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 released in 1967.

Most awards won - (nominations)

9 : Alfred Newman (45)
5 : John Williams (45)
4 : John Barry (6)
4 : Johnny Green (12)
4 : Alan Menken (5)
4 : André Previn (11)
3 : Saul Chaplin (5)
3 : Ken Darby (6)
3 : Adolph Deutsch (5)
3 : Roger Edens (6)
3 : Ray Heindorf (17)
3 : Maurice Jarre (8)
3 : Miklós Rózsa (16)
3 : Morris Stoloff (17)
3 : Dimitri Tiomkin (14)

Contents

1 1930s
2 1940s
3 1950s
4 1960s
5 1970s
6 1980s
7 1990s
8 2000s
9 External link

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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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

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 - Miklós Rózsa
** 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
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 - Miklós Rózsa
** Mercy Island - Cy Feuer, 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
*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
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 - 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 - 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
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
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 - Miklós Rózsa
** 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 - Miklós Rózsa
*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
1945
*MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Spellbound - Miklós Rózsa
** 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 - Miklós Rózsa
** Love Letters - Victor Young
** The Man Who Walked Alone - Karl Hajos
** Objective, Burma! - Franz Waxman
** Paris--Underground - Alexander Tansman
** A Song to Remember - Miklós Rózsa, 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
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 - Miklós Rózsa
*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
1947
*MUSIC (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
*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
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
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

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
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 - Miklós Rózsa
** 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
1952
*MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): High Noon - Dimitri Tiomkin
** Ivanhoe - Miklós Rózsa
** Miracle of Fatima - Max Steiner
** 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
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 - Miklós Rózsa
** 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
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
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
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
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
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
1959
*MUSIC (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 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

1960s

1960
*MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Exodus - Ernest Gold
** The Alamo - Dimitri Tiomkin
** Elmer Gantry - Andre Previn
** The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein
** Spartacus - Alex North
*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 - Miklós Rózsa
** 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
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
** - Frank Perkins
** The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - Leigh Harline
1963
*MUSIC (Music Score--substantially original): Tom Jones - John Addison
** Cleopatra - Alex North
** 55 Days at Peking - Dimitri Tiomkin
** How the West Was Won - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
** It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Ernest Gold
*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
** The Agony and the Ecstasy - Alex North
** The Greatest Story Ever Told - Alfred Newman
** A Patch of Blue - Jerry Goldsmith
** The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy
*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
1967
*MUSIC (Original Music Score): Thoroughly Modern Millie - Elmer Bernstein
** Cool Hand Luke - Lalo Schifrin
** Doctor Dolittle - Leslie Bricusse
** Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) - Richard Rodney Bennett
** In Cold Blood - Quincy Jones
*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
** The Fox - Lalo Schifrin
** Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith
** The Shoes of the Fisherman - Alex North
** The Thomas Crown Affair - Michel Legrand
*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

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 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
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
1972 separate awards:
**Original Dramatic Score: Limelight - Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry Russell (Note: This film was originally released in 1952, but did not play in Los Angeles until 1972 at which point it become eligible)
** The Godfather - Nino Rota (Note: Was withdrawn when found that Rota had 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 John Williams
1973 separate awards:
*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 - 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
** 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 - 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
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
1977 separate awards
*Original Score: - 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
1978 separate awards
*Adaptation Score: The Buddy Holly Story - Joe Renzetti
** Pretty Baby - Jerry Wexler
** The Wiz - Quincy Jones
*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
1979 separate awards:
*Original Score: A Little Romance - Georges Delerue
** The Amityville Horror - Lalo Schifrin
** The Champ - Dave Grusin
** - 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

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 - Alex North
* On Golden Pond - Dave Grusin
* 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
**Annie - Adaptation Score by Ralph Burns
**One from the Heart - Song Score by Tom Waits

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

1984 separate awards:
*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

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

1987 The Last Emperor - Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su
*Cry Freedom - George Fenton; Jonas Gwangwa
*Empire of the Sun - John Williams
*The Untouchables - Ennio Morricone
*The Witches of Eastwick - John Williams

1988 The Milagro Beanfield War - David Grusin
*The Accidental Tourist - John Williams
*Dangerous Liaisons - George Fenton
*Gorillas in the Mist - Maurice Jarre
*Rain Man - Hans Zimmer

1989 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

1991 Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken
*Bugsy - Ennio Morricone
*The Fisher King - George Fenton
*JFK - John Williams
*The Prince of Tides - James Newton Howard

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

1994 The Lion King - Hans Zimmer
*Forrest Gump - Alan Silvestri
*Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles - Elliot Goldenthal
*Little Women - Thomas Newman
*The Shawshank Redemption - Thomas Newman

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

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

1997 separate awards:
*Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: Titanic (1997 film) - James Horner
**Amistad - John Williams
**Good Will Hunting - Danny Elfman
**Kundun - Philip Glass
**L.A. Confidential - Jerry Goldsmith
*Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score: The Full Monty - Anne Dudley
**Anastasia - Stephen Flaherty; Lynn Ahrens; David Newman
**As Good as It Gets - Hans Zimmer
**Men in Black - Danny Elfman
**My Best Friend's Wedding - James Newton Howard

1998 separate awards:
*Best Music, Original Dramatic Score: La Vita è bella - Nicola Piovani
**Elizabeth - David Hirschfelder
**Pleasantville (film) - 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 Score

1999 Le Violon rouge - John Corigliano
*American Beauty - Thomas Newman
*Angela's Ashes - John Williams
*The Cider House Rules - Rachel Portman
*The Talented Mr. Ripley - Gabriel Yared

2000s

2000 Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) - Tan Dun
*Chocolat - Rachel Portman
*Gladiator - Hans Zimmer
*Malèna - Ennio Morricone
*The Patriot - John Williams

2001 - 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

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

2004 Finding Neverland - Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - John Williams
*Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) - Thomas Newman
*The Passion of the Christ - John Debney
*The Village - James Newton Howard

2005 Brokeback Mountain - Gustavo Santaolalla
*Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams
*The Constant Gardener - Alberto Iglesias
*Pride and Prejudice - Dario Marianelli
*Munich - John Williams

External link

http://www.oscars.org/78academyawards/rules/index.html

Academy Awards
Academy Award of Merit : Current Awards
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Best Animated Feature \| Best Art Direction \| Best Cinematography \| Best Costume Design \| Best Director
Best Documentary Feature \| Best Documentary Short Subject \| Best Film Editing \| Best Foreign Language Film \| Best Makeup
Best Original Score \| Best Original Song \| Best Original Musical \| Best Animated Short Film \| Best Live Action Short Film \| Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing \| Best Visual Effects \| Best Adapted Screenplay \| Best Original Screenplay
Academy Award of Merit : Retired awards
Best Assistant Director \| Best Dance Direction \| Best Engineering Effects \| Best Short Film - Color
Best Short Film - Live Action - 2 Reels \| Best Short Film - Novelty \| Best Original Story
Best Title Writing \| Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production
Special Awards : Current Awards
Academy Honorary Award \| Academy Special Achievement Award \| Academy Award, Scientific or Technical
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award \| The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award \| Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Special Awards : Retired Awards
Academy Juvenile Award

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