BAFTA Award for Best Original Music facts for kids
Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Best Original Music |
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The 2024 recipient: Daniel Blumberg
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| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Currently held by | Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist (2024) |
The BAFTA Award for Best Original Music is a special prize given to people who create amazing music for movies. It's like the soundtrack of a film! This award is presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which is a group that celebrates great work in film and TV.
This award has been given out every year since 1968 at the British Academy Film Awards. It used to be called the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music.
A famous composer named John Williams has won this award seven times, which is more than anyone else! He has also been nominated 16 times. Another composer, Ennio Morricone, is the only one to win two years in a row. He won for The Mission in 1987 and The Untouchables in 1988. He also has a perfect record, winning all six times he was nominated.
Some composers have been nominated many times but haven't won yet, like George Fenton and Howard Shore, who each have six nominations.
Sometimes, a composer can be nominated for two different movies in the same year. This has happened to John Williams, Vangelis, Maurice Jarre, Hans Zimmer, and the team of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
In 2019, Lady Gaga made history as the first woman to win this award for her work on A Star Is Born. The next year, in 2020, Hildur Guðnadóttir became the first woman to win it all by herself for the movie Joker. In 2022, Hans Zimmer finally won for Dune after being nominated ten times, which was a new record!
In the lists below, you'll see the movies and composers who won. The winners are shown in bold with a gold background. The years listed are when the movies were released, not when the award ceremony happened (the ceremony always takes place the following year).
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Award Winners
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1960s Winners
| Year | Film | Composer(s) |
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| Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music | ||
| 1968 (22nd) |
The Lion in Winter | John Barry |
| 1969 (23rd) |
Z | Mikis Theodorakis |
1970s Winners
| Year | Film | Composer(s) |
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| 1970 (24th) |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Burt Bacharach |
| 1971 (25th) |
Summer of '42 | Michel Legrand |
| 1972 (26th) |
The Godfather | Nino Rota |
| 1973 (27th) |
O Lucky Man! | Alan Price |
| 1974 (28th) |
Murder on the Orient Express | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| 1975 (29th) |
Jaws / The Towering Inferno | John Williams |
| 1976 (30th) |
Taxi Driver | Bernard Herrmann |
| 1977 (31st) |
A Bridge Too Far | John Addison |
| 1978 (32nd) |
Star Wars | John Williams |
| 1979 (33rd) |
Days of Heaven | Ennio Morricone |
1980s Winners
| Year | Film | Composer(s) |
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| Best Original Film Music | ||
| 1980 (34th) |
The Empire Strikes Back | John Williams |
| 1981 (35th) |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | Carl Davis |
| Best Score for a Film | ||
| 1982 (36th) |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | John Williams |
| 1983 (37th) |
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| 1984 (38th) |
Once Upon a Time in America | Ennio Morricone |
| 1985 (39th) |
Witness | Maurice Jarre |
| 1986 (40th) |
The Mission | Ennio Morricone |
| 1987 (41st) |
The Untouchables | Ennio Morricone |
| 1988 (42nd) |
Empire of the Sun | John Williams |
| Best Original Film Score | ||
| 1989 (43rd) |
Dead Poets Society | Maurice Jarre |
1990s Winners
| Year | Film | Composer(s) |
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| 1990 (44th) |
Cinema Paradiso | Andrea Morricone and Ennio Morricone |
| 1991 (45th) |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Claude Petit |
| 1992 (46th) |
Strictly Ballroom | David Hirschfelder |
| 1993 (47th) |
Schindler's List | John Williams |
| Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music | ||
| 1994 (48th) |
Backbeat | Don Was |
| 1995 (49th) |
Il Postino: The Postman | Luis Enríquez Bacalov |
| 1996 (50th) |
The English Patient | Gabriel Yared |
| 1997 (51st) |
Romeo + Juliet | Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries |
| 1998 (52nd) |
Elizabeth | David Hirschfelder |
| 1999 (53rd) |
American Beauty | Thomas Newman |
2000s Winners
| Year | Film | Composer(s) |
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| 2000 (54th) |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Tan Dun |
| 2001 (55th) |
Moulin Rouge! | Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries |
| 2002 (56th) |
The Hours | Philip Glass |
| 2003 (57th) |
Cold Mountain | T Bone Burnett and Gabriel Yared |
| 2004 (58th) |
The Motorcycle Diaries | Gustavo Santaolalla |
| 2005 (59th) |
Memoirs of a Geisha | John Williams |
| 2006 (60th) |
Babel | Gustavo Santaolalla |
| Best Music | ||
| 2007 (61st) |
La Vie en Rose | Christopher Gunning |
| 2008 (62nd) |
Slumdog Millionaire | A. R. Rahman |
| 2009 (63rd) |
Up | Michael Giacchino |
2010s Winners
| Year | Film | Composer(s) |
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| Best Original Music | ||
| 2010 (64th) |
The King's Speech | Alexandre Desplat |
| 2011 (65th) |
The Artist | Ludovic Bource |
| 2012 (66th) |
Skyfall | Thomas Newman |
| 2013 (67th) |
Gravity | Steven Price |
| 2014 (68th) |
The Grand Budapest Hotel | Alexandre Desplat |
| 2015 (69th) |
The Hateful Eight | Ennio Morricone |
| 2016 (70th) |
La La Land | Justin Hurwitz |
| 2017 (71st) |
The Shape of Water | Alexandre Desplat |
| 2018 (72nd) |
A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga and Lukas Nelson |
| 2019 (73rd) |
Joker | Hildur Guðnadóttir |
2020s Winners
| Year | Film | Composer(s) |
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| 22020 (74th) |
Soul | Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross |
| 2021 (75th) |
Dune | Hans Zimmer |
| 2022 (76th) |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Volker Bertelmann |
| 2023 (77th) |
Oppenheimer | Ludwig Göransson |
| 2024 (78th) |
The Brutalist | Daniel Blumberg |
Composers with Many Nominations and Wins
Most Nominations
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Most Wins
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See also
In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA a la mejor música original para niños
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- Cannes Soundtrack Award
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score
- European Film Award for Best Composer
- Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
- Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
