Best Score

1930:

1. Wolfgang Zeller - Prix de beauté
2. W. Franke Harling - Monte Carlo
3. Hugo Risenfeld - Hell's Angels
4. David Broekman - All Quiet on the Western Front
5. Rex Dunn - The Dawn Patrol 

1931:

1. Charlie Chaplin - City Lights
2. Georges Auric - A Nous La Liberte
3. Bernhard Kaun - Frankenstein
4. Hugo Risenfeld - Tabu
5. Francis Gromon - Marius

1933:

1. Max Steiner - King Kong
2. Max Steiner - Little Women
3. Heintz Roemheld - The Invisible Man 
4. Herbert Stothart - Queen Christina
5. Marvin Hatley - Sons of the Desert

1934: 

1. Harry Jackson - Babes in Toyland
2. Max Steiner - The Lost Patrol
3. Arthur Honegger - Les Miserables
   
4. Arthur Benjamin - The Man Who Knew Too Much
5. Rudolph G. Kopp - Cleopatra

1935:

1. Max Steiner - The Informer
2. Franz Waxman - Bride of Frankenstein 
3. Herbert Stothart - A Tale of Two Cities
4. Max Steiner - Top Hat
   
5. Louis Levy - 39 Steps
   

1937:

1. Frank Churchill, Paul Smith & Leigh Harline - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Alfred Newman - The Prisoner of Zenda 
3. Dimitri Tiomkin - Lost Horizon
4. Joseph Kosma - Grand Illusion
5. Alfred Newman - The Hurricane 
   

1938:

1. Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood
2. Max Steiner - Angels With Dirty Faces
   
3. Herbert Stothart - Marie Antoinette
4. Franz Waxman - Three Comrades
   
5. Dimitri Tiomkin - You Can't Take it With You

1942:

1. Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Kings Row
2. Frank Churchill & Edward H. Plumb - Bambi
3. Bernard Herrmann - The Magnificent Ambersons
4. Max Steiner - Now, Voyager 
5. Herbert Stothart - Random Harvest

1943:

1. Alfred Newman - The Song of Bernadette
2. Allan Gray - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
3. Miklós Rózsa - Five Graves to Cairo
4. Dimitri Tiomikin - Shadow of a Doubt
5. Miklós Rózsa - Sahara

1944:

1. David Raksin - Laura
2. Bronislaw Kaper - Gaslight
3. William Walton - Henry V
4. George Stoll -  Meet Me. In St. Louis
5. Max Steiner - Since You Went Away

1945:

1. Miklós Rózsa - Spellbound
2. Bernard Herrmann - Hangover Square
3. Miklós Rózsa - The Lost Weekend
4. Maurice Thiriet & Joseph Kosma - Children of Paradise
5. Richard Addinsell - Blithe Spirit
   

1946:

1. Georges Auric - Beauty and the Beast
2. Hugo Friedhofer - The Best Years of Our Lives
3. Bernard Herrmann - Anna and the King of Siam
4. Miklós Rózsa - The Killers
5. Walter Goehr - A Matter of Life and Death 

1947:

1. Miklós Rózsa - A Double Life
2. Bernard Herrmann - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
3. Brian Easdale - Black Narcissus
   
4. William Alwyn - Odd Man Out
5. Cyril Mockridge - Miracle of 34 Street
   

1948:

1. Brian Easdale - The Red Shoes
2. Max Steiner - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Dimitri Tiomikin - Red River
4. Alfred Newman - The Snake Pit
5. Max Steiner - Johnny Belinda

1949:

1. Anton Karas - The Third Man
2. Aaron Copland - The Heiress
3. Oliver Wallace - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
4. Max Steiner - White Heat
5. Dimitri Tiomikin - Champion

1950:

1. Georges Auric - Orpheus
2. Fumio Hayasaka - Rashomon
3. Franz Waxman - Sunset Boulevard
4. Oliver Wallace & Paul Smith - Cinderella
5. Oscar Straus - La Ronde

1951:

1. Richard Addinsell - Scrooge
2. Franz Waxman - A Place in the Sun
3. Alex North - A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still
5. Dimitri Tiomikin - Strangers on a Train

1952:

1. Charlie Chaplin - Limelight
2. Victor Young - The Quiet Man
3. Dimitri Tiomikin - High Noon
   
4. Fumio Hayasaka - Ikiru 
5. Miklós Rózsa - Ivanhoe
   

1953:

1. Oliver Wallace - Peter Pan 
2. Victor Young - Shane
3. Miklós Rózsa - Julius Caesar
4. Akira Ifukube - Hiroshima 
5. George Duning & Morris Stoloff - From Here to Eternity

1954:

1. Leonard Bernstein - On the Waterfront
2. Akira Ifukube - Godzilla
3. Ikuma Dan - Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
4. Fumio Hayasaka, Tamekichi Mochizuki & Kinshichi Kodera - Sansho the Baliff
5. Paul Smith - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1955:

1. Walter Schumann - The Night of the Hunter
2. Leonard Rosenman - East of Eden
3. Oliver Wallace - Lady and the Tramp
4. Leonard Rosenman - Rebel Without A Cause
   
5. Andre Previn - Bad Day At Black Rock

1957:

1. George Duning - 3:10 to Yuma
2. Malcolm Arnold - The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Gerald Fried - Paths of Glory
4. Moisey Vaynberg - The Cranes Are Flying
   
5. Elmer Bernstein - Sweet Smell of Success

1958:

1. Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo
2. Mario Nascimbene - The Vikings
3. Bernard Herrmann - The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
4. Jerome Moross - The Big Country
5. Masaru Sato - The Hidden Fortress

1960:

1. Bernard Herrmann - Psycho
2. Elmer Bernstein - The Magnificent Seven
3. Alex North - Spartacus
4. Brian Easdale - Peeping Tom
5. Nino Rota - Purple Noon

1961:

1. Masaru Sato - Yojimbo
2. Miklós Rózsa - El Cid
3. George Bruns - 101 Dalmatians
4. Chuji Kinoshita - The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
5. Dimitri Tiomkin - The Guns of Navarone

1963:

1. Elmer Bernstein - The Great Escape 
2. Bernard Herrmann - Jason and the Argonauts
   
3. Henry Mancini - Charade
   
4. Nino Rota - The Leopard 
5. Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther
   

1964:

1. Richard & Robert Sherman - Mary Poppins
2. Ennio Morricone - A Fistful of Dollars
3. John Barry - Zulu
4. Michel Legrand - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Dmitri Shostakovich - Hamlet

1965:

1. Ennio Morricone - For a Few Dollars More
2. Maurice Jarre - Doctor Zhivago
3. Angelo Francesco Lavagnino - Chimes At Midnight
4. Alfred Newman - The Greatest Story Ever Told
5. Jerry Goldsmith - A Patch of Blue

1966:

1. Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
2. Ennio Morricone - The Battle of Algiers
3. Jerry Goldsmith - Seconds
4. Toshiro Mayuzumi & Ennio Morricone - The Bible In the Beginning
5. Jerry Goldsmith - The Sand Pebbles

1967:

1. Ennio Morricone - The Big Gundown
2. Lalo Schifrin - Cool Hand Luke
3. Ennio Morricone - Death Rides a Horse
4. Michel Legrand - The Young Girls of Rochefort 
5. Zdeněk Liška - Marketa Lazarova

1968:

1. Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time In the West
2. Nino Rota - Romeo & Juliet
3. John Barry - The Lion in Winter
4. Ron Goodwin - Where Eagles Dare
5. Ennio Morricone - The Mercenary

1970:

1. Jerry Goldsmith - Patton
2. Ennio Morricone - Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
3. Henry Mancini - The Molly Maguires
4. Henry Mancini - Sunflower
5. Luboš Fišer - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

1971:

1. Ennio Morricone - Duck, You Sucker
2. Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry
3. Richard Rodney Bennett - Nicholas and Alexandra
4. Roy Budd - Get Carter
5. John Barry in The Last Valley

1973:

1. Jerry Goldsmith - Papillon  
2. Lalo Schifrin - Enter the Dragon
   
3. Paul Giovanni - The Wicker Man
4. George Martin - Live and Let Die
   
5. Pino Donaggio - Don't Look Now

1974:

1. David Shire - The Conversation
2. Jerry Goldsmith - Chinatown
3. Nino Rota & Carmine Coppola - The Godfather Part II
4. David Shire - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 
5. Paul Williams - Phantom of the Paradise

1975:

1. John Williams - Jaws
2. Jack Nitzsche - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
3. Alex North - Bite the Bullet
4. Jerry Goldsmith - The Wind and the Lion
5. Maurice Jarre - The Man Who Would Be King

1977:

1. John Williams - Star Wars
2. Goblin - Suspiria
   
3. Ernest Gold - Cross of Iron
4. John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Ennio Morricone - Exorcist II: The Heretic

1978: 

1. John Carpenter - Halloween
2. John Williams - Superman
3. Ennio Morricone - Days of Heaven
4. Bill Conti - Slow Dancing in the Big City
5. Angela Morley & Malcolm Williamson - Watership Down

1979:

1. Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
2. Jerry Goldsmith - Alien
3. Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
4. Lalo Schifrin - The Amityville Horror
5. John Barry - The Black Hole

1980:

1. John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back
2. John Morris - The Elephant Man
3. John Barry - Somewhere in Time
4. Rick Wilkins - Changeling
   
5. Shin'ichirō Ikebe - Kagemusha

1981:

1. Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
2. John Williams - Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Tangerine Dream - Thief
4. Brian May - The Road Warrior
5. Alan Howarth & John Carpenter - Escape From New York

1983:

1. Bill Conti - The Right Stuff
2. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
3. Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
   
4. Howard Shore - Videodrome
5. John Williams - Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

1984:

1. Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in America
2. Joe Hisaishi - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
3. Randy Newman - The Natural
   
4. George Fenton - The Company of Wolves
5. Brad Fiedel - The Terminator

1985:

1. Alan Silvestri - Back to the Future
2. Philip Glass - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
   
3. Nando Carneiro, John Neschling & Wally Badarou - Kiss of the Spider Woman
   
4. Toru Takemitsu - Ran
   
5. John Barry - Out of Africa

1986:

1. Ennio Morricone - The Mission
2. James Horner - Aliens
3. Joe Hisaishi - Castle in the Sky
4. Jean-Claude Petit - Jean de Florette
5. Harold Faltermeyer - Top Gun

1987:

1. David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Cong Su - The Last Emperor
2. Ennio Morricone - The Untouchables
3. Jurgen Knieper & Laurent Petitgand - Wings of Desire
   
4. Basil Poledouris - Robocop
5. John Williams - The Witches of Eastwick

1988:

1. Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso
2. Joe Hisaishi - My Neighbor Totoro 
3. Tsutomu Ōhashi - Akira
4. James Horner - The Land Before Time
   
5. Alan Silvestri - Who Framed Roger Rabbit 

1991:

1. Alan Menken - Beauty and the Beast
2. John Williams - JFK
3. John Williams - Hook
   
4. Howard Shore - The Silence of the Lambs 
5. Carter Burwell - Barton Fink 

1992:

1. Vangelis - 1492: Conquest of Paradise
2. Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 
3. Lennie Niehaus & Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
4. John Barry - Chaplin
5. Wojciech Kilar - Bram Stoker's Dracula

1993:

1. John Williams - Schindler's List
2. John Williams -  Jurassic Park
3. Randy Edelman - Gettysburg
   
4. Randy Edelman - Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
5. Michael Nyman - The Piano

1994:

1. Thomas Newman - The Shawshank Redemption
2. Hans Zimmer - The Lion King
3. Thomas Newman - Little Women
4. Mychael Danna - Exotica
5. Carter Burwell - The Hudsucker Proxy

1996:

1. Patrick Doyle - Hamlet
2. Alan Menken - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
3. Randy Edelman - Dragonheart 
4. Hans Zimmer & Nick Glennie-Smith - The Rock
5. Rachel Portman - Emma

1997:

1. Joe Hisaishi - Princess Mononoke
2. Jerry Goldsmith - L.A. Confidential
3. Philip Glass - Kundun
   
4. Thomas Newman - Oscar and Lucinda
5. Mychael Danna -  The Sweet Hereafter
   

1998: 

1. Hans Zimmer - The Thin Red Line
2. Stephen Warbeck - Shakespeare in Love
3. James Horner - The Mask of Zorro
4. Hans Zimmer - The Prince of Egypt
5. Ennio Morricone - The Legend of 1900 

1999:

1. Angelo Badalamenti - The Straight Story
2. John Williams - Star Wars: The Phantom Menance
3. Mychael Nyman & Damon Albarn - Ravenous
   
4. Jon Brion - Magnolia
   
5. Thomas Newman - The Green Mile

2000:

1. Hans Zimmer - Gladiator
2. Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream 
3. John Williams - The Patriot
   
4. Tan Dun - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
   
5. Michael Galasso - In the Mood for Love

2001:

1. Howard Shore - LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away
3. Hans Zimmer - Black Hawk Down  
4. John Williams - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
5. James Horner - A Beautiful Mind

2002:

1. Howard Shore - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2. Thomas Newman - Road to Perdition
3. John Williams - Catch Me If You Can
4. Tan Dun - Hero
5. Philip Glass - The Hours

2003:

1. Howard Shore - LOTR: The Return of the King
2. Jo Yeong-Wook - Oldboy
3. Klaus Badelt - Pirates of the Caribbean
4. John Frizzell & Randy Edelman - Gods and Generals
5. Randy Edelman - Shanghai Knights

2004:

1. Joe Hisaishi - Howl's Moving Castle
2. John Williams - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
   
3. Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles
4. Jon Brion - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. John Debney - The Passion of the Christ

2005:

1. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Proposition
2. Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - Batman Begins
   
3. John Debney, Graeme Revell & Robert Rodriguez - Sin City
4. Jo Yeong-wook & Choi Seung-hyun - Lady Vengeance
5. Harry Gregson-Williams - Kingdom of Heaven

2008:

1. Carter Burwell - In Bruges
2. Dalpalan & Jang Young-gyu - The Good The Bad The Weird
3. Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
4. Thomas Newman - Wall-E
5. Hans Zimmer & John Powell - Kung Fu Panda
   

2009:

1. Michael Giacchino - Up
2. Carter Burwell - Where the Wild Things Are
3. Justin Hurwitz - Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
4. Federico Jusid & Sebastian Kauderer - The Secret in Their Eyes
5. Alexandre Desplat - Fantastic Mr. Fox

2010:

1. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Social Network 
2. John Powell - How to Train Your Dragon
3. Mowg - I Saw the Devil
4. Hans Zimmer - Inception
5. Sylvain Chomet - The Illusionist

2011:

1. Alberto Iglesias - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2. Ludovic Bource - The Artist
3. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 
4. John Williams - The Adventures of Tintin
5. Alexandre Desplat - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
   

2012:

1. Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil - Cloud Atlas
2. Dan Romer & Behn Zeitland - Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. Howard Shore - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
   
4. Marc Streitenfeld - The Grey
5. Mychael Danna - Life of Pi
   

2013:

1. Cliff Martinez - Only God Forgives
2. Steven Price - Gravity 
3. Joe Hisaishi - The Wind Rises
   
4. Christopher Spelman - The Immigrant
5. Alex Ebert - All is Lost

2014:

1. Antonio Sanchez - Birdman
2. Mica Levi - Under the Skin
3. Hans Zimmer - Interstellar
4. Steven Price - Fury
5. Alexandre Desplat - The Grand Budapest Hotel

2015:

1. Thomas Holkenborg - Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Daniel Pemberton - Steve Jobs
   
3. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Sicario
   
4. Ennio Morricone - The Hateful Eight
5. John Williams - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
   

2016:

1. Justin Hurwitz - La La Land
2. Mica Levi - Jackie
   
3. Radwimps - Your Name
   
4. Nicholas Britell - Moonlight
5. Jo Yeong-wook - The Handmaiden

2017:  

1. Jonny Greenwood - Phantom Thread
2. Hans Zimmer - Dunkirk
3. Alexandre Desplat - The Shape of Water
4. Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch - Blade Runner 2049
5. Daniel Lopatin - Good Time

2018:

1. Justin Hurwitz - First Man
2. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy
   
3. Nicholas Britell - If Beale Street Could Talk
4. Tatiana Lisovskaya - At Eternity's Gate
   
5. Terrence Blanchard - Blackkklansman 

2019: 

1. Thomas Newman - 1917
2. James Newton Howard - A Hidden Life
3. Lin Sheng-xiang - A Sun
   
4. Jung Jae-il - Parasite
5. Daniel Lopatin - Uncut Gems

2020:

1. Emile Mosseri - Minari
2. Bruno Coulais & Kila - Wolfwalkers
3. Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Soul
4. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Mank
5. Christopher Willis - The Personal History of David Copperfield

2021:

1. Taisei Iwasaki, Ludvig Forssell, Yuta Bandoh, & Miho Sakai - Belle
2. Nathan Johnson - Nightmare Alley
3. Hans Zimmer - Dune
4. Carter Burwell - The Tragedy of Macbeth
5. Jonny Greenwood - Spencer

2022:

1. John Williams - The Fabelmans
2. Michael Giacchino - The Batman
3. Justin Hurwitz - Babylon
4. Carter Burwell - The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Robin Carolan & Sebastian Gainsborough - The Northman

2023:

1. Ludwig Göransson - Oppenheimer
2. Joe Hisaishi - The Boy and the Heron
3. Robbie Robertson - Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Jerskin Fendrix - Poor Things
5. Michael Giacchino - Society of the Snow 

2024:

1. Daniel Blumberg - The Brutalist
2. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers
3. Robin Carolan - Nosferatu
4. Umberto Smerilli - A Different Man
5. Raffertie - The Substance

2025:

1. Daniel Lopatin - Marty Supreme
2. Jerskin Fendrix - Bugonia
3. Ludwig Göransson - Sinners
4. Jonny Greenwood - One Battle After Another
5. Alexandre Desplat - Frankenstein

Richard Addinsell, 2 noms 1 win

 

Best Score 1945: Blithe Spirit (Nom)

Best Score 1951: Scrooge (WINS)

Georges Auric, 4 noms 3 wins

Best Original Song 1931: "La Liberte c'est pour les Heureux" - À Nous la Liberté (WINS)

Best Score 1931: À Nous la Liberté (#2)

Best Score 1946: Beauty and the Beast (WINS) 

Best Score 1950: Orpheus (WINS)

Angelo Badalamenti, 3 noms 1 win

Best Original Song 1986: "Mysteries of Love" - Blue Velvet (Nom)

Best Score 1992: Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me (#2)
Best Score 1999: The Straight Story (WINS)

John Barry, 14 noms 1 win

Best Original Song 1963: "From Russia With Love" - From Russia With Love (WINS)

Best Original Song 1964: "Goldfinger" - Goldfinger (Nom)

Best Score 1964: Zulu (#3)

Best Original Song 1966: "Born Free" - Born Free (Nom)

Best Original Song 1967: "You Only Live Twice" - You Only Live Twice (Nom)

Best Score 1968: The Lion in Winter (#3)

Best Score 1971: The Last Valley  (#5) 

Best Original Song 1971: "Diamond Are Forever" - Diamonds Are Forever (Nom)

Best Score 1979: The Black Hole (#5)

Best Original Song 1979: "Moonraker" - Moonraker (Nom)

Best Score 1980: Somewhere in Time (#3)

Best Score 1985: Out of Africa (#5)

Best Original Song 1987: "The Living Daylights" -  The Living Daylights (Nom)

Best Score 1992: Chaplin (#4)

 

Elmer Bernstein, 3 noms 1 win

Best Score 1957: Sweet Smell of Success (#5)
Best Score 1960: The Magnificent Seven (#2)

Best Score 1963: The Great Escape (WINS)

Daniel Blumberg, 2 noms 1 win

Best Score 2024: The Brutalist (WINS)

Best Original Song 2025: “John’s Running Song”  - The Testament of Ann Lee (Nom)

Jon Brion, 3 noms

Best Score 1999: Magnolia (#4)

Best Score 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (#4)
Best Original Song 2008: "Little Person" - Synecdoche New York (Nom)

Nicholas Britell, 2 noms

Best Score 2016: Moonlight (#4)

Best Score 2018: If Beale Street Could Talk (#3)

 

Carter Burwell, 7 noms 1 win

Best Score 1991: Barton Fink (#5)

Best Score 1994: The Hudsucker Proxy (#5)

Best Score 2008: In Bruges (WINS)

Best Score 2009: Where the Wild Things Are (#2)

Best Original Song 2015: "None of Them Are You" - Anomalisa (Nom)

Best Score 2021: The Tragedy of Macbeth (#4)

Best Score 2022: The Banshees of Inisherin (#4)

Robin Carolan, 2 noms

Best Score 2022: The Northman (#5)

Best Score 2024: Nosferatu (#3)

 

Bill Conti, 4 noms 2 wins

 

Best Score 1978: Slow Dancing in the Big City (#4)

Best Original Song 1981: "For Your Eyes Only" - For Your Eyes Only (WINS)

Best Score 1983: The Right Stuff (WINS)

Best Original Song 1984: "You're The Best" - Karate Kid (Nom)

 

Carmine Coppola, 2 noms

Best Score 1974: The Godfather Part 2 (#3)

Best Score 1979: Apocalypse Now (#3)

Mychael Danna, 3 noms 

Best Score 1994: Exotica (#4)

Best Score 1997: The Sweet Hereafter (#5)

Best Score 2012: Life of Pi (#5)

Alexandre Desplat, 5 noms

Best Score 2009: Fantastic Mr. Fox (#5)

Best Score 2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (#5)
Best Score 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (#5)

Best Score 2017: The Shape of Water (#3)

Best Score 2025: Frankenstein (#5)

 

George Duning, 3 noms 2 wins

Best Score 1953: From Here To Eternity (#5)

Best Score 1953: 3:10 to Yuma (WINS)

Best Original Song 1957: "The 3:10 to Yuma" - 3:10 to Yuma (WINS)

 

Brian Easdale, 3 noms 1 win

Best Score 1947: Black Narcissus (#3)
Best Score 1948: The Red Shoes (WINS)

Best Score 1960: Peeping Tom (#4)

 

Randy Edelman, 5 noms

 

Best Score 1993: Gettysburg (#3)

Best Score 1993: Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story (#4)

Best Score 1996: Dragonheart (#3)

Best Score 2003: Gods and Generals (#4)

Best Score 2003: Shanghai Knights (#5)

Jerskin Fendrix, 2 noms

Best Score 2023: Poor Things (#4)

Best Score 2025: Bugonia (#2)

Michael Giacchino, 4 noms 1 win

Best Score 2004: The Incredibles (#3)

Best Score 2009: Up (WINS)
Best Score 2022: The Batman (#2)

Best Score 2023: Society of the Snow (#5)

Philip Glass, 4 noms

Best Score 1983: Koyannisqatsi (#3)

Best Score 1985: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (#2) 

Best Score 1997: Kundun (#3)

Best Score 2002: The Hours (#5)

Jerry Goldsmith, 10 noms 3 wins

Best Score 1965: A Patch of Blue (#5)

Best Score 1966: Seconds (#3)

Best Score 1966: The Sand Pebbles (#5)

Best Score 1970: Patton (WINS)

Best Score 1973: Papillon (WINS)

Best Score 1974: Chinatown (#2)

Best Score 1975: The Wind and the Lion (#4)

Best Score 1979: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (WINS)

Best Score 1979: Alien (#2)

Best Score 1997: L.A. Confidential (#2)

Ludwig Göransson, 2 noms 1 win

Best Score 2023: Oppenheimer (WINS)

Best Score 2025: Sinners (#3)

Jonny Greenwood, 3 noms 1 win

 

Best Score 2017: Phantom Thread (WINS)

Best Score 2021: Spencer (#5)

Best Score 2025: One Battle After Another (#4)

 

Fumio Hayasaka, 3 noms

Best Score 1950: Rashomon (#2)

Best Score 1952: Ikiru (#4)

Best Score 1954: Sansho the Baliff (#4)

Joe Hisaishi, 8 noms 2 wins

Best Score 1984: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (#2)

Best Score 1986: Castle in the Sky (#3)

Best Score 1988: My Neighbor Totoro (#2)
Best Score 1997: Princess Mononoke (WINS)

Best Score 2001: Spirited Away (#2)

Best Score 2004: Howl's Moving Castle

Best Score 2013: The Wind Rises (#3)

Best Score 2023: The Boy and the Heron (#2)

Bernard Herrmann,  9 noms 2 wins

Best Score 1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (#3) 

Best Score 1945: Hangover Square (#2)

Best Score 1946: Anna and the King of Siam (#3)

Best Score 1947: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (#2)

Best Score 1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still (#4)

Best Score 1958: Vertigo (WINS)

Best Score 1958: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (#3)

Best Score 1960: Psycho (WINS)

Best Score 1963: Jason and the Argonauts (#2)

James Horner, 4 noms

Best Score 1986: Aliens (#2)

Best Score 1988: The Land Before Time (#4)

Best Score 1998: The Mask of Zorro (#3)

Best Score 2001: A Beautiful Mind (#5)

Justin Hurwitz, 4 noms 2 wins

Best Score 2009: Guy and Madeline On a Park Bench (#3)
Best Score 2016: La La Land (WINS)

Best Score 2018: First Man (WIN)

Best Score 2022: Babylon (#3)

 

Akira Ifukube, 2 noms 

Best Score 1953: Hiroshima (#4)
Best Score 1954: Godzilla (#2)

Maurice Jarre, 2 noms

Best Score 1965: Doctor Zhivago (#2)
Best Score 1975: The Man Who Would Be King (#5) 

 

Jo Yeong-wook, 2 noms

Best Score 2003: Oldboy (#2)
Best Score 2005: Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (#4)
Best Score 2016: The Handmaiden (#5)

 

Jóhann Jóhannsson 2 noms

Best Score 2015: Sicario (#3)

Best Score 2018: Mandy (#2)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 2 noms 2 wins

 

Best Score 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood (WINS)

Best Score 1942: Kings Row (WINS) 

 

Joseph Kosma, 2 noms 

Best Score 1937: Grand Illusion (#4)

Best Score 1945: Children of Paradise (#4)

Michel LeGrand, 2 noms

Best Score 1964: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (#4)

Best Score 1967: The Young Girls of Rochefort (#4)

Mica Levi, 2 noms

Best Score 2014: Under The Skin (#2)
Best Score 2016: Jackie (#2)

Daniel Lopatin, 3 noms 1 win

Best Score 2017: Good Time (#5)
Best Score 2019: Uncut Gems (#5)

Best Score 2025: Marty Supreme (WINS)

 

Henry Mancini, 4 noms

 

Best Score 1963: Charade (#3)

Best Score 1965: The Pink Panther (#5)
Best Score 1970: The Molly Maguires (#3)

Best Score 1970: Sunflower (#4)

Ennio Morricone, 20 noms 9 wins

Best Score 1964: A Fistful of Dollars (#2)

Best Score 1965: For A Few Dollars More (WINS)

Best Score 1966: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (WINS)

Best Score 1966: The Battle of Algiers (#2)

Best Score 1966: The Bible In the Beginning (#5)

Best Original Song 1966: "The Story of a Soldier" - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (WINS)
Best Score 1967: The Big Gundown (WINS)

Best Score 1967: Death Rides a Horse (#3)

Best Score 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West (WINS)

Best Score 1968: The Mercenary (#5)

Best Score 1970: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (#2)

Best Score 1971: Duck, You Sucker! (WINS)

Best Score 1977: Exorcist II: The Heretic (#5)

Best Score 1978: Days of Heaven (#3)

Best Score 1984: Once Upon a Time in America (WINS)

Best Score 1986: The Mission (WINS)

Best Score 1987: The Untouchables (#2)

Best Score 1988: Cinema Paradiso (WINS)

Best Score 1998: The Legend of 1900 (#5)

Best Original Song 2012: "Ancora qui" - Django Unchained (Nom)

Best Score 2015: The Hateful Eight (#4)

Alfred Newman, 5 noms 1 win

Best Score 1937: The Prisoner of Zenda (#2)

Best Score 1937: The Hurricane (#5)

Best Score 1943: The Song of Bernadette (WINS)

Best Score 1948: The Snake Pit (#4)

Best Score 1965: The Greatest Story Ever Told (#4)

Thomas Newman, 7 noms 2 wins

Best Score 1994: The Shawshank Redemption (WINS)

Best Score 1994: Little Women (#3) 

Best Score 1997: Oscar and Lucinda (#4)

Best Score 1999: The Green Mile (#5)

Best Score 2002: Road to Perdition (#2)

Best Score 2008: Wall-E (#4)

Best Score 2019: 1917 (WINS)

James Newton Howard, 3 noms

Best Score 2005: Batman Begins (#2)

Best Score 2008: The Dark Knight (#3)

Best Score 2019: A Hidden Life (#2)

Alex North, 3 noms

Best Score 1951: A Streetcar Named Desire (#3)

Best Score 1960: Spartacus (#3)

Best Score 1975: Bite the Bullet (#3) 

 

Michael Nyman, 2 noms

 

Best Score 1993: The Piano (#5)

Best Score 1999: Ravenous (#3)

John Powell, 2 noms

Best Score 2008: Kung Fu Panda (#5)

Best Score 2010: How to Train Your Dragon (#2)

 

Steven Price, 2 noms

 

Best Score 2013: Gravity (#2)

Best Score 2014: Fury (#2)

Trent Reznor, 5 noms 1 win

 

Best Score 2010: The Social Network (WINS)

Best Score 2011: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (#3)

Best Score 2020: Soul (#3)

Best Score 2020: Mank (#4) 

Best Score 2024: Challengers (#2)

 

Hugo Risenfeld, 2 noms

Best Score 1930: Hell's Angels (#3)

Best Score 1931: Tabu (#4)

Leonard Rosenman, 2 noms

Best Score 1955: East of Eden (#2)

Best Score 1955: Rebel Without a Cause (#4)

 

Atticus Ross, 5 noms 1 win

 

Best Score 2010: The Social Network (WINS)

Best Score 2011: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (#3)

Best Score 2020: Soul (#3)

Best Score 2020: Mank (#4)

Best Score 2024: Challengers (#2)

Nino Rota, 5 noms 1 win

Best Score 1960: Purple Noon (#5)

Best Score 1963: The Leopard (#4)

Best Score 1968: Romeo & Juliet (#2)

Best Original Song 1968: "What Is A Youth" - Romeo & Juliet (WINS)

Best Score 1974: The Godfather Part II (#3)

 

Miklós Rózsa, 8 noms 2 wins

 

Best Score 1943: Five Graves to Cairo (#3)

Best Score 1943: Sahara  (#5)

Best Score 1945: Spellbound (WINS)

Best Score 1945: The Lost Weekend (#3) 

Best Score 1946: The Killers (#4)

Best Score 1947: A Double Life (WINS)

Best Score 1952: Ivanhoe (#5)

Best Score 1953: Julius Caesar (#3) 

Best Score 1961: El Cid (#2)

Ryuichi Sakamoto, 2 noms 1 win

Best Score 1983: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (#2)

Best Score 1987: The Last Emperor (WINS) 

Masaru Sato, 2 noms 1 win

Best Score 1958: The Hidden Fortress (#5)

Best Score 1961: Yojimbo (WINS)

 

Lalo Schifrin, 4 noms

 

Best Score 1967: Cool Hand Luke (#2)

Best Score 1971: Dirty Harry (#2)

Best Score 1973: Enter the Dragon (#2)

Best Score 1979: The Amityville Horror (#4)

David Shire, 2 noms 1 win

Best Score 1974: The Conversation (WINS)
Best Score 1974: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (#4)

Howard Shore, 6 noms 3 wins

Best Score 1983: Videodrome (#4)
Best Score 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (#5)

Best Score 2001: LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (WINS)

Best Score 2002: LOTR: The Two Towers (WINS) 

Best Score 2003: LOTR: The Return of the King (WINS) 

Best Score 2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (#3)

Alan Silvestri, 2 noms 1 win

Best Score 1985: Back to the Future (WINS)
Best Score 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (#5)

Paul Smith, 2 noms

Best Score 1950: Cinderella (#4)

Best Score 1954: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (#5)

Max Steiner, 11 noms 2 wins

Best Score 1933: King Kong (WINS)

Best Score 1933: Little Women (#2)

Best Score 1934: The Lost Patrol (#2)

Best Score 1935: The Informer (WINS)

Best Score 1935: Top Hat (#4)

Best Score 1938: Angels With Dirty Faces (#2)

Best Score 1942: Now, Voyager (#4)

Best Score 1944: Since You Went Away (#5)

Best Score 1948: The Treasure of Sierra Madre (#2)
Best Score 1948: Johnny Belinda (#5)

Best Score 1949: White Heat (#4)

Herbert Stothart, 4 noms

 

Best Score 1933: Queen Christina (#3)

Best Score 1935: A Tale of Two Cities (#3)

Best Score 1938: Marie Antoinette (#3)

Best Score 1942: Random Harvest (#5)

 

Tan Dun, 2 noms

Best Score 2000: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (#4)
Best Score 2002: Hero (#4)

 

Dimitri Tiomkin, 12 noms 2 wins

 

Best Score 1937: Lost Horizon (#3)

Best Score 1938: You Can't Take It With You (#5) 

Best Score 1943: Shadow of a Doubt (#4)

Best Score 1948: Red River (#3)

Best Score 1950: Champion (#5)

Best Score 1951: Strangers on a Train (#5)

Best Score 1952: High Noon (#3)

Best Original Song 1952: "The Ballad of High Noon" - High Noon (WINS)

Best Original Song 1960: "The Green Leaves of Summer" - The Alamo (WINS)

Best Original Song 1960: "The Ballad of the Alamo" - The Alamo  (Nom)

Best Original Song 1961: "Town Without Pity" - Town Without Pity (Nom)

Best Score 1961: The Guns of Navarone (#5)

Vangelis, 2 noms 2 wins

Best Score 1981: Chariots of Fire (WINS)

Best Score 1992: 1492: Conquest of Paradise (WINS)

Oliver Wallace, 5 noms 2 wins

Best Original Song 1943: "Der Fuehrer's Face" - Der Fuehrer's Face (WINS)

Best Score 1949: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (#3)

Best Score 1950: Cinderella (#4)

Best Score 1953: Peter Pan (WINS) 

Best Score 1955: Lady and the Tramp (#3)

Franz Waxman, 4 noms

Best Score 1935: Bride of Frankenstein (#2)

Best Score 1938: Three Comrades (#4)

Best Score 1950: Sunset Boulevard (#3)

Best Score 1951: A Place in the Sun (#2)

John Williams, 20 noms 5 wins

Best Score 1975: Jaws (WINS)

Best Score 1977: Star Wars (WINS)

Best Score 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (#4)
Best Score 1978: Superman (#2)

Best Score 1980: The Empire Strikes Back (WINS)

Best Score 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (#2)

Best Score 1983: Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi (#5)

Best Score 1987: The Witches of Eastwick (#5)

Best Score 1991: JFK (#2)

Best Score 1991: Hook (#3)

Best Score 1993: Schindler's List (WINS)

Best Score 1993: Jurassic Park (#2)

Best Score 1999: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (#2)

Best Score 2000: The Patriot (#3)

Best Score 2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (#4) 

Best Score 2002: Catch Me If You Can (#3)
Best Score 2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (#2)

Best Score 2011: The Adventures of Tintin (#4)

Best Score 2015: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (#5)

Best Score 2022: The Fabelmans (WINS)

Hans Zimmer,  14 noms 2 wins

Best Score 1994: The Lion King (#2)

Best Score 1996: The Rock (#5)

Best Score 1998: The Thin Red Line (WINS)

Best Score 1998: The Prince of Egypt (#4)

Best Score 2000: Gladiator (WINS)
Best Score 2001: Black Hawk Down (#3)
Best Score 2005: Batman Begins (#2)
Best Score 2008: The Dark Knight (#3)

Best Score 2008: Kung Fu Panda (#5)

Best Score 2010: Inception (#4)

Best Score 2014: Interstellar (#3)

Best Score 2017: Dunkirk (#2)

Best Score 2017: Blade Runner 2049 (#4)

Best Score 2021: Dune (#3)