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Academy Awards: Multiple - Music

Winners of Oscars for each category

Composers with the Most Awards

9 Academy Awards

Alfred Newman
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) - Best Score
- Tin Pan Alley (1940) - Best Score
- The Song of Bernadette (1943) - Best Score
- Mother Wore Tights (1947) - Best Score
- With a Song in My Heart (1952) - Best Score
- Call Me Madam (1953) - Best Score
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) - Best Score
- The King and I (1956) - Best Score
- Camelot (1967) - Best Score

8 Academy Awards

Alan Menken
- The Little Mermaid (1989) - Best Score
- The Little Mermaid (1989) - Best Original Song
- Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Best Score
- Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Best Original Song
- Aladdin (1992) - Best Score
- Aladdin (1992) - Best Original Song
- Pocahontas (1995) - Best Score
- Pocahontas (1995) - Best Original Song

5 Academy Awards

John Barry
- Born Free (1966) - Best Score
- Born Free (1966) - Best Song
- The Lion in Winter (1968) - Best Score
- Out of Africa (1985) - Best Score
- Dances with Wolves (1990) - Best Score
Johnny Green
- Easter Parade (1948) - Best Score
- An American in Paris (1951) - Best Score
- Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor (1953) - Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- West Side Story (1961) - Best Score
- Oliver! (1968) - Best Score
John Williams
- Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score
- Jaws (1975) - Best Score
- Star Wars (1977) - Best Score
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Best Score
- Schindler's List (1993) - Best Score

4 Academy Awards

Henry Mancini
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Best Score
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Best Original Song
- Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - Best Original Song
- Victor Victoria (1982) - Best Score
André Previn
- Gigi (1958) - Best Score
- Porgy and Bess (1959) - Best Score
- Irma la Douce (1963) - Best Score
- My Fair Lady (1964) - Best Score
Dimitri Tiomkin
- High Noon (1952) - Best Score
- High Noon (1952) - Best Original Song
- The High and the Mighty (1954) - Best Score
- The Old Man and the Sea (1958) - Best Score
Jimmy Van Heusen
- Going My Way (1945) - Best Original Song
- The Joker Is Wild (1958) - Best Original Song
- A Hole in the Head (1960) - Best Original Song
- Papa's Delicate Condition (1964) - Best Original Song

Composers with the Most Nominations for Score / Song

Wikipedia list of multiple nominees for Best Score

48 Nominations:

John Williams (won 5)

43 Nominations:

Alfred Newman (won 9)

24 Nominations:

Max Steiner (won 3)

17 Nominations:

Ray Heindorf (won 3)
Morris Stoloff (won 3)
Jerry Goldsmith (won 1)
Victor Young (won 1)

16 Nominations:

Miklós Rózsa (won 3)

14 Nominations:

Dimitri Tiomkin (won 3)
Alex North (won 0)

13 Nominations:

Thomas Newman (won 0)

12 Nominations:

Johnny Green (won 4)

11 Nominations:

André Previn (won 4)
Alexandre Desplat (won 2)
Franz Waxman (won 2)
Herbert Stothart (won 1)
Hans Zimmer (won 1)

10 Nominations:

Elmer Bernstein (won 1)

9 Nominations:

Hugo Friedhofer (won 1)
Lionel Newman (won 1)
Georgie Stoll (won 1)

Wikpedia list of multiple nominees for Best Song

14 Nominations:

Alan Menken (won 4)
Jimmy Van Heusen (won 4)

13 Nominations:

Randy Newman (won 2)

11 Nominations:

Harry Warren (won 3)
Henry Mancini (won 2)
Ned Washington (won 2)
Diane Warren (won 0)

10 Nominations:

Sammy Fain (won 2)

7 Nominations:

Ray Evans (won 3)
Jay Livingston (won 3)
Jerome Kern (won 2)