| Year | Finalists | Ref |
| 1967 | Original Score: Bonnie and Clyde, The Flim-Flam Man, Live for Life, Two for the Road, Wait Until DarkScoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment: A Countess from Hong Kong, The Family Way, The Happiest Millionaire, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Jungle Book | |
| 1968 | Original Score: For Love of Ivy, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Rachel, Rachel, Romeo and Juliet, War and PeaceScoring of a Musical Picture: C'mon, Let's Live a Little, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band | |
| 1969 | Original Score: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Gaily, Gaily, The Happy Ending, The Madwoman of Chaillot, True GritScoring of a Musical Picture: Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, Marry Me! Marry Me!, Oh! What a Lovely War | |
| 1970 | Original Score: The Aristocats, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Dirty Dingus Magee, Pieces of Dreams, Ryan's DaughterOriginal Song Score: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Norwood, R. P. M., Where's Poppa? | |
| 1971 | Original Score: Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The French Connection, The Hellstrom Chronicle, Kotch, Sometimes a Great NotionOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: Honky, Jud, Zachariah | |
| 1972 | Original Score: Ben, Fellini's Roma, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The OtherOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1776, Snoopy Come Home, Young Winston | |
| 1973 | Original Score: Enter the Dragon, The Last American Hero, Oklahoma Crude, The Paper Chase, Robin HoodOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: Bang the Drum Slowly, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Lost Horizon, O Lucky Man! | |
| 1974 | Original Score: The Castaway Cowboy, The Conversation, Earthquake, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The White DawnOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: Claudine, Huckleberry Finn, Lenny, Mame | |
| 1975 | Original Score: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The Eiger Sanction, The Hindenburg, The Other Side of the Mountain, The YakuzaOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Day of the Locust, Lucky Lady, The Return of the Pink Panther, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | |
| 1976 | Original Score: King Kong, Logan's Run, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Rocky, Silent MovieOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Bad News Bears, Car Wash, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, Leadbelly | |
| 1977 | Original Score: Airport '77, Audrey Rose, Black Sunday, Bobby Deerfield, A Bridge Too Far, Equus, Gasp, The Gauntlet, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Islands in the Stream, Joseph Andrews, MacArthur, 1900, Providence, The Rescuers, Rollercoaster, The Sentinel, Walking Tall: Final ChapterOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: New York, New York | |
| 1978 | Original Score: Capricorn One, Coma, Magic, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Watership DownOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Cheap Detective, Damien - Omen II, The Deer Hunter, The Magic of Lassie | |
| 1979 | Original Score: Escape from Alcatraz, The Frisco Kid, The Great Train Robbery, Meteor, Time After TimeOriginal Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Europeans, Hair, Meeting with Remarkable Men, Wise Blood | |
| 2018 | Annihilation, Avengers: Infinity War, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Crazy Rich Asians, The Death of Stalin, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, First Man, A Quiet Place, Ready Player One, Vice | |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame, Bombshell, The Farewell, Ford v Ferrari, Frozen II, Jojo Rabbit, The King, Motherless Brooklyn, Pain and Glory, Us | |
| 2020/21 | Ammonite, Blizzard of Souls, The Invisible Man, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, The Life Ahead, The Little Things, The Midnight Sky, Mulan, Tenet, The Trial of the Chicago 7 | |
| 2021 | Being the Ricardos, Candyman, The French Dispatch, The Green Knight, The Harder They Fall, King Richard, The Last Duel, No Time to Die, Spencer, The Tragedy of Macbeth | |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Devotion, Don't Worry Darling, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Nope, She Said, The Woman King, Women Talking | |
| 2023 | American Symphony, Barbie, The Boy and the Heron, The Color Purple, Elemental, The Holdovers, Saltburn, Society of the Snow, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Zone of Interest | |
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus, Babygirl, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Blink Twice, Blitz, Challengers, The Fire Inside, Gladiator II, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, Inside Out 2, Nosferatu, The Room Next Door, Sing Sing, The Six Triple Eight, Young Woman and the Sea | |
