RANK

COMPOSER

NOMINATIONS

WINS

FILMS

1

John Williams

16

7

Jaws; The Towering Inferno (1975)

Star Wars (1977)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Empire of the Sun (1988)

Schindler’s List (1993)

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

2

Ennio Morricone

6

6

Days of Heaven (1978)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

The Mission (1986)

The Untouchables (1987)

Cinema Paradiso (1990)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

3

Alexandre Desplat

12

3

The King’s Speech (2010)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

The Shape of Water (2017)

4

Thomas Newman

6

2

American Beauty (1999)

Skyfall (2012)

5

Craig Armstrong

3

2

Romeo + Juliet (1997)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

6

Maurice Jarre

3

2

Witness (1985)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

7

Gustavo Santaolalla

3

2

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Babel (2006)

8

Gabriel Yared

3

2

The English Patient (1996)

Cold Mountain (2003)

9

David Hirschfelder

3

2

Strictly Ballroom (1992)

Elizabeth (1998)

10

Marius De Vries

2

2

Romeo + Juliet (1997)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)