This listing covers all the Academy Award winning scores from the first awarded at the 7th Ceremony in 1934, to the present day. Those that have been reviewed are linked as such.
- 2005 - Brokeback Mountain - Gustavo Santaolalla
- 2004 - Finding Neverland - Jan A P Kaczmarek
- 2003 - Return of the King - Howard Shore
- 2002 - Frida - Elliot Goldenthal
- 2001 - Fellowship of the Ring - Howard Shore
- 2000 - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun
- 1999 - The Red Violin - John Corigliano
- 1998 - Life is Beautiful - Nicola Piovani
- 1997 - Titanic - James Horner
- 1996 - The English Patient - Gabriel Yared
- 1995 - Il Postino - Luis Bacalov
- 1994 - The Lion King - Hans Zimmer
- 1993 - Schindler's List - John Williams
- 1992 - Aladdin - Alan Menken
- 1991 - Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken
- 1990 - Dances with Wolves - John Barry
- 1989 - The Little Mermaid - Alan Menken
- 1988 - The Milagro Beanfield War - Dave Grusin
- 1987 - The Last Emperor - Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne & Cong Su
- 1986 - 'Round Midnight - Herbie Hancock
- 1985 - Out of Africa - John Barry
- 1984 - A Passage to India - Maurice Jarre
- 1983 - The Right Stuff - Bill Conti
- 1982 - ET: The Extra Terrestrial - John Williams
- 1981 - Chariots of Fire - Vangelis
- 1980 - Fame - Michael Gore
- 1979 - A Little Romance - Georges Delerue
- 1978 - Midnight Express - Giorgio Moroder
- 1977 - Star Wars - John Williams
- 1976 - The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith
- 1975 - Jaws - John Williams
- 1974 - The Godfather Part II - Nino Rota & Carmine Coppola
- 1973 - The Way We Were - Marvin Hamlisch
- 1972 - Limelight - Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch & Larry Russell
- 1971 - Summer of '42 - Michel Legrand
- 1970 - Love Story - Francis Lai
- 1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Burt Bacharach
- 1968 - The Lion in Winter - John Barry
- 1967 - Thoroughly Modern Millie - Elmer Bernstein
- 1966 - Born Free - John Barry
- 1965 - Doctor Zhivago - Maurice Jarre
- 1964 - Mary Poppins - Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
- 1963 - Tom Jones - John Addison
- 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
- 1961 - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Henry Mancini
- 1960 - Exodus - Ernest Gold
- 1959 - Ben-Hur - Miklos Rozsa
- 1958 - The Old Man and the Sea - Dimitri Tiomkin
- 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai - Malcolm Arnold
- 1956 - Around the World in 80 Days - Victor Young
- 1955 - Love is a Many Splendored Thing - Alfred Newman
- 1954 - The High and the Mighty - Dimitri Tiomkin
- 1953 - Lili - Bronislau Kaper
- 1952 - High Noon - Dimitri Tiomkin
- 1951 - A Place in the Sun - Franz Waxman
- 1950 - Sunset Blvd. - Franz Waxman
- 1949 - The Heiress - Aaron Copland
- 1948 - The Red Shoes - Brian Easdale
- 1947 - A Double Life - Miklos Rozsa
- 1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives - Hugo Friedhofer
- 1945 - Spellbound - Miklos Rozsa
- 1944 - Since You Went Away - Max Steiner
- 1943 - The Song of Bernadette - Alfred Newman
- 1942 - Now, Voyager - Max Steiner
- 1941 - The Devil and Daniel Webster (aka All that Money Can Buy) - Bernard Herrmann
- 1940 - Pinocchio - Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith & Ned Washington
- 1939 - The Wizard of Oz - Herbert Stothart
- 1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood (Varese Sarabande) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood (Marco Polo) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- 1937 - One Hundred Men and a Girl - Charles Previn
- 1936 - Anthony Adverse - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- 1935 - The Informer - Max Steiner
- 1934 - One Night of Love - Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn
