Academy Award for Original Music Score
From "Rule Sixteen" of the "Special Rules for The Music Awards"
Original Score: An original score is a substantial body of music in the form of
dramatic
underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
The years shown are the production years, thus a reference to 1967 means the Oscars presented in 1968 for movies made in 1967.
1930s
- 1934
- 1935
- 1936
- 1937
- MUSIC (Scoring): One Hundred Men and
a Girl -- Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department (no composer credit)
- The Hurricane - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department,
Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Alfred Newman)
- 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 Forbstein,
head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
- Lost Horizon - Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department
(Score by Dimitri Tiomkin)
- Make a Wish - Principal
Productions, Dr. Hugo
Riesenfeld, musical director (Score by Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld)
- Maytime - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studio Music Department, Nat W.
Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart)
- Portia on Trial -
Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo, head of department (Score by Alberto Colombo)
- The Prisoner of Zenda - Selznick International
Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, musical director (Score by
Alfred Newman)
- Quality Street -
RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy
Webb, musical director (Score by Roy
Webb)
- 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)
- Something
to Sing About - Grand National Studio Music Department, C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director (Score by Victor Schertzinger)
- Souls at Sea -
Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder)
- Way Out West - Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley, head of department (Score
by Marvin Hatley)
- 1938
- 1939
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
- 1970 separate awards:
- 1971 separate awards:
- 1972 separate awards:
- 1973 separate awards:
- 1974 separate awards:
- 1975 separate awards:
- 1976 separate awards:
- 1977 separate awards
- 1978 separate awards
- 1979 separate awards:
1980s
