| 2025 | Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist)beat 4 others- Volker Bertelmann (Conclave)
- Clément Ducol & Camille (Emilia Pérez)
- John Powell & Stephen Schwartz (Wicked)
- Kris Bowers (The Wild Robot)
|  A24 |
| 2024 | Ludwig Göransson (Oppenheimer)beat 4 others- Laura Karpman (American Fiction)
- John Williams (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny)
- Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon)
- Jerskin Fendrix (Poor Things)
|  Universal Pictures |
| 2023 | Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front)beat 4 others- Justin Hurwitz (Babylon)
- Carter Burwell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
- Son Lux (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- John Williams (The Fabelmans)
|  Netflix |
| 2022 | Hans Zimmer (Dune)beat 4 others- Nicholas Britell (Don't Look Up)
- Germaine Franco (Encanto)
- Alberto Iglesias (Parallel Mothers)
- Jonny Greenwood (The Power of the Dog)
|  Warner Bros. |
| 2021 | Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste (Soul)beat 4 others- Terence Blanchard (Da 5 Bloods)
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Mank)
- Emile Mosseri (Minari)
- James Newton Howard (News of the World)
| Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 2020 | Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker)beat 4 others- Alexandre Desplat (Little Women)
- Randy Newman (Marriage Story)
- Thomas Newman (1917)
- John Williams (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker)
| Warner Bros. |
| 2019 | Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther)beat 4 others- Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman)
- Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk)
- Alexandre Desplat (Isle of Dogs)
- Marc Shaiman (Mary Poppins Returns)
| Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 2018 | Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water)beat 4 others- Hans Zimmer (Dunkirk)
- Jonny Greenwood (Phantom Thread)
- John Williams (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
- Carter Burwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2017 | Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)beat 4 others- Mica Levi (Jackie)
- Dustin O'Halloran & Volker Bertelmann (Lion)
- Nicholas Britell (Moonlight)
- Thomas Newman (Passengers)
|  Lionsgate |
| 2016 | Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)beat 4 others- Thomas Newman (Bridge of Spies)
- Carter Burwell (Carol)
- Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario)
- John Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
|  The Weinstein Company |
| 2015 | Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)beat 4 others- Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game)
- Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)
- Gary Yershon (Mr. Turner)
- Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything)
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2014 | Steven Price (Gravity)beat 4 others- John Williams (The Book Thief)
- Will Butler & Owen Pallett (Her)
- Alexandre Desplat (Philomena)
- Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)
| Warner Bros. |
| 2013 | Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)beat 4 others- Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina)
- Alexandre Desplat (Argo)
- John Williams (Lincoln)
- Thomas Newman (Skyfall)
|  20th Century Fox |
| 2012 | Ludovic Bource (The Artist)beat 4 others- John Williams (The Adventures of Tintin)
- Howard Shore (Hugo)
- Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
- John Williams (War Horse)
| The Weinstein Company |
| 2011 | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network)beat 4 others- A.R. Rahman (127 Hours)
- John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon)
- Hans Zimmer (Inception)
- Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 2010 | Michael Giacchino (Up)beat 4 others- James Horner (Avatar)
- Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
- Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker)
- Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)
| Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 2009 | A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)beat 4 others- Alexandre Desplat (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- James Newton Howard (Defiance)
- Danny Elfman (Milk)
- Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2008 | Dario Marianelli (Atonement)beat 4 others- Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma)
- Alberto Iglesias (The Kite Runner)
- James Newton Howard (Michael Clayton)
- Michael Giacchino (Ratatouille)
| Focus Features |
| 2007 | Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel)repeatbeat 4 others- Thomas Newman (The Good German)
- Philip Glass (Notes on a Scandal)
- Javier Navarrete (Pan's Labyrinth)
- Alexandre Desplat (The Queen)
|  Paramount Pictures |
| 2006 | Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain)beat 4 others- Alberto Iglesias (The Constant Gardener)
- John Williams (Memoirs of a Geisha)
- John Williams (Munich)
- Dario Marianelli (Pride & Prejudice)
| Focus Features |
| 2005 | Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (Finding Neverland)beat 4 others- John Williams (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
- Thomas Newman (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
- John Debney (The Passion of the Christ)
- James Newton Howard (The Village)
|  Miramax Films |
| 2004 | Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)beat 4 others- Danny Elfman (Big Fish)
- Gabriel Yared (Cold Mountain)
- Thomas Newman (Finding Nemo)
- James Horner (House of Sand and Fog)
| New Line Cinema |
| 2003 | Elliot Goldenthal (Frida)beat 4 others- John Williams (Catch Me If You Can)
- Elmer Bernstein (Far from Heaven)
- Philip Glass (The Hours)
- Thomas Newman (Road to Perdition)
| Miramax |
| 2002 | Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)beat 4 others- John Williams (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
- James Horner (A Beautiful Mind)
- John Williams (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
- Randy Newman (Monsters, Inc.)
| New Line Cinema |
| 2001 | Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)beat 4 others- Rachel Portman (Chocolat)
- Hans Zimmer (Gladiator)
- Ennio Morricone (Malèna)
- John Williams (The Patriot)
| Sony Pictures Classics |
| 2000 | John Corigliano (The Red Violin)beat 4 others- Thomas Newman (American Beauty)
- John Williams (Angela's Ashes)
- Rachel Portman (The Cider House Rules)
- Gabriel Yared (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
| Odeon Films |
| 1999 | Nicola Piovani (Life Is Beautiful)unverifiedbeat 4 others- David Hirschfelder (Elizabeth)
- Randy Newman (Pleasantville)
- John Williams (Saving Private Ryan)
- Hans Zimmer (The Thin Red Line)
| Cecchi Gori Group (Italy)/Miramax Films |
| 1998 | James Horner (Titanic)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Williams (Amistad)
- Danny Elfman (Good Will Hunting)
- Philip Glass (Kundun)
- Jerry Goldsmith (L.A. Confidential)
| Paramount Pictures/20th Century Fox |
| 1997 | Gabriel Yared (The English Patient)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Patrick Doyle (Hamlet)
- Elliot Goldenthal (Michael Collins)
- David Hirschfelder (Shine)
- John Williams (Sleepers)
| Miramax Films |
| 1996 | Luis Bacalov (The Postman)unverifiedbeat 4 others- James Horner (Apollo 13)
- James Horner (Braveheart)
- John Williams (Nixon)
- Patrick Doyle (Sense and Sensibility)
| Variety Distribution/Cecchi Gori Distribuzione/Penta Film Distribuzione (Italy)/Miramax International (Select territories; through Buena Vista International) |
| 1995 | Hans Zimmer (The Lion King)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Alan Silvestri (Forrest Gump)
- Elliot Goldenthal (Interview with the Vampire)
- Thomas Newman (Little Women)
- Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption)
| Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| 1994 | John Williams (Schindler's List)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Elmer Bernstein (The Age of Innocence)
- Dave Grusin (The Firm)
- James Newton Howard (The Fugitive)
- Richard Robbins (The Remains of the Day)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1993 | Alan Menken (Aladdin)repeatunverifiedbeat 4 others- Jerry Goldsmith (Basic Instinct)
- John Barry (Chaplin)
- Richard Robbins (Howards End)
- Mark Isham (A River Runs Through It)
| Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| 1992 | Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Ennio Morricone (Bugsy)
- George Fenton (The Fisher King)
- John Williams (JFK)
- James Newton Howard (The Prince of Tides)
| Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| 1991 | John Barry (Dances With Wolves)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Randy Newman (Avalon)
- Maurice Jarre (Ghost)
- Dave Grusin (Havana)
- John Williams (Home Alone)
| Orion Pictures/Majestic Films International |
| 1990 | Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Williams (Born on the Fourth of July)
- Dave Grusin (The Fabulous Baker Boys)
- James Horner (Field of Dreams)
- John Williams (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
| Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| 1989 | Dave Grusin (The Milagro Beanfield War)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Williams (The Accidental Tourist)
- George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons)
- Maurice Jarre (Gorillas in the Mist)
- Hans Zimmer (Rain Man)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1988 | Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne & Cong Su (The Last Emperor)unverifiedbeat 4 others- George Fenton & Jonas Gwangwa (Cry Freedom)
- John Williams (Empire of the Sun)
- Ennio Morricone (The Untouchables)
- John Williams (The Witches of Eastwick)
| Columbia Pictures/Acteurs Auteurs Associés (France) |
| 1987 | Herbie Hancock (Round Midnight)unverifiedbeat 4 others- James Horner (Aliens)
- Jerry Goldsmith (Hoosiers)
- Ennio Morricone (The Mission)
- Leonard Rosenman (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
| Warner Bros. |
| 1986 | John Barry (Out of Africa)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Georges Delerue (Agnes of God)
- Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Andraé Crouch, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Randy Kerber, Jeremy Lubbock, Joel Rosenbaum, Caiphus Semenya, Fred Steiner & Rod Temperton (The Color Purple)
- Bruce Broughton (Silverado)
- Maurice Jarre (Witness)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1985 | Maurice Jarre (A Passage to India)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Williams (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
- Randy Newman (The Natural)
- John Williams (The River)
- Alex North (Under the Volcano)
| Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors/Columbia Pictures |
| 1984 | Bill Conti (The Right Stuff)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Leonard Rosenman (Cross Creek)
- John Williams (Return of the Jedi)
- Michael Gore (Terms of Endearment)
- Jerry Goldsmith (Under Fire)
| Warner Bros. |
| 1983 | John Williams (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)unverifiedbeat 4 others- George Fenton & Ravi Shankar (Gandhi)
- Jack Nitzsche (An Officer and a Gentleman)
- Jerry Goldsmith (Poltergeist)
- Marvin Hamlisch (Sophie's Choice)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1982 | Vangelis (Chariots of Fire)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Alex North (Dragonslayer)
- Dave Grusin (On Golden Pond)
- Randy Newman (Ragtime)
- John Williams (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
| 20th Century-Fox/The Ladd Company (via Warner Bros.) |
| 1981 | Michael Gore (Fame)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Corigliano (Altered States)
- John Morris (The Elephant Man)
- John Williams (The Empire Strikes Back)
- Philippe Sarde (Tess)
| United Artists/Cinema International Corporation |
| 1980 | Georges Delerue (A Little Romance)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Henry Mancini (10)
- Lalo Schifrin (The Amityville Horror)
- Dave Grusin (The Champ)
- Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
| Warner Bros. |
| 1979 | Giorgio Moroder (Midnight Express)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Jerry Goldsmith (The Boys from Brazil)
- Ennio Morricone (Days of Heaven)
- Dave Grusin (Heaven Can Wait)
- John Williams (Superman)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1978 | John Williams (Star Wars)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Williams (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
- Georges Delerue (Julia)
- Maurice Jarre (Mohammad, Messenger of God)
- Marvin Hamlisch (The Spy Who Loved Me)
| Twentieth Century-Fox |
| 1977 | Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Bernard Herrmann (Obsession)
- Jerry Fielding (The Outlaw Josey Wales)
- Bernard Herrmann (Taxi Driver)
- Lalo Schifrin (Voyage of the Damned)
| Fox-Rank Distributors/20th Century-Fox |
| 1976 | John Williams (Jaws)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Gerald Fried (Birds Do It, Bees Do It)
- Alex North (Bite the Bullet)
- Jack Nitzsche (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
- Jerry Goldsmith (The Wind and the Lion)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1975 | Nino Rota & Carmine Coppola (The Godfather Part II)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Jerry Goldsmith (Chinatown)
- Richard Rodney Bennett (Murder on the Orient Express)
- Alex North (Shanks)
- John Williams (The Towering Inferno)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1974 | Marvin Hamlisch (The Way We Were)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Williams (Cinderella Liberty)
- Georges Delerue (The Day of the Dolphin)
- Jerry Goldsmith (Papillon)
- John Cameron (A Touch of Class)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1973 | Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch & Larry Russell (Limelight)unverifiedbeat 5 others- Nino Rota (The Godfather (nomination revoked))
- John Williams (Images)
- Buddy Baker (Napoleon and Samantha)
- John Williams (The Poseidon Adventure)
- John Addison (Sleuth)
| United Artists/(1952 release)/Columbia Pictures/(1972 release) |
| 1972 | Michel Legrand (Summer of '42)unverifiedbeat 4 others- John Barry (Mary, Queen of Scots)
- Richard Rodney Bennett (Nicholas and Alexandra)
- Isaac Hayes (Shaft)
- Jerry Fielding (Straw Dogs)
| Warner Bros. |
| 1971 | Francis Lai (Love Story)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Alfred Newman (Airport)
- Frank Cordell (Cromwell)
- Jerry Goldsmith (Patton)
- Henry Mancini (Sunflower)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1970 | Burt Bacharach (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Georges Delerue (Anne of the Thousand Days)
- John Williams (The Reivers)
- Ernest Gold (The Secret of Santa Vittoria)
- Jerry Fielding (The Wild Bunch)
| 20th Century-Fox |
| 1969 | John Barry (The Lion in Winter)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Lalo Schifrin (The Fox)
- Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes)
- Alex North (The Shoes of the Fisherman)
- Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair)
| AVCO Embassy Pictures |
| 1968 | Elmer Bernstein (Thoroughly Modern Millie)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Lalo Schifrin (Cool Hand Luke)
- Leslie Bricusse (Doctor Dolittle)
- Richard Rodney Bennett (Far from the Madding Crowd)
- Quincy Jones (In Cold Blood)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1967 | John Barry (Born Free)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Toshiro Mayuzumi (The Bible: In the Beginning...)
- Elmer Bernstein (Hawaii)
- Jerry Goldsmith (The Sand Pebbles)
- Alex North (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1966 | Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Alex North (The Agony and the Ecstasy)
- Alfred Newman (The Greatest Story Ever Told)
- Jerry Goldsmith (A Patch of Blue)
- Jacques Demy & Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
|  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1965 | Sherman Brothers (Mary Poppins)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Laurence Rosenthal (Becket)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (The Fall of the Roman Empire)
- Frank De Vol (Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte)
- Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther)
| Buena Vista Distribution Company |
| 1964 | John Addison (Tom Jones)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Dimitri Tiomkin (55 Days at Peking)
- Alex North (Cleopatra)
- Alfred Newman & Ken Darby (How the West Was Won)
- Ernest Gold (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
| United Artists |
| 1963 | Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Jerry Goldsmith (Freud)
- Bronisław Kaper (Mutiny on the Bounty)
- Franz Waxman (Taras Bulba)
- Elmer Bernstein (To Kill a Mockingbird)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1962 | Henry Mancini (Breakfast at Tiffany's)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Miklós Rózsa (El Cid)
- Morris Stoloff & Harry Sukman (Fanny)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (The Guns of Navarone)
- Elmer Bernstein (Summer and Smoke)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1961 | Ernest Gold (Exodus)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Dimitri Tiomkin (The Alamo)
- André Previn (Elmer Gantry)
- Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven)
- Alex North (Spartacus)
| United Artists |
| 1960 | Miklós Rózsa (Ben-Hur)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Alfred Newman (The Diary of Anne Frank)
- Franz Waxman (The Nun's Story)
- Ernest Gold (On the Beach)
- Frank De Vol (Pillow Talk)
| Loew's, Inc. |
| 1959 | Dimitri Tiomkin (The Old Man and the Sea)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Jerome Moross (The Big Country)
- David Raksin (Separate Tables)
- Oliver Wallace (White Wilderness)
- Hugo Friedhofer (The Young Lions)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1958 | Malcolm Arnold (The Bridge on the River Kwai)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Hugo Friedhofer (An Affair to Remember)
- Hugo Friedhofer (Boy on a Dolphin)
- Paul Smith (Perri)
- Johnny Green (Raintree County)
| Columbia Pictures |
| 1957 | Victor Young (Around the World in 80 Days)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Alfred Newman (Anastasia)
- Hugo Friedhofer (Between Heaven and Hell)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (Giant)
- Alex North (The Rainmaker)
| United Artists |
| 1956 | Alfred Newman (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Max Steiner (Battle Cry)
- Elmer Bernstein (The Man with the Golden Arm)
- George Duning (Picnic)
- Alex North (The Rose Tattoo)
| Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
| 1955 | Dimitri Tiomkin (The High and the Mighty)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Max Steiner (The Caine Mutiny)
- Larry Adler (Genevieve)
- Leonard Bernstein (On the Waterfront)
- Franz Waxman (The Silver Chalice)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1954 | Bronisław Kaper (Lili)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Hugo Friedhofer (Above and Beyond)
- George Duning & Morris Stoloff (From Here to Eternity)
- Miklós Rózsa (Julius Caesar)
- Louis Forbes (This Is Cinerama)
| Loew's, Inc. |
| 1953 | Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Miklós Rózsa (Ivanhoe)
- Max Steiner (The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima)
- Herschel Burke Gilbert (The Thief)
- Alex North (Viva Zapata!)
| United Artists |
| 1952 | Franz Waxman (A Place in the Sun)repeatunverifiedbeat 4 others- Alfred Newman (David and Bathsheba)
- Alex North (Death of a Salesman)
- Miklós Rózsa (Quo Vadis)
- Alex North (A Streetcar Named Desire)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1951 | Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Alfred Newman (All About Eve)
- Max Steiner (The Flame and the Arrow)
- George Duning (No Sad Songs for Me)
- Victor Young (Samson and Delilah)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1950 | Aaron Copland (The Heiress)unverifiedbeat 2 others- Max Steiner (Beyond the Forest)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (Champion)
| Paramount Pictures |
| 1949 | Brian Easdale (The Red Shoes)unverifiedbeat 4 others- William Walton (Hamlet)
- Hugo Friedhofer (Joan of Arc)
- Max Steiner (Johnny Belinda)
- Alfred Newman (The Snake Pit)
| General Film Distributors |
| 1948 | Miklós Rózsa (A Double Life)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Hugo Friedhofer (The Bishop's Wife)
- Alfred Newman (Captain from Castile)
- David Raksin (Forever Amber)
- Max Steiner (Life with Father)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1947 | Hugo Friedhofer (The Best Years of Our Lives)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Bernard Herrmann (Anna and the King of Siam)
- William Walton (Henry V)
- Franz Waxman (Humoresque)
- Miklós Rózsa (The Killers)
| RKO Radio Pictures |
| 1946 | Miklós Rózsa (Spellbound)unverifiedbeat 20 others- Robert E. Dolan (The Bells of St. Mary's)
- Louis Forbes (Brewster's Millions)
- Werner Janssen (Captain Kidd)
- Roy Webb (The Enchanted Cottage)
- Morton Scott & Dale Butts (Flame of Barbary Coast)
- Edward J. Kay (G. I. Honeymoon)
- Louis Applebaum & Ann Ronell (G. I. Joe)
- Werner Janssen (Guest in the House)
- Daniele Amfitheatrof (Guest Wife)
- Alfred Newman (The Keys of the Kingdom)
- Miklós Rózsa (The Lost Weekend)
- Victor Young (Love Letters)
- Karl Hajos (The Man Who Walked Alone)
- Franz Waxman (Objective, Burma!)
- Alexandre Tansman (Paris Underground)
- Miklós Rózsa & Morris Stoloff (A Song to Remember)
- Werner Janssen (The Southerner)
- Hans J. Salter (This Love of Ours)
- Herbert Stothart (The Valley of Decision)
- Arthur Lange & Hugo Friedhofer (The Woman in the Window)
| United Artists |
| 1945 | Max Steiner (Since You Went Away)unverifiedbeat 19 others- Morris Stoloff & Ernst Toch (Address Unknown)
- Max Steiner (The Adventures of Mark Twain)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
- Arthur Lange (Casanova Brown)
- Hans J. Salter (Christmas Holiday)
- Miklós Rózsa (Double Indemnity)
- Walter Scharf & Roy Webb (The Fighting Seabees)
- Michel Michelet & Edward Paul (The Hairy Ape)
- Robert Stolz (It Happened Tomorrow)
- Fred Rich (Jack London)
- Herbert Stothart (Kismet)
- Constantin Bakaleinikoff & Hanns Eisler (None but the Lonely Heart)
- David Rose (The Princess and the Pirate)
- Karl Hajos (Summer Storm)
- Franke Harling (Three Russian Girls)
- Edward Paul (Up in Mabel's Room)
- Michel Michelet (Voice in the Wind)
- Alfred Newman (Wilson)
- Miklós Rózsa (The Woman of the Town)
| United Artists |
| 1944 | Alfred Newman (The Song of Bernadette)unverifiedbeat 15 others- Frank Skinner & Hans J. Salter (The Amazing Mrs. Holliday)
- Max Steiner (Casablanca)
- Morris Stoloff & Louis Gruenberg (Commandos Strike at Dawn)
- Roy Webb & Constantin Bakaleinikoff (The Fallen Sparrow)
- Victor Young (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
- Hanns Eisler (Hangmen Also Die!)
- Phil Boutelje (Hi Diddle Diddle)
- Walter Scharf (In Old Oklahoma)
- Leigh Harline (Johnny Come Lately)
- Gerard Carbonara (The Kansan)
- Arthur Lange (Lady of Burlesque)
- Herbert Stothart (Madame Curie)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (The Moon and Sixpence)
- Aaron Copland (The North Star)
- Edward Plumb, Paul Smith & Oliver Wallace (Victory Through Air Power)
| 20th Century Fox |
| 1943 | Max Steiner (Now, Voyager)unverifiedbeat 17 others- Frank Skinner (Arabian Nights)
- Frank Churchill & Edward Plumb (Bambi)
- Alfred Newman (The Black Swan)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (The Corsican Brothers)
- Victor Young (Flying Tigers)
- Max Terr (The Gold Rush)
- Roy Webb (I Married a Witch)
- Roy Webb (Joan of Paris)
- Miklós Rózsa (Jungle Book)
- Edward Kay (Klondike Fury)
- Leigh Harline (The Pride of the Yankees)
- Herbert Stothart (Random Harvest)
- Richard Hageman (The Shanghai Gesture)
- Victor Young (Silver Queen)
- Victor Young (Take a Letter, Darling)
- Friedrich Hollaender & Morris Stoloff (The Talk of the Town)
- Werner Heymann (To Be or Not to Be)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1942 | Bernard Herrmann (The Devil and Daniel Webster)unverifiedbeat 19 others- Frank Skinner (Back Street)
- Alfred Newman (Ball of Fire)
- Edward Ward (Cheers for Miss Bishop)
- Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane)
- Franz Waxman (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
- Victor Young (Hold Back the Dawn)
- Alfred Newman (How Green Was My Valley)
- Edward Kay (King of the Zombies)
- Morris Stoloff & Ernst Toch (Ladies in Retirement)
- Meredith Willson (The Little Foxes)
- Miklós Rózsa (Lydia)
- Cy Feuer & Walter Scharf (Mercy Island)
- Max Steiner (Sergeant York)
- Louis Gruenberg (So Ends Our Night)
- Miklós Rózsa (Sundown)
- Franz Waxman (Suspicion)
- Edward Ward (Tanks a Million)
- Werner Heymann (That Uncertain Feeling)
- Richard Hageman (This Woman Is Mine)
| RKO Radio Pictures |
| 1941 | Leigh Harline, Paul Smith & Ned Washington (Pinocchio)unverifiedbeat 16 others- Victor Young (Arizona)
- Victor Young (Dark Command)
- Louis Gruenberg (The Fight for Life)
- Meredith Willson (The Great Dictator)
- Frank Skinner (The House of the Seven Gables)
- Richard Hageman (The Howards of Virginia)
- Max Steiner (The Letter)
- Richard Hageman (The Long Voyage Home)
- Alfred Newman (The Mark of Zorro)
- Roy Webb (My Favorite Wife)
- Victor Young (North West Mounted Police)
- Werner Heymann (One Million B.C.)
- Aaron Copland (Our Town)
- Franz Waxman (Rebecca)
- Miklós Rózsa (The Thief of Bagdad)
- Herbert Stothart (Waterloo Bridge)
| RKO Radio Pictures |
| 1940 | Herbert Stothart (The Wizard of Oz)unverifiedbeat 11 others- Max Steiner (Dark Victory)
- Werner Janssen (Eternally Yours)
- Victor Young (Golden Boy)
- Max Steiner (Gone with the Wind)
- Victor Young (Gulliver's Travels)
- Lud Gluskin & Lucien Moraweck (The Man in the Iron Mask)
- Victor Young (Man of Conquest)
- Anthony Collins (Nurse Edith Cavell)
- Aaron Copland (Of Mice and Men)
- Alfred Newman (The Rains Came)
- Alfred Newman (Wuthering Heights)
| Loew's Inc. |
| 1939 | Erich Korngold (The Adventures of Robin Hood)unverifiedbeat 10 others- Victor Young (Army Girl)
- Marvin Hatley (Block-Heads)
- Werner Janssen (Blockade)
- Victor Young (Breaking the Ice)
- Alfred Newman (The Cowboy and the Lady)
- Richard Hageman (If I Were King)
- Herbert Stothart (Marie Antoinette)
- Russell Bennett (Pacific Liner)
- Louis Silvers (Suez)
- Franz Waxman (The Young in Heart)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1938 | Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department (One Hundred Men and a Girl)unverifiedbeat 13 others- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Newman) (The Hurricane)
- 20th Century-Fox Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (In Old Chicago)
- Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner) (The Life of Emile Zola)
- Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin) (Lost Horizon)
- Principal Productions, Hugo Riesenfeld, head of department (Score by Riesenfeld) (Make a Wish)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart) (Maytime)
- Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo, head of department (Score by Colombo) (Portia on Trial)
- Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Newman) (The Prisoner of Zenda)
- RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb, head of department (Score by Webb) (Quality Street)
- Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by Frank Churchill, Harline & Paul Smith) (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
- Grand National Studio Music Department, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, head of department (Score by Victor Schertzinger) (Something to Sing About)
- Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling & Milan Roder) (Souls at Sea)
- Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley, head of department (Score by Hatley) (Way Out West)
| Universal Pictures |
| 1937 | Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Korngold) (Anthony Adverse)unverifiedbeat 4 others- Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner) (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
- Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner) (The Garden of Allah)
- Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by Werner Janssen) (The General Died at Dawn)
- RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Nathaniel Shilkret, head of department (Score by Shilkret) (Winterset)
| Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 1936 | RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner) (The Informer)unverifiedbeat 3 others- Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Korngold) (Captain Blood (write-in))
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart) (Mutiny on the Bounty)
- Paramount Studio Music Department, Irvin Talbot, head of department (Score by Ernst Toch) (Peter Ibbetson)
| RKO Radio Pictures |
| 1935 | Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (Thematic music by Victor Schertzinger & Gus Kahn) (One Night of Love)unverifiedbeat 2 others- RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Kenneth Webb & Sam Hoffenstein) (The Gay Divorcee)
- RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner) (The Lost Patrol)
| Columbia Pictures |
