Academy Award for Best Original Score

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The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an Oscar given annually to honor the most outstanding original music composed specifically for a motion picture.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score canonical 366
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score 25
Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture 13

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Academy Award category
film award
music award
alsoKnownAs Academy Award for Best Original Score
surface form: Oscar for Best Original Score
awardedFor best original score for a motion picture
outstanding original music composed for a film
awardType competitive award
ceremonyLocation Los Angeles
country United States of America
surface form: United States
domain cinema
film music
eligibilityCriterion music must be original and written specifically for the film
score must contain a minimum percentage of original music as defined by Academy rules
fieldOfRecognition original film music composition
firstAwarded 7th Academy Awards
frequency annual
governingDocument Academy Awards rules
hasCriterion music must be used in the body of the film
score must be predominantly original music rather than adapted
hasGlobalInfluence yes
hasSubcategoryHistory Academy Award for Best Original Score self-linksurface differs
surface form: Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Original Dramatic Score
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Best Scoring
hasWebsite https://www.oscars.org
inception 1934
isPartOfIndustry Hollywood
surface form: Hollywood film industry
languageOfOfficialRules English
mediaType film
nominationLimit up to five nominees per year
notableRuleChange 1999 split into Dramatic Score and Musical or Comedy Score categories
2000s recombined dramatic and musical or comedy scores into a single category
organizer Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
partOf Academy Award
surface form: Academy Awards
presentedAt Academy Awards ceremony
presentedBy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
relatedAward Academy Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
relatedField film scoring
relatedProfession film composer
selectionMethod nomination followed by final ballot
selectionProcess voted on by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
symbol Oscar
surface form: Oscar statuette
timePeriodCovered films released in the previous calendar year
typicalRecipients composers
votingBody music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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The Grand Budapest Hotel awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Godfather nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Godfather Part II award Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
A. R. Rahman awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Slumdog Millionaire award Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Social Network awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Gabriel Yared awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Jonny Greenwood nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Queen nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
All Quiet on the Western Front award Academy Award for Best Original Score
subject surface form: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film)
Nino Rota awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
Patrick Doyle awardNomination Academy Award for Best Original Score
High Noon academyAward Academy Award for Best Original Score
Tom Jones awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
subject surface form: Tom Jones (1963 film)
Spellbound (1945 film) award Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Omen (1976 film) awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Omen (1976 film) awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith
The Big Country nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Boys from Brazil (1978 film) nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
Göransson awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
subject surface form: Ludwig Göransson
Oppenheimer (film score) awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring won Academy Award for Best Original Score
WingNut Films notableAwardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Fiddler on the Roof academyAward Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial academyAward Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Best Original Score
Schindler's List award Academy Award for Best Original Score
Marriage Story nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
Thomas Newman nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
Catch Me If You Can nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
Lisa Gerrard nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
Gustavo Santaolalla awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Gustavo Santaolalla awardReceivedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Original Score for Brokeback Mountain
Gustavo Santaolalla awardReceivedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Original Score for Babel
David Byrne awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Big Fish nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
Stephen Schwartz awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Ben-Hur awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Music Score
Bernard Herrmann awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Pinocchio awarded Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 film) nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
subject surface form: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Alan Menken awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
Stephen Warbeck awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Stephen Warbeck hasWon Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for Shakespeare in Love
film "The Pride of the Yankees" nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
subject surface form: The Pride of the Yankees
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture
Bridge of Spies nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Original Score
Erich Wolfgang Korngold awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Hateful Eight awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Score
American Academy of Arts and Letters awards Academy Award for Best Original Score
this entity surface form: Academy Awards in Music