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Only one composer has won Oscars three years in a row: Roger Edens won for Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). Eight composers have won Oscars two years in a row: Ray Heindorf won for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and This Is the Army (1943).
- Alfred Newman – 9 Wins
- Alan Menken – 8 Wins
- John Williams – 5 Wins
- John Barry – Also 5 Wins
- Johnny Green – Also 5 Wins
The 20th century American composer, Alfred Newman, received 45 nominations during his lifetime (1900 - 1970) for his soundtracks. Along with two of his fellow composers, Max Steinerand Dimitri Tiomkin, was considered one of the “three godfathers of film music”. Over his forty year career he scored over 200 films, and was one of the most respected f...
Known for his spectacular scores to Disney’s Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Pocahontas, American composer, Alan Menken is part of an elite group of EGOT holders(winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award). The composer also has a won a whopping eleven Grammy Awards. Menken won both Best Original Score and Best Original Song for all four of the fo...
John Williamshas received more than 50 Oscar nominations to date – more than any other living composer – so it’s no surprise the composer comes a very close third on this list. Since winning Best Original Score for Fiddler on the Roof at the 44th annual ceremony in 1972, the American composer has continued to mesmerise audiences with his soundtrack...
With a total of five Oscar wins, English composer and conductor John Barryhas also found success with the Academy. In 1967, he took home Best Original Score and Best Original Song for his soundtrack to Born Free– a heartwarming true story about Elsa the lion. Subsequent wins have included for his scores for The Lion In Winter (1969),Out of Africa (...
American composer, John Waldo Green, was nominated for an Oscar thirteen times, and won five awards. The twentieth century composer won for the musical scores of films including An American in Paris (1951), West Side Story (1961), and Oliver! (1968). Multiple high profile composers have received four or three Academy Awards each. Composers who have...
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Composer Alan Menken has won 8 competitive awards; Of note: Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won 9 Academy Awards: six competitive awards, two "Special Achievement" awards, and one "Technical Achievement" award; Acting: 4 Katharine Hepburn, all for Best Actress; Directing: 4 John Ford; Writing: 3 Woody Allen, all for Best Original ...
YearFilm Title Used In NominationOriginal TitleAward Recipient (s)2023 (96th)The Zone of Interest2023 (96th)Past Lives2023 (96th)Anatomie d'une chute2022 (95th)Im Westen nichts NeuesTop of the most music Oscars list is composer Alfred Newman with nine Oscars. Newman is one of the fathers of film music as we know it. He was the music director at Twentieth Century Fox for a long time and won his first Oscar in 1938 (for Alexander’s Ragtime Band); he won his last in 1967 (for Camelot).
Discover all the winners of the prestigious Best Original Score category at the Oscars, from the last 50 years – half a decade of fantastic movie soundtracks! 1. Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson. 2024: This was the second Oscar win for Ludwig Göransson, who took home the Best Original Score gong in 2019 for Black Panther.
Best Original Score Oscar winner in 2021. Soul (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste) 2021 Oscar nominees for Best Original Score: Da 5 Bloods (Terence Blanchard) Minari (Emile Mosseri) News of the World (James Newton Howard) Mank (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
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Just three female film composers have won an Oscar since the Academy started giving composers awards in 1934. We explains who they are, from the most recent female recipient to the first.
