David di Donatello for Best Score
The David di Donatello for Best Score, known as the David di Donatello per il miglior musicista prior to 2021, is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of film music composers who have worked within the Italian film industry during the year preceding the ceremony.
The award has been given every year since 1975, with the exception of the 1979 and 1980 editions.
Ennio Morricone is the record holder in the category.
Winners and nominees
Winners are indicated in bold.1970s
1975Piero Piccioni – Swept Away1976Franco Mannino – The Innocent
1977Nino Rota – Fellini's Casanova
1978Armando Trovajoli – ''Wifemistress''
1980s
1981Fiorenzo Carpi – Eugenio- Ennio Morricone – Bianco, rosso e Verdone
- Piero Piccioni – Three Brothers
- Riz Ortolani – Help Me Dream
- Fiorenzo Carpi – Cercasi Gesù
- Carlo Rustichelli – Forest of Love
1984Armando Trovajoli and Vladimir Cosna – Ballando ballando
1985Carlo Savina – Pizza Connection
1986Riz Ortolani – Graduation Party Nicola Piovani – Ginger and Fred
1987Armando Trovajoli – The Family
1988Ennio Morricone – The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1989Ennio Morricone – Cinema Paradiso
- Vangelis – Francesco
- Armando Trovajoli – ''Splendor''
1990s
1990Claudio Mattone – Street Kids- Mario Nascimbene – Blue Dolphin – L'avventura continua
- Riz Ortolani – The Story of Boys & Girls
- Nicola Piovani – The Voice of the Moon
- Armando Trovajoli – What Time Is It?
- Armando Trovajoli – Captain Fracassa's Journey
- Giancarlo Bigazzi and Marco Falagiani – Mediterraneo
- Antonello Venditti – Ultra
- Riz Ortolani – Nel giardino delle rose
1993Ennio Morricone – Jonah Who Lived in the Whale
1994Nicola Piovani – Caro diario
1995Franco Piersanti – Lamerica
1996Manuel De Sica – Celluloide
1997Paolo Conte – How the Toys Saved Christmas
- Luis Bacalov – The Truce
- Carlo Crivelli – The Prince of Homburg
- Federico De Robertis and Mauro Pagani – Nirvana
- Nicola Piovani – My Generation
1999Ennio Morricone – The Legend of 1900
2000s
2000Ennio Morricone – Canone inverso2001Nicola Piovani – The Son's Room
2002Fabio Vacchi – The Profession of Arms
- Luciano Ligabue – Da zero a dieci
- Giovanni Venosta – Burning in the Wind
- Banda Osiris – The Embalmer
- Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi – Casomai
- Riz Ortolani – Incantato
- Nicola Piovani – Pinocchio
- Ezio Bosso – I'm Not Scared
- Andrea Guerra – What Will Happen to Us
- Riz Ortolani – Christmas Rematch
- Giovanni Venosta – Agata and the Storm
- Paolo Buonvino – Manual of Love
- Pasquale Catalano – The Consequences of Love
- Andrea Guerra – Sacred Heart
- Franco Piersanti – The Keys to the House
- Goran Bregović – The Days of Abandonment
- Paolo Buonvino – Romanzo Criminale
- Negramaro – The Fever
- Bruno Zambrini – Notte prima degli esami
- Teho Teardo – The Family Friend
- Neffa – Saturn in Opposition
- Franco Piersanti – My Brother Is an Only Child
- Fabio Vacchi – Centochiodi
- Lele Marchitelli – Piano, solo
- Fausto Mesolella – Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
- Teho Teardo – The Girl by the Lake
- Giovanni Venosta – Days and Clouds
- Bruno Zambrini – Many Kisses Later
- Baustelle – Giulia Doesn't Date at Night
- Paolo Buonvino – Italians
- Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi – ''We Can Do That''
2010s
2010Ennio Morricone – Baarìa- Marco Biscarini and Daniele Furlati – The Man Who Will Come
- Carlo Virzì – The First Beautiful Thing
- Pasquale Catalano – Loose Cannons
- Carlo Crivelli – Vincere
- Umberto Scipione – Benvenuti al Sud
- Teho Teardo – The Jewel
- Fausto Mesolella – Into Paradiso
- Hubert Westkemper – We Believed
- Umberto Scipione – Benvenuti al Nord
- Giuliano Taviani and Carmelo Travia – Caesar Must Die
- Franco Piersanti – We Have a Pope
- Pasquale Catalano – Magnificent Presence
- Alexandre Desplat – Reality
- Mauro Pagani – Siberian Education
- Franco Piersanti – Me and You
- Teho Teardo – Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
- Pasquale Catalano – Fasten Your Seatbelts
- Lele Marchitelli – The Great Beauty
- Umberto Scipione – Sotto una buona stella
- Carlo Virzì – Human Capital
- Nicola Piovani – Hungry Hearts
- Sascha Ring – Leopardi
- Ezio Bosso, Federico De Robertis – The Invisible Boy
- Paolo Fresu – Greenery Will Bloom Again
- Alexandre Desplat – Tale of Tales
- Ennio Morricone – The Correspondence
- Michele Braga, Gabriele Mainetti – They Call Me Jeeg
- Paolo Vivaldi and Alessandro Sartini – Don't Be Bad
- Carlo Crivelli – Sweet Dreams
- Carlo Virzì – Like Crazy
- Franco Piersanti – La stoffa dei sogni
- Andrea Farri – Italian Race
- Antonio Fresa, Luigi Scialdone – Cinderella the Cat
- Franco Piersanti – Tenderness
- Pasquale Catalano – Naples in Veils
- Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo – Nico, 1988
- Nicola Piovani – A casa tutti bene
- Nicola Tescari – Euphoria
- Lele Marchitelli – Loro
- Mokadelic – ''On My Skin''
2020s
2020Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio – Il flauto magico di piazza Vittorio- Andrea Farri – The First King: Birth of an Empire
- Nicola Piovani – The Traitor
- Dario Marianelli – Pinocchio
- Thom Yorke – Suspiria
- * ans Downtown Boys – Miss Marx
- * Nicola Piovani – Hammamet
- * Niccolò Contessa – The Predators
- * Michele Braga – Rose Island
- * Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi – Non odiare
- * Marco Biscarini and Daniele Furlati – Hidden Away
- * Nicola Piovani – I fratelli De Filippo
- * Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin – A Chiara
- * Verdena – America Latina
- * Pasquale Scialò – The Inner Cage
- * Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi – Diabolik
- * Michele Braga and Gabriele Mainetti – Freaks Out
- * Stefano Bollani – Il pataffio
- * Emanuele Bosi and Michele Braga – Strangeness
- * Daniel Norgren – The Eight Mountains
- * Franco Piersanti – Dry
- * Fabio Massimo Capogrosso – ''Exterior Night''