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Exodus – Ernest Gold
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- In 1960 the category for what is simply titled today “Best Original Score” was called “Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture”. That year the winner and four nominees truly represented some of the best film composers of the time, all writing scores for timeless movies. And the winner was… Exodus – Ernest Gold.
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The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. [1]
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alfred Newman Best Motion Picture - George Stevens, Producer
- 1961: Ernest Gold, Exodus (drama or comedy); Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman, Song Without End (musical) The Apartment was the big winner this year (and the last black-and-white Best Picture winner until Schindler's List in 1993), but Adolph Deutsch wasn't even nominated for Best Original Score.
- 1962: Henry Mancini, Breakfast at Tiffany's (drama or comedy); Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, and Irwin Kostal, West Side Story (musical) It was a given that the team behind West Side Story’s film score would win in their category, though stage composer Leonard Bernstein didn't love the way his music sounded on screen, with an orchestra three times the size of his Broadway band.
- 1963: Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia (original); Ray Heindorf, The Music Man (adaptation or treatment) Maurice Jarre easily landed this year's drama/comedy score Oscar with his career-defining music for the grand Hollywood epic Lawrence of Arabia: one of the top three film scores of all time, if you believe the American Film Institute.
- 1964: John Addison, Tom Jones (original); André Previn, Irma la Douce (adaptation) The buzz at this year's Oscars surrounded the Best Supporting Actress category — where, for the only time ever, three of the five nominations went to performers from the same movie.
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Hugo Friedhofer Sound - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Andre Previn Best Motion Picture - Bernard Smith, Producer
“The Second Time Around” – High Time – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin
All the winners and nominated film scores from the history of the Oscars.