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The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.^[1]

[edit] Winners with multiple nominations

Eight composers have won Oscars two years in a row:

Ray Heindorf, for 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy and 1943's This is the Army,
Franz Waxman, for 1950's Sunset Boulevard and 1951's A Place in the Sun,
Alfred Newman, for 1952's With a Song in My Heart and 1953's Call Me Madam, and again for 1955's Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and 1956's The King and I,
Adolph Deutsch for 1954 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and 1955's Oklahoma!,
Andre Previn, for 1958's Gigi and 1959's Porgy and Bess, and again for 1963's Irma La Douce and 1964's My Fair Lady,
Leonard Rosenman, for 1975's Barry Lyndon and 1976's Bound for Glory,
Alan Menken for 1991's Beauty and The Beast and 1992's Aladdin,
Gustavo Santaolalla for 2005's Brokeback Mountain and 2006's Babel.

One composer has won Oscars three years in a row:

Roger Edens, for 1948's Easter Parade, 1949's On the Town and 1950's Annie Get Your Gun

One composer has won two Scoring Oscars (not including Best Song) in one year:

Marvin Hamlisch, in 1973, for Best Original Score, for The Way We Were, and Best Adaptation Score, for The Sting. Hamlisch also won Best Song, making him also the only composer to win three Oscars in the music categories in a single year.

The following is a list of composers nominated more than once and winning at least one Academy Award. The list is sorted by number of wins, with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses. Note: These do not include nominations (or wins) in the Best Original Song category.

9 : Alfred Newman (45)
5 : John Williams (45)
4 : Johnny Green (12)
4 : André Previn (11)
4 : John Barry (6)
4 : Alan Menken (5)
3 : Max Steiner (25)
3 : Ray Heindorf (17)
3 : Morris Stoloff (17)
3 : Miklós Rózsa (16)
3 : Dimitri Tiomkin (14)
3 : Maurice Jarre (8)
3 : Ken Darby (6)
3 : Roger Edens (6)

1 : Jerry Goldsmith (17)
1 : Victor Young (17)
1 : Herbert Stothart (11)
1 : Elmer Bernstein (10)
1 : James Horner (9)
1 : Lionel Newman (9)
1 : Georgie Stoll (9)

1 : Hans Zimmer (7)
1 : Dave Grusin (6)
1 : Georges Delerue (5)
1 : Bernard Herrmann (5)
1 : Aaron Copland (4)
1 : Elliot Goldenthal (3)
1 : Rachel Portman (3)
1 : Stephen Schwartz (3)
1 : Louis Silvers (4)
1 : Gabriel Yared (3)
1 : John Corigliano (2)
1 : Dario Marianelli (2)
1 : Nino Rota (2)

[edit] Other composers with multiple nominations

The following composers have been nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar more than once; but as of 2009, the twelve living composers have yet to garner one. The number of nominations is listed in parentheses. Note: These do not include nominations (or wins) in the Best Original Song category. Note: Alex North and Ennio Morricone received Honorary Academy Awards.

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Living:

[edit] List by year

The following is the list of nominated composers organized by year, and listing both films and composers. The years shown in the following list of winners are the production years, thus a reference to 1967 means the Oscars presented in 1968 for movies released in 1967.