BEST SCORE


2014:

• Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
• Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Theory of Everything
• Gary Yershon – Mr. Turner
• Hans Zimmer - Interstellar

2013:

• Steven Price – Gravity
• John Williams - The Book Thief
• William Butler, Owen Pallett - Her
• Alexandre Desplat - Philomena
• Thomas Newman - Saving Mr. Banks

2012:

• Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
• Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
• Alexandre Desplat - Argo
• John Williams - Lincoln
• Thomas Newman - Skyfall

2011:

• Ludovic Bource - The Artist
• Alberto Iglesias - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Howard Shore - Hugo
• John Williams - War Horse
• John Williams - The Adventures of Tintin

2010:

• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - The Social Network
• A.R.Rahman - 127 Hours
• Alexandre Desplat - The King's Speech
• Hans Zimmer - Inception
• John Powell - How to Train Your Dragon

2009:

• Michael Giacchino - Up
• Alexandre Desplat - Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Hans Zimmer - Sherlock Holmes
• James Horner - Avatar
• Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders - The Hurt Locker

2008:

• A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
• Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• James Newton Howard - Defiance
• Danny Elfman - Milk
• Thomas Newman - WALL-E

2007:

• Dario Marianellli - Atonement
• Alberto Iglesias - The Kite Runner
• James Newton Howard - Michael Clayton
• Michael Giacchino - Ratatouille
• Marco Beltrami - 3:10 to Yuma

2006:

• Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel
• Alexandre Desplat - The Queen
• Thomas Newman - The Good German
• Javier Navarrete - Pan's Labyrinth
• Philip Glass - Notes on a Scandal

2005:

• Gustavo Santaolalla - Brokeback Mountain
• John Williams - Memoirs of a Geisha
• Alberto IglesiasThe Constant Gardener
• Dario Marianelli - Pride & Prejudice
• John Williams - Munich

2004:

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

2003:

• Danny Elfman - Big Fish
• Gabriel Yared - Cold Mountain
• Thomas Newman - Finding Nemo
• James Horner - House of Sand and Fog
• Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2002:

• John Williams - Catch Me If You Can
• Elmer Bernstein - Far From Heaven
• Elliot Goldenthal - Frida
• Philip Glass - The Hours
• Thomas Newman - Road to Perdition

2001:

• John Williams - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• James Horner - A Beautiful Mind
• John Williams - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Randy Newman - Monsters, Inc.

2000:

• Rachel Portman - Chocolat
• Tan Dun - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
• Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard - Gladiator
• Ennio Morricone - Malèna
• John Williams - The Patriot

1999:

• Thomas Newman - American Beauty
• John Williams - Angela's Ashes
• Rachel Portman - The Cider House Rules
• John Corigliano - The Red Violin
• Gabriel Yared - The Talented Mr. Ripley

1998:

ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE:


• David Hirschfelder - Elizabeth
• Nicola Piovani - Life is Beautiful
• Randy Newman - Pleasantville
• John Williams - Saving Private Ryan
• Hans Zimmer - The Thin Red Line
  
  ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE:
  
  
• Randy Newman - A Bug's Life
• Jerry Goldsmith - Mulan
• Marc Shaiman - Patch Adams
• Hans Zimmer - The Prince of Egypt
• Stephen Warbeck - Shakespeare in Love

1997:

ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE:


• John Williams - Amistad
• Danny Elfman - Good Will Hunting
• Philip Glass - Kundun
• Jerry Goldsmith - L.A. Confidential
• James Horner - Titanic
  
  ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE:
  
  
• David Newman/Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty - Anastasia
• Hans Zimmer - As Good As It Gets
• Anne Dudley - The Full Monty
• Danny Elfman - Men in Black
• James Newton Howard - My Best Friend's Wedding

1996:

ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE:


• Gabriel Yared - The English Patient
• Patrick Doyle - Hamlet
• Elliot Goldenthal - Michael Collins
• David Hirschfelder - Shine
• John Williams - Sleepers
  
  ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE:
  
  
• Rachel Portman - Emma
• Marc Shaiman - The First Wives Club
• Alan Menken - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Randy Newman - James and the Giant Peach
• Hans Zimmer - The Preacher's Wife

1995:

ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE:


• James Horner - Apollo 13
• James Horner - Braveheart
• John Williams - Nixon
• Luis Bacalov - The Postman/Il Postino
• Patrick Doyle - Sense and Sensibility
  
  ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE:
  
  
• Marc Shaiman - The American President
• Alan Menken - Pocahontas
• John Williams - Sabrina
• Randy Newman - Toy Story
• Thomas Newman - Unstrung Heroes

1994:

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

1993:

• Elmer Bernstein - The Age of Innocence
• Dave Grusin - The Firm
• James Newton Howard - The Fugitive
• Richard Robbins - The Remains of the Day
• John Williams - Schindler's List

1992:

• Alan Menken - Aladdin
• Jerry Goldsmith - Basic Instinct
• John Barry - Chaplin
• Richard Robbins - Howards End
• Mark Isham - A River Runs Through It

1991:

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

1990:

• Randy Newman - Avalon
• John Barry - Dances With Wolves
• Maurice Jarre - Ghost
• Dave Grusin - Havana
• John Williams - Home Alone

1989:

• John Williams - Born on the Fourth of July
• Dave Grusin - The Fabulous Baker Boys
• James Horner - Field of Dreams
• John Williams - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Alan Menken - The Little Mermaid

1988:

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

1987:

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

1986:

• Herbie Hancock - 'Round Midnight
• James Horner - Aliens
• Jerry Goldsmith - Hoosiers
• Ennio Morricone - The Mission
• Leonard Rosenman - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

1985:

• Georges Delerue - Agnes of God
• Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Andrae Crouch, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Randy Kerber, Jeremy Lubbock, Joel Rosenbaum, Caiphus Semenya, Fred Steiner, Rod Temperton - The Color Purple
• John Barry - Out of Africa
• Bruce Broughton - Silverado
• Maurice Jarre – Witness

1984:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• John Williams Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Randy Newman The Natural
• Maurice Jarre A Passage to India
• John Williams The River
• Alex North Under the Volcano
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE:
  
  
• Jeff Moss - The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Prince - Purple Rain
• Kris Kristofferson - Songwriter

1983:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• Leonard Rosenman - Cross Creek
• Bill Conti - The Right Stuff
• John Williams - Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
• Michael Gore - Terms of Endearment
• Jerry Goldsmith - Under Fire
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE OR ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Lalo Schifrin - The Sting II
• Elmer Bernstein - Trading Places
• Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand – Yentl

1982:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• John Williams - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
• George Fenton, Ravi Shankar - Gandhi
• Jack Nitzsche - An Officer and a Gentleman
• Jerry Goldsmith - Poltergeist
• Marvin Hamlisch - Sophie's Choice
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE AND ITS ADAPTATION OR ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Ralph Burns - Annie
• Tom Waits - One from the Heart
• Leslie Bricusse, Henry Mancini - Victor/Victoria

1981:

• Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
• Alex North - Dragonslayer
• Dave Grusin - On Golden Pond
• Randy Newman - Ragtime
• John Williams - Raiders of the Lost Ark

1980:

• John Corigliano -Altered States
• John Morris - The Elephant Man
• Michael Gore – Fame
• John Williams - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
• Philippe Sarde – Tess

1979:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• Henry Mancini – 10
• Lalo Schifrin – The Amityville Horror
• Dave Grusin – The Champ
• Georges Delerue – A Little Romance
• Jerry Goldsmith – Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE AND ITS ADAPTATION OR ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Ralph Burns – All That Jazz
• Patrick Williams – Breaking Away
• Kenny Ascher, Paul Williams – The Muppet Movie

1978:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• Jerry Goldsmith – The Boys From Brazil
• Ennio Morricone – Days of Heaven
• Dave Grusin – Heaven Can Wait
• Giorgio Moroder – Midnight Express
• John Williams - Superman
  
  ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Joe Renzetti – The Buddy Holly Story
• Jerry Wexler – Pretty Baby
• Quincy Jones – The Wiz

1977:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• John Williams – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Georges Delerue – Julia
• Maurice Jarre – Mohammad, Messenger of God
• Marvin Hamlisch – The Spy Who Loved Me
• John Williams – Star Wars
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE AND ITS ADAPTATION OR ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Jonathan Tunick – A Little Night Music
• Joel Hirschhorn, Al Kasha, Irwin Kostal – Pete’s Dragon
• Angela Morley, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman – The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella

1976:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• Bernard Herrmann – Obsession
• Jerry Goldsmith – The Omen
• Jerry Fielding – The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Bernard Herrmann – Taxi Driver
• Lalo Schifrin – Voyage of the Damned
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE AND ITS ADAPTATION OR ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Leonard Rosenman – Boundy for Glory
• Paul Williams – Bugsy Malone
• Roger Kellaway – A Star Is Born

1975:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• Gerald Fried – Birds Do It, Bees Do It
• Alex North – Bite the Bullet
• John Williams – Jaws
• Jack Nitzsche - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Jerry Goldsmith – The Wind and the Lion
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE AND ITS ADAPTATION OR ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Leonard Rosenman – Barry Lyndon
• Peter Matz – Funny Lady
• Peter Townshend – Tommy

1974:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• Jerry Goldsmith - Chinatown
• Carmine Coppola, Nino Rota – The Godfather Part II
• Richard Rodney Bennett – Murder on the Orient Express
• Alex North - Shanks
• John Williams – The Towering Inferno
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE AND ITS ADAPTATION OR ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Nelson Riddle – The Great Gatsby
• Douglas Gamley, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Angela Morley – The Little Prince
• George Aliceson Tipton, Paul Williams – Phantom of the Paradise

1973:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• John Williams – Cinderella Liberty
• Georges Delerue – The Day of the Dolphin
• Jerry Goldsmith - Papillon
• John Cameron – A Touch of Class
• Marvin Hamlisch – The Way We Were
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE AND ITS ADAPTATION OR ADAPTATION SCORE:
  
  
• Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andre Previn, Herbert Spencer – Jesus Christ Superstar
• Marvin Hamlisch – The Sting
• Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, John Williams – Tom Sawyer

1972:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• Nino Rota – The Godfather
• Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry Russell – Limelight
• Buddy Baker – Napoleon and Samantha
• John Williams – The Poseidon Adventure
• John Addison - Sleuth
• John Williams – Images
  
  ADAPTATION AND ORIGINAL SONG SCORE:
  
  
• Ralph Burns – Cabaret
• Gil Askey - Lady Sings the Blues
• Laurence Rosenthal – Man of La Mancha

1971:

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• John Barry – Mary, Queen of Scots
• Richard Rodney Bennett – Nicholas and Alexandra
• Isaac Hayes – Shaft
• Jerry Fielding – Straw Dogs
• Michel Legrand – Summer of ‘42
  
  ADAPTATION AND ORIGINAL SONG SCORE:
  
  
• Irwin Kostal, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman – Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Peter Greenwell, Peter Maxwell Davies – The Boy Friend
• John Williams – Fiddler on the Roof
• Dimitri Tiomkin – Tchaikovsky
• Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Walter Scharf – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

1970

ORIGINAL SCORE:


• Alfred Newman – Airport
• Frank Cordell – Cromwell
• Francis Lai – Love Story
• Jerry Goldsmith – Patton
• Henry Mancini – Sunflower
  
  ORIGINAL SONG SCORE:
  
  
• Fred Karlin , Tylwyth Kymry – The Baby Maker
• Vince Guaraldi, Rod McKuen, Bill Melendez, Al Shean, John Scott Trotter – A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer – Darling Lili
• The Beatles – Let It Be
• Leslie Bricusse, Ian Fraser, Herbert W. Spencer – Scrooge

1969:

ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A MOTION PICTURE (NOT A MUSICAL)


• Georges Delerue – Anne of the Thousand Days
• Burt Bacharach – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• John Williams – The Reivers
• Ernest Gold – The Secret of Santa Vittoria
• Jerry Fielding – The Wild Bunch
  
  SCORE OF A MUSICAL PICTURE ORIGINAL OR ADAPTATION:
  
  
• Leslie Bricusse, John Williams – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Lennie Hayton, Lionel Newman – Hello, Dolly!
• Nelson Riddle – Paint Your Wagon
• Cy Coleman – Sweet Charity
• John Green, Albert Woodbury – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

1968:

ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A MOTION PICTURE (NOT A MUSICAL)


• Lalo Schifrin – The Fox
• John Barry – The Lion in Winter
• Jerry Goldsmith – Planet of the Apes
• Alex North – The Shoes of the Fisherman
• Michel Legrand – The Thomas Crown Affair
  
  SCORE OF A MUSICAL PICTURE ORIGINAL OR ADAPTATION:
  
  
• Ray Heindorf – Finian’s Rainbow
• Walter Scharf – Funny Girl
• John Green – Oliver!
• Lennie Hayton – Star!
• Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand – The Young Girls of Rochefort

1967:

ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE:


• Lalo Schifrin – Cool Hand Luke
• Leslie Bricusse – Doctor Dolittle
• Richard Rodney Bennett – Far From the Madding Crowd
• Quincy Jones – In Cold Blood
• Elmer Bernstein – Thoroughly Modern Millie
  
  SCORING OF MUSIC ADAPTATION OR TREATMENT:
  
  
• Ken Darby , Alfred Newman – Camelot
• Alexander Courage, Lionel Newman – Doctor Dolittle
• Frank DeVol – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
• Joseph Gershenson, Andre Previn – Thoroughly Modern Millie
• John Williams – Valley of the Dolls

1966

ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE:


• Toshiro Mayuzumi – The Bible
• John Barry – Born Free
• Elmer Bernstein – Hawaii
• Jerry Goldsmith – The Sand Pebbles
• Alex North – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  
  SCORING OF MUSIC ADAPTATION OR TREATMENT:
  
  
• Ken Thorne – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Luis Enrique Bacalov – The Gospel According to St.Matthew
• Elmer Bernstein – Return of the Seven
• Harry Sukman – The Singing Nun
• Al Ham – Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off

1965:

MUSIC SCORE SUBSTANTIALLY ORIGINAL:


• Alex North – The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Maurice Jarre – Doctor Zhivago
• Alfred Newman – The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  
  SCORING OF MUSIC ADAPTATION OR TREATMENT:
  
  
• Frank DeVol – Cat Ballou
• Alexander Courage, Lionel Newman – The Pleasure Seekers
• Irwin Kostal – The Sound of Music
• Don Walker – A Thousand Clowns
• Michel Legrand – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1964:

MUSIC SCORE SUBSTANTIALLY ORIGINAL:


• Laurence Rosenthal – Becket
• Dimitri Tiomkin – The Fall of the Roman Empire
• Frank DeVol – Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman – Mary Poppins
• Henry Mancini – The Pink Panther
  
  SCORING OF MUSIC ADAPTATION OR TREATMENT:
  
  
• George Martin – A Hard Day’s Night
• Irwin Kostal – Mary Poppins
• Andre Previn – My Fair Lady
• Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliott, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson, Leo Shuken – The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1963:

MUSIC SCORE SUBSTANTIALLY ORIGINAL:


• Dimitri Tiomkin – 55 Days at Peking
• Alex North – Cleopatra
• Ken Darby, Alfred Newman – How The West Was Won
• Ernest Gold – It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World
• John Addison – Tom Jones
  
  SCORING OF MUSIC ADAPTATION OR TREATMENT:
  
  
• John Green – Bye Bye Birdie
• Andre Previn – Irma La Douve
• Leith Stevens – A New Kind of Love
• Maurice Jarre – Sundays and Cybele
• George Bruns – The Sword in the Stone

1962:

MUSIC SCORE SUBSTANTIALLY ORIGINAL:


• Jerry Goldsmith - Freud
• Maurice Jarre – Lawrence of Arabia
• Bronislau Kaper – Mutiny on the Bounty
• Franz Waxman – Taras Bulba
• Elmer Bernstein – To Kill a Mockingbird
  
  SCORING OF MUSIC ADAPTATION OR TREATMENT:
  
  
• George Stoll – Billy Rose’s Jumbo
• Michel Magne – Gigot
• Frank Perkins – Gypsy
• Ray Heindorf – Meredith Willson’s The Music Man
• Leigh Harline – The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1961:

MUSIC SCORE OF A DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE:


• Henry Mancini – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Miklos Rozsa – El Cid
• Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman – Fanny
• Dimitri Tiomkin – The Guns of Navarone
• Elmer Bernstein – Summer and Smoke
  
  SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE:
  
  
• George Bruns – Babes in Toyland
• Ken Darby, Alfred Newman – Flower Drum Song
• Dimitri Shostakovich – Khovanshchina
• Duke Ellington – Paris Blues
• Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Irwin Kostal, Sid Ramin – West Side Story

1960:

MUSIC SCORE OF A DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE:


• Dimitri Tiomkin – The Alamo
• Andre Previn – Elmer Gantry
• Ernest Gold – Exodus
• Elmer Bernstein – The Magnificent Seven
• Alex North – Spartacus
  
  SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE:
  
  
• Andre Previn – Bells Are Ringing
• Nelson Riddle – Can-Can
• Earle H. Hagen, Lionel Newman – Let’s Make Love
• Johnny Green – Pepe
• Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman – Song Without End (The Story of Franz Liszt)