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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

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FieldValue
nameGolden Globe for Best Original Score
imageLudwig Göransson 2018 Interview (cropped).jpg
image_captionCurrent award holder, Ludwig Göransson
awarded_forBest Score Written for a Motion Picture
presenterDick Clark Productions
locationUnited States
holderLudwig Göransson for Sinners (2025)
website

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.

History

Since the 5th Golden Globe Awards (1947), the award is presented annually, except from 1953 to 1958. The nominations from 1947 and 1948 are not available. The first Best Original Score award went to Max Steiner for his compositional work on Life with Father.

John Williams is the artist with the most nominations (24); those resulted in 4 wins. Dimitri Tiomkin had the same number of wins, but out of only 5 nominations. Other notable achievers include Maurice Jarre (10 nominations, 4 wins), Alan Menken (5 nominations, 3 wins), Hans Zimmer (15 nominations, 3 wins), Justin Hurwitz (3 nominations, 3 wins) and Alexandre Desplat (15 nominations, 2 wins).

Artists like Jerry Goldsmith (9 nominations) and Michel Legrand (7 nominations) were nominated several times but never received the award. Dimitri Tiomkin, Alan Menken and Howard Shore are the only composers to win two consecutive awards. Additionally, Dimitri Tiomkin received Special Achievement Awards for his services to film music in 1955 and 1957, as did Hugo Friedhofer in 1958. The most recent recipients of this award were Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for the film Challengers.

Winners and nominees

;Key

SignMeaning
Indicates the winner

1940s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.194719481949
*Life with Father*****url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/1946title=The 4th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1947)publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Associationaccess-date=2011-06-14url-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124174049/http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/1946archive-date=November 24, 2010 }}
*The Red Shoes*****url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/1947title=The 5th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1948)publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Associationaccess-date=2011-06-14url-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124174244/http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/1947archive-date=November 24, 2010 }}
*The Inspector General*****
All the King's Men

1950s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.1950195119521953–1958No award given19591960
*Sunset Boulevard*****
A Life of Her Own
Destination Moon
*September Affair*****
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Well
*High Noon*****
Ivanhoe
The Quiet Man
*On the Beach*****url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/1959title=The 17th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1960)publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Associationaccess-date=2011-06-14url-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124174121/http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/1959archive-date=November 24, 2010 }}
*The Alamo*****
Exodus
Pepe
Spartacus
The World of Suzie Wong

1960s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.196119621963No award given196419651966196719681969
*The Guns of Navarone*****
El Cid
Fanny
King of Kings
Summer and Smoke
*To Kill a Mockingbird*****
Lawrence of Arabia
Mutiny on the Bounty
Taras Bulba
The Music Man
*The Fall of the Roman Empire*****
Becket
Mary Poppins
Seven Days in May
Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas)
*Doctor Zhivago*****
Battle of the Bulge
The Great Race
The Sandpiper
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
*Hawaii*****
A Man and a Woman
Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?)
The Bible: In the Beginning...
The Sand Pebbles
*Camelot*****
Doctor Dolittle
Live for Life (Vivre Pour Vivre)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Two for the Road
*The Shoes of the Fisherman*****
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Oliver!(declared ineligible and removed from ballot)
Romeo and Juliet
Rosemary's Baby
The Lion in Winter
The Thomas Crown Affair
*Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*****
Anne of the Thousand Days
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
The Happy Ending
The Secret of Santa Vittoria

1970s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.1970197119721973197419751976197719781979
*Love Story*****
Airport
Cromwell
Scrooge
Wuthering Heights
*Shaft*****
Le Mans
Mary, Queen of Scots
Summer of '42
The Andromeda Strain
*The Godfather*****
Frenzy
The Getaway
Lady Sings the Blues
The Poseidon Adventure
*Jonathan Livingston Seagull*****
Breezy
Cinderella Liberty
O Lucky Man!
The Day of the Dolphin
Tom Sawyer,
*The Little Prince*,
Chinatown
Earthquake
Phantom of the Paradise
The Godfather Part II,
*Jaws*****
Funny Lady,
The Man Who Would Be King
The Other Side of the Mountain
The Return of the Pink Panther
*A Star is Born*,
Bugsy Malone
Rocky
The Slipper and the Rose
Voyage of the Damned
*Star Wars*****
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Pete's Dragon,
Saturday Night Fever, , ,
The Spy Who Loved Me
*Midnight Express*****
An Unmarried Woman
Superman
The Children of Sanchez
The Lord of the Rings
*Apocalypse Now*,
10
A Little Romance
Alien
The Black Stallion
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Amityville Horror

1980s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.198019821983198419851986198719881989
*The Stunt Man*****
American Gigolo
Fame
Somewhere in Time
The Empire Strikes Back
The Competition
*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*****
Blade RunnerVangelis
Cat People
Six Weeks
Victor/Victoria
*Flashdance*****
Rumble Fish
Scarface
Under Fire
YentlAlan & Marilyn Bergman,
*A Passage to India*****
Starman
Once Upon a Time in America
The Killing Fields
The River
*Out of Africa*****
The Color Purple
White Nights
Witness
Year of the Dragon
*The Mission*****
Little Shop of Horrors
Round Midnight
The Mosquito Coast
Top Gun
*The Last Emperor*, ,
Cry Freedom,
Empire of the Sun
The Glass Menagerie
The Untouchables
*Gorillas in the Mist*****
Madame Sousatzka
The Accidental Tourist
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Milagro Beanfield War
*The Little Mermaid*****
Born on the Fourth of July
Casualties of War
Glory
The Fabulous Baker Boys

1990s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.1990199119921993199419951996199719981999
*The Sheltering Sky*Richard Horowitz,
Avalon
Dances with Wolves
Havana
The Godfather Part III
*Beauty and the Beast*****
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Bugsy
Dead Again
For the Boys
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
*Aladdin*****
1492: Conquest of ParadiseVangelis
Basic Instinct
Chaplin
The Last of the Mohicans,
*Heaven & Earth*Kitarō
Three Colors: Blue
Schindler's List
The Piano
The Nightmare Before Christmas
*The Lion King*****
Forrest Gump
Interview with the Vampire
Legends of the Fall
Nell
*A Walk in the Clouds*****
Braveheart
Don Juan DeMarco
Pocahontas
Sense and Sensibility
*The English Patient*****
Michael Collins
Shine
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Mirror Has Two Faces
*Titanic*****
Gattaca
Kundun
L.A. Confidential
Seven Years in Tibet
*The Truman Show*,
A Bug's Life
Mulan
Saving Private Ryan
The Prince of Egypt,
*The Legend of 1900*****
American Beauty
Angela's Ashes
Anna and the King
The End of the Affair
Eyes Wide Shut
The Insider,
The Straight Story
The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.2000200120022003200420052006200720082009
*Gladiator*,
All the Pretty Horses, ,
Chocolat
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
Malèna
Sunshine
*Moulin Rouge!*****
A Beautiful Mind
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Ali,
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Mulholland Drive
Pearl Harbor
The Shipping News
*Frida*****
25th Hour
Far from Heaven
Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Hours
*The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*****
Big Fish
Cold Mountain
Girl With a Pearl Earring
The Last Samurai
*The Aviator*****
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways
Spanglish
*Memoirs of a Geisha*****
Brokeback Mountain
King Kong
Syriana
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
*The Painted Veil*****
Babel
Nomad
The Da Vinci Code
The Fountain
*Atonement*****
Eastern Promises
Grace Is Gone
Into the Wild, ,
The Kite Runner
*Slumdog Millionaire*****
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Frost/Nixon
*Up*****
A Single Man
Avatar
The Informant!
Where the Wild Things AreKaren O,

2010s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.2010201120122013201420152016201720182019
*The Social Network*,
127 Hours
Alice in Wonderland
Inception
The King's Speech
*The Artist*****
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
Hugo
War Horse
W.E.
*Life of Pi*****
Anna Karenina
Argo
Lincoln
Cloud Atlas, ,
*All Is Lost*****
12 Years a Slave
The Book Thief
Gravity
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
*The Theory of Everything*****
Birdman
Gone Girl,
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
*The Hateful Eight*****
Carol
The Danish Girl
The Revenant,
Steve Jobs
*La La Land*****
Arrival
Hidden Figures, ,
Lion, Hauschka
Moonlight
*The Shape of Water*****
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Post
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
*First Man*****
Black Panther
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
A Quiet Place
**Joker**Hildur Guðnadóttir
1917
Little Women
Marriage Story
Motherless BrooklynDaniel Pemberton

2020s

YearFilmComposer(s)Ref.202020212022202320242025
*Soul*, &
MankReznor & Ross
The Midnight Sky
News of the World
Tenet
*Dune*Hans Zimmer
EncantoGermaine Franco
The French DispatchAlexandre Desplat
Parallel MothersAlberto Iglesias
The Power of the DogJonny Greenwood
*Babylon*Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of InisherinCarter Burwell
The FabelmansJohn Williams
Guillermo del Toro's PinocchioAlexandre Desplat
Women TalkingHildur Guðnadóttir
*Oppenheimer*Ludwig Göransson
The Boy and the HeronJoe Hisaishi
Killers of the Flower MoonRobbie Robertson (posthumous)
Poor ThingsJerskin Fendrix
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseDaniel Pemberton
The Zone of InterestMica Levi
*Challengers*Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
The BrutalistDaniel Blumberg
ConclaveVolker Bertelmann
Dune: Part TwoHans Zimmer
Emilia PérezClément Ducol and Camille
The Wild RobotKris Bowers
*Sinners*Ludwig Göransson
F1Hans Zimmer
FrankensteinAlexandre Desplat
HamnetMax Richter
One Battle After AnotherJonny Greenwood
SirātKangding Ray

Multiple wins

4 wins:

  • Maurice Jarre
  • Dimitri Tiomkin
  • John Williams

3 wins:

  • Justin Hurwitz
  • Alan Menken
  • Ennio Morricone
  • Trent Reznor
  • Atticus Ross
  • Hans Zimmer

2 wins:

  • Elmer Bernstein
  • Alexandre Desplat
  • Ludwig Göransson
  • Frederick Loewe
  • Giorgio Moroder
  • Howard Shore

Notes

:1. The year indicates the period for which the awards are given and not the year in which the ceremony took place.

References

;Specific ;General

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