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Year by year: the scores and soundtracks that won, who gave the award, and who agreed. Reported from the ceremonies and their sources — every claim carries a date and a link.

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  GuideScore, songs, soundtrack: what the labels on this site actually meanFour words get used almost interchangeably in film music. They shouldn't be — and knowing the difference changes what you're actually listening to.3 min read
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  2025The Best Score for 2025Four award bodies voted on the same five scores for 2025. They agreed almost completely — and the one thing they agreed on by omission says as much as the winner does.3 min read
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  2024The Best Score for 2024Four award bodies voted on the scores from 2024's films. This time they didn't agree — and the split falls right down the middle.3 min read
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  2023The Best Score for 2023One score won the Golden Globe, the Critics' Choice Award, the BAFTA, and the Oscar. It also picked up a Grammy along the way. There wasn't much of a race.3 min read
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  2022The Best Score for 2022Four ceremonies voted on 2022's scores. Three different scores won. Nobody swept, nobody split it evenly — the vote just scattered.3 min read
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  2021The Best Score for 2021Every major body that voted on 2021's scores picked the same one. Almost nobody watched it happen.2 min read
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  2020The Best Score for 2020Three composers wrote the year's best score together. Two of them were nominated again at the same ceremony, for a different film, and lost to themselves.3 min read
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  2019The Best Score for 2019By the time she reached the Oscar stage, Hildur Guðnadóttir hadn't lost a single vote all season — and it was her second unbroken streak in five months, for two different projects.3 min read