Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Composer(s)
2007	Atonement	Dario Marianelli
	3:10 to Yuma	Marco Beltrami
	Into the Wild	Michael Brook, Kaki King, and Eddie Vedder
	Lust, Caution	Alexandre Desplat
	Once	Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
	There Will Be Blood	Jonny Greenwood
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Terence Blanchard
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Alexandre Desplat
	The Dark Knight	Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
	Revolutionary Road	Thomas Newman
	Slumdog Millionaire	A. R. Rahman
2009	Up	Michael Giacchino
	Avatar	James Horner
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Alexandre Desplat
	The Informant!	Marvin Hamlisch
	Sherlock Holmes	Hans Zimmer

2010s

Year	Winner	Composer(s)
2010	Inception	Hans Zimmer
	127 Hours	A. R. Rahman
	How to Train Your Dragon	John Powell
	The Social Network	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
	True Grit	Carter Burwell
2011	The Artist	Ludovic Bource
	The Adventures of Tintin	John Williams
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Alexandre Desplat
	Shame	Harry Escott
	War Horse	John Williams
2012	Cloud Atlas	Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin
	Hitchcock	Danny Elfman
	Life of Pi	Mychael Danna
	Lincoln	John Williams
	The Master	Jonny Greenwood
	Skyfall	Thomas Newman
2013	Gravity	Steven Price
	12 Years a Slave	Hans Zimmer
	Her	Will Butler and Owen Pallett
	Man of Steel	Hans Zimmer
	Saving Mr. Banks	Thomas Newman
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Alexandre Desplat
	Birdman	Antonio Sánchez
	The Imitation Game	Alexandre Desplat
	Interstellar	Hans Zimmer
	The Theory of Everything	Jóhann Jóhannsson
2015	The Hateful Eight	Ennio Morricone
	Inside Out	Michael Giacchino
	Mad Max: Fury Road	Junkie XL
	The Revenant	Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, and Bryce Dessner
	Steve Jobs	Daniel Pemberton
2016	La La Land	Justin Hurwitz
	Arrival	Jóhann Jóhannsson
	Jackie	Mica Levi
	Moonlight	Nicholas Britell
	Nocturnal Animals	Abel Korzeniowski
2017	The Shape of Water	Alexandre Desplat
	Blade Runner 2049	Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer
	Dunkirk	Hans Zimmer
	The Post	John Williams
	War for the Planet of the Apes	Michael Giacchino
2018	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nicholas Britell
	Black Panther	Ludwig Göransson
	First Man	Justin Hurwitz
	Isle of Dogs	Alexandre Desplat
	Suspiria	Thom Yorke
2019	1917	Thomas Newman
	Joker	Hildur Guðnadóttir
	Little Women	Alexandre Desplat
	Marriage Story	Randy Newman
	Us	Michael Abels

2020s

Year	Winner	Composer(s)
2020	Soul	Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
	Mank	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
	The Midnight Sky	Alexandre Desplat
	News of the World	James Newton Howard
	Tenet	Ludwig Göransson
2021	Dune	Hans Zimmer
	The Power of the Dog	Jonny Greenwood
	The French Dispatch	Alexandre Desplat
	The Harder They Fall	Jeymes Samuel
	Spencer	Jonny Greenwood

References

• Houston Film Critics Society website