| Year
|
Film
|
Nominees
|
1934
(7th)
[note 1]
|
| One Night of Love
|
Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (Thematic music by Victor Schertzinger & Gus Kahn)
|
| The Gay Divorcee
|
RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Kenneth Webb & Sam Hoffenstein)
|
| The Lost Patrol
|
RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner)
|
1935
(8th)
|
| The Informer
|
RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner)
|
| Captain Blood (Write-in)[note 2][2]
|
Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
|
| Mutiny on the Bounty
|
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart)
|
| Peter Ibbetson
|
Paramount Studio Music Department, Irvin Talbot, head of department (Score by Ernst Toch)
|
1936
(9th)
|
| Anthony Adverse
|
Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
|
| The Charge of the Light Brigade
|
Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
|
| The Garden of Allah
|
Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Steiner, head of department (Score by Steiner)
|
| The General Died at Dawn
|
Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by Werner Janssen)
|
| Winterset
|
RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Nathaniel Shilkret, head of department (Score by Shilkret)
|
1937
(10th)
[note 3]
|
| One Hundred Men and a Girl
|
Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department (no composer credit)
|
| The Hurricane
|
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Newman)
|
| In Old Chicago
|
20th Century-Fox Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (no composer credit)
|
| The Life of Emile Zola
|
Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo F. Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
|
| Lost Horizon
|
Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin)
|
| Make a Wish
|
Principal Productions, Hugo Riesenfeld, head of department (Score by Riesenfeld)
|
| Maytime
|
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart)
|
| Portia on Trial
|
Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo, head of department (Score by Colombo)
|
| The Prisoner of Zenda
|
Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Newman)
|
| Quality Street
|
RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb, head of department (Score by Webb)
|
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
|
Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by Frank Churchill, Harline & Paul Smith)
|
| Something to Sing About
|
Grand National Studio Music Department, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, head of department (Score by Victor Schertzinger)
|
| Souls at Sea
|
Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling & Milan Roder)
|
| Way Out West
|
Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley, head of department (Score by Hatley)
|
1938
(11th)
|
| Original Score
|
| The Adventures of Robin Hood
|
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
|
| Army Girl
|
Victor Young
|
| Block-Heads
|
Marvin Hatley
|
| Blockade
|
Werner Janssen
|
| Breaking the Ice
|
Young
|
| The Cowboy and the Lady
|
Alfred Newman
|
| If I Were King
|
Richard Hageman
|
| Marie Antoinette
|
Herbert Stothart
|
| Pacific Liner
|
Russell Bennett
|
| Suez
|
Louis Silvers
|
| The Young in Heart
|
Franz Waxman
|
| Scoring
|
| Alexander's Ragtime Band
|
Newman
|
| Carefree
|
Victor Baravalle
|
| Girls' School
|
Morris Stoloff & Gregory Stone
|
| The Goldwyn Follies
|
Newman
|
| Jezebel
|
Max Steiner
|
| Mad About Music
|
Charles Previn & Frank Skinner
|
| Storm Over Bengal
|
Cy Feuer
|
| Sweethearts
|
Herbert Stothart
|
| There Goes My Heart
|
Marvin Hatley
|
| Tropic Holiday
|
Boris Morros
|
| The Young in Heart
|
Waxman
|
1939
(12th)
|
| Original Score
|
| The Wizard of Oz
|
Herbert Stothart
|
| Dark Victory
|
Max Steiner
|
| Eternally Yours
|
Werner Janssen
|
| Golden Boy
|
Victor Young
|
| Gone with the Wind
|
Steiner
|
| Gulliver's Travels
|
Young
|
| The Man in the Iron Mask
|
Lud Gluskin & Lucien Moraweck
|
| Man of Conquest
|
Young
|
| Nurse Edith Cavell
|
Anthony Collins
|
| Of Mice and Men
|
Aaron Copland
|
| The Rains Came
|
Alfred Newman
|
| Wuthering Heights
|
| Scoring
|
| Stagecoach
|
Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold & Leo Shuken
|
| Babes in Arms
|
Roger Edens & Georgie Stoll
|
| First Love
|
Charles Previn
|
| The Great Victor Herbert
|
Phil Boutelje & Arthur Lange
|
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame
|
Newman
|
| Intermezzo
|
Lou Forbes
|
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
|
Dimitri Tiomkin
|
| Of Mice and Men
|
Aaron Copland
|
| The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
|
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
|
| She Married a Cop
|
Cy Feuer
|
| Swanee River
|
Louis Silvers
|
| They Shall Have Music
|
Newman
|
| Way Down South
|
Young
|
