Academy Award For Best Original Music Score
1934 * MUSIC (Scoring): One Night of Love - Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (Thematic Music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn)
NOMINEES: o The Gay Divorcee - RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein) o 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)
NOMINEES: o (Write-in candidate) Captain Blood - Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold) o Mutiny on the Bounty - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart) o 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)
NOMINEES: o The Charge of the Light Brigade - Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner) o The Garden of Allah - Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max Steiner) o The General Died at Dawn - Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by Werner Janssen) o 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)
NOMINEES: o The Hurricane - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Alfred Newman) o In Old Chicago - 20th Century-Fox Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (no composer credit) o The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner) o Lost Horizon - Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin) o Make a Wish - Principal Productions, Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, musical director (Score by Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld) o Maytime - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart) o Portia on Trial - Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo, head of department (Score by Alberto Colombo) o The Prisoner of Zenda - Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, musical director (Score by Alfred Newman) o Quality Street - RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb, musical director (Score by Roy Webb) o 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) o Something to Sing About - Grand National Studio Music Department, C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director (Score by Victor Schertzinger) o Souls at Sea - Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder) o 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
NOMINEES: o Army Girl - Victor Young o Block-Heads - Marvin Hatley o Blockade - Werner Janssen o Breaking the Ice - Victor Young o The Cowboy and the Lady - Alfred Newman o If I Were King - Richard Hageman o Marie Antoinette - Herbert Stothart o Pacific Liner - Russell Bennett o Suez - Louis Silvers o The Young in Heart - Franz Waxman AFIoscar's rating:
1939 * MUSIC (Original Score): The Wizard of Oz - Herbert Stothart
NOMINEES: o Dark Victory - Max Steiner o Eternally Yours - Werner Janssen o Golden Boy - Victor Young o Gone with the Wind - Max Steiner o Gulliver's Travels - Victor Young o The Man in the Iron Mask - Lud Gluskin, Lucien Moraweck o Man of Conquest - Victor Young o Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Dimitri Tiomkin o Nurse Edith Cavell - Anthony Collins o Of Mice and Men - Aaron Copland o The Rains Came - Alfred Newman o Wuthering Heights - Alfred Newman o Hunchback of Notre Dame - Alfred Newman AFIoscar's rating:
1940 * MUSIC (Original Score): Pinocchio - Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington
NOMINEES: o Arizona - Victor Young o The Dark Command - Victor Young o The Fight for Life - Louis Gruenberg o The Great Dictator - Meredith Willson o The House of the Seven Gables - Frank Skinner o The Howards of Virginia - Richard Hageman o The Letter - Max Steiner o The Long Voyage Home - Richard Hageman o The Mark of Zorro - Alfred Newman o My Favorite Wife - Roy Webb o North West Mounted Police - Victor Young o One Million B.C. - Werner Heymann o Our Town - Aaron Copland o Rebecca - Franz Waxman o The Thief of Bagdad - Miklós Rózsa* o Waterloo Bridge - Herbert Stothart 1941 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic Picture): All That Money Can Buy - Bernard Herrmann
NOMINEES: o Back Street - Frank Skinner o Ball of Fire - Alfred Newman o Cheers for Miss Bishop - Edward Ward o Citizen Kane - Bernard Herrmann o Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Franz Waxman o Hold Back the Dawn - Victor Young o How Green Was My Valley - Alfred Newman o King of the Zombies - Edward Kay o Ladies in Retirement - Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch o The Little Foxes - Meredith Willson o Lydia - Miklós Rózsa o Mercy Island - Cy Feuer, Walter Scharf o Sergeant York - Max Steiner o So Ends Our Night - Louis Gruenberg o Sundown - Miklós Rózsa o Suspicion - Franz Waxman o Tanks a Million - Edward Ward o That Uncertain Feeling - Werner Heymann o This Woman Is Mine - Richard Hageman 1941 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Dumbo - Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace
NOMINEES: * 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 AFIoscar's rating:
1942 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Now, Voyager - Max Steiner
NOMINEES: o Arabian Nights - Frank Skinner o Bambi - Frank Churchill (posthumous nomination), Edward Plumb o The Black Swan - Alfred Newman o The Corsican Brothers - Dimitri Tiomkin o Flying Tigers - Victor Young o The Gold Rush - Max Terr o I Married a Witch - Roy Webb o Joan of Paris - Roy Webb o Jungle Book - Miklós Rózsa o Klondike Fury - Edward Kay o The Pride of the Yankees - Leigh Harline o Random Harvest - Herbert Stothart o The Shanghai Gesture - Richard Hageman o Silver Queen - Victor Young o Take a Letter, Darling - Victor Young o The Talk of the Town - Friedrich Hollaender, Morris Stoloff o To Be or Not to Be - Werner Heymann 1942 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Yankee Doodle Dandy - Ray Heindorf, Heinz Roemheld
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Song of Bernadette - Alfred Newman
NOMINEES: o The Amazing Mrs. Holliday - Frank Skinner, Hans J. Salter o Casablanca - Max Steiner o Commandos Strike at Dawn - Morris Stoloff, Louis Gruenberg o The Fallen Sparrow - Roy Webb, C. Bakaleinikoff o For Whom the Bell Tolls - Victor Young o Hangmen Also Die - Hanns Eisler o Hi Diddle Diddle - Phil Boutelje o In Old Oklahoma - Walter Scharf o Johnny Come Lately - Leigh Harline o The Kansan - Gerard Carbonara o Lady of Burlesque - Arthur Lange o Madame Curie - Herbert Stothart o The Moon and Sixpence - Dimitri Tiomkin o The North Star - Aaron Copland o Victory Through Air Power - Edward H. Plumb, Paul Smith, Oliver G. Wallace AFIoscar's rating:
1943 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): This Is the Army - Ray Heindorf
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Since You Went Away - Max Steiner
NOMINEES: o Address Unknown - Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch o The Adventures of Mark Twain - Max Steiner o The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Dimitri Tiomkin o Casanova Brown - Arthur Lange o Christmas Holiday - H. J. Salter o Double Indemnity - Miklós Rózsa o The Fighting Seabees - Walter Scharf, Roy Webb o The Hairy Ape - Edward Paul, Michel Michelet o It Happened Tomorrow - Robert Stolz o Jack London - Frederic Efrem Rich o Kismet - Herbert Stothart o None but the Lonely Heart - Hanns Eisler, C. Bakaleinikoff o The Princess and the Pirate - David Rose o Summer Storm - Karl Hajos o Three Russian Girls - Franke Harling o Up in Mabel's Room - Edward Paul o Voice in the Wind - Michel Michelet o Wilson - Alfred Newman o Woman of the Town - Miklós Rózsa 1944 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Cover Girl - Morris Stoloff, Carmen Dragon
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Spellbound - Miklós Rózsa
NOMINEES: o The Bells of St. Mary's - Robert Emmett Dolan o Brewster's Millions - Lou Forbes o Captain Kidd - Werner Janssen o The Enchanted Cottage - Roy Webb o Flame of Barbary Coast - Morton Scott, Dale Butts o G. I. Honeymoon - Edward J. Kay o The Story of G.I. Joe - Louis Applebaum, Ann Ronell o Guest in the House - Werner Janssen o Guest Wife - Daniele Amfitheatrof o The Keys of the Kingdom - Alfred Newman o The Lost Weekend - Miklós Rózsa o Love Letters - Victor Young o The Man Who Walked Alone - Karl Hajos o Objective, Burma! - Franz Waxman o Paris--Underground - Alexander Tansman o A Song to Remember - Miklós Rózsa, Morris Stoloff o The Southerner - Werner Janssen o This Love of Ours - H. J. Salter o The Valley of Decision - Herbert Stothart o The Woman in the Window - Arthur Lange, Hugo Friedhofer 1945 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Anchors Aweigh - Georgie Stoll
NOMINEES: * Belle of the Yukon - Arthur Lange * Can't Help Singing - Jerome Kern (posthumous nomination), 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 AFIoscar's rating:
1946 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Best Years of Our Lives - Hugo Friedhofer
NOMINEES: o Anna and the King of Siam - Bernard Herrmann o Henry V - William Walton o Humoresque - Franz Waxman o The Killers - Miklós Rózsa AFIoscar's rating:
1946 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): The Jolson Story - Morris Stoloff
NOMINEES: * Blue Skies - Robert Emmett Dolan * Centennial Summer - Alfred Newman * The Harvey Girls - Lennie Hayton * Night and Day - Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner 1947 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): A Double Life - Miklós Rózsa
NOMINEES: o The Bishop's Wife - Hugo Friedhofer o Captain from Castile - Alfred Newman o Forever Amber - David Raksin o Life with Father - Max Steiner 1947 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Mother Wore Tights - Alfred Newman
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Red Shoes - Brian Easdale
NOMINEES: o Hamlet - William Walton o Joan of Arc - Hugo Friedhofer o Johnny Belinda - Max Steiner o The Snake Pit - Alfred Newman AFIoscar's rating:
1948 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Easter Parade - Johnny Green, Roger Edens
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Heiress - Aaron Copland
NOMINEES: o Beyond the Forest - Max Steiner o Champion - Dimitri Tiomkin 1949 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): On the Town - Roger Edens, Lennie Hayton
NOMINEES: * Jolson Sings Again - Morris Stoloff, George Duning * Look for the Silver Lining - Ray Heindorf 1950 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Sunset Boulevard - Franz Waxman
NOMINEES: o All About Eve - Alfred Newman o The Flame and the Arrow - Max Steiner o No Sad Songs for Me - George Duning o Samson and Delilah - Victor Young AFIoscar's rating:
1950 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Annie Get Your Gun - Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): A Place in the Sun - Franz Waxman
NOMINEES: o David and Bathsheba - Alfred Newman o Death of a Salesman - Alex North o Quo Vadis - Miklós Rózsa o A Streetcar Named Desire - Alex North 1951 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): An American in Paris - Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): High Noon - Dimitri Tiomkin
NOMINEES: o Ivanhoe - Miklós Rózsa o The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima - Max Steiner o The Thief - Herschel Burke Gilbert o Viva Zapata! - Alex North AFIoscar's rating:
1952 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): With a Song in My Heart - Alfred Newman
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Lili - Bronislau Kaper
NOMINEES: o Above and Beyond - Hugo Friedhofer o From Here to Eternity - Morris Stoloff, George Duning o Julius Caesar - Miklós Rózsa o This is Cinerama - Louis Forbes 1953 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Call Me Madam - Alfred Newman
NOMINEES: * The Band Wagon - Adolph Deutsch * Calamity Jane - Ray Heindorf * The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T - Friedrich Hollaender, Morris Stoloff * Kiss Me, Kate - Andre Previn, Saul Chaplin 1954 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The High and the Mighty - Dimitri Tiomkin
NOMINEES: o The Caine Mutiny - Max Steiner o Genevieve - Larry Adler (Front: Muir Mathieson) o On the Waterfront - Leonard Bernstein o The Silver Chalice - Franz Waxman 1954 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Alfred Newman
NOMINEES: o Battle Cry - Max Steiner o The Man with the Golden Arm - Elmer Bernstein o Picnic - George Duning o The Rose Tattoo - Alex North 1955 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Oklahoma! - Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Around the World in Eighty Days - Victor Young (posthumous award)
NOMINEES: o Anastasia - Alfred Newman o Between Heaven and Hell - Hugo Friedhofer o Giant - Dimitri Tiomkin o The Rainmaker - Alex North 1956 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): The King and I - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
NOMINEES: * 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 (Score): The Bridge on the River Kwai - Malcolm Arnold
NOMINEES: o An Affair to Remember - Hugo Friedhofer o Boy on a Dolphin - Hugo Friedhofer o Perri - Paul Smith o Raintree County - Johnny Green 1958 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Old Man and the Sea - Dimitri Tiomkin
NOMINEES: o The Big Country - Jerome Moross o Separate Tables - David Raksin o White Wilderness - Oliver Wallace o The Young Lions - Hugo Friedhofer 1958 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Gigi - Andre Previn
NOMINEES: * The Bolshoi Ballet - Yuri Faier, G. Rozhdestvensky * Damn Yankees - Ray Heindorf * Mardi Gras - Lionel Newman * South Pacific - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby 1959 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Ben-Hur - Miklós Rózsa
NOMINEES: o The Diary of Anne Frank - Alfred Newman o The Nun's Story - Franz Waxman o On the Beach - Ernest Gold o Pillow Talk - Frank DeVol 1959 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Porgy and Bess - Andre Previn, Ken Darby
NOMINEES: * The Five Pennies - Leith Stevens * Li'l Abner - Nelson Riddle, Joseph J. Lilley * Say One for Me - Lionel Newman * Sleeping Beauty - George Bruns 1960 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Exodus - Ernest Gold
NOMINEES: o The Alamo - Dimitri Tiomkin o Elmer Gantry - Andre Previn o The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein o Spartacus - Alex North 1960 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt) - Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
NOMINEES: * Bells Are Ringing - Andre Previn * Can-Can - Nelson Riddle * Let's Make Love - Lionel Newman, Earle H. Hagen * Pepe - Johnny Green 1961 * MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Breakfast at Tiffany's - Henry Mancini
NOMINEES: o El Cid - Miklós Rózsa o Fanny - Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman o The Guns of Navarone - Dimitri Tiomkin o Summer and Smoke - Elmer Bernstein AFIoscar's rating:
1961 * MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): West Side Story - Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal
NOMINEES: * Babes in Toyland - George Bruns * Flower Drum Song (film) - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby * Khovanshchina - Dimitri Shostakovich * Paris Blues - Duke Ellington 1962 * MUSIC (Original Music Score): Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
NOMINEES: o Freud - Jerry Goldsmith o Mutiny on the Bounty - Bronislau Kaper o Taras Bulba - Franz Waxman o To Kill a Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein 1962 * MUSIC (Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment): The Music Man - Ray Heindorf
NOMINEES: * Billy Rose's Jumbo - George Stoll * Gigot - Michel Magne * Gypsy - Frank Perkins * The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - Leigh Harline AFIoscar's rating:
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