Academy Award For Best Original Score - Winners and Nominees - 1950s

1950s

• 1950
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman
    • All About Eve – Alfred Newman
    • The Flame and the Arrow – Max Steiner
    • No Sad Songs for Me – George Duning
    • Samson and Delilah – Victor Young
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Annie Get Your Gun – Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens
    • Cinderella – Oliver Wallace, Paul J. Smith
    • I'll Get By – Lionel Newman
    • Three Little Words – Andre Previn
    • The West Point Story – Ray Heindorf
• 1951
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): A Place in the Sun – Franz Waxman
    • David and Bathsheba – Alfred Newman
    • Death of a Salesman – Alex North
    • Quo Vadis – Miklós Rózsa
    • A Streetcar Named Desire – Alex North
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): An American in Paris – Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
    • Alice in Wonderland – Oliver Wallace
    • The Great Caruso – Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green
    • On the Riviera – Alfred Newman
    • Show Boat – Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger
• 1952
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin
    • Ivanhoe – Miklós Rózsa
    • The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima – Max Steiner
    • The Thief – Herschel Burke Gilbert
    • Viva Zapata! – Alex North
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): With a Song in My Heart – Alfred Newman
    • Hans Christian Andersen – Walter Scharf
    • The Jazz Singer – Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
    • The Medium – Gian-Carlo Menotti
    • Singin' in the Rain – Lennie Hayton
• 1953
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Lili – Bronislau Kaper
    • Above and Beyond – Hugo Friedhofer
    • From Here to Eternity – Morris Stoloff, George Duning
    • Julius Caesar – Miklós Rózsa
    • This is Cinerama – Louis Forbes
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Call Me Madam – Alfred Newman
    • The Band Wagon – Adolph Deutsch
    • Calamity Jane – Ray Heindorf
    • The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T – Friedrich Hollaender, Morris Stoloff
    • Kiss Me Kate – Andre Previn, Saul Chaplin
• 1954
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The High and the Mighty – Dimitri Tiomkin
    • The Caine Mutiny – Max Steiner
    • Genevieve – Larry Adler (Front: Muir Mathieson)
    • On the Waterfront – Leonard Bernstein
    • The Silver Chalice – Franz Waxman
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin
    • Carmen Jones – Herschel Burke Gilbert
    • The Glenn Miller Story – Joseph Gershenson, Henry Mancini
    • A Star Is Born – Ray Heindorf
    • There's No Business Like Show Business – Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman
• 1955
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Alfred Newman
    • Battle Cry – Max Steiner
    • The Man with the Golden Arm – Elmer Bernstein
    • Picnic – George Duning
    • The Rose Tattoo – Alex North
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Oklahoma! – Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch
    • Daddy Long Legs – Alfred Newman
    • Guys and Dolls – Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge
    • It's Always Fair Weather – Andre Previn
    • Love Me or Leave Me – Percy Faith, George Stoll
• 1956
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Around the World in Eighty Days – Victor Young (posthumous award)
    • Anastasia – Alfred Newman
    • Between Heaven and Hell – Hugo Friedhofer
    • Giant – Dimitri Tiomkin
    • The Rainmaker – Alex North
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): The King and I – Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
    • The Best Things in Life Are Free – Lionel Newman
    • The Eddy Duchin Story – Morris Stoloff, George Duning
    • High Society – Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
    • Meet Me in Las Vegas – George Stoll, Johnny Green
• 1957
  • MUSIC (Score): The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold
    • An Affair to Remember – Hugo Friedhofer
    • Boy on a Dolphin – Hugo Friedhofer
    • Perri – Paul Smith
    • Raintree County – Johnny Green
• 1958
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): The Old Man and the Sea – Dimitri Tiomkin
    • The Big Country – Jerome Moross
    • Separate Tables – David Raksin
    • White Wilderness – Oliver Wallace
    • The Young Lions – Hugo Friedhofer
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Gigi – Andre Previn
    • The Bolshoi Ballet – Yuri Faier, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
    • Damn Yankees – Ray Heindorf
    • Mardi Gras – Lionel Newman
    • South Pacific – Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
• 1959
  • MUSIC (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Ben-Hur – Miklós Rózsa
    • The Diary of Anne Frank – Alfred Newman
    • The Nun's Story – Franz Waxman
    • On the Beach – Ernest Gold
    • Pillow Talk – Frank DeVol
  • MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture): Porgy and Bess – Andre Previn, Ken Darby
    • The Five Pennies – Leith Stevens
    • Li'l Abner – Nelson Riddle, Joseph J. Lilley
    • Say One for Me – Lionel Newman
    • Sleeping Beauty – George Bruns