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