Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score<ref name=awardshomepage>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.

History

Since the 5th Golden Globe Awards (1947), the award is presented annually, except from 1953 to 1958. The nominations from 1947 and 1948 are not available.<ref name=nonoms47>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Nominations for 1947 are not available.</ref><ref name=nonoms48>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Nominations for 1948 are not available.</ref> The first Best Original Score award went to Max Steiner for his compositional work on Life with Father.

John Williams is the artist with the most nominations (24); those resulted in 4 wins. Dimitri Tiomkin had the same number of wins, but out of only 5 nominations. Other notable achievers include Maurice Jarre (10 nominations, 4 wins), Alan Menken (5 nominations, 3 wins), Hans Zimmer (15 nominations, 3 wins), Justin Hurwitz (3 nominations, 3 wins) and Alexandre Desplat (11 nominations, 2 wins).

Artists like Jerry Goldsmith (9 nominations) and Michel Legrand (7 nominations) were nominated several times but never received the award. Dimitri Tiomkin, Alan Menken and Howard Shore are the only composers to win two consecutive awards. Additionally, Dimitri Tiomkin received Special Achievement Awards for his services to film music in 1955 and 1957, as did Hugo Friedhofer in 1958. The most recent recipient of this award was Ludwig Göransson for the film Oppenheimer.

Winners and nominees

Key

Sign	Meaning
	Indicates the winner

1940s

Year{{#if:1|1|[1]}}	Film	Composer(s)	Ref.
1947	Life with Father	Template:Sortname	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1948	The Red Shoes	Template:Sortname	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1949	The Inspector General	Template:Sortname	<ref name="c">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	All the King's Men	Template:Sortname

1950s

Year{{#if:1|1|[2]}}	Film	Composer(s)	Ref.
1950	Sunset Boulevard	Template:Sortname	<ref name="d">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	A Life of Her Own	Template:Sortname
	Destination Moon	Template:Sortname
1951	September Affair	Template:Sortname	<ref name="e">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Day the Earth Stood Still	Template:Sortname
	The Well	Template:Sortname
1952	High Noon	Template:Sortname	<ref name="f">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Ivanhoe	Template:Sortname
	The Quiet Man	Template:Sortname
1953–1958	No award given<ref name="noaw">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation			CitationClass=web }} The Original Score Award was not given from 1953 to 1958, according to the individual yearly award pages.</ref>
1959	On the Beach	Template:Sortname	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1960	The Alamo	Template:Sortname	<ref name="h">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Exodus	Template:Sortname
	Pepe	Template:Sortname
	Spartacus	Template:Sortname
	The World of Suzie Wong	Template:Sortname

1960s

Year{{#if:1|1|[3]}}	Film	Composer(s)	Ref.
1961	The Guns of Navarone	Template:Sortname	<ref name="i">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	El Cid	Template:Sortname
	Fanny	Template:Sortname
	King of Kings	Template:Sortname
	Summer and Smoke	Template:Sortname
1962	To Kill a Mockingbird	Template:Sortname	<ref name="j">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Lawrence of Arabia	Template:Sortname
	Mutiny on the Bounty	Template:Sortname
	Taras Bulba	Template:Sortname
	The Music Man	Template:Sortname
1963	No award given<ref name="noaw" />
1964	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Template:Sortname	<ref name="k">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Becket	Template:Sortname
	Mary Poppins	Template:Sortname
	Seven Days in May	Template:Sortname
	Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas)	Template:Sortname
1965	Doctor Zhivago	Template:Sortname	<ref name="l">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Battle of the Bulge	Template:Sortname
	The Great Race	Template:Sortname
	The Sandpiper	Template:Sortname
	The Yellow Rolls-Royce	Template:Sortname
1966	Hawaii	Template:Sortname	<ref name="m">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	A Man and a Woman	Template:Sortname
	Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?)	Template:Sortname
	The Bible: In the Beginning...	Template:Sortname
	The Sand Pebbles	Template:Sortname
1967	Camelot	Template:Sortname	<ref name="n">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Doctor Dolittle	Template:Sortname
	Live for Life (Vivre Pour Vivre)	Template:Sortname
	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Template:Sortname
	Two for the Road	Template:Sortname
1968	The Shoes of the Fisherman	Template:Sortname	<ref name="o">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	Template:Sortname
	Oliver!	Template:Sortname (declared ineligible and removed from ballot)<ref name=lionelbart>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Romeo and Juliet	Template:Sortname
	Rosemary's Baby	Template:Sortname
	The Lion in Winter	Template:Sortname
	The Thomas Crown Affair	Template:Sortname
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Template:Sortname	<ref name="p">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Anne of the Thousand Days	Template:Sortname
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Template:Sortname
	The Happy Ending	Template:Sortname
	The Secret of Santa Vittoria	Template:Sortname

1980s

Year{{#if:1|1|[5]}}	Film	Composer(s)	Ref.
1980	The Stunt Man	Template:Sortname	<ref name="aa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	American Gigolo	Template:Sortname
	Fame	Template:Sortname
	Somewhere in Time	Template:Sortname
	The Empire Strikes Back	Template:Sortname
	The Competition	Template:Sortname
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Template:Sortname	<ref name="ab">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Blade Runner	Vangelis
	Cat People	Template:Sortname
	Six Weeks	Template:Sortname
	Victor/Victoria	Template:Sortname
1983	Flashdance	Template:Sortname	<ref name="ac">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Rumble Fish	Template:Sortname
	Scarface	Template:Sortname
	Under Fire	Template:Sortname
	Yentl	Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Template:Sortname
1984	A Passage to India	Template:Sortname	<ref name="ad">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Starman	Template:Sortname
	Once Upon a Time in America	Template:Sortname
	The Killing Fields	Template:Sortname
	The River	Template:Sortname
1985	Out of Africa	Template:Sortname	<ref name="ae">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Color Purple	Template:Sortname
	White Nights	Template:Sortname
	Witness	Template:Sortname
	Year of the Dragon	Template:Sortname
1986	The Mission	Template:Sortname	<ref name="af">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Little Shop of Horrors	Template:Sortname
	Round Midnight	Template:Sortname
	The Mosquito Coast	Template:Sortname
	Top Gun	Template:Sortname
1987	The Last Emperor	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname	<ref name="ag">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Cry Freedom	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname
	Empire of the Sun	Template:Sortname
	The Glass Menagerie	Template:Sortname
	The Untouchables	Template:Sortname
1988	Gorillas in the Mist	Template:Sortname	<ref name="ah">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Madame Sousatzka	Template:Sortname
	The Accidental Tourist	Template:Sortname
	The Last Temptation of Christ	Template:Sortname
	The Milagro Beanfield War	Template:Sortname
1989	The Little Mermaid	Template:Sortname	<ref name="ai">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Born on the Fourth of July	Template:Sortname
	Casualties of War	Template:Sortname
	Glory	Template:Sortname
	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Template:Sortname

2010s

Year{{#if:1|1|[8]}}	Film	Composer(s)	Ref.
2010	The Social Network	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname	<ref name="68th">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	127 Hours	Template:Sortname
	Alice in Wonderland	Template:Sortname
	Inception	Template:Sortname
	The King's Speech	Template:Sortname
2011	The Artist	Template:Sortname	<ref name="69th">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname
	Hugo	Template:Sortname
	War Horse	Template:Sortname
	W.E.	Template:Sortname
2012	Life of Pi	Template:Sortname	<ref name="70th">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Anna Karenina	Template:Sortname
	Argo	Template:Sortname
	Lincoln	Template:Sortname
	Cloud Atlas	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname
2013	All Is Lost	Template:Sortname	<ref name="71st">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	12 Years a Slave	Template:Sortname
	The Book Thief	Template:Sortname
	Gravity	Template:Sortname
	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	Template:Sortname
2014	The Theory of Everything	Template:Sortname	<ref name="72nd">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Birdman	Template:Sortname
	Gone Girl	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname
	The Imitation Game	Template:Sortname
	Interstellar	Template:Sortname
2015	The Hateful Eight	Template:Sortname	<ref name="73rd">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Carol	Template:Sortname
	The Danish Girl	Template:Sortname
	The Revenant	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname
	Steve Jobs	Template:Sortname
2016	La La Land	Template:Sortname	<ref name="74th">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Arrival	Template:Sortname
	Hidden Figures	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname
	Lion	Template:Sortname, Hauschka
	Moonlight	Template:Sortname
2017	The Shape of Water	Template:Sortname	<ref name="75th">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Dunkirk	Template:Sortname
	Phantom Thread	Template:Sortname
	The Post	Template:Sortname
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Template:Sortname
2018	First Man	Template:Sortname	<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Black Panther	Template:Sortname
	Isle of Dogs	Template:Sortname
	Mary Poppins Returns	Template:Sortname
	A Quiet Place	Template:Sortname
2019	Joker	Hildur Guðnadóttir	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	1917	Template:Sortname
	Little Women	Template:Sortname
	Marriage Story	Template:Sortname
	Motherless Brooklyn	Daniel Pemberton

Multiple wins

4 wins:

• Maurice Jarre
• Dimitri Tiomkin
• John Williams

3 wins:

• Justin Hurwitz
• Alan Menken
• Ennio Morricone
• Trent Reznor
• Atticus Ross
• Hans Zimmer

2 wins:

• Elmer Bernstein
• Alexandre Desplat
• Frederick Loewe
• Giorgio Moroder
• Howard Shore

See also

• Academy Award for Best Original Score
• BAFTA Award for Best Film Music
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score
• Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
• Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Notes

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References

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