AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score
The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Music Score is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards.
Previous winners
- 1974/1975 – Bruce Smeaton (The Cars that Ate Paris, The Great McCarthy)
- 1976 – Not awarded.
- 1977 – Peter Best (The Picture Show Man)
- 1978 – Bruce Smeaton (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith)
- 1979 – Brian May (Mad Max)
- 1980 – Peter Sculthorpe (Manganinnie)
- 1981 – Rory O'Donoghue, Grahame Bond (Fatty Finn)
- 1982 – Bruce Rowland (The Man from Snowy River)
- 1983 – Bruce Rowland (Phar Lap)
- 1984 – Garth Porter, Bruce Smeaton & others (Streethero)
- 1985 – Ray Cook, Chris Neal, Peter Best, Billy Byers, Bruce Rowland (Rebel)
- 1986 – William Motzing, Martin Armiger (Young Einstein)
- 1987 – Paul Schütze (The Tale of Ruby Rose)
- 1988 – Mario Millo (The Lighthorsemen)
- 1989 – Graeme Revell (Dead Calm)
- 1990 – Phil Judd (The Big Steal)
- 1991 – Michel Legrand, Miles Davis (Dingo)
- 1992 – John Clifford White (Romper Stomper)
- 1993 – Michael Nyman (The Piano)
- 1994 – Douglas Stephen Rae (Traps)
- 1995 – Nerida Tyson-Chew (Hotel Sorrento)
- 1996 – David Hirschfelder (Shine)
- 1997 – Peter Best (Doing Time for Patsy Cline)
- 1998 – Thomas Newman (Oscar and Lucinda)
- 1999 – David Bridie (In a Savage Land)
- 2000 – Cezary Skubiszewski (Bootmen)
- 2001 – Edmund Choi (The Dish)
- 2002 – Peter Gabriel (Rabbit-Proof Fence)
- 2003 – Elizabeth Drake (Japanese Story)
- 2004 – Decoder Ring (Somersault)
- 2005 – Nick Cave, Warren Ellis (The Proposition)
- 2006 – Mick Harvey (Suburban Mayhem)
- 2007 – Antony Partos (The Home Song Stories)
- 2008 – Antony Partos (Unfinished Sky)
- 2009 – Christopher Gordon (Mao's Last Dancer)
- 2010 – Antony Partos, Sam Petty (Animal Kingdom)
2010s
| Year | Film | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 (1st) | The Hunter | Andrew Lancaster, Michael Lira & Matteo Zingales |
| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | David Hirschfelder | |
| Red Dog | Cezary Skubiszewski | |
| Snowtown | Jed Kurzel | |
| 2012 (2nd) | Not Suitable for Children | Jono Ma & Matteo Zingales |
| 33 Postcards | Antony Partos | |
| A Few Best Men | Guy Gross | |
| Mental | Michael Yezerski | |
| 2013 (3rd) | The Great Gatsby | Craig Armstrong |
| Dead Europe | Jed Kurzel | |
| Drift | Michael Yezerski | |
| The Rocket | Caitlin Yeo | |
| 2014 (4th) | The Railway Man | David Hirschfelder |
| Healing | David Hirschfelder | |
| Predestination | Peter Spierig | |
| The Rover | Sam Petty and Antony Partos | |
| 2015 (5th) | Mad Max: Fury Road | Junkie XL |
| The Dressmaker | David Hirschfelder | |
| Paper Planes | Nigel Westlake | |
| Partisan | Daniel Lopatin | |
| 2016 (6th) | Boys in the Trees | Darrin Verhagen |
| Gods of Egypt | Marco Beltrami | |
| Tanna | Antony Partos | |
| Teenage Kicks | David Barber |