Films that won the Best Original Score Academy Award

Titanic is a 1997 American epic historical romance film written and directed by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictional aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage. The ensemble cast includes Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner and Bill Paxton.

1994 animated film directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff

1989 animated film directed by John Musker and Ron Clements

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated musical comedy-drama fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book").

1992 animated film directed by John Musker and Ron Clements

1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1991 animated film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

1940 American animated film

2001 film by Peter Jackson

1977 film directed by George Lucas

2003 film by Peter Jackson

2008 film directed by Danny Boyle

2005 film directed by Ang Lee

2009 animated film directed by Pete Docter

1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

1997 film by Roberto Benigni

2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

1959 American epic historical drama film by William Wyler

1962 film directed by David Lean

2018 film directed by Ryan Coogler

2019 musical film directed by Todd Phillips

2010 film by David Fincher

2011 film directed by Michel Hazanavicius

2012 film directed by Ang Lee

1995 animated film directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg

2016 film directed by Damien Chazelle

1998 film by John Madden

1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella

1975 film by Steven Spielberg

1957 film directed by David Lean

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.

2017 film by Guillermo del Toro

1990 film directed by Kevin Costner

Dune is a 2021 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert and the first installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.

1982 film directed by Steven Spielberg

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, but includes contributions from other writers. The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.

2000 film by Ang Lee

1964 film directed by Robert Stevenson

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1961 film directed by Blake Edwards

1985 film by Sydney Pollack

2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

1965 film directed by David Lean

1964 film by George Cukor

2014 film directed by Wes Anderson

1981 film by Hugh Hudson

2015 film directed by Quentin Tarantino

1950 film by Billy Wilder

1951 film directed by Vincente Minnelli

1975 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1961 film by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

2020 American computer-animated film

2007 film directed by Joe Wright

1973 film by George Roy Hill

2004 historical fantasy drama film by Marc Forster

1952 film directed by Fred Zinnemann

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy, and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid", who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place, flee to Bolivia to escape the posse.

1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler

1970 film directed by Arthur Hiller