Composers

Academy Award nominees and winners

The afterward account includes all composers who accept been nominated for an Academy Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Best Score class (which, over the years, had gone by a array of names, included song array and arrangements, and been breach into awards for scoring in dramas and comedies). Winners of the Award arise in bold. Note: Composers whose alone Oscar nominations came in the Best Original Song class are not listed, and Best Original Song wins are not counted in the wins tally.

John Addison (1 win)

Larry Adler

Peter Herman Adler

Lynn Ahrens

Daniele Amfitheatrof

Louis Applebaum

Robert Armbruster

Leo Arnaud

Malcolm Arnold (1 win)

Kenny Ascher

Gil Askey

Luis Enríquez Bacalov (1 win)

Burt Bacharach (1 win)

Constantin Bakaleinikoff

Buddy Baker

Victor Baravalle

John Barry (4 wins)

Marco Beltrami

Richard Rodney Bennett

Robert Russell Bennett (1 win)

Alan Bergman (1 win)

Marilyn Bergman (1 win)

Elmer Bernstein (1 win)

Leonard Bernstein

Jay Blackton (1 win)

Chris Boardman

Phil Boutelje

Leslie Bricusse (1 win)

Bruce Broughton

George Bruns

Ralph Burns (2 wins)

Dale Butts

David Byrne (1 win)

Jorge Calandrelli

John Cameron

Gerard Carbonara

Charlie Chaplin (1 win)

Saul Chaplin (3 wins)

Frank Churchill (1 win)

Cy Coleman

Anthony Collins

Alberto Colombo

Bill Conti (1 win)

Aaron Copland (1 win)

Carmine Coppola (1 win)

Frank Cordell

John Corigliano (1 win)

Alexander Courage

Andrae Crouch

Ken Darby (3 wins)

John Debney

Georges Delerue (1 win)

Jacques Demy

Alexandre Desplat

Adolph Deutsch (3 wins)

Frank DeVol

Robert Emmett Dolan

Patrick Doyle

Carmen Dragon (1 win)

Anne Dudley (1 win)

Tan Dun (1 win)

George Duning

Brian Easdale (1 win)

Roger Edens (3 wins)

Hanns Eisler

Danny Elfman

Duke Ellington

Jack Elliott

Leo Erdody

Yuri Faier

Percy Faith

George Fenton

Cy Feuer

Jerry Fielding

Stephen Flaherty

Lou Forbes

Ian Fraser

Gerald Fried

Hugo Friedhofer (1 win)

Douglas Gamley

Joseph Gershenson

Michael Giacchino (1 win)

Herschel Burke Gilbert

Philip Glass

Lud Gluskin

Ernest Gold (1 win)

Elliot Goldenthal (1 win)

Jerry Goldsmith (1 win)

Michael Gore (1 win)

Johnny Green (4 wins)

Walter Greene

Peter Greenwell

Ferde Grofe

Louis Gruenberg

Dave Grusin (1 win)

Vince Guaraldi

Jonas Gwangwa

Earle H. Hagen

Richard Hageman (1 win)

Karl Hajos

Al Ham

Marvin Hamlisch (2 win)

Herbie Hancock (1 win)

Leigh Harline (1 win)

W. Franke Harling (1 win)

George Harrison (1 win)

Marvin Hatley

Isaac Hayes

Jack Hayes

Lennie Hayton (1 win)

Ray Heindorf (3 wins)

Charles Henderson

Bernard Herrmann (1 win)

Jerry Hey

Werner Heymann

David Hirschfelder

Joel Hirschhorn

Samuel Hoffenstein

Frederick Hollander

James Horner (1 win)

James Newton Howard

Alberto Iglesias

Mark Isham

Calvin Jackson

Werner Janssen

Maurice Jarre (3 wins)

Quincy Jones

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (1 win)

Gus Kahn (1 win)

Bronislau Kaper (1 win)

Fred Karlin

Marsha Karlin

Al Kasha

Edward Kay

Roger Kellaway

Randy Kerber

Jerome Kern

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (2 wins)

Irwin Kostal (2 wins)

Kris Kristofferson

Francis Lai (1 win)

Arthur Lange

Michel Legrand (2 wins)

John Leipold (1 win)

John Lennon (1 win)

Alan Jay Lerner

Joseph J. Lilley

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Frederick Loewe

Jeremy Lubbock

Michel Magne

Henry Mancini (2 wins)

Dario Marianelli (1 win)

George Martin

Muir Mathieson

Peter Matz

Peter Maxwell Davies

Toshiro Mayuzumi

Paul McCartney (1 win)

Rod McKuen

Bill Melendez

Alan Menken (4 wins)

Gian-Carlo Menotti

Johnny Mercer

Mahlon Merrick

Michel Michelet

Cyril J. Mockridge

Lucien Moraweck

Angela Morley

Giorgio Moroder (1 win)

Jerome Moross

Ennio Morricone (Honorary Oscar)

John Morris

Boris Morros

Jeff Moss

Javier Navarrete

Anthony Newley

Alfred Newman (9 wins)

David Newman

Emil Newman

Lionel Newman (1 win)

Randy Newman

Thomas Newman

Jack Nitzsche

Alex North (Honorary Oscar)

Edward Paul

Frank Perkins

Nicola Piovani (1 win)

Edward H. Plumb

Rachel Portman (1 win)

John Powell

André Previn (5 wins)

Charles Previn

Prince (1 win)

A.R. Rahman (1 win)

David Raksin

Sid Ramin (1 win)

Raymond Rasch (1 win)

Joe Renzetti (1 win)

Trent Reznor (1 win)

Frederic E. Rich

Nelson Riddle (1 win)

Hugo Riesenfeld

Richard Robbins

Milan Roder

Heinz Roemheld (1 win)

Ann Ronell

David Rose

Joel Rosenbaum

Leonard Rosenman (2 wins)

Laurence Rosenthal

Atticus Ross (1 win)

Nino Rota (1 win)

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Miklós Rózsa (3 wins)

Larry Russell (1 win)

Ryuichi Sakamoto (1 win)

Conrad Salinger

Hans J. Salter

Buck Sanders

Gustavo Santaolalla (2 wins)

Philippe Sarde

Walter Scharf

Victor Schertzinger (1 win)

Lalo Schifrin

Stephen Schwartz (1 win)

Morton Scott

Caiphus Semenya

Marc Shaiman

Ravi Shankar

Artie Shaw

Al Shean

Richard M. Sherman (1 win)

Robert B. Sherman (1 win)

Nathaniel Shilkret

Howard Shore (2 wins)

Dimitri Shostakovich

Leo Shuken (1 win)

Louis Silvers (1 win)

Alan Silvestri

Marlin Skiles

Frank Skinner

Paul J. Smith (1 win)

Herbert W. Spencer

Ringo Starr (1 win)

Fred Steiner

Max Steiner (3 wins)

Leith Stevens

Georgie Stoll (1 win)

Morris Stoloff (3 wins)

Robert Stolz

Gregory Stone

Herbert Stothart (1 win)

Cong Su (1 win)

Harry Sukman (1 win)

Alexander Tansman

Rod Temperton

Max Terr

Ken Thorne (1 win)

Dimitri Tiomkin (3 wins)

Ernst Toch

Peter Townshend

John Scott Trotter

Jonathan Tunick (1 win)

Vangelis (1 win)

Tom Waits

Don Walker

Oliver Wallace (1 win)

William Walton

Stephen Warbeck (1 win)

Edward Ward

Ned Washington (1 win)

Franz Waxman (2 wins)

Kenneth Webb

Roy Webb

Kurt Weill

Jerry Wexler

Matthew Wilder

John Williams (5 wins)

Patrick Williams

Paul Williams

Meredith Willson

Charles Wolcott

Albert Woodbury

Gabriel Yared (1 win)

Victor Young (1 win)

Hans Zimmer (1 win)

David Zippel

Source: The Official Academy Awards Database 1

Other award nominees and winners

The afterward account includes all composers who accept been nominated for one of the added above blur music awards (Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards, International Blur Music Critics Association), but accept never been nominated for an Oscar. Winners of an Award arise in bold.

John Altman (BAFTA)

Armand Amar (IFMCA)

Benny Andersson (BAFTA)

Oscar Araujo (IFMCA)

Craig Armstrong (Globe, BAFTA, Grammy)

David Arnold (BAFTA, Grammy, Emmy)

Angelo Badalamenti (Globe, BAFTA, Grammy)

Lionel Bart (Globe)

Jeff Beal (Emmy)

Christophe Beck (Emmy)

Richard Bellis (Emmy)

Howard Blake (BAFTA)

Terence Blanchard (Globe)

Pieter Bourke (Globe)

Steven Bramson (Emmy)

Jon Brion (Grammy)

Michael Brook (Globe)

Stephen Bruton (BAFTA)

Velton Ray Bunch (Emmy)

T-Bone Burnett (BAFTA)

Carter Burwell (Globe, BAFTA, Emmy)

Sean Callery (Emmy)

Jay Chattaway (Emmy)

Eric Clapton (Grammy)

Alf Clausen (Emmy)

Harvey Cohen (Emmy)

Michel Colombier (Globe, Grammy)

Ry Cooder (BAFTA)

Stewart Copeland (Globe)

Bruno Coulais (BAFTA)

Daft Punk (IFMCA)

Burkhard Dallwitz (Globe)

Jeff Danna (Emmy)

Mychael Danna (Emmy)

Carl Davis (BAFTA, Grammy)

Don Davis (Emmy)

Paco de Lucía (BAFTA)

Marius de Vries (BAFTA)

Vince DiCola (Grammy)

James Di Pasquale (Emmy)

Neil Diamond (Globe, Grammy)

Ramin Djawadi (Grammy)

Jim Dooley (Emmy)

Clint Eastwood (Globe, Grammy)

Fred Ebb (Globe)

Randy Edelman (Globe, BAFTA)

Ilan Eshkeri (IFMCA)

Harold Faltermeyer (Globe)

Allyn Ferguson (Emmy)

David Foster (Grammy)

Charles Fox (Globe, Grammy)

Benjamin Frankel (Globe)

Dominic Frontiere (Globe)

Peter Gabriel (Globe, Grammy)

Brian Gascoigne (BAFTA)

Lisa Gerrard (Globe, Grammy)

Barry Gibb (Globe)

Nick Gold (BAFTA)

Billy Goldenberg (Emmy)

Howard Goodall (Emmy)

Miles Goodman (Globe)

Ron Goodwin (Globe)

Gordon Goodwin (Emmy)

Gerald Gouriet (Globe)

Jonny Greenwood (BAFTA, Grammy)

Harry Gregson-Williams (Globe, BAFTA)

Guy Gross (BAFTA)

Christopher Gunning (BAFTA)

James Hannigan (IFMCA)

Richard Hartley (Emmy)

Knut Avenstroup Haugen (IFMCA)

Joe Hisaishi (IFMCA)

Lee Holdridge (Emmy)

Junior Homrich (BAFTA)

Nellee Hooper (BAFTA)

Nicholas Hooper (Grammy)

Richard Horowitz (Globe)

Dick Hyman (BAFTA)

Joe Jackson (Grammy)

Chaz Jankel (BAFTA)

Carl Johnson (Emmy)

Adrian Johnston (Emmy)

Dan Jones (Emmy)

Ron Jones (Emmy)

Trevor Jones (Globe, BAFTA)

Michael Kamen (Globe, Grammy)

John Kander (Globe, BAFTA)

Rolfe Kent (Globe)

Wojciech Kilar (BAFTA)

Kaki King (Globe)

Kitaro (Globe)

Mark Knopfler (BAFTA, Grammy)

Krzysztof Komeda (Globe)

Abel Korzeniowski (Globe, IFMCA)

Henry Krieger (BAFTA)

Robert Lane (IFMCA)

Andrew Lockington (IFMCA)

Joseph LoDuca (Emmy)

John Lurie (Grammy)

Nuno Malo (IFMCA)

Johnny Mandel (Globe)

Chuck Mangione (Globe)

Hummie Mann (Emmy)

Clint Mansell (Globe)

David Mansfield (Globe)

Wynton Marsalis (Grammy)

Peter Martin (BAFTA)

Cliff Martinez (Grammy)

Rob Mathes (Emmy)

Dennis McCarthy (Emmy)

Bear McCreary (IFMCA)

Joel McNeely (Emmy)

Gil Melle (Globe)

Dudley Moore (Globe)

Trevor Morris (Emmy)

Stanley Myers (BAFTA)

Garth Neustadter (Emmy)

Lennie Niehaus (BAFTA)

Julian Nott (IFMCA)

Michael Nyman (Globe, BAFTA)

Mike Oldfield (Globe)

Riz Ortolani (Globe)

Karen Orzolek (Globe)

Larry Paxton (Globe)

James Peterson (IFMCA)

Jean-Claude Petit (BAFTA)

Barrington Pheloung (BAFTA)

Basil Poledouris (Emmy)

Jocelyn Pook (Globe)

Mike Post (Emmy)

Zbigniew Preisner (Globe)

Alan Price (Globe)

Michael Price (Emmy)

Jeff Richmond (Emmy)

Harold Rome (Globe)

David Rose (Emmy)

Brett Rosenberg (IFMCA)

William Ross (Emmy)

Arthur B. Rubinstein (Emmy)

Pete Rugolo (Emmy)

The RZA (BAFTA)

Arturo Sandoval (Grammy)

David Schwartz (Grammy)

Edward Shearmur (Emmy)

Kevin Shields (BAFTA)

David Shire (BAFTA)

Carlo Siliotto (Globe)

Carly Simon (BAFTA)

Morton Stevens (Emmy)

Richard Stone (Emmy)

Marc Streitenfeld (BAFTA)

Marty Stuart (Globe)

Mikis Theodorakis (Globe)

Mark Thomas (Emmy)

Yann Tiersen (BAFTA)

Pinar Toprak (IFMCA)

Ernest Troost (Emmy)

Bjorn Ulvaeus (BAFTA)

Eddie Vedder (Globe)

Joseph Vitarelli (IFMCA)

W.G. "Snuffy" Walden (Emmy)

Don Was (BAFTA)

Shirley Walker (Emmy)

Mark Watters (Emmy)

Norman Whitfield (Grammy)

Kristin Wilkinson (Globe)

Nancy Wilson (BAFTA)

Christopher Young (Globe)

Geoff Zanelli (Emmy)

Sources: HFPA Award Search 2, BAFTA Awards Database 3, Primetime Emmy Award Database 4, Grammy Awards Archive 5, IFMCA Awards Archive 6

Box office champions

The afterward account includes all composers who accept denticulate one of the 100 Highest Grossing Films of All Time, but accept never been nominated for a above accolade (Oscar, Golden Globe etc.)

William Alwyn – Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

Klaus Badelt – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Tyler Bates – 300 (2007)

David Buttolph – House of Wax (1953)

George S. Clinton – Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Brad Fiedel – Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Steve Jablonsky – Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Alexander Janko – My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Bill Justis – Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

Harald Kloser – The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 2012 (2009)

Christopher Lennertz – Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)

Mark Mancina – Twister (1996)

John Ottman – X2: X-Men United (2003)

Heitor Pereira – Despicable Me (2010)

Trevor Rabin – Armageddon (1998), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

William Ross – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Brian Tyler – Fast Five (2011)

Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me (2010)

Chris Wilson – My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Source: Box Office Mojo – All-Time Domestic Box Office Grosses 7,

Production music

Many companies such as Jingle Punks, Associated Assembly Music and Extreme Music accommodate music to assorted film, TV and bartering projects for a fee. Sometimes alleged library music, the music is endemic by assembly music libraries and accountant to barter for use in film, television, radio and added media. Unlike accepted and classical music publishers, who about own beneath than 50 percent of the absorb in a composition, music assembly libraries own all of the copyrights of their music, acceptation that it can be accountant after gluttonous the composer's permission, as is all-important in licensing music from accustomed publishers. This is because around all music created for music libraries is done on a assignment for appoint basis.citation bare Assembly music is accordingly a actual acceptable average for media producers — they can be assured that they will be able to authorization any allotment of music in the library at a reasonable rate.

Production music libraries will about action a ample ambit of agreeable styles and genres, enabling producers and editors to acquisition abundant of what they charge in the aforementioned library. Music libraries alter in admeasurement from a few hundred advance up to abounding thousands. The aboriginal assembly music library was bureaucracy by De Wolfe in 1927 with the appearance of complete in film, the aggregation originally denticulate music for use in bashful film.27 Another music library was set up by Ralph Hawkes of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers in the 1930s.28 APM, the better US library, has over 250,000 tracks.29