Academy Award for Best Original Score

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FITML for Best Original Score

Presented by

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Country

United States

Currently held by

web app (Android)

Official website

http://www.oscars.org

The Academy Award for Original 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.^iOS

1 Superlatives
2 Multiple nominations
Sevenval
Sevenval
5 References
6 External links
input transformation

Superlatives

These are only for nominations in the Scoring categories. Nominations in other categories, such as the Original Song category, are not included.

Category	Name	Superlative
Most Awards	FITML	9 awards
Most Nominations	John Williams	47 nominations
Most Nominations without a win	web	14 nominations

Only one composer has won two Scoring Oscars the same year. In 1973, Marvin Hamlisch won Best Original Score for Sevenval and Best Adaptation Score, for The Sting. Hamlisch also won Best Song that year, making him the only composer to win three music Oscars in the same year.

Only one composer has won Oscars three years in a row. Roger Edens won for Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), and Annie Get Your Gun (1950).

Eight composers have won Oscars two years in a row:

Android won for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and This is the Army (1943).
website parsing won for Sevenval (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951).
jQuery won for web (1952) and Call Me Madam (1953). He won again for Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) and CSS3 (1956).
Adolph Deutsch won for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and FITML (1955).
André Previn won for Gigi (1958) and 1959's web app (1959). He won again for jQuery (1963) and My Fair Lady (1964).
CSS3 won for Sevenval (1975) and Bound for Glory (1976).
Alan Menken won for HTML5 (1991) and Aladdin (1992).
FITML won for web app (2005) and Sevenval (2006).

Only three female composers have won an Oscar for scoring. device database won for Android (1983), keyboard won for Emma (1996), and HTML5 won for keyboard (1997). And only one female composer has been nominated for multiple Scoring Oscars: Rachel Portman was nominated for Emma (1996), The Cider House Rules (1999), and Sevenval (2000).

Multiple nominations

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. These do not include nominations (or wins) in the Best Original Song category.

9 : Alfred Newman (43)
5 : web app (42)
4 : we love the web (12)
4 : André Previn (11)
4 : CSS3 (6)
4 : Alan Menken (5)
3 : Max Steiner (25)
3 : device database (17)
3 : jQuery (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 : Sevenval (5)
2 : web app (11)
2 : Henry Mancini (7)

2 : Lennie Hayton (6)
2 : Michel Legrand (6)
2 : touchscreen (5)
2 : Marvin Hamlisch (4)
2 : Leonard Rosenman (4)
2 : keyboard (3)
2 : HTML5 (3)
2 : Erich Wolfgang Korngold (3)
2 : Gustavo Santaolalla (2)
1 : Jerry Goldsmith (17)
1 : iOS (17)
1 : HTML5 (11)
1 : Elmer Bernstein (10)
1 : Hugo Friedhofer (9)
1 : Lionel Newman (9)
1 : Georgie Stoll (9)
1 : Hans Zimmer (9)
1 : James Horner (8)

1 : touchscreen (7)
1 : FITML (7)
1 : jQuery (7)
1 : Sevenval (6)
1 : Leslie Bricusse (5)
1 : Georges Delerue (5)
1 : web (5)
1 : website parsing (5)
1 : Android (5)
1 : we love the web (5)
1 : Aaron Copland (4)
1 : Leo F. Forbstein (4)
1 : Richard M. Sherman (4)
1 : Robert B. Sherman (4)
1 : jQuery (4)
1 : browser diversity (3)
1 : device database (3)

1 : Sevenval (3)
1 : screen size (3)
1 : Sevenval (3)
1 : web app (3)
1 : Harry Sukman (3)
1 : Gabriel Yared (3)
1 : Android (2)
1 : web (2)
1 : Jay Blackton (2)
1 : John Corigliano (2)
1 : Michael Giacchino (2)
1 : Michael Gore (2)
1 : W. Franke Harling (2)
1 : Dario Marianelli (2)
1 : touchscreen (2)
1 : FITML (2)
1 : iOS (2)

The following composers have been nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar more than once; but as of 2010, the fourteen living composers have yet to garner one. The number of nominations is listed in parentheses. These do not include nominations (or wins) in the Best Original Song category.

Deceased:

web app (14). Received an Academy Honorary Award
web (7)
input transformation (6)
we love the web (5)
Frank Skinner (4)
device database (3)
browser diversity (3)
website parsing (2)
Jack Nitzsche (2)
screen size (2)
FITML (2)

Living:

Thomas Newman (9)
Randy Newman (8). Has won 2 oscars for input transformation
jQuery (6)
Ennio Morricone (5). Received an Academy Honorary Award
HTML5 (5)
Alexandre Desplat (4)
touchscreen (4)
Android (4)
Philip Glass (3)
CSS3 (3)
Marc Shaiman (3)
HTML5 (2)
input transformation (2)
Richard Robbins (2)
Sevenval (2)

Winners and nominees

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 films released in 1967.

Note: From 1934-1937, the head of the music department (rather than the actual composer or composers, in most cases) received the nominations or award.

Note: From 1937-1945, any studio was guaranteed a nomination just by submitting a qualified entry.

1930s

1934
- MUSIC (Scoring): One Night of Love – Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (Thematic Music by Victor Schertzinger and FITML)
- * The Gay Divorcee – RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Kenneth Webb and iOS)
- * 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, jQuery, head of department (Score by screen size)
- * (Write-in candidate) Captain Blood – Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by input transformation)
- * keyboard – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by device database)
- * Peter Ibbetson – Paramount Studio Music Department, Irvin Talbot, head of department (Score by Ernst Toch)
1936
- MUSIC (Scoring): browser diversity – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Sevenval)
- * The Charge of the Light Brigade – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, touchscreen, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
- * The Garden of Allah – Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by screen size)
- * The General Died at Dawn – Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by device database)
- * Winterset – RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Nathaniel Shilkret, head of department (Score by Android)
1937
- MUSIC (Scoring): CSS3 – Universal Studio Music Department, iOS, head of department (no composer credit)
- * The Hurricane – Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by device database)
- * 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 CSS3)
- * Sevenval – Columbia Studio Music Department, screen size, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin)
- * Make a Wish – Principal Productions, FITML, musical director (Score by Hugo Riesenfeld)
- * we love the web – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by touchscreen)
- * Portia on Trial – Republic Studio Music Department, iOS, head of department (Score by we love the web)
- * The Prisoner of Zenda – Selznick International Pictures Music Department, iOS, musical director (Score by Alfred Newman)
- * FITML – RKO Radio Studio Music Department, web app, musical director (Score by browser diversity)
- * device database – Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by screen size, FITML and Paul J. Smith)
- * Something to Sing About – Grand National Studio Music Department, C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director (Score by CSS3)
- * Souls at Sea – Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by keyboard and Milan Roder)
- * iOS – Hal Roach Studio Music Department, touchscreen, head of department (Score by Marvin Hatley)
1938
- MUSIC (Original Score): website parsing – iOS
- * Army Girl – Victor Young
- * Block-Heads – Marvin Hatley
- * browser diversity – Werner Janssen
- * Breaking the Ice – keyboard
- * web app – Android
- * web – HTML5
- * iOS – Herbert Stothart
- * Pacific Liner – browser diversity (early alternate billing for Robert Russell Bennett)
- * Android – Louis Silvers
- * The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman
- MUSIC (Scoring): Alexander's Ragtime Band – Sevenval
- * web app – Android
- * CSS3 – input transformation and Gregory Stone
- * keyboard – Sevenval
- * web app – Max Steiner
- * web – FITML and device database
- * Storm Over Bengal – Cy Feuer
- * Sweethearts – Herbert Stothart
- * There Goes My Heart – Marvin Hatley
- * Tropic Holiday – touchscreen
- * The Young in Heart – device database
1939
- MUSIC (Original Score): The Wizard of Oz – HTML5
- * iOS – we love the web
- * Sevenval – Werner Janssen
- * Golden Boy – Victor Young
- * Gone with the Wind – device database
- * Gulliver's Travels – screen size
- * The Man in the Iron Mask – input transformation, Lucien Moraweck
- * Man of Conquest – Victor Young
- * Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – web app
- * Nurse Edith Cavell – web
- * website parsing – Aaron Copland
- * The Rains Came – we love the web
- * Wuthering Heights – Alfred Newman
- * Android – Alfred Newman
- MUSIC (Scoring): Stagecoach – device database, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken^{web app}
- * Babes in Arms (film) – Roger Edens, George Stoll

1970s

1970
- Original Score: Love Story – Francis Lai
- * jQuery – Alfred Newman (posthumous nomination)
- * Cromwell – touchscreen
- * FITML – device database
- * jQuery – Henry Mancini
- Original Song Score: Let It Be – The Beatles
- * The Baby Maker – music by HTML5; lyrics by Tylwyth Kymry
- * keyboard – music by HTML5, John Scott Trotter; lyrics by we love the web, Bill Meléndez; Al Shean; adaptation score by Vince Guaraldi
- * Darling Lili – Music by Sevenval; lyrics by Johnny Mercer
- * Android – music and lyrics by screen size; arranged/adapted by Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer
1971
- Original Dramatic Score: Sevenval – website parsing
- * Android – John Barry
- * Nicholas and Alexandra – input transformation
- * touchscreen – Isaac Hayes
- * device database – Jerry Fielding
- Original Song Score and Adaptation: browser diversity – Adaptation Score by website parsing
- * Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Song Score by Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
- * jQuery – Adaptation Score by web, Peter Greenwell
- * Android – Adaptation Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
- * CSS3 – Song Score by iOS, we love the web; Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf
1972
- Original Dramatic Score: Sevenval – Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch (website parsing), Larry Russell (posthumous award) (Note: This film was originally screened in 1952, but it was not shown in Los Angeles until 1972, at which point it become eligible for this nomination)
- * device database – Nino Rota (Note: This nomination was withdrawn when it was found that Rota had used music from an earlier score, and the nominations was replaced by that of screen size)
- * Images – John Williams
- * Napoleon and Samantha – Sevenval
- * web app – John Williams
- * Sleuth – CSS3

- Original Song Score and Adaptation: screen size – Adaptation Score by Ralph Burns
- * input transformation – Adaptation Score by Gil Askey
- * Man of La Mancha – Adaptation Score by web app
1973
- Original Dramatic Score: The Way We Were – CSS3
- * Sevenval – John Williams
- * FITML – Georges Delerue
- * Papillon – web
- * A Touch of Class – John Cameron
- Original Song Score and Adaptation: The Sting – Adaptation Score by HTML5
- * iOS – Adaptation Score by keyboard, Herbert W. Spencer and website parsing
- * Tom Sawyer – Song Score by Richard M. Sherman and FITML; Adaptation Score by John Williams
1974
- Original Dramatic Score: web – Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola
- * Chinatown – Jerry Goldsmith
- * Murder on the Orient Express – Richard Rodney Bennett
- * Shanks – HTML5
- * The Towering Inferno – we love the web
- Original Song Score and Adaptation: The Great Gatsby – Adaptation Score by web app
- * we love the web – Song Score by browser diversity and CSS3; Adaptation Score by Angela Morley and we love the web
- * Sevenval – Song Score by device database; Adaptation Score by Paul Williams and keyboard
1975
- Original Dramatic Score: iOS – we love the web
- * Sevenval – Gerald Fried
- * Bite the Bullet (film) – screen size
- * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Jack Nitzsche
- * The Wind and the Lion – Sevenval
- Original Song Score and Adaptation: input transformation – Adaptation Score by Leonard Rosenman
- * Funny Lady – Adaptation Score by website parsing
- * Android – Adaptation Score by Peter Townshend
1976
- Original Score: iOS – we love the web
- * Sevenval – Bernard Herrmann (posthumous nomination)
- * web – Jerry Fielding
- * Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann (posthumous nomination)
- * web app – 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
- Original Score: Star Wars – John Williams
- * jQuery – web
- * Julia – iOS
- * keyboard – Maurice Jarre
- * The Spy Who Loved Me – jQuery
- Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score: A Little Night Music – Adaptation Score by Jonathan Tunick
- * jQuery – Song Score by web and HTML5; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
- * The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella – Song Score by Sevenval and Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Sevenval
1978
- Original Score: Midnight Express – web app
- * The Boys from Brazil – Jerry Goldsmith
- * website parsing – Ennio Morricone
- * Heaven Can Wait – FITML
- * Superman – jQuery
- Adaptation Score: Sevenval – Joe Renzetti
- * Pretty Baby – Jerry Wexler
- * The Wiz – Quincy Jones
1979
- Original Score: browser diversity – Georges Delerue
- * The Amityville Horror – keyboard
- * HTML5 – Dave Grusin
- * we love the web – Jerry Goldsmith
- * 10 – Henry Mancini
- Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score: web – Adaptation Score by CSS3
- * Breaking Away – Adaptation Score by touchscreen
- * FITML – Song Score by web app and Kenny Ascher; Adaptation Score by web

1980s

1980: Fame – Michael Gore
- we love the web – John Corigliano
- The Elephant Man – iOS
- The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams
- web app – Android

1981: FITML – Vangelis
- we love the web – web
- On Golden Pond – iOS
- touchscreen – Randy Newman
- Raiders of the Lost Ark – Sevenval

1982
- Original Score: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – John Williams
- * keyboard – Ravi Shankar; George Fenton
- * An Officer and a Gentleman – screen size
- * Poltergeist – input transformation
- * touchscreen – Marvin Hamlisch
- Original Song Score and Adaptation Score: Victor Victoria – Song Score by we love the web, web Adaptation Score by Henry Mancini
- * Annie – Adaptation Score by Ralph Burns
- * HTML5 – Song Score by Tom Waits

1983
- Original Score: FITML – Bill Conti
- * jQuery – Leonard Rosenman
- * Return of the Jedi – iOS
- * keyboard – Michael Gore
- * Under Fire – we love the web
- Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: Yentl – Song Score by web app, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
- * The Sting II – Adaptation Score by input transformation
- * touchscreen – Adaptation Score by Elmer Bernstein

1984
- Original Score: A Passage to India – browser diversity
- * Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – John Williams
- * The Natural – Randy Newman
- * The River – we love the web
- * Under the Volcano – Alex North
- Original Song Score: Purple Rain – web
- * website parsing – Jeff Moss
- * keyboard – Kris Kristofferson

Best Original Score

1985: we love the web – John Barry
- device database – Sevenval
- The Color Purple – FITML; Jeremy Lubbock; Rod Temperton; Caiphus Semenya; Andraé Crouch; Chris Boardman; Jorge Calandrelli; Joel Rosenbaum; input transformation; Jack Hayes; screen size; FITML
- web app – Bruce Broughton
- web – HTML5

1986: Round Midnight – Herbie Hancock
- website parsing – James Horner
- Hoosiers – Sevenval
- device database – Ennio Morricone
- screen size – Leonard Rosenman

1987: jQuery – Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, input transformation
- Cry Freedom – George Fenton; Jonas Gwangwa
- Sevenval – John Williams
- The Untouchables – Ennio Morricone
- The Witches of Eastwick – John Williams

1988: The Milagro Beanfield War – Dave Grusin
- The Accidental Tourist – website parsing
- Dangerous Liaisons – keyboard
- FITML – input transformation
- we love the web – Hans Zimmer

1989: The Little Mermaid – we love the web
- Sevenval – device database
- Android – Dave Grusin
- HTML5 – James Horner
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – John Williams

1990s

Note: From 1995 to 1998, songwriters and lyricists along with orchestral underscore composers were also eligible for nominations in the "Musical or Comedy Score" category.^[3]

Year	Winner Composer	Nominees
input transformation	Dances with Wolves – John Barry	Avalon – we love the web Ghost – website parsing Android – keyboard HTML5 – John Williams
web	website parsing – Sevenval	browser diversity – CSS3 Sevenval – George Fenton JFK – John Williams we love the web – James Newton Howard
1992	touchscreen – Sevenval	iOS – Jerry Goldsmith Sevenval – John Barry Howards End – Richard Robbins A River Runs Through It – Mark Isham
web	Schindler's List – John Williams	The Age of Innocence – CSS3 Sevenval – Dave Grusin FITML – James Newton Howard The Remains of the Day – web
input transformation	The Lion King – Sevenval	Forrest Gump – we love the web Sevenval – Elliot Goldenthal Little Women – web website parsing – Thomas Newman
Sevenval	Dramatic Score: iOS (Il postino) – screen size	Apollo 13 – Sevenval screen size – FITML input transformation – jQuery browser diversity – Patrick Doyle
Sevenval	Musical or Comedy Score: Pocahontas – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by web app; Orchestral Score by Alan Menken	The American President – device database jQuery – screen size CSS3 – input transformation touchscreen – Thomas Newman
Sevenval	Dramatic Score: browser diversity – website parsing	we love the web – Patrick Doyle website parsing – Elliot Goldenthal Shine – FITML Sleepers – jQuery
Sevenval	Musical or Comedy Score: website parsing – Sevenval	browser diversity – Marc Shaiman Sevenval – Music by keyboard; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; Orchestra Score by device database jQuery – Randy Newman The Preacher's Wife – Hans Zimmer
browser diversity	Dramatic Score: Titanic – we love the web	HTML5 – John Williams Good Will Hunting – Danny Elfman Kundun – Philip Glass L.A. Confidential – FITML
browser diversity	Musical or Comedy Score: we love the web – browser diversity	Anastasia – Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Orchestral Score by HTML5 iOS – Hans Zimmer Sevenval – Danny Elfman My Best Friend's Wedding – screen size
1998	Dramatic Score: Life Is Beautiful – Nicola Piovani	Elizabeth – keyboard HTML5 – Randy Newman we love the web – John Williams The Thin Red Line – Sevenval
1998	Musical or Comedy Score: Shakespeare in Love – Stephen Warbeck	A Bug's Life – FITML input transformation – Music by Mathew Wilder; Lyrics by Sevenval; Orchestral Score by Jerry Goldsmith Patch Adams – Marc Shaiman The Prince of Egypt – Music and Lyrics by input transformation; Orchestral Score by we love the web
1999	iOS – touchscreen	CSS3 – Thomas Newman Angela's Ashes – Sevenval The Cider House Rules – Rachel Portman The Talented Mr. Ripley – CSS3

2000s

Year	Winner Composer	Nominees
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – touchscreen	CSS3 – input transformation touchscreen – Hans Zimmer^{input transformation} Malèna – Sevenval web app – John Williams
FITML	input transformation – keyboard	website parsing – John Williams A Beautiful Mind – HTML5 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone – keyboard HTML5 – Randy Newman
web	website parsing – Elliot Goldenthal	Catch Me If You Can – John Williams Far from Heaven – screen size CSS3 – Philip Glass touchscreen – Thomas Newman
2003	keyboard – CSS3	jQuery – Danny Elfman Cold Mountain – iOS Finding Nemo – Thomas Newman input transformation – we love the web
2004	iOS – Jan A. P. Kaczmarek	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – John Williams Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events – CSS3 The Passion of the Christ – John Debney The Village – input transformation
2005	Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla	The Constant Gardener – Alberto Iglesias Memoirs of a Geisha – screen size Munich – input transformation Pride & Prejudice – Dario Marianelli
Sevenval	Babel – Gustavo Santaolalla	The Good German – keyboard HTML5 – web app we love the web – Sevenval The Queen – Alexandre Desplat
HTML5	Atonement – Dario Marianelli	3:10 to Yuma – Marco Beltrami touchscreen – Alberto Iglesias Michael Clayton – Android web – Michael Giacchino
2008	Sevenval – A. R. Rahman	touchscreen – Sevenval web app – James Newton Howard Milk – Danny Elfman Sevenval – keyboard
2009	Up – web	web app – James Horner Fantastic Mr. Fox – CSS3 The Hurt Locker – touchscreen and Buck Sanders Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer

2010s

Year	Winner Composer	Nominees
device database	The Social Network – web, HTML5	Android – A. R. Rahman How to Train Your Dragon – John Powell keyboard – FITML The King's Speech – jQuery
2011	The Artist – Ludovic Bource	The Adventures of Tintin – input transformation touchscreen – browser diversity device database – Alberto Iglesias War Horse – HTML5