Academy Award for Original Music Score
Academy Award for Best Original Score | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | February 27, 1935 |
Most recent winner | Hans Zimmer Dune (2021) |
Website | oscars |
The Academy Award for Original Score is given to the best body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring that is written specifically for a movie.[1]
Winners and nominees
1930s
Year | Film | Nominees |
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1934 (7th) [note 1] | ||
One Night of Love | Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (Thematic music by Victor Schertzinger & Gus Kahn) | |
The Gay Divorcee | RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Kenneth Webb & Sam Hoffenstein) | |
The Lost Patrol | RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner) | |
1935 (8th) | ||
The Informer | RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner) | |
Captain Blood (Write-in)[note 2][2] | 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) | |
1936 (9th) | ||
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) | |
1937 (10th) [note 3] | ||
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 & 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 & Milan Roder) | |
Way Out West | Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley, head of department (Score by Hatley) | |
1938 (11th) | ||
Original Score | ||
The Adventures of Robin Hood | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | |
Army Girl | Victor Young | |
Block-Heads | Marvin Hatley | |
Blockade | Werner Janssen | |
Breaking the Ice | 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 | Newman | |
Carefree | Victor Baravalle | |
Girls' School | Morris Stoloff & Gregory Stone | |
The Goldwyn Follies | Newman | |
Jezebel | Max Steiner | |
Mad About Music | Charles Previn & Frank Skinner | |
Storm Over Bengal | Cy Feuer | |
Sweethearts | Herbert Stothart | |
There Goes My Heart | Marvin Hatley | |
Tropic Holiday | Boris Morros | |
The Young in Heart | Waxman | |
1939 (12th) | ||
Original Score | ||
The Wizard of Oz | Herbert Stothart | |
Dark Victory | Max Steiner | |
Eternally Yours | Werner Janssen | |
Golden Boy | Victor Young | |
Gone with the Wind | Steiner | |
Gulliver's Travels | Young | |
The Man in the Iron Mask | Lud Gluskin & Lucien Moraweck | |
Man of Conquest | 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 & Leo Shuken | |
Babes in Arms | Roger Edens & Georgie Stoll | |
First Love | Charles Previn | |
The Great Victor Herbert | Phil Boutelje & Arthur Lange | |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Newman | |
Intermezzo | Lou 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 | Newman | |
Way Down South | Young |
1940s
Year | Film | Nominees |
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1940 (13th) | ||
Original Score | ||
Pinocchio | Leigh Harline, Paul Smith & 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 | Hageman | |
The Mark of Zorro | Alfred Newman | |
My Favorite Wife | Roy Webb | |
North West Mounted Police | 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 | Newman | |
Arise, My Love | Young | |
Hit Parade of 1941 | Cy Feuer | |
Irene | Anthony Collins | |
Our Town | Copland | |
The Sea Hawk | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | |
Second Chorus | Artie Shaw | |
Spring Parade | Charles Previn | |
Strike Up the Band | Roger Edens & Georgie Stoll | |
1941 (14th) | ||
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 | Herrmann | |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Franz Waxman | |
Hold Back the Dawn | Victor Young | |
How Green Was My Valley | Newman | |
King of the Zombies | Edward Kay | |
Ladies in Retirement | Morris Stoloff & Ernst Toch | |
The Little Foxes | Meredith Willson | |
Lydia | Miklós Rózsa | |
Mercy Island | Cy Feuer & Walter Scharf | |
Sergeant York | Max Steiner | |
So Ends Our Night | Louis Gruenberg | |
Sundown | Rózsa | |
Suspicion | Waxman | |
Tanks a Million | Ward | |
That Uncertain Feeling | Werner Heymann | |
This Woman Is Mine | Richard Hageman | |
Scoring of a Musical Picture | ||
Dumbo | Frank Churchill & Oliver Wallace | |
All-American Co-Ed | Ward | |
Birth of the Blues | Robert E. Dolan | |
Buck Privates | Charles Previn | |
The Chocolate Soldier | Herbert Stothart & 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 | |
1942 (15th) | ||
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | ||
Now, Voyager | Max Steiner | |
Arabian Nights | Frank Skinner | |
Bambi | Frank Churchill (p.n.) & 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 & Morris Stoloff | |
To Be or Not to Be | Werner Heymann | |
Scoring of a Musical Picture | ||
Yankee Doodle Dandy | Ray Heindorf & Heinz Roemheld | |
Flying with Music | Edward Ward | |
For Me and My Gal | Roger Edens & Georgie Stoll | |
Holiday Inn | Robert E. Dolan | |
It Started with Eve | Hans J. Salter & Charles Previn | |
Johnny Doughboy | Walter Scharf | |
My Gal Sal | Alfred Newman | |
You Were Never Lovelier | Leigh Harline | |
1943 (16th) | ||
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | ||
The Song of Bernadette | Alfred Newman | |
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | Frank Skinner & Hans J. Salter | |
Casablanca | Max Steiner | |
Commandos Strike at Dawn | Morris Stoloff & Louis Gruenberg | |
The Fallen Sparrow | Roy Webb & 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 & 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 | Plumb, Smith & 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 | |
1944 (17th) | ||
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | ||
Since You Went Away | Max Steiner | |
Address Unknown | Morris Stoloff & Ernst Toch | |
The Adventures of Mark Twain | 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 & Roy Webb | |
The Hairy Ape | Michel Michelet & Edward Paul | |
It Happened Tomorrow | Robert Stolz | |
Jack London | Fred Rich | |
Kismet | Herbert Stothart | |
None but the Lonely Heart | Constantin Bakaleinikoff & 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 & Carmen Dragon | |
Brazil | Walter Scharf | |
Higher and Higher | Bakaleinikoff | |
Hollywood Canteen | Ray Heindorf | |
Irish Eyes Are Smiling | Newman | |
Knickerbocker Holiday | Werner Heymann & 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 & Leo Erdody | |
Sensations of 1945 | Mahlon Merrick | |
Song of the Open Road | Charles Previn | |
Up in Arms | Louis Forbes & Ray Heindorf | |
1945 (18th) | ||
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 & Dale Butts | |
G. I. Honeymoon | Edward J. Kay | |
G. I. Joe | Louis Applebaum & Ann Ronell | |
Guest in the House | 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 | Rózsa & 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 & Hugo Friedhofer | |
Scoring of a Musical Picture | ||
Anchors Aweigh | Georgie Stoll | |
Belle of the Yukon | Lange | |
Can't Help Singing | Jerome Kern (p.n.) & Salter | |
Hitchhike to Happiness | Morton Scott | |
Incendiary Blonde | Robert E. Dolan | |
Rhapsody in Blue | Ray Heindorf & Max Steiner | |
State Fair | Alfred Newman & Charles Henderson | |
Sunbonnet Sue | Edward J. Kay | |
The Three Caballeros | Edward Plumb, Paul Smith & Charles Wolcott | |
Tonight and Every Night | Marlin Skiles & Morris Stoloff | |
Why Girls Leave Home | Walter Greene | |
Wonder Man | Louis Forbes & Ray Heindorf | |
1946 (19th) | ||
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 & Max Steiner | |
1947 (20th) | ||
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 & Max Steiner | |
Road to Rio | Robert Emmett Dolan | |
Song of the South | Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul Smith & Charles Wolcott | |
1948 (21st) | ||
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 & 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 | |
1949 (22nd) | ||
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 & Lennie Hayton | |
Jolson Sings Again | Morris Stoloff & George Duning | |
Look for the Silver Lining | Ray Heindorf |
1950s
Year | Film | Nominees |
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1950 (23rd) | ||
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 & Roger Edens | |
Cinderella | Paul Smith & Oliver Wallace | |
I'll Get By | Lionel Newman | |
Three Little Words | André Previn | |
The West Point Story | Ray Heindorf | |
1951 (24th) | ||
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 | North | |
Scoring of a Musical Picture | ||
An American in Paris | Saul Chaplin & Johnny Green | |
Alice in Wonderland | Oliver Wallace | |
The Great Caruso | Peter Herman Adler & Green | |
On the Riviera | Newman | |
Show Boat | Adolph Deutsch & Conrad Salinger | |
1952 (25th) | ||
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 & Steiner | |
The Medium | Gian Carlo Menotti | |
Singin' in the Rain | Lennie Hayton | |
1953 (26th) | ||
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | ||
Lili | Bronisław Kaper | |
Above and Beyond | Hugo Friedhofer | |
From Here to Eternity | George Duning & 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 & Stoloff | |
The Band Wagon | Adolph Deutsch | |
Calamity Jane | Ray Heindorf | |
Kiss Me Kate | Saul Chaplin & André Previn | |
1954 (27th) | ||
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | ||
The High and the Mighty | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
The Caine Mutiny | Max Steiner | |
Genevieve | Larry Adler [note 4] | |
On the Waterfront | Leonard Bernstein | |
The Silver Chalice | Franz Waxman | |
Scoring of a Musical Picture | ||
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Saul Chaplin & Adolph Deutsch | |
Carmen Jones | Herschel Burke Gilbert | |
The Glenn Miller Story | Joseph Gershenson & Henry Mancini | |
A Star Is Born | Ray Heindorf | |
There's No Business Like Show Business | Alfred & Lionel Newman | |
1955 (28th) | ||
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 & Adolph Deutsch | |
Daddy Long Legs | Newman | |
Guys and Dolls | Blackton & Cyril J. Mockridge | |
It's Always Fair Weather | André Previn | |
Love Me or Leave Me | Percy Faith & Georgie Stoll | |
1956 (29th) | ||
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 & Newman | |
The Best Things in Life Are Free | Lionel Newman | |
The Eddy Duchin Story | George Duning & Morris Stoloff | |
High Society | Saul Chaplin & Johnny Green | |
Meet Me in Las Vegas | Green & Georgie Stoll | |
1957 (30th) [note 5] [3] | ||
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 | |
1958 (31st) | ||
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 & Gennady Rozhdestvensky | |
Damn Yankees | Ray Heindorf | |
Mardi Gras | Lionel Newman | |
South Pacific | Ken Darby & Alfred Newman | |
1959 (32nd) | ||
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 | De Vol | |
Scoring of a Musical Picture | ||
Porgy and Bess | Ken Darby & André Previn | |
The Five Pennies | Leith Stevens | |
Li'l Abner | Joseph J. Lilley & Nelson Riddle | |
Say One for Me | Lionel Newman | |
Sleeping Beauty | George Bruns |
1960s
Year | Film | Nominees |
---|---|---|
1960 (33rd) | ||
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 & Harry Sukman | |
Bells Are Ringing | Red Mitchell & Previn | |
Can-Can | Nelson Riddle | |
Let's Make Love | Earle Hagen & Lionel Newman | |
Pepe | Johnny Green | |
1961 (34th) | ||
Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | ||
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Henry Mancini | |
El Cid | Miklós Rózsa | |
Fanny | Morris Stoloff & 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 & Sid Ramin | |
Babes in Toyland | George Bruns | |
Flower Drum Song | Ken Darby & Alfred Newman | |
Khovanshchina | Dmitri Shostakovich | |
Paris Blues | Duke Ellington | |
1962 (35th) | ||
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 | |
1963 (36th) | ||
Music Score — Substantially Original | ||
Tom Jones | John Addison | |
55 Days at Peking | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Cleopatra | Alex North | |
How the West Was Won | Ken Darby & Alfred Newman | |
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 | |
1964 (37th) | ||
Music Score — Substantially Original | ||
Mary Poppins | Sherman Brothers | |
Becket | Laurence Rosenthal | |
The Fall of the Roman Empire | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | 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 & Leo Shuken | |
1965 (38th) | ||
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 & Michel Legrand | |
Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment | ||
The Sound of Music | Irwin Kostal | |
Cat Ballou | De Vol | |
The Pleasure Seekers | Sandy Courage & Lionel Newman | |
A Thousand Clowns | Don Walker | |
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Legrand | |
1966 (39th) | ||
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 | Bernstein | |
The Singing Nun | Harry Sukman | |
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off | Al Ham | |
1967 (40th) | ||
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 & Alfred Newman | |
Doctor Dolittle | Sandy Courage & Lionel Newman | |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | De Vol | |
Thoroughly Modern Millie | Joseph Gershenson & André Previn | |
Valley of the Dolls | John Williams | |
1968 (41st) | ||
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 | Legrand (music & adaptation score) & Jacques Demy (lyrics) | |
1969 (42nd) | ||
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 & Lionel Newman (adaptation score) | |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Leslie Bricusse (music & lyrics) & 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 & Albert Woodbury (adaptation score) |
1970s
Year | Film | Nominees |
---|---|---|
1970 (43rd) | ||
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 & lyrics) | |
The Baby Maker | Fred Karlin (music) & Tylwyth Kymry (lyrics) | |
A Boy Named Charlie Brown | Rod McKuen (music & lyrics), Uncle John (music), Bill Melendez, Al Shean (lyrics), Vince Guaraldi (adaptation score) | |
Darling Lili | Mancini (music) & Johnny Mercer (lyrics) | |
Scrooge | Leslie Bricusse (music & lyrics), Ian Fraser & Herbert W. Spencer (adaptation score) | |
1971 (44th) | ||
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) & Irwin Kostal (adaptation score) | |
The Boy Friend | Peter Maxwell Davies & Peter Greenwell (adaptation score) | |
Tchaikovsky | Dimitri Tiomkin (adaptation score) | |
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley (song score) & Walter Scharf (adaptation score) | |
1972 (45th) | ||
Original Dramatic Score | ||
Limelight [note 6] | Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch (p.r.) & Larry Russell (p.r.) | |
Nino Rota | ||
Images | John Williams | |
Napoleon and Samantha | Buddy Baker | |
The Poseidon Adventure | 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) | |
1973 (46th) | ||
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 & Andrew Lloyd Webber (adaptation score) | |
Tom Sawyer | Sherman Brothers (song score) & Williams (adaptation score) | |
1974 (47th) | ||
Original Dramatic Score | ||
The Godfather Part II | Nino Rota & 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 & Frederick Loewe (song score), Douglas Gamley & Angela Morley (adaptation score) | |
Phantom of the Paradise | Paul Williams (song & adaptation score) & George Tipton (adaptation score) | |
1975 (48th) | ||
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) | |
1976 (49th) | ||
Original Score | ||
The Omen | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Obsession | Bernard Herrmann (p.n.) | |
The Outlaw Josey Wales | Jerry Fielding | |
Taxi Driver | 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 & adaptation score) | |
A Star Is Born | Roger Kellaway (adaptation score) | |
1977 (50th) | ||
Original Score | ||
Star Wars | John Williams | |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 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 & Al Kasha (song score) & Irwin Kostal (adaptation score) | |
The Slipper and the Rose | Sherman Brothers (song score) & Angela Morley (adaptation score) | |
1978 (51st) | ||
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 | |
1979 (52nd) | ||
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 & adaptation score) & Kenny Ascher (song score) |
1980s
1990s
Year | Film | Nominees |
---|---|---|
1990 (63rd) | ||
Dances with Wolves | John Barry | |
Avalon | Randy Newman | |
Ghost | Maurice Jarre | |
Havana | Dave Grusin | |
Home Alone | John Williams | |
1991 (64th) | ||
Beauty and the Beast | Alan Menken | |
Bugsy | Ennio Morricone | |
The Fisher King | George Fenton | |
JFK | John Williams | |
The Prince of Tides | James Newton Howard | |
1992 (65th) | ||
Aladdin | Alan Menken | |
Basic Instinct | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Chaplin | John Barry | |
Howards End | Richard Robbins | |
A River Runs Through It | Mark Isham | |
1993 (66th) | ||
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 | |
1994 (67th) | ||
The Lion King | Hans Zimmer | |
Forrest Gump | Alan Silvestri | |
Interview with the Vampire | Elliot Goldenthal | |
Little Women | Thomas Newman | |
The Shawshank Redemption | ||
1995 (68th) [note 8] | ||
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 & orchestral score) & Stephen Schwartz (lyrics) | |
The American President | Marc Shaiman | |
Sabrina | John Williams | |
Toy Story | Randy Newman | |
Unstrung Heroes | Thomas Newman | |
1996 (69th) | ||
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 & orchestral score) & Stephen Schwartz (lyrics) | |
James and the Giant Peach | Randy Newman | |
The Preacher's Wife | Hans Zimmer | |
1997 (70th) | ||
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) & David Newman (orchestral score) | |
As Good as It Gets | Hans Zimmer | |
Men in Black | Danny Elfman | |
My Best Friend's Wedding | James Newton Howard | |
1998 (71st) | ||
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 | Newman | |
Mulan | Matthew Wilder (music), David Zippel (lyrics) & Jerry Goldsmith (orchestral score) | |
Patch Adams | Marc Shaiman | |
The Prince of Egypt | Stephen Schwartz (music & lyrics) & Zimmer (orchestral score) | |
1999 (72nd) | ||
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
2010s
2020s
Year | Film | Nominees |
---|---|---|
2020/21[note 10] (93rd) | ||
Soul | Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste | |
Da 5 Bloods | Terence Blanchard | |
Mank | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross | |
Minari | Emile Mosseri | |
News of the World | James Newton Howard | |
2021 (94th) | ||
Dune | Hans Zimmer | |
Don't Look Up | Nicholas Britell | |
Encanto | Germaine Franco | |
Parallel Mothers | Alberto Iglesias | |
The Power of the Dog | Jonny Greenwood |
Notes
- ↑ From 1934 until 1937, nominated films were represented by the head of the film studio's music department rather than the composer. Each film's actual composer(s) are listed in parentheses.
- ↑ Captain Blood was not officially nominated for this award, but appears in Academy records because it placed third in voting as a write-in candidate in 1935.
- ↑ From 1937 until 1945, film studios could submit one eligible film of their choosing, guaranteeing it a nomination.
- ↑ Blacklisted composer Larry Adler's name was removed from American prints of the British-made Genevieve. The film's arranger and orchestrator Muir Mathieson was credited instead and received an Oscar nomination. In 1986, the Academy's Board of Governors removed Mathieson's name from the nomination and gave it to Adler.
- ↑ In 1957, dramatic and comedy films competed with musicals in a combined category called Music – Scoring. Fifteen scores were shortlisted with ten from dramatic and comedy films and five from musicals. Voting resulted in no musical nominees.
- ↑ Limelight was originally released in 1952, but had never screened theatrically in Los Angeles until 1972, at which point it became eligible for Oscar consideration.
- ↑ Nino Rota was nominated for The Godfather in 1972, but the nomination was rescinded after it was discovered that Rota reused music from the 1958 film Fortunella. The Academy's entire music branch revoted for a fifth nominee. They could renominate Rota for The Godfather or select one of the five other shortlisted scores: Ben by Walter Scharf, Fellini's Roma by Rota, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean by Maurice Jarre, The Other by Jerry Goldsmith, or Sleuth by John Addison. Sleuth received the most votes and became the fifth nominee.
- ↑ From 1995 until 1998, Best Original Score was split into Original Dramatic Score and Original Musical or Comedy Score. For musicals and comedies, songwriters and lyricists along with orchestral underscore composers were eligible for nomination.
- ↑ Lisa Gerrard and Klaus Badelt also received screen credit for the Gladiator score, but only Zimmer was deemed eligible for the nomination.
- ↑ The eligibility period for the 93rd ceremony was exceptionally extended through to February 28, 2021, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
- ↑ "Academy Awards rules". Archived from the original on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
- ↑ "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
- ↑ "1957 Academy Award Voting Rules". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1957. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Vote Settles Oscar Tunes". Billboard. March 17, 1973. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
- ↑ "Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of Oscar winners and nominees". Los Angeles Times. February 26, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2018.