The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring w
2018, 2023, and 2025 recipient: Ludwig Göransson
Louis Silvers was the inaugural winner of this category, winning for One Night of Love (1934).
Charles Previn won for One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), the first and only win for a Department head and not the composer.
Erich Korngold won for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
John Williams
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John Towner Williams is an American composer and conductor. Over his seven-decade career, he has composed many of the best known scores in film history. His style blends romanticism and impressionism
Academy Award for Best Original Score
…9: Alfred Newman (43) 5: John Williams (49) 4: Johnny Green (12…
Williams in 2024
Williams at the Boston Symphony Hall after conducting the Boston Pops, May 2006
John Williams conducting the score to Raiders of the Lost Ark in the Avery Fisher Hall in 2007
Williams signing an autograph after a concert in 2006