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* Music (Original Dramatic Score) - Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola * Best Picture - Francis Ford Coppola, Producer; Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos, Co-Producers * Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material) - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo Actor - Al Pacino
The 47th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, April 8, 1975, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, honoring the best films of 1974. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra.
Best Picture: The Godfather Part II. The Godfather Part II also won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Art Direction-Set Decoration (Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, and George R. Nelson), Directing (Francis Ford Coppola), Music – Original Dramatic Score (Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola), and Writing – Screenplay ...
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
Oscars – Music (Original Dramatic Score) Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
Pages in category "Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners". The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Academy Award for Best Original Score.
1975: Nino Rota was originally nominated for the Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the first Godfather movie in 1972, until it emerged that Rota had used portions of another earlier score. So he made double sure when the second film came around, heading off Jerry Goldsmith's score for Chinatown and John Williams' music for The Towering Inferno.
