Academy Award for Original Music Score
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From "Rule Sixteen" of the "Special Rules for The Music Awards"
Original Score: An original score is a substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
The years shown are the production years, thus a reference to 1967 means the Oscars presented in 1968 for movies made in 1967.
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1930s
- 1934
- MUSIC (Scoring): 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 Samuel Hoffenstein)
- The Lost Patrol – RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
- MUSIC (Scoring): One Night of Love – Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (Thematic Music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn)
- 1935
- MUSIC (Scoring): The Informer – RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
- (Write-in Candidate) Captain Blood – Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo 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)
- MUSIC (Scoring): The Informer – RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
- 1936
- MUSIC (Scoring): Anthony Adverse – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
- The Garden of Allah – Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max 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 Nathaniel Shilkret)
- MUSIC (Scoring): Anthony Adverse – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
- 1937
- MUSIC (Scoring): 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 Alfred 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 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, Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, musical director (Score by Dr. Hugo 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 Alberto Colombo)
- The Prisoner of Zenda – Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, musical director (Score by Alfred Newman)
- Quality Street – RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb, musical director (Score by Roy Webb)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith)
- Something to Sing About – Grand National Studio Music Department, C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director (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 Marvin Hatley)
- MUSIC (Scoring): One Hundred Men and a Girl — Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department (no composer credit)
- 1938
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (Scoring): Alexander's Ragtime Band – Alfred Newman
- Carefree – Victor Baravalle
- Girls' School – Morris Stoloff, Gregory Stone
- The Goldwyn Follies – Alfred 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 – Franz Waxman
- MUSIC (Original Score): The Adventures of Robin Hood – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- 1939
- MUSIC (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, 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 – Alfred Newman
- MUSIC (Scoring: Stagecoach – Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken
- Babes in Arms – George E. Stoll, Roger Edens
- First Love – Charles Previn
- The Great Victor Herbert – Phil Boutelje, Arthur Lange
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Alfred 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 – Alfred Newman
- Way Down South – Victor Young
- MUSIC (Original Score): The Wizard of Oz – Herbert Stothart
1940s
- 1940
- MUSIC (Original Score): Pinocchio – Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington
- Arizona – Victor Young
- The Dark Command – Victor Young
- 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 – Miklos Rozsa
- Waterloo Bridge – Herbert Stothart
- MUSIC (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, Georgie Stoll
- MUSIC (Original Score): Pinocchio – Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington
- 1941
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture): All That Money Can Buy – 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, Ernst Toch
- The Little Foxes – Meredith Willson
- Lydia – Miklos Rozsa
- Mercy Island – Cy Feuer, Walter Scharf
- Sergeant York – Max Steiner
- So Ends Our Night – Louis Gruenberg
- Sundown – Miklos Rozsa
- Suspicion – Franz Waxman
- Tanks a Million – Edward Ward
- That Uncertain Feeling – Werner Heymann
- This Woman Is Mine – Richard Hageman
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Dumbo – Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace
- All-American Co-Ed – Edward Ward
- Birth of the Blues – Robert Emmett Dolan
- Buck Privates – Charles Previn
- The Chocolate Soldier – Herbert Stothart, Bronislaw 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 (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture): All That Money Can Buy – Bernard Herrmann
- 1942
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Now, Voyager – Max Steiner
- Arabian Nights – Frank Skinner
- Bambi – Frank Churchill, 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 – Roy Webb
- Jungle Book – Miklos Rozsa
- 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 – Victor Young
- The Talk of the Town – Frederick Hollander, Morris Stoloff
- To Be or Not to Be – Werner Heymann
- MUSIC (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 Emmett Dolan
- It Started with Eve – Hans Salter, Charles Previn
- Johnny Doughboy – Walter Scharf
- My Gal Sal – Alfred Newman
- You Were Never Lovelier – Leigh Harline
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Now, Voyager – Max Steiner
- 1943
- MUSIC (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, C. 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 H. Plumb, Paul Smith, Oliver G. Wallace
- MUSIC (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 – Charles Wolcott, Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith
- The Sky's the Limit – Leigh Harline
- Something to Shout About – Morris Stoloff
- Stage Door Canteen – Frederic E. Rich
- Star Spangled Rhythm – Robert Emmett Dolan
- Thousands Cheer – Herbert Stothart
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Song of Bernadette – Alfred Newman
- 1944
- MUSIC (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 – Max Steiner
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Dimitri Tiomkin
- Casanova Brown – Arthur Lange
- Christmas Holiday – H. J. Salter
- Double Indemnity – Miklos Rozsa
- The Fighting Seabees – Walter Scharf, Roy Webb
- The Hairy Ape – Edward Paul, Michel Michelet
- It Happened Tomorrow – Robert Stolz
- Jack London – Frederic Efrem Rich
- Kismet – Herbert Stothart
- None but the Lonely Heart – Hanns Eisler, C. Bakaleinikoff
- 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
- Woman of the Town – Miklos Rozsa
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Cover Girl – Morris Stoloff, Carmen Dragon
- Brazil – Walter Scharf
- Higher and Higher – C. Bakaleinikoff
- Hollywood Canteen – Ray Heindorf
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling – Alfred Newman
- Knickerbocker Holiday – Werner R. 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 – H. J. Salter
- Minstrel Man – Ferde Grofe, Leo Erdody
- Sensations of 1945 – Mahlon Merrick
- Song of the Open Road – Charles Previn
- Up in Arms – Ray Heindorf, Louis Forbes
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Since You Went Away – Max Steiner
- 1945
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Spellbound – Miklos Rozsa
- The Bells of St. Mary's – Robert Emmett Dolan
- Brewster's Millions – Lou Forbes
- Captain Kidd – Werner Janssen
- The Enchanted Cottage – Roy Webb
- Flame of Barbary Coast – Morton Scott, Dale Butts
- G. I. Honeymoon – Edward J. Kay
- The Story of G.I. Joe – Louis Applebaum, Ann Ronell
- Guest in the House – Werner Janssen
- Guest Wife – Daniele Amfitheatrof
- The Keys of the Kingdom – Alfred Newman
- The Lost Weekend – Miklos Rozsa
- Love Letters – Victor Young
- The Man Who Walked Alone – Karl Hajos
- Objective, Burma! – Franz Waxman
- Paris--Underground – Alexander Tansman
- A Song to Remember – Miklos Rozsa, Morris Stoloff
- The Southerner – Werner Janssen
- This Love of Ours – H. J. Salter
- The Valley of Decision – Herbert Stothart
- The Woman in the Window – Arthur Lange, Hugo Friedhofer
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Anchors Aweigh – Georgie Stoll
- Belle of the Yukon – Arthur Lange
- Can't Help Singing – Jerome Kern, H. J. Salter
- Hitchhike to Happiness – Morton Scott
- Incendiary Blonde – Robert Emmett Dolan
- Rhapsody in Blue – Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
- State Fair – Alfred Newman, Charles Henderson
- Sunbonnet Sue – Edward J. Kay
- The Three Caballeros – Charles Wolcott, Edward Plumb, Paul J. Smith
- Tonight and Every Night – Marlin Skiles, Morris Stoloff
- Why Girls Leave Home – Walter Greene
- Wonder Man – Ray Heindorf, Lou Forbes
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Spellbound – Miklos Rozsa
- 1946
- MUSIC (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 – Miklos Rozsa
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Best Years of Our Lives – Hugo Friedhofer
- 1947
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): A Double Life – Miklos Rozsa
- The Bishop's Wife – Hugo Friedhofer
- Captain from Castile – Alfred Newman
- Forever Amber – David Raksin
- Life with Father – Max Steiner
- MUSIC (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 J. Smith, Charles Wolcott
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): A Double Life – Miklos Rozsa
- 1948
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Red Shoes – Brian Easdale
- 1949
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Heiress – Aaron Copland
- Beyond the Forest – Max Steiner
- Champion – Dimitri Tiomkin
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Heiress – Aaron Copland
1950s
- 1950
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Annie Get Your Gun – Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens
- Cinderella – Oliver Wallace, Paul J. Smith
- I'll Get By – Lionel Newman
- Three Little Words – Andre Previn
- The West Point Story – Ray Heindorf
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman
- 1951
- MUSIC (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 – Miklos Rozsa
- A Streetcar Named Desire – Alex North
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): An American in Paris – Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
- Alice in Wonderland – Oliver Wallace
- The Great Caruso – Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green
- On the Riviera – Alfred Newman
- Show Boat – Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): A Place in the Sun – Franz Waxman
- 1952
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin
- Ivanhoe – Miklos Rozsa
- Miracle of Fatima – Max Steine
- The Thief – Herschel Burke Gilbert
- Viva Zapata! – Alex North
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): With a Song in My Heart – Alfred Newman
- Hans Christian Andersen – Walter Scharf
- The Jazz Singer – Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
- The Medium – Gian-Carlo Menotti
- Singin' in the Rain – Lennie Hayton
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin
- 1953
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Lili – Bronislau Kaper
- Above and Beyond – Hugo Friedhofer
- From Here to Eternity – Morris Stoloff, George Duning
- Julius Caesar – Miklos Rozsa
- This Is Cinerama – Louis Forbes
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Call Me Madam – Alfred Newman
- The Band Wagon – Adolph Deutsch
- Calamity Jane – Ray Heindorf
- The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T – Frederick Hollander, Morris Stoloff
- Kiss Me Kate – Andre Previn, Saul Chaplin
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Lili – Bronislau Kaper
- 1954
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The High and the Mighty – Dimitri Tiomkin
- The Caine Mutiny – Max Steiner
- Genevieve – Larry Adler (Front: Muir Mathieson)
- On the Waterfront – Leonard Bernstein
- The Silver Chalice – Franz Waxman
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin
- 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 Newman, Lionel Newman
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The High and the Mighty – Dimitri Tiomkin
- 1955
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Oklahoma! – Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch
- Daddy Long Legs – Alfred Newman
- Guys and Dolls – Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge
- It's Always Fair Weather – Andre Previn
- Love Me or Leave Me – Percy Faith, George Stoll
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Alfred Newman
- 1956
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Around the World in Eighty Days – Victor Young
- Anastasia – Alfred Newman
- Between Heaven and Hell – Hugo Friedhofer
- Giant – Dimitri Tiomkin
- The Rainmaker – Alex North
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): The King and I – Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
- The Best Things in Life Are Free – Lionel Newman
- The Eddy Duchin Story – Morris Stoloff, George Duning
- High Society – Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
- Meet Me in Las Vegas – George Stoll, Johnny Green
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Around the World in Eighty Days – Victor Young
- 1957
- MUSIC (Scoring): The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold
- An Affair To Remember – Hugo Friedhofer
- Boy on a Dolphin – Hugo Friedhofer
- Perri – Paul Smith
- Raintree County – Johnny Green
- MUSIC (Scoring): The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold
- 1958
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Gigi – Andre Previn
- The Bolshoi Ballet – Yuri Faier, G. Rozhdestvensky
- Damn Yankees – Ray Heindorf
- Mardi Gras – Lionel Newman
- South Pacific – Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Old Man and the Sea – Dimitri Tiomkin
- 1959
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Ben-Hur – Miklos Rozsa
- The Diary of Anne Frank – Alfred Newman
- The Nun's Story – Franz Waxman
- On the Beach – Ernest Gold
- Pillow Talk – Frank DeVol
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Porgy and Bess – Andre Previn, Ken Darby
- The Five Pennies – Leith Stevens
- Li'l Abner – Nelson Riddle, Joseph J. Lilley
- Say One for Me – Lionel Newman
- Sleeping Beauty – George Bruns
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Ben-Hur – Miklos Rozsa
1960s
- 1960
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Exodus – Ernest Gold
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt) – Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
- Bells Are Ringing – Andre Previn
- Can-Can - Nelson Riddle
- Let's Make Love – Lionel Newman, Earle H. Hagen
- Pepe – Johnny Green
- 1961
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Breakfast at Tiffany's – Henry Mancini
- El Cid – Miklos Rozsa
- Fanny – Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
- The Guns of Navarone – Dimitri Tiomkin
- Summer and Smoke – Elmer Bernstein
- MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): West Side Story – Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal
- Babes in Toyland – George Bruns
- Flower Drum Song – Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
- Khovanshchina – Dimitri Shostakovich
- Paris Blues – Duke Ellington
- MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Breakfast at Tiffany's – Henry Mancini
- 1962
- MUSIC (Music Score--substantially original): Lawrence of Arabia – Maurice Jarre
- Freud – Jerry Goldsmith
- Mutiny on the Bounty – Bronislau Kaper
- Taras Bulba – Franz Waxman
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Elmer Bernstein
- MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment): The Music Man – Ray Heindorf
- Billy Rose's Jumbo – George Stoll
- Gigot – Michel Magne
- Gypsy – Frank Perkins
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm – Leigh Harline
- MUSIC (Music Score--substantially original): Lawrence of Arabia – Maurice Jarre
- 1963
- MUSIC (Music Score--substantially original): Tom Jones – John Addison
- MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment): Irma La Douce – Andre Previn
- Bye Bye Birdie – John Green
- A New Kind of Love – Leith Stevens
- Sundays and Cybele – Maurice Jarre
- The Sword in the Stone – George Bruns
- 1964
- MUSIC (Music Score--substantially original): Mary Poppins – Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Becket – Laurence Rosenthal
- The Fall of the Roman Empire – Dimitri Tiomkin
- Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Frank DeVol
- The Pink Panther – Henry Mancini
- MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment): My Fair Lady – Andre 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
- MUSIC (Music Score--substantially original): Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre
- MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment): The Sound of Music – Irwin Kostal
- Cat Ballou – DeVol
- The Pleasure Seekers – Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage
- A Thousand Clowns – Don Walker
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Michel Legrand
- 1966
- MUSIC (Original Music Score): Born Free – John Barry
- The Bible – Toshiro Mayuzumi
- Hawaii – Elmer Bernstein
- The Sand Pebbles – Jerry Goldsmith
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Alex North
- MUSIC (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 Enrique Bacalov
- Return of the Seven – Elmer Bernstein
- The Singing Nun – Harry Sukman
- Stop the World--I Want to Get Off – Al Ham
- MUSIC (Original Music Score): Born Free – John Barry
- 1967
- MUSIC (Original Music Score): Thoroughly Modern Millie – Elmer Bernstein
- MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment): Camelot – Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
- Doctor Dolittle – Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner – DeVol
- Thoroughly Modern Millie – Andre Previn, Joseph Gershenson
- Valley of the Dolls – John Williams
- 1968
- MUSIC (Original Score--for a motion picture [not a musical]): The Lion in Winter – John Barry
- MUSIC (Score of a Musical Picture--original or adaptation): Oliver! – Adaptation score by John Green
- Finian's Rainbow – Adaptation score by Ray Heindorf
- Funny Girl – Adaptation score by Walter Scharf
- Star! – Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton
- The Young Girls of Rochefort – Music and adaptation score by Michel Legrand; lyrics by Jacques Demy
- 1969
- MUSIC (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
- MUSIC (Score of a Musical Picture--original or adaptation): Hello, Dolly! – Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; adaptation score by John Williams
- Paint Your Wagon – Adaptation score by Nelson Riddle
- Sweet Charity – Adaptation score by Cy Coleman
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – Adaptation score by John Green and Albert Woodbury
- MUSIC (Original Score--for a motion picture [not a musical]): Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach
1970s
- 1970 separate awards:
- Best Music, Original Score: Love Story – Francis Lai
- Airport – Alfred Newman
- Cromwell – Frank Cordell
- Patton – Jerry Goldsmith
- Sunflower – Henry Mancini
- Best Music, Original Song Score: Let It Be – music and lyrics by Paul McCartney; John Lennon; George Harrison; Ringo Starr (as the Beatles)
- The Baby Maker – music by Fred Karlin; lyrics by Tylwyth Kymry
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown – music by Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter; lyrics by Rod McKuen, Bill Melendez; Al Shean; adaptation score by Vince Guaraldi
- Darling Lili – Music by Henry Mancini; lyrics by Johnny Mercer
- Scrooge – music by Leslie Bricusse; lyrics by Ian Fraser; Herbert W. Spencer
- Best Music, Original Score: Love Story – Francis Lai
- 1971 separate awards:
- 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 – Adaptation Score by John Williams
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Song Score by Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
- The Boy Friend – Adaptation Score by Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Greenwell
- Tchaikovsky – Adaptation Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – Song Score by Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley; Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf
- Original Dramatic Score: Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand
- 1972 separate awards:
- Original Dramatic Score: Limelight – Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry Russell
- The Godfather – Nino Rota (Note: Was Withdrawn when found that Nino Rota has used music from an earlier score and was replaced by that of Sleuth)
- images – John Williams
- Napoleon and Samantha — Buddy Baker
- The Poseidon Adventure — John Williams
- Sleuth – John Addison
- Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score: Cabaret — Adaptation Score by Ralph Burns
- Lady Sings the Blues – Adaptation Score by Gil Askey
- Man of La Mancha – Adaptation Score by Laurence Rosenthal
- 1973 separate awards:
- Original Dramatic Score: The Way We Were – Marvin Hamlisch
- Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation: The Sting – Adaptation Score by Marvin Hamlisch
- Jesus Christ Superstar – Adaptation Score by Andre Previn, Herbert Spencer and Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Tom Sawyer — Song Score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by John Williams
- 1974 separate awards:
- Original Dramatic Score: The Godfather Part II – Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola
- Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation: The Great Gatsby – Adaptation Score by Nelson Riddle
- The Little Prince – Song Score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe; Adaptation Score by Angela Morley and Douglas Gamley
- Phantom of the Paradise – Song Score by Paul Williams; Adaptation Score by Paul Williams and George Aliceson Tipton
- 1975 separate awards:
- 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 – Adaptation Score by Leonard Rosenman
- Funny Lady – Adaptation Score by Peter Matz
- Tommy – Adaptation Score by Peter Townshend
- Original Score: Jaws – John Williams
- 1976 separate awards:
- Original Score: The Omen – Jerry Goldsmith
- Obsession – Bernard Herrmann
- The Outlaw Josey Wales – Jerry Fielding
- Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann
- Voyage of the Damned – Lalo Schifrin
- Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score: Bound for Glory – Adaptation Score by Leonard Rosenman
- Bugsy Malone – Song Score and Adaptation Score by Paul Williams
- A Star Is Born – Adaptation Score by Roger Kellaway
- Original Score: The Omen – Jerry Goldsmith
- 1977 separate awards
- 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 – Adaptation Score by Jonathan Tunick
- Pete's Dragon – Song Score by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
- The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella – Song Score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Angela Morley
- Original Score: Star Wars – John Williams
- 1978 separate awards
- Adaptation Score: The Buddy Holly Story – Joe Renzetti
- Original Score: Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder
- 1979 separate awards:
- Original Score: A Little Romance – Georges Delerue
- The Amityville Horror – Lalo Schifrin
- The Champ – Dave Grusin
- Star Trek – The Motion Picture – Jerry Goldsmith
- 10 – Henry Mancini
- Original Song Score and Its Adaptation -or- Adaptation Score: All That Jazz – Adaptation Score by Ralph Burns
- Breaking Away – Adaptation Score by Patrick Williams
- The Muppet Movie – Song Score by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher; Adaptation Score by Paul Williams
- Original Score: A Little Romance – Georges Delerue
1980s
- 1980 Fame – Michael Gore
- Altered States – John Corigliano
- The Elephant Man – John Morris
- The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams
- Tess – Philippe Sarde
- 1981 Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
- Dragonslayer – Jerry Goldsmith
- On Golden Pond – Dave Grushin
- Ragtime – Randy Newman
- Raiders of the Lost Ark – John Williams
- 1982 separate awards:
- Best Music, Original Score: E.T. – John Williams
- Gandhi – Ravi Shankar; George Fenton
- An Officer and a Gentleman – Jack Nitzsche
- Poltergeist – Jerry Goldsmith
- Sophie's Choice – Marvin Hamlisch
- Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score: Victor/Victoria – Song Score by Henry Mancini, Leslie Bricusse Adaptation Score by Henry Mancini
- Best Music, Original Score: E.T. – John Williams
- 1983 separate awards:
- 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 or Adaptation Score: Yentl – Song Score by Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
- Sting II – Adaptation Score by Lalo Schifrin
- Trading Places – Adaptation Score by Elmer Bernstein
- Original Score: The Right Stuff – Bill Conti
- 1984 separate awards:
- Original Score: A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre
- Original Song Score: Purple Rain – Prince
- The Muppets Take Manhattan – Jeff Moss
- Songwriter – Kris Kristofferson
Best Music, Original Score
- 1985 Out of Africa – John Barry
- Agnes of God – Georges Delerue
- The Color Purple – Quincy Jones; Jeremy Lubbock; Rod Temperton; Caiphus Semenya; Andraé Crouch; Chris Boardman (composer); Jorge Calandrelli; Joel Rosenbaum; Fred Steiner; Jack Hayes; Jerry Hey; Randy Kerber
- Silverado – Bruce Broughton
- Witness – Maurice Jarre
- 1986 'Round Midnight – Herbie Hancock
- Aliens – James Horner
- Hoosiers – Jerry Goldsmith
- The Mission – Ennio Morricone
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Leonard Rosenman
- 1987 The Last Emperor – Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su
- 1988 The Milagro Beanfield War – David Grusin
- The Accidental Tourist – John Williams
- Dangerous Liaisons – George Fenton
- Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey – Maurice Jarre
- Rain Man – Hans Zimmer
1990s
- 1992 Aladdin – Alan Menken
- Basic Instinct – Jerry Goldsmith
- Chaplin – John Barry
- Howards End – Richard Robbins
- A River Runs Through It – Mark Isham
- 1993 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
- 1995 separate awards:
- Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: Il Postino – Luis Enríquez Bacalov
- Apollo 13 – James Horner
- Braveheart – James Horner
- Nixon – John Williams
- Sense and Sensibility – Patrick Doyle
- Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score: Pocahontas – Alan Menken; Stephen Schwartz
- The American President – Marc Shaiman
- Sabrina – John Williams
- Toy Story – Randy Newman
- Unstrung Heroes – Thomas Newman
- Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: Il Postino – Luis Enríquez Bacalov
- 1996 separate awards:
- Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: The English Patient – Gabriel Yared
- Hamlet – Patrick Doyle
- Michael Collins – Elliot Goldenthal
- Shine – David Hirschfelder
- Sleepers – John Williams
- Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score: Emma – Rachel Portman
- The First Wives Club – Marc Shaiman
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Alan Menken; Stephen Schwartz
- James and the Giant Peach – Randy Newman
- The Preacher's Wife – Hans Zimmer
- Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: The English Patient – Gabriel Yared
- 1997 separate awards:
- Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: Titanic (1997 movie) – James Horner
- Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score: The Full Monty – Anne Dudley
- 1998 separate awards:
- Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: La Vita è bella – Nicola Piovani
- Elizabeth – David Hirschfelder
- Pleasantville (movie) – Randy Newman
- Saving Private Ryan – John Williams
- The Thin Red Line – Hans Zimmer
- Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score: Shakespeare in Love – Stephen Warbeck
- A Bug's Life – Randy Newman
- Mulan – Matthew Wilder (music); David Zippel (lyrics); Jerry Goldsmith (orchestral score)
- Patch Adams – Marc Shaiman
- The Prince of Egypt – Stephen Schwartz (music/lyrics); Hans Zimmer (orchestral score)
- Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: La Vita è bella – Nicola Piovani
Best Music, Original Score
2000s
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
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