BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

Winners and nominees

1960s

• The Charge of the Light Brigade – John Addison
• Live for Life – Francis Lai
• Romeo and Juliet – Nino Rota

• Secret Ceremony – Richard Rodney Bennett
• The Thomas Crown Affair – Michel Legrand
• Women in Love – Georges Delerue

  1970s

• Alice's Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie
• Figures in a Landscape – Richard Rodney Bennett
• The Railway Children – Johnny Douglas

• Little Big Man – John Hammond
• Shaft – Isaac Hayes
• Traffic – Charles Dumont

• Lady Caroline Lamb – Richard Rodney Bennett
• The Tragedy of Macbeth – Third Ear Band
• Young Winston – Alfred Ralston

• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid – Bob Dylan
• Sounder – Taj Mahal
• State of Siege – Mikis Theodorakis

• Chinatown – Jerry Goldsmith
• Happy New Year – Francis Lai
• Serpico – Mikis Theodorakis
• The Three Musketeers – Michel Legrand

• The Godfather Part II – Nino Rota
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three – David Shire
• The Wind and the Lion – Jerry Goldsmith

• Bugsy Malone – Paul Williams
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Jack Nitzsche
• The Slipper and the Rose – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

• Equus – Richard Rodney Bennett
• The Spy Who Loved Me – Marvin Hamlisch
• A Star Is Born – Paul Williams, Barbra Streisand, Kenny Ascher, Rupert Holmes, Leon Russell, Kenny Loggins, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, and Donna Weiss

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind – John Williams
• Julia – Georges Delerue
• Saturday Night Fever – Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robin Gibb

• Alien – Jerry Goldsmith
• Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola
• Yanks – Richard Rodney Bennett

  1980s

• Breaking Glass – Hazel O'Connor
• Fame – Michael Gore
• Flash Gordon – John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor, and Howard Blake

• Arthur – Burt Bacharach
• Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
• Raiders of the Lost Ark – John Williams

• Blade Runner – Vangelis
• Gandhi – George Fenton and Ravi Shankar
• Missing – Vangelis

• Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder
• Local Hero – Mark Knopfler
• An Officer and a Gentleman – Jack Nitzsche

• Carmen – Paco de Lucía
• The Killing Fields – Mike Oldfield
• Paris, Texas – Ry Cooder

• Beverly Hills Cop – Harold Faltermeyer
• The Emerald Forest – Brian Gascoigne and Junior Homrich
• A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre

• Out of Africa – John Barry
• A Room with a View – Richard Robbins
• Round Midnight – Herbie Hancock

• Cry Freedom – George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa
• Hope and Glory – Peter Martin
• Wish You Were Here – Stanley Myers

• Bird – Lennie Niehaus
• The Last Emperor – Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, and Cong Su
• Moonstruck – Dick Hyman

• Dangerous Liaisons – George Fenton
• Mississippi Burning – Trevor Jones
• Working Girl – Carly Simon

  1990s

• The Fabulous Baker Boys – Dave Grusin
• Memphis Belle – George Fenton
• Postcards from the Edge – Carly Simon

• Dances with Wolves – John Barry
• The Silence of the Lambs – Howard Shore
• Thelma & Louise – Hans Zimmer

• Beauty and the Beast – Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
• Hear My Song – John Altman
• The Last of the Mohicans – Randy Edelman and Trevor Jones

• Aladdin – Alan Menken
• The Piano – Michael Nyman
• Sleepless in Seattle – Marc Shaiman

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Guy Gross
• Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Rodney Bennett
• The Lion King – Hans Zimmer

• Buena Vista Social Club – Ry Cooder and Nick Gold
• The End of the Affair – Michael Nyman
• The Talented Mr. Ripley'' – Gabriel Yared

  2000s

• Almost Famous – Nancy Wilson
• Billy Elliot – Stephen Warbeck
• Gladiator – Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? – T Bone Burnett and Carter Burwell

• Amélie – Yann Tiersen
• ' – Howard Shore
• Mulholland Dr. – Angelo Badalamenti
• Shrek – Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell

• Girl with a Pearl Earring – Alexandre Desplat
• ' – RZA
• ' – Howard Shore
• Lost in Translation – Brian Reitzell and Kevin Shields

• Avatar – James Horner
• Crazy Heart – T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
• Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'' – Chaz Jankel

  2010s

• 127 Hours – A. R. Rahman
• Alice in Wonderland – Danny Elfman
• How to Train Your Dragon – John Powell
• Inception – Hans Zimmer

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Hugo – Howard Shore
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
• War Horse – John Williams

• Anna Karerina – Dario Marianelli
• Argo – Alexandre Desplat
• Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
• Lincoln – John Williams

• 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer
• The Book Thief – John Williams
• Captain Phillips – Henry Jackman
• Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman

• Birdman – Antonio Sánchez
• Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
• The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson
• Under the Skin – Mica Levi

• Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman
• The Revenant – Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai
• Sicario – Jóhann Jóhannsson
• ' – John Williams

• 1917 – Thomas Newman
• Jojo Rabbit – Michael Giacchino
• Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
• ' – John Williams

  Multiple nominations and wins

Multiple nominations

Multiple wins