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2019 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
Joker
Hildur Gu_nadttir
2018 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
First Man
Justin Hurwitz
2017 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
The Shape of Water
Alexandre Desplat
2016 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
La La Land
Justin Hurwitz
2016 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
The Hateful Eight
Ennio Morricone
2015 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Antonio Sanchez
2014 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
Gravity
Steven Price
2013 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
Lincoln
John Williams
2012 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
The Artist
Ludovic Bource
2011 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
The Social Network
Trent Reznor
2010 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
Up
Michael Giacchino
2009 Critics Choice Awards – Best Composer
Slumdog Millionaire
A.R. Rahman
2008 Critics Choice Awards – Best Composer
There Will Be Blood
Jonny Greenwood
2007 Critics Choice Awards – Best Composer
The Illusionist
Philip Glass
2006 Critics Choice Awards – Best Composer
Memoirs of a Geisha
John Williams
2005 Critics Choice Awards – Best Composer
The Aviator
Howard Shore
2004 Critics Choice Awards – Best Composer
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Howard Shore
2003 Critics Choice Awards – Best Composer
Catch Me If You Can
John Williams
2002 Critics Choice Awards – Best Composer
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Howard Shore
2001 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
The Road to El Dorado
Hans Zimmer
2000 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Gabriel Yared
1999 Critics Choice Awards – Best Score
