Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both accolade and controversy.

John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.

Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician and songwriter. He gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he was the bassist and keyboardist, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. McCartney is known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, versatile tenor vocal range and musical eclecticism, exploring genres ranging from pre-rock and roll pop to classical, ballads and electronica. His songwriting partnership with Lennon is the most successful in music history.

George Harrison was an English musician who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Known as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison played a significant role in shaping the band's musical direction and established a successful solo career, particularly through his interest in non-Western musical influences.

Sir Richard Starkey, known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, usually for one song on each album, including "Yellow Submarine" and "With a Little Help from My Friends". He also wrote and sang the Beatles songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden", and is credited as a co-writer of three others.

Prince Rogers Nelson, known mononymously as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. Often being credited as one of the greatest musicians of his generation, he pioneered the Minneapolis sound and was influential in the evolution of various other genres.

Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (1928–2020)

German film composer (born 1957)

American composer and conductor (born 1932)

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (, ; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis ( ; , ), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as scores for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.

Indian composer and musician

American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)

French composer and conductor (1924-2009)

American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)

British composer and conductor (1933–2011)

American film composer (1924–1994)

American film composer (1929–2004)

French film score composer (1932–2019)

American pianist, composer, producer (1928–2023)

Canadian film score composer (born 1946)

Italian composer

Japanese composer (1952–2023)

French film composer

Italian record producer and composer (born 1940)

motion picture award for music

Scottish-American musician (born 1952)

Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)

American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer

Austrian-born American music composer and conductor (1888–1971)

German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)

American composer and conductor (1911-1975)

American composer (1900-1970)

American music composer

Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)

American composer and conductor (1922-2004)

American composer (born 1949)

Ludwig Emil Tomas Göransson is a Swedish musician, composer, and record producer based in the United States. He is often regarded as one of the most successful composers in Hollywood of the 21st century. For his work in music, film and television, he has won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and six Grammy Awards.

Icelandic musician and composer

Argentine musician and composer

American composer and conductor (1944-2012)

French composer (1925–1992)

Ukrainian and American composer

English composer and conductor (1921–2006)

Chinese composer

Academy Award-winning French composer

Italian composer

American composer and screenwriter

American musical theatre lyricist and composer

American composer and conductor

American composer

Canadian film score composer

American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist

German film composer (1906-1967)

American composer (1910-1991)

Argentine composer, musician; nationalized Italian; Oscar winning film score composer (1933–2017)

Lebanese composer, conductor

American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor, orchestra leader (1900-1956)

English musician, composer and record producer

American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator (1921-1985)