince of Egypt	Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) and Hans Zimmer (orchestral score)
The Red Violin	John Corigliano
American Beauty	Thomas Newman
Angela's Ashes	John Williams
The Cider House Rules	Rachel Portman
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Gabriel Yared

2000s

Year	Film	Nominees	2000
(73rd)	2001
(74th)	2002
(75th)	2003
(76th)	2004
(77th)	2005
(78th)	2006
(79th)	2007
(80th)	2008
(81st)	2009
(82nd)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Tan Dun
Chocolat	Rachel Portman
Gladiator	Hans Zimmer
Malèna	Ennio Morricone
The Patriot	John Williams
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Howard Shore
A.I. Artificial Intelligence	John Williams
A Beautiful Mind	James Horner
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	John Williams
Monsters, Inc.	Randy Newman
Frida	Elliot Goldenthal
Catch Me If You Can	John Williams
Far from Heaven	Elmer Bernstein
The Hours	Philip Glass
Road to Perdition	Thomas Newman
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Howard Shore
Big Fish	Danny Elfman
Cold Mountain	Gabriel Yared
Finding Nemo	Thomas Newman
House of Sand and Fog	James Horner
Finding Neverland	Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	John Williams
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Thomas Newman
The Passion of the Christ	John Debney
The Village	James Newton Howard
Brokeback Mountain	Gustavo Santaolalla
The Constant Gardener	Alberto Iglesias
Memoirs of a Geisha	John Williams
Munich
Pride & Prejudice	Dario Marianelli
Babel	Gustavo Santaolalla
The Good German	Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal	Philip Glass
Pan's Labyrinth	Javier Navarrete
The Queen	Alexandre Desplat
Atonement	Dario Marianelli
3:10 to Yuma	Marco Beltrami
The Kite Runner	Alberto Iglesias
Michael Clayton	James Newton Howard
Ratatouille	Michael Giacchino
Slumdog Millionaire	A.R. Rahman
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Alexandre Desplat
Defiance	James Newton Howard
Milk	Danny Elfman
WALL-E	Thomas Newman
Up	Michael Giacchino
Avatar	James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox	Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker	Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes	Hans Zimmer

2010s

Year	Film	Nominees	2010
(83rd)	2011
(84th)	2012
(85th)	2013
(86th)	2014
(87th)	2015
(88th)	2016
(89th)
2017
(90th)	2018
(91st)	2019
(92nd)
The Social Network	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
127 Hours	A.R. Rahman
How to Train Your Dragon	John Powell
Inception	Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech	Alexandre Desplat
The Artist	Ludovic Bource
The Adventures of Tintin	John Williams
Hugo	Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Alberto Iglesias
War Horse	John Williams
Life of Pi	Mychael Danna
Anna Karenina	Dario Marianelli
Argo	Alexandre Desplat
Lincoln	John Williams
Skyfall	Thomas Newman
Gravity	Steven Price
The Book Thief	John Williams
Her	Will Butler and Owen Pallett
Philomena	Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr. Banks	Thomas Newman
The Grand Budapest Hotel	Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game	Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar	Hans Zimmer
Mr. Turner	Gary Yershon
The Theory of Everything	Jóhann Jóhannsson
The Hateful Eight	Ennio Morricone
Bridge of Spies	Thomas Newman
Carol	Carter Burwell
Sicario	Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens	John Williams
La La Land	Justin Hurwitz
Jackie	Mica Levi
Lion	Dustin O'Halloran and Volker Bertelmann
Moonlight	Nicholas Britell
Passengers	Thomas Newman
The Shape of Water	Alexandre Desplat
Dunkirk	Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread	Jonny Greenwood
Star Wars: The Last Jedi	John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Carter Burwell
Black Panther	Ludwig Göransson
BlacKkKlansman	Terence Blanchard
If Beale Street Could Talk	Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs	Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns	Marc Shaiman
Joker	Hildur Guðnadóttir
Little Women	Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story	Randy Newman
1917	Thomas Newman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	John Williams

2020s

Year	Film	Nominees	2020/21	2021
(94th)	2022
(95th)	2023
(96th)	2024
(97th)	2025
(98th)
Soul	Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
Da 5 Bloods	Terence Blanchard
Mank	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Minari	Emile Mosseri
News of the World	James Newton Howard
Dune	Hans Zimmer
Don't Look Up	Nicholas Britell
Encanto	Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers	Alberto Iglesias
The Power of the Dog	Jonny Greenwood
All Quiet on the Western Front	Volker Bertelmann
Babylon	Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin	Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once	Son Lux
The Fabelmans	John Williams
Oppenheimer	Ludwig Göransson
American Fiction	Laura Karpman
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	John Williams
Killers of the Flower Moon	Robbie Robertson (p.n.)
Poor Things	Jerskin Fendrix
The Brutalist	Daniel Blumberg
Conclave	Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez	Clément Ducol and Camille
Wicked	John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
The Wild Robot	Kris Bowers
Bugonia	Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein	Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet	Max Richter
One Battle After Another	Jonny Greenwood
Sinners	Ludwig Göransson

Shortlisted finalists

Finalists for Best Score are selected by the Music Branch. Music Branch members shall vote in order of their preference for not more than 15 pictures to be considered for the Score award. The 15 motion pictures receiving the highest number of votes shall advance to the next round of voting.

Year	Finalists	Ref	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	2018	2019	2020/21	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Original Score: Bonnie and Clyde, The Flim-Flam Man, Live for Life, Two for the Road, Wait Until Dark
Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment: A Countess from Hong Kong, The Family Way, The Happiest Millionaire, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Jungle Book
Original Score: For Love of Ivy, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Rachel, Rachel, Romeo and Juliet, War and Peace
Scoring of a Musical Picture: C'mon, Let's Live a Little, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Original Score: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Gaily, Gaily, The Happy Ending, The Madwoman of Chaillot, True Grit
Scoring of a Musical Picture: Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, Marry Me! Marry Me!, Oh! What a Lovely War
Original Score: The Aristocats, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Dirty Dingus Magee, Pieces of Dreams, Ryan's Daughter
Original Song Score: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Norwood, R. P. M., Where's Poppa?
Original Score: Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The French Connection, The Hellstrom Chronicle, Kotch, Sometimes a Great Notion
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: Honky, Jud, Zachariah
Original Score: Ben, Fellini's Roma, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The Other
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1776, Snoopy Come Home, Young Winston
Original Score: Enter the Dragon, The Last American Hero, Oklahoma Crude, The Paper Chase, Robin Hood
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: Bang the Drum Slowly, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Lost Horizon, O Lucky Man!
Original Score: The Castaway Cowboy, The Conversation, Earthquake, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The White Dawn
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: Claudine, Huckleberry Finn, Lenny, Mame
Original Score: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The Eiger Sanction, The Hindenburg, The Other Side of the Mountain, The Yakuza
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Day of the Locust, Lucky Lady, The Return of the Pink Panther, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Original Score: King Kong, Logan's Run, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Rocky, Silent Movie
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Bad News Bears, Car Wash, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, Leadbelly
Original Score: Airport '77, Audrey Rose, Black Sunday, Bobby Deerfield, A Bridge Too Far, Equus, Gasp, The Gauntlet, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Islands in the Stream, Joseph Andrews, MacArthur, 1900, Providence, The Rescuers, Rollercoaster, The Sentinel, Walking Tall: Final Chapter
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: New York, New York
Original Score: Capricorn One, Coma, Magic, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Watership Down
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Cheap Detective, Damien - Omen II, The Deer Hunter, The Magic of Lassie
Original Score: Escape from Alcatraz, The Frisco Kid, The Great Train Robbery, Meteor, Time After Time
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Europeans, Hair, Meeting with Remarkable Men, Wise Blood
Annihilation, Avengers: Infinity War, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Crazy Rich Asians, The Death of Stalin, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, First Man, A Quiet Place, Ready Player One, Vice
Avengers: Endgame, Bombshell, The Farewell, Ford v Ferrari, Frozen II, Jojo Rabbit, The King, Motherless Brooklyn, Pain and Glory, Us
Ammonite, Blizzard of Souls, The Invisible Man, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, The Life Ahead, The Little Things, The Midnight Sky, Mulan, Tenet, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Being the Ricardos, Candyman, The French Dispatch, The Green Knight, The Harder They Fall, King Richard, The Last Duel, No Time to Die, Spencer, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Devotion, Don't Worry Darling, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Nope, She Said, The Woman King, Women Talking
American Symphony, Barbie, The Boy and the Heron, The Color Purple, Elemental, The Holdovers, Saltburn, Society of the Snow, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Zone of Interest
Alien: Romulus, Babygirl, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Blink Twice, Blitz, Challengers, The Fire Inside, Gladiator II, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, Inside Out 2, Nosferatu, The Room Next Door, Sing Sing, The Six Triple Eight, Young Woman and the Sea
Avatar: Fire and Ash, Captain America: Brave New World, Diane Warren: Relentless, F1, Hedda, A House of Dynamite, Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme, Nuremberg, Sirāt, Train Dreams, Tron: Ares, Truth & Treason, Wake Up Dead Man, Wicked: For Good

Records

Superlatives

These are only for nominations in the Scoring categories. Nominations in other categories, such as the Original Song category, are not included.

Category	Name	Superlative	Notes
Most Awards	Alfred Newman	9 awards	Awards resulted from 41 nominations
Most Nominations	John Williams	49 nominations	Nominations resulted in 5 awards
Most Nominations without an Award	Thomas Newman / Alex North	14 nominations

Age superlatives

Record	Composer	Film	Age
Oldest winner	Ennio Morricone	The Hateful Eight	87 years, 110 days
Oldest nominee	John Williams	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	91 years, 349 days
Youngest winner	Prince	Purple Rain	26 years, 291 days
Youngest nominee	26 years, 244 days

Only one composer has won two Scoring Oscars the same year: in 1973, Marvin Hamlisch won Original Dramatic Score for The Way We Were and Best Adaptation Score, for The Sting. Hamlisch also won Best Song that year for The Way We Were, making him the only composer to win three music Oscars in the same year.

Only one composer has won Oscars three years in a row: Roger Edens won for Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950).

Eight composers have won Oscars two years in a row:

Ray Heindorf won for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and This Is the Army (1943).
Franz Waxman won for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951).
Alfred Newman won for With a Song in My Heart (1952) and Call Me Madam (1953). He won again two years in a row for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) and The King and I (1956).
Adolph Deutsch won for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Oklahoma! (1955).
André Previn won for Gigi (1958) and Porgy and Bess (1959). He won again two years in a row for Irma la Douce (1963) and My Fair Lady (1964).
Leonard Rosenman won for Barry Lyndon (1975) and Bound for Glory (1976).
Alan Menken won for Beauty and The Beast (1991) and Aladdin (1992).
Gustavo Santaolalla won for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Babel (2006).

Female nominees

As of 2025, only 11 women have been nominated in music score categories: Ann Ronell, Tylwyth Kymry, Angela Morley, Marilyn Bergman, Rachel Portman, Anne Dudley, Lynn Ahrens, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Germaine Franco, Laura Karpman, and Camille. Kymry, Bergman, and Ahrens were nominated for their contribution as lyricists.

Four women have won in the scoring categories. Three are composers: Rachel Portman, who won for Emma (1996); Anne Dudley, who won for The Full Monty (1997); and Hildur Guðnadóttir, who won for Joker (2019). The fourth is lyricist Marilyn Bergman, who won for Yentl (1983) in the Original Song Score category, sharing the award with co-lyricist Alan Bergman (her husband) and composer Michel Legrand. Hildur is the only woman to win the award under no qualifications; Bergman won for Best Song Score while Portman and Dudley won for Best Musical or Comedy Score.

The female composers nominated for multiple Scoring Oscars are Rachel Portman, who was nominated for Emma (1996) (for which she won for Best Musical or Comedy Score), The Cider House Rules (1999), and Chocolat (2000); and Angela Morley, who was nominated twice in the Original Song Score or Adaptation Score category for The Little Prince (1974) and The Slipper and the Rose (1976).

Notable nominees

Dmitri Shostakovich and Duke Ellington were both nominated the same year but lost to the arrangers of West Side Story.

The scores of Midnight Express by Giorgio Moroder in 1979, Slumdog Millionaire by A.R. Rahman in 2009, and The Social Network by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross in 2011 are the only scores with electronic-based music ever to win the award. In addition, the electronic-based scores of Witness by Maurice Jarre in 1986, Rain Man by Hans Zimmer in 1989, and Her by William Butler, and Owen Pallett in 2014 have also been nominated.

Noted nominated composers known for their music mostly outside the film world include: Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill, Gian Carlo Menotti, Philip Glass, John Corigliano, Peter Maxwell Davies, Randy Newman, Richard Rodney Bennett, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Artie Shaw, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Jon Batiste, and Jonny Greenwood.

Rock musicians and pop stars are most often nominated in the songwriting category. These popular performers were nominated in the Scoring categories: The Beatles, Prince, Pete Townshend, Rod McKuen, Isaac Hayes, Kris Kristofferson, Quincy Jones, Randy Newman, Anthony Newley, Paul Williams, Tom Waits, David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Trent Reznor, and Matthew Wilder.

Record producers George Martin (The Beatles) and Jerry Wexler (Atlantic Records) also received nominations in the Scoring categories.

Multiple nominations

The following is a list of composers nominated more than once and winning at least one Academy Award (in this category). This list is sorted by number of awards, with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses. These do not include nominations (or awards) in the Best Original Song category.

9: Alfred Newman (43)
5: John Williams (49)
4: Johnny Green (12)
4: André Previn (11)
4: John Barry (6)
4: Alan Menken (5)
3: Max Steiner (24)
3: Ray Heindorf (17)
3: Morris Stoloff (17)
3: Miklós Rózsa (16)
3: Dimitri Tiomkin (14)
3: Maurice Jarre (8)
3: Ken Darby (6)
3: Roger Edens (6)
3: Saul Chaplin (5)
3: Adolph Deutsch (5)
2: Ludwig Göransson (3)
2: Hans Zimmer (12)
2: Alexandre Desplat (11)
2: Franz Waxman (11)
2: Henry Mancini (7)
2: Lennie Hayton (6)
2: Michel Legrand (6)
2: Irwin Kostal (5)
2: Marvin Hamlisch (4)
2: Leonard Rosenman (4)
2: Ralph Burns (3)
2: Trent Reznor (3)
2: Atticus Ross (3)
2: Howard Shore (3)
2: Gustavo Santaolalla (2)
1: Jerry Goldsmith (17)
1: Victor Young (17)
1: Herbert Stothart (11)
1: Elmer Bernstein (10)
1: Hugo Friedhofer (9)
1: Lionel Newman (9)
1: Georgie Stoll (9)
1: James Horner (8)
1: Leigh Harline (7)
1: Charles Previn (7)
1: Paul Smith (7)
1: Dave Grusin (6)
1: Ennio Morricone (6) Also received an Academy Honorary Award.
1: Leslie Bricusse (5)
1: Georges Delerue (5)
1: Richard Hageman (5)
1: Bernard Herrmann (5)
1: Nelson Riddle (5)
1: Oliver Wallace (5)
1: Aaron Copland (4)
1: Leo F. Forbstein (4)
1: Ernest Gold (4)
1: Stephen Schwartz (4)
1: Richard M. Sherman (4)
1: Robert B. Sherman (4)
1: Louis Silvers (4)
1: Volker Bertelmann (3)
1: Frank Churchill (3)
1: Elliot Goldenthal (3)
1: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (3)
1: Bronisław Kaper (3)
1: Dario Marianelli (3)
1: Rachel Portman (3)
1: Harry Sukman (3)
1: Gabriel Yared (3)
1: John Addison (2)
1: Luis Bacalov (2)
1: Robert Russell Bennett (2)
1: Jay Blackton (2)
1: John Corigliano (2)
1: Michael Giacchino (2)
1: Michael Gore (2)
1: W. Franke Harling (2)
1: Justin Hurwitz (2)
1: A.R. Rahman (2)
1: Heinz Roemheld (2)
1: Nino Rota (2)
1: Leo Shuken (2)

The following composers have been nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar more than once but have yet to garner one. The number of nominations is listed in parentheses. These do not include nominations (or awards) in the Best Original Song category.

Deceased

Alex North (14) Received an Academy Honorary Award.
Walter Scharf (9)
Roy Webb (7)
Werner Janssen (6)
George Duning (5)
Lalo Schifrin (5) Received an Academy Honorary Award.
Edward Ward (5)
Constantin Bakaleinikoff (4)
Edward H. Plumb (4)
Frank Skinner (4)
Frank De Vol (4)
Richard Rodney Bennett (3)
George Bruns (3)
Louis Gruenberg (3)
Marvin Hatley (3)
Quincy Jones (3) Has won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, a special Academy Award.
Ernst Toch (3)
Charles Wolcott (3)
Daniele Amfitheatrof (2)
Nat W. Finston (2)
Frederick Hollander (2)
Jóhann Jóhannsson (2)
Jack Nitzsche (2) Has won 1 Oscar Award for Original Song.
Richard Robbins (2)
Victor Schertzinger (2)
Meredith Willson (2)

Living

Thomas Newman (14)
Randy Newman (9) Has won 2 Oscar Awards for Original Song.
James Newton Howard (7)
Danny Elfman (4)
George Fenton (4)
Alberto Iglesias (4)
Marc Shaiman (4)
Philip Glass (3)
Nicholas Britell (3)
Carter Burwell (3)
Jonny Greenwood (3)
Marco Beltrami (2)
Terence Blanchard (2)
Patrick Doyle (2)
David Hirschfelder (2)
John Powell (2)

Notes

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