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Academy Award for Best Original Score - Nominees

The Academy Award for Best Original Score, introduced in 1935 at the 7th Academy Awards, is presented annually for the best achievement in original scoring in a film from the previous year.

While the award has varied in distinction between musical and non-musical categories it is currently split between Best Original Score and Best Original Musical. However, since its re-establishment in 2000, the latter has not been awarded due to a lack of eligible films.

The current minimum requirement for original music eligibility is 35%, rising to 80% for sequels and franchise films.

Sorted Chronologically by Awards Year. Winners in BOLD. Acceptance speech linked in Notes (where available).

UPDATED: May 2026

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  • The Gay Divorcee

    1

  • One Night of Love

    2

  • The Lost Patrol

    3

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    4

  • Captain Blood

    5

  • The Informer

    6

  • Peter Ibbetson

    7

  • Anthony Adverse

    8

  • The Charge of the Light Brigade

    9

  • The Garden of Allah

    10

  • The General Died at Dawn

    11

  • Winterset

    12

  • The Life of Emile Zola

    13

  • In Old Chicago

    14

  • Lost Horizon

    15

  • One Hundred Men and a Girl

    16

  • The Hurricane

    17

  • Make a Wish

    18

  • Maytime

    19

  • Portia on Trial

    20

  • The Prisoner of Zenda

    21

  • Quality Street

    22

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    23

  • Something to Sing About

    24

  • Souls at Sea

    25

  • Way Out West

    26

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    27

  • Alexander's Ragtime Band

    28

  • Jezebel

    29

  • Army Girl

    30

  • Block-Heads

    31

  • Blockade

    32

  • Breaking the Ice

    33

  • Carefree

    34

  • The Cowboy and the Lady

    35

  • Girls' School

    36

  • The Goldwyn Follies

    37

  • If I Were King

    38

  • Mad About Music

    39

  • Marie Antoinette

    40

  • Pacific Liner

    41

  • Storm Over Bengal

    42

  • Suez

    43

  • Sweethearts

    44

  • There Goes My Heart

    45

  • Tropic Holiday

    46

  • The Young in Heart

    47

  • Gone with the Wind

    48

  • Dark Victory

    49

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    50

  • Of Mice and Men

    51

  • Stagecoach

    52

  • The Wizard of Oz

    53

  • Wuthering Heights

    54

  • Babes in Arms

    55

  • Eternally Yours

    56

  • First Love

    57

  • Golden Boy

    58

  • The Great Victor Herbert

    59

  • Gulliver's Travels

    60

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    61

  • Intermezzo: A Love Story

    62

  • The Man in the Iron Mask

    63

  • Man of Conquest

    64

  • Nurse Edith Cavell

    65

  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    66

  • The Rains Came

    67

  • She Married a Cop

    68

  • Swanee River

    69

  • They Shall Have Music

    70

  • Way Down South

    71

  • Rebecca

    72

  • The Great Dictator

    73

  • The Letter

    74

  • The Long Voyage Home

    75

  • Our Town

    76

  • Arise, My Love

    77

  • Arizona

    78

  • Dark Command

    79

  • The Fight for Life

    80

  • Hit Parade of 1941

    81

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    82

  • The Howards of Virginia

    83

  • Irene

    84

  • The Mark of Zorro

    85

  • My Favorite Wife

    86

  • North West Mounted Police

    87

  • One Million B.C.

    88

  • Pinocchio

    89

  • The Sea Hawk

    90

  • Second Chorus

    91

  • Spring Parade

    92

  • Strike Up the Band

    93

  • The Thief of Bagdad

    94

  • Tin Pan Alley

    95

  • Waterloo Bridge

    96

  • How Green Was My Valley

    97

  • Citizen Kane

    98

  • Hold Back the Dawn

    99

  • The Little Foxes

    100