Since the
5th Golden Globe Awards (1947), the award is presented annually, except from 1953 to 1958. The nominations from 1947 and 1948 are not available. The first Best Original Score award went to
Max Steiner for his compositional work on
Life with Father.
John Williams is the artist with the most nominations (24); those resulted in 4 wins.
Dimitri Tiomkin had the same number of wins, but out of only 5 nominations. Other notable achievers include
Maurice Jarre (10 nominations, 4 wins),
Alan Menken (5 nominations, 3 wins),
Hans Zimmer (15 nominations, 3 wins),
Justin Hurwitz (3 nominations, 3 wins) and
Alexandre Desplat (15 nominations, 2 wins). Artists like
Jerry Goldsmith (9 nominations) and
Michel Legrand (7 nominations) were nominated several times but never received the award. Dimitri Tiomkin,
Alan Menken and
Howard Shore are the only composers to win two consecutive awards. Additionally, Dimitri Tiomkin received
Special Achievement Awards for his services to film music in 1955 and 1957, as did
Hugo Friedhofer in 1958. The most recent recipient of this award was
Ludwig Göransson for
Sinners. ==Winners and nominees==