Media Notes / Academy Award for Best Original Score

A list of films that won and were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

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1934- 1939

• 1934: One Night of Love (winner)
  • The Gay Divorcee
  • The Lost Patrol
• 1935: The Informer (winner)
  • Captain Blood
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Peter Ibbetson
• 1936: Anthony Adverse (winner)
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • The Garden of Allah
  • The General Died at Dawn
  • Winterset
• 1937: One Hundred Men and a Girl (winner)
  • The Hurricane
  • In Old Chicago
  • The Life of Émile Zola
  • Lost Horizon
  • Make a Wish
  • Maytime
  • Portia on Trial
  • The Prisoner of Zenda
  • Quality Street
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Something to Sing About
  • Souls at Sea
• 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood (winner)
  • Army Girl
  • Block-Heads
  • Blockade
  • Breaking the Ice
  • The Cowboy and the Lady
  • If I Were King
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Pacific Liner
  • Suez
  • The Young in Heart
• 1939: The Wizard of Oz (winner)

1940- 1949

1950- 1959

1960- 1969

1970- 1979

1980- 1989

1990- 1999

• 1990: Dances with Wolves (winner)
  • Avalon
  • Ghost
  • Havana
  • Home Alone
• 1991: Beauty and the Beast (winner)
  • Bugsy
  • The Fisher King
  • JFK
  • The Prince of Tides
• 1992: Aladdin (winner)
  • Basic Instinct
  • Chaplin
  • Howards End
  • A River Runs Through It
• 1993: Schindler's List (winner)
  • The Age of Innocence
  • The Firm
  • The Fugitive
  • The Remains of the Day
• 1994: The Lion King (winner)
  • Forrest Gump
  • Interview with the Vampire
  • Little Women
  • The Shawshank Redemption

2000- 2009

• 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (winner)
  • Chocolat
  • Gladiator
  • Malèna
  • The Patriot (2000)
• 2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (winner)
  • A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Monsters, Inc.
• 2002: Frida (winner)
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • Far from Heaven
  • The Hours
  • Road to Perdition
• 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (winner)
  • Big Fish
  • Cold Mountain
  • Finding Nemo
  • House of Sand and Fog
• 2004: Finding Neverland (winner)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • The Passion of the Christ
  • The Village (2004)
• 2005: Brokeback Mountain (winner)
  • The Constant Gardener
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Munich
  • Pride & Prejudice
• 2006: Babel (winner)
  • The Good German
  • Notes on a Scandal
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • The Queen
• 2007: Atonement (winner)
  • 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
  • The Kite Runner
  • Michael Clayton
  • Ratatouille
• 2008: Slumdog Millionaire (winner)
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Defiance
  • Milk
  • WALL•E
• 2009: Up (winner)
  • Avatar
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Sherlock Holmes

2010- 2019

• 2010: The Social Network (winner)
  • 127 Hours
  • How To Train Your Dragon
  • Inception
  • The King's Speech
• 2011: The Artist (winner)
  • The Adventures of Tintin
  • Hugo
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  • War Horse
• 2012: Life of Pi (winner)
  • Anna Karenina
  • Argo
  • Lincoln
  • Skyfall
• 2013: Gravity (winner)
  • The Book Thief
  • her
  • Philomena
  • Saving Mr. Banks
• 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (winner)
  • The Imitation Game
  • Interstellar
  • Mr. Turner
  • The Theory of Everything
• 2015: The Hateful Eight (winner)
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Carol
  • Sicario
  • Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
• 2016: La La Land (winner)
  • Jackie
  • Lion
  • Moonlight
  • Passengers
• 2017: The Shape of Water (winner)
  • Dunkirk
  • Phantom Thread
  • Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• 2018: Black Panther (winner)
  • BlacKkKlansman
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Isle of Dogs
  • Mary Poppins Returns
• 2019: Joker (winner)
  • Little Women
  • Marriage Story
  • 1917
  • Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

2020- 2029

• 2020: Soul (winner)
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Mank
  • Minari
  • News of the World (2020)
• 2021: Dune: Part One (winner)
  • Don't Look Up
  • Encanto
  • Parallel Mothers
  • The Power of the Dog
• 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front (winner)
  • Babylon
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Fabelmans
• 2023:
  • American Fiction
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer
  • Poor Things

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