The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score[1] is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.

[2][3] The first Best Original Score award went to Max Steiner for his compositional work on Life with Father.

Dimitri Tiomkin, Alan Menken and Howard Shore are the only composers to win two consecutive awards.

Additionally, Dimitri Tiomkin received Special Achievement Awards for his services to film music in 1955 and 1957, as did Hugo Friedhofer in 1958.

The most recent recipient of this award was Ludwig Göransson for the film Oppenheimer.