John Williams received the most nominations (24) and the most wins (4, alongside Dimitri Tiomkin and Maurice Jarre ).
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score 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. 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 Justin Hurwitz for the film Babylon .
Winners and nominees
Key
Sign
Meaning
Indicates the winner
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
Year
Film
Composer(s)
Ref.
1970
Love Story
Francis Lai
Airport
Alfred Newman
Cromwell
Frank Cordell
Scrooge
Leslie Bricusse
Wuthering Heights
Michel Legrand
1971
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
Le Mans
Michel Legrand
Mary, Queen of Scots
John Barry
Summer of '42
Michel Legrand
The Andromeda Strain
Gil Melle
1972
The Godfather
Nino Rota
Frenzy
Ron Goodwin
The Getaway
Quincy Jones
Lady Sings the Blues
Michel Legrand
The Poseidon Adventure
John Williams
1973
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Neil Diamond
Breezy
Michel Legrand
Cinderella Liberty
John Williams
O Lucky Man!
Alan Price
The Day of the Dolphin
Georges Delerue
Tom Sawyer
Sherman Brothers , John Williams
1974
The Little Prince
Alan Jay Lerner , Frederick Loewe
Chinatown
Jerry Goldsmith
Earthquake
John Williams
Phantom of the Paradise
Paul Williams
The Godfather Part II
Carmine Coppola , Nino Rota
1975
Jaws
John Williams
Funny Lady
Fred Ebb , John Kander
The Man Who Would Be King
Maurice Jarre
The Other Side of the Mountain
Charles Fox
The Return of the Pink Panther
Henry Mancini
1976
A Star is Born
Kenneth Ascher , Paul Williams
Bugsy Malone
Paul Williams
Rocky
Bill Conti
The Slipper and the Rose
Sherman Brothers
Voyage of the Damned
Lalo Schifrin
1977
Star Wars
John Williams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
John Williams
Pete's Dragon
Joel Hirschhorn , Al Kasha
Saturday Night Fever
Barry Gibb , Maurice Gibb , Robin Gibb , David Shire
The Spy Who Loved Me
Marvin Hamlisch
1978
Midnight Express
Giorgio Moroder
An Unmarried Woman
Bill Conti
Superman
John Williams
The Children of Sanchez
Chuck Mangione
The Lord of the Rings
Leonard Rosenman
1979
Apocalypse Now
Carmine Coppola , Francis Ford Coppola
10
Henry Mancini
A Little Romance
Georges Delerue
Alien
Jerry Goldsmith
The Black Stallion
Carmine Coppola
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Jerry Goldsmith
The Amityville Horror
Lalo Schifrin
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Year
Film
Composer(s)
Ref.
2010
The Social Network
Trent Reznor , Atticus Ross
127 Hours
A. R. Rahman
Alice in Wonderland
Danny Elfman
Inception
Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech
Alexandre Desplat
2011
The Artist
Ludovic Bource
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Trent Reznor , Atticus Ross
Hugo
Howard Shore
War Horse
John Williams
W.E.
Abel Korzeniowski
2012
Life of Pi
Mychael Danna
Anna Karenina
Dario Marianelli
Argo
Alexandre Desplat
Lincoln
John Williams
Cloud Atlas
Tom Tykwer , Johnny Klimek , Reinhold Heil
2013
All Is Lost
Alex Ebert
12 Years a Slave
Hans Zimmer
The Book Thief
John Williams
Gravity
Steven Price
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Alex Heffes
2014
The Theory of Everything
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Birdman
Antonio Sánchez
Gone Girl
Trent Reznor , Atticus Ross
The Imitation Game
Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar
Hans Zimmer
2015
The Hateful Eight
Ennio Morricone
Carol
Carter Burwell
The Danish Girl
Alexandre Desplat
The Revenant
Ryuichi Sakamoto , Alva Noto
Steve Jobs
Daniel Pemberton
2016
La La Land
Justin Hurwitz
Arrival
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Hidden Figures
Hans Zimmer , Pharrell Williams , Benjamin Wallfisch
Lion
Dustin O'Halloran , Hauschka
Moonlight
Nicholas Britell
2017
The Shape of Water
Alexandre Desplat
Dunkirk
Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread
Jonny Greenwood
The Post
John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Carter Burwell
2018
First Man
Justin Hurwitz
Black Panther
Ludwig Göransson
Isle of Dogs
Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns
Marc Shaiman
A Quiet Place
Marco Beltrami
2019
Joker
Hildur Guðnadóttir
1917
Thomas Newman
Little Women
Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story
Randy Newman
Motherless Brooklyn
Daniel Pemberton
2020s
Multiple Wins
4 wins;
3 wins;
2 wins;
See also