Academy Award for Original Music Score

The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.^[1]

Winners with multiple nominations

Three composers have won Oscars two years in a row:

Franz Waxman, for 1950's Sunset Boulevard and 1951's A Place in the Sun,
Alan Menken for 1991's Beauty and The Beast and 1992's Aladdin
Gustavo Santaolalla for 2005's Brokeback Mountain and 2006's Babel.

The following is a list of composers nominated more than once and winning at least one Academy Award. The list is sorted by number of wins, with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses.

9 : Alfred Newman (45)
5 : John Williams (45)
4 : Alan Menken (5)
4 : Johnny Green (12)
4 : André Previn (11)
4 : John Barry (6)
3 : Max Steiner (25)
3 : Ray Heindorf (17)
3 : Morris Stoloff (17)
3 : Miklós Rózsa (16)
3 : Dimitri Tiomkin (14)
3 : Maurice Jarre (8)

3 : Ken Darby (6)
3 : Roger Edens (6)
3 : Saul Chaplin (5)
3 : Adolph Deutsch (5)
2 : Franz Waxman (11)
2 : Henry Mancini (7)
2 : Erich Wolfgang Korngold (3)
2 : Gustavo Santaolalla (2)
2 : Howard Shore (2)
1 : Jerry Goldsmith (17)
1 : Victor Young (17)
1 : Herbert Stothart (11)
1 : Elmer Bernstein (10)
1 : Lionel Newman (9)

1 : James Horner (9)
1 : Hans Zimmer (7)
1 : Dave Grusin (6)
1 : Georges Delerue (5)
1 : Bernard Herrmann (5)
1 : Aaron Copland (4)
1 : Elliot Goldenthal (3)
1 : Rachel Portman (3)
1 : Stephen Schwartz (3)
1 : Gabriel Yared (3)
1 : John Corigliano (2)
1 : Nino Rota (2)
1 : Dario Marianelli (2)

Other composers with multiple nominations

The following composers have been nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar more than once; but as of 2008, the eleven living composers have yet to garner one. The number of nominations is listed in parentheses.

Deceased:

Living:

List by year

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

Contents
1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

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 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
- MUSIC (Scoring): 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, Leo F. 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 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, 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
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
  - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Dimitri Tiomkin
  - Nurse Edith Cavell - Anthony Collins
  - Of Mice and Men - Aaron Copland
  - The Rains Came - Alfred Newman
  - Wuthering Heights - Alfred Newman
  - Hunchback of Notre Dame - Alfred Newman

Academy Award for Original Music Score

Winners with multiple nominations

Other composers with multiple nominations

List by year

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s