| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2013 |
|
Mychael Danna |
Life of Pi |
| 2012 |
|
Ludovic Bource |
The Artist |
| 2011 |
|
Atticus Ross |
The Social Network |
|
Trent Reznor |
The Social Network |
| 2010 |
|
Michael Giacchino |
Up |
| 2009 |
|
A. R. Rahman |
Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2008 |
|
Dario Marianelli |
Atonement |
| 2007 |
|
Alexandre Desplat |
The Painted Veil |
| 2006 |
|
John Williams |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
| 2005 |
|
Howard Shore |
The Aviator |
| 2004 |
|
Howard Shore |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2003 |
|
Elliot Goldenthal |
Frida |
| 2002 |
|
Craig Armstrong |
Moulin Rouge! |
| 2001 |
|
Lisa Gerrard |
Gladiator |
|
Hans Zimmer |
Gladiator |
| 2000 |
|
Ennio Morricone |
The Legend of 1900 |
| 1999 |
|
Burkhard Dallwitz |
The Truman Show |
|
Philip Glass |
The Truman Show |
| 1998 |
|
James Horner |
Titanic |
| 1997 |
|
Gabriel Yared |
The English Patient |
| 1996 |
|
Maurice Jarre |
A Walk in the Clouds |
| 1995 |
|
Hans Zimmer |
The Lion King |
| 1994 |
|
Kitaro |
Heaven & Earth |
| 1993 |
|
Alan Menken |
Aladdin |
| 1992 |
|
Alan Menken |
Beauty and the Beast |
| 1991 |
|
Richard Horowitz |
The Sheltering Sky |
| 1990 |
|
Alan Menken |
The Little Mermaid |
| 1989 |
|
Maurice Jarre |
Gorillas in the Mist |
| 1988 |
|
David Byrne |
The Last Emperor |
| 1987 |
|
Ennio Morricone |
The Mission |
| 1986 |
|
John Barry |
Out of Africa |
| 1985 |
|
Maurice Jarre |
A Passage to India |
| 1984 |
|
Giorgio Moroder |
Flashdance |
| 1983 |
|
John Williams |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
| 1981 |
|
Dominic Frontiere |
The Stunt Man |
| 1980 |
|
Carmine Coppola |
Apocalypse Now |
|
Francis Ford Coppola |
Apocalypse Now |
| 1979 |
|
Giorgio Moroder |
Midnight Express |
| 1978 |
|
John Williams |
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
| 1977 |
|
Kenneth Ascher |
A Star Is Born |
| 1976 |
|
John Williams |
Jaws |
| 1975 |
|
Alan Jay Lerner |
The Little Prince |
| 1974 |
|
Neil Diamond |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
| 1973 |
|
Nino Rota |
The Godfather |
| 1972 |
|
Isaac Hayes |
Shaft |
| 1971 |
|
Francis Lai |
Love Story |
| 1970 |
|
Burt Bacharach |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| 1969 |
|
Alex North |
The Shoes of the Fisherman |
| 1968 |
|
Frederic Loewe |
Camelot |
| 1967 |
|
Elmer Bernstein |
Hawaii |
| 1966 |
|
Maurice Jarre |
Doctor Zhivago |
| 1965 |
|
Dimitri Tiomkin |
The Fall of the Roman Empire |
| 1963 |
|
Elmer Bernstein |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 1962 |
|
Dimitri Tiomkin |
The Guns of Navarone |
| 1961 |
|
Dimitri Tiomkin |
The Alamo |
| 1960 |
|
Ernest Gold |
On the Beach |
| 1953 |
|
Dimitri Tiomkin |
High Noon |
| 1952 |
|
Victor Young |
September Affair |
| 1951 |
|
Franz Waxman |
Sunset Boulevard |
| 1950 |
|
Johnny Green |
The Inspector General |
| 1949 |
|
Brian Easdale |
The Red Shoes |
| 1948 |
|
Max Steiner |
Life with Father |
