2025:
Ludwig Göransson for SINNERS
2024:
Daniel Blumberg for THE BRUTALIST
2023:
Ludwig Göransson for OPPENHEIMER
2022:
Volker Bertelmann for ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
2021:
Hans Zimmer for DUNE
2020:
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, & Jon Batiste for SOUL
2019:
Hildur Guðnadóttir for JOKER
2018:
Ludwig Göransson for BLACK PANTHER
2017:
Alexandre Desplat for THE SHAPE OF WATER
2016:
Justin Hurwitz for LA LA LAND
2015:
Ennio Morricone for THE HATEFUL EIGHT
2014:
Alexandre Desplat for THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
2013:
Steven Price for GRAVITY
2012:
Mychael Danna for LIFE OF PI
2011:
Ludovic Bource for THE ARTIST
2010:
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for THE SOCIAL NETWORK
2009:
Michael Giacchino for UP
2008:
A.R. Rahman for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
2007:
Dario Marianelli for ATONEMENT
2006:
Gustavo Santaolalla for BABEL
2005:
Gustavo Santaolalla for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
2004:
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek for FINDING NEVERLAND
2003:
Howard Shore for THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
2002:
Eliot Goldenthal for FRIDA
2001:
Howard Shore for THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
2000:
Tan Dun for CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
1999:
John Corigliano for THE RED VIOLIN
1998:
Nicola Piovani for LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
1997:
James Horner for TITANIC
1996:
Gabriel Yared for THE ENGLISH PATIENT
1995:
Luis Bacalov for THE POSTMAN (IL POSTINO)
1994:
Hans Zimmer for THE LION KING
1993:
John Williams for SCHINDLER'S LIST
1992:
Alan Menken for ALADDIN
1991:
Alan Menken for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
1990:
John Barry for DANCES WITH WOLVES
1989:
Alan Menken for THE LITTLE MERMAID
1988:
Dave Grusin for THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR
1987:
David Byrne, Cong Su, and Ryuichi Sakamoto for THE LAST EMPEROR
1986:
Herbie Hancock for 'ROUND MIDNIGHT
1985:
John Barry for OUT OF AFRICA
1984:
Maurice Jarre for A PASSAGE TO INDIA
1983:
Bill Conti for THE RIGHT STUFF
1982:
John Williams for E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL
1981:
Vangelis for CHARIOTS OF FIRE
1980:
Michael Gore for FAME
1979:
Georges Delerue for A LITTLE ROMANCE
1978:
Giorgio Moroder for MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
1977:
John Williams for STAR WARS
1976:
Jerry Goldsmith for THE OMEN
1975:
John Williams for JAWS
1974:
Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota for THE GODFATHER PART II
1973:
Marvin Hamlisch for THE WAY WE WERE
1972:
Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, and Larry Russell for LIMELIGHT
1971:
Michel Legrand for SUMMER OF '42
1970:
Francis Lai for LOVE STORY
1969:
Burt Bacharach for BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
1968:
John Barry for THE LION IN WINTER
1967:
Elmer Bernstein for THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
1966:
John Barry for BORN FREE
1965:
Maurice Jarre for DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
1964:
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman for MARY POPPINS
1963:
John Addison for TOM JONES
1962:
Maurice Jarre for LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
1961:
Henry Mancini for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
1960:
Ernest Gold for EXODUS
1959:
Miklos Rozsa for BEN-HUR
1958:
Dimitri Tiomkin for THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
1957:
Malcolm Arnold for THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
1956:
Victor Young for AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
1955:
Alfred Newman for LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING
1954:
Dimitri Tiomkin for THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY
1953:
Bronislau Kaper for LILI
1952:
Dimitri Tiomkin for HIGH NOON
1951:
Franz Waxman for A PLACE IN THE SUN
1950:
Franz Waxman for SUNSET BOULEVARD
1949:
Aaron Copland for THE HEIRESS
1948:
Brian Easdale for THE RED SHOES
1947:
Dr. Miklos Rozsa for A DOUBLE LIFE
1946:
Hugo Friedhofer for THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
1945:
Miklos Rozsa for SPELLBOUND
1944:
Max Steiner for SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
1943:
Alfred Newman for THE SONG OF BERNADETTE
1942:
Max Steiner for NOW, VOYAGER
1941:
Bernard Herrmann for ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
1940:
Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, and Ned Washington for PINOCCHIO
1939:
Herbert Stothart for THE WIZARD OF OZ
1938:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold for THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
1937:
Charles Previn for ONE HUNDRED MEN AND A GIRL
1936:
Leo Forbstein for ANTHONY ADVERSE
1935:
Max Steiner for THE INFORMER
1934:
Louis Silvers for ONE NIGHT OF LOVE
