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
2011 (1st)	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	David Hirschfelder
2011 (1st)	Red Dog	Cezary Skubiszewski
2011 (1st)	Snowtown	Jed Kurzel
2012 (2nd)	Not Suitable for Children	Jono Ma & Matteo Zingales
2012 (2nd)	33 Postcards	Antony Partos
2012 (2nd)	A Few Best Men	Guy Gross
2012 (2nd)	Mental	Michael Yezerski
2013 (3rd)	The Great Gatsby	Craig Armstrong
2013 (3rd)	Dead Europe	Jed Kurzel
2013 (3rd)	Drift	Michael Yezerski
2013 (3rd)	The Rocket	Caitlin Yeo
2014 (4th)	The Railway Man	David Hirschfelder
2014 (4th)	Healing	David Hirschfelder
2014 (4th)	Predestination	Peter Spierig
2014 (4th)	The Rover	Sam Petty and Anthony Partos
2015 (5th)	Mad Max: Fury Road	Junkie XL
	The Dressmaker	David Hirschfelder
	Paper Planes	Nigel Westlake
	Partisan	Daniel Lopatin

References

• Afi.org.au – AFI Award Winners