Golden Globe Award / Best Film Music

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Winners and nominees of the Golden Globe Award in the category Best Original Score ( Best Original Score - Motion Picture ), which rewards the most outstanding achievements of composers of the past calendar year. The category was launched in 1948.

In 31 out of 64 cases, the winner was later awarded an Oscar , most recently in 2020 when the award was presented to Hildur Guðnadóttir ( Joker ) . In 1950, 1952, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2014 and 2019 the excellent film music was not considered for the Oscar.

The rare honor of being nominated for two different film scores in one year was Miklós Rózsa ( El Cid and King of Kings ) in 1962 , Michel Legrand in 1972 ( Le Mans and Summer '42 ), and Paul Williams in 1977 (victory for A Star Is Born and nomination for Bugsy Malone ), 1978 John Williams (victory for Star Wars and nomination for Close Encounters of the Third Kind ), 1980 Carmine Coppola (victory for Apocalypse Now and nomination for The Black Stallion ) and Jerry Goldsmith (nominations for Alien - The Uncanny Beings from an Alien World and Star Trek: The Film ), 1984 Giorgio Moroder (victory for Flashdance and nomination for Scarface ) and 2015 Alexandre Desplat (victory for Grand Budapest Hotel and nomination for The Imitation Game - A Top Secret Life ).

With Max Steiner (1948 for Our Life with Father ), Franz Waxman (1951 for Boulevard der Dämmerung ), Ernest Gold (1960 for The Last Shore ) and Frederick Loewe (1968 for Camelot - At King Arthur's Court and 1975 for The Little Prince ) awards were given to film composers from German-speaking countries who had emigrated to the United States. They were followed by the Germans Hans Zimmer (victories in 1995 and 2001 for The Lion King and Gladiator ) and Burkhard Dallwitz (victory in 1999 for The Truman Show ).

Awarded together with Zimmer in 2001, the Australian Lisa Gerrard and the Icelandic Hildur Guðnadóttir ( awarded for Joker in 2020 ) are the only women so far to have won this category.

statistics Surname number year
Most frequent awards Dimitri Tiomkin 4th 1953, 1961, 1962, 1965
John Williams 4th 1976, 1978, 1983, 2006
Most frequent nominations John Williams 23 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018
Most frequent nominations without a win Jerry Goldsmith 9 1965, 1967, 1975, 1980, 1980, 1984, 1993, 1998, 1999

The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.

1940s

1948

Max Steiner - Our Life with Father


1949

Brian Easdale - The Red Shoes (The Red Shoes)

1950s

1950

Johnny Green - The Sinful City (The Inspector General)


1951

Franz Waxman - Boulevard of Dawn (Sunset Boulevard)


1952

Victor Young - Love Rush on Capri (September Affair)


1953

Dimitri Tiomkin - Twelve Noon (High Noon)

1954 - 1959

Prize not awarded

1960s

1960

Ernest Gold - On the Beach (On the Beach)


1961

Dimitri Tiomkin - The Alamo (The Alamo)


1962

Dimitri Tiomkin - The Guns of Navarone (The Guns of Navarone)


1963

Elmer Bernstein - Who disturbs the nightingale (To Kill a Mockingbird)


1964

Prize not awarded


1965

Dimitri Tiomkin - The Fall of the Roman Empire (The Fall of the Roman Empire)


1966

Maurice Jarre - Doctor Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago)


1967

Elmer Bernstein - Hawaii


1968

Frederick Loewe - Camelot - At the court of King Arthur (Camelot)


1969

Alex North - The Shoes of the Fisherman (The Shoes of the Fisherman)

1970s

1970

Burt Bacharach * - Two Bandits (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)


1971

Francis Lai * - Love Story


1972

Isaac Hayes - Shaft


1973

Nino Rota - The Godfather (The Godfather)


1974

Neil Diamond - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)


1975

Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe - The Little Prince (The Little Prince)


1976

John Williams * - Jaws (Jaws)


1977

Kenneth Ascher and Paul Williams - A Star Is Born


1978

John Williams * - Star Wars (Star Wars)


1979

Giorgio Moroder * - 12 p.m. - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)

1980s

1980

Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now


1981

Dominic Frontiere - The Long Death of Stuntman Cameron (The Stunt Man)


1982

Prize not awarded


1983

John Williams * - ET - The Extra-Terrestrial (ET the Extra-Terrestrial)


1984

Giorgio Moroder - Flashdance


1985

Maurice Jarre * - Journey to India (A Passage to India)


1986

John Barry * - Out of Africa (Out of Africa)


1987

Ennio Morricone - Mission (The Mission)


1988

David Byrne , Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su * - The Last Emperor (The Last Emperor)


1989

Maurice Jarre - Gorillas in the Mist (Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey)

1990s

1990

Alan Menken * - Arielle, the Mermaid (The Little Mermaid)


1991

Richard Horowitz and Ryūichi Sakamoto - Heaven over the desert (The Sheltering Sky)


1992

Alan Menken * - Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)


1993

Alan Menken * - Aladdin


1994

Kitarō - Between Heaven and Hell (Heaven & Earth)


1995

Hans Zimmer * - The Lion King (The Lion King)


1996

Maurice Jarre - So Close to Heaven (A Walk in the Clouds)


1997

Gabriel Yared * - The English Patient (The English Patient)


1998

James Horner * - Titanic


1999

Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass - Die Truman Show (The Truman Show)

2000s

2000

Ennio Morricone - The legend of the ocean pianist (La leggenda del pianista sull'Oceano)


2001

Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer - Gladiator


2002

Craig Armstrong - Moulin Rouge (Moulin Rouge!)


2003

Elliot Goldenthal * - Frida


2004

Howard Shore * - The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)


2005

Howard Shore - Aviator (The Aviator)


2006

John Williams - The Geisha (Memoirs of a Geisha)


2007

Alexandre Desplat - The Painted Veil (The Painted Veil)


2008

Dario Marianelli * - Atonement (Atonement)


2009

AR Rahman * - Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)

2010s

2010

Michael Giacchino * - Up (Up)


2011

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross * - The Social Network


2012

Ludovic Bource * - The Artist


2013

Mychael Danna * - Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger (Life of Pi)


2014

Alex Ebert - All Is Lost


2015

Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Discovery of Infinity (The Theory of Everything)


2016

Ennio Morricone * - The Hateful Eight


2017

Justin Hurwitz * - La La Land


2018

Alexandre Desplat * - Shape of Water - The Whisper of Water (The Shape of Water)


2019

Justin Hurwitz - Departure to the Moon (First Man)

2020s

2020

Hildur Guðnadóttir * - Joker

* = Film composers who were later awarded the Oscar for best film music of the year .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b cf. Awards for Dimitri Tiomkin in the Internet Movie Database : In 1955 and 1957 Dimitri Tiomkin was awarded two special prizes for his musical contribution to the film sector. (accessed on May 18, 2010)