Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music is one of the annual film awards given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Year	Winner	Composer(s)
1990	The Sheltering Sky	Richard Horowitz and Ryuichi Sakamoto
1991	The Double Life of Véronique (La double vie de Véronique)	Zbigniew Preisner
	At Play in the Fields of the Lord
	Europa Europa
1992	Damage	Zbigniew Preisner
1993	Blue (Bleu)	Zbigniew Preisner
	The Secret Garden
	Olivier, Olivier
1994	Ed Wood	Howard Shore
1995	A Little Princess	Patrick Doyle
1996	Kansas City	Hal Willner and The Hey Hey Club Musicians
1997	Kundun	Philip Glass
1998	The Butcher Boy	Elliot Goldenthal
1999	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman

Year	Winner	Composer(s)
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Tan Dun
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Howard Shore
2002	Far from Heaven	Elmer Bernstein
2003	The Triplets of Belleville (Les triplets de Belleville)	Benoît Charest
2004	The Incredibles	Michael Giacchino
2005	Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)	Joe Hisaishi and Youmi Kimura
2006	The Painted Veil	Alexandre Desplat
2006	The Queen	Alexandre Desplat
2007	Once	Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	A. R. Rahman
2009	Crazy Heart	T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton

Year	Winner	Composer(s)
2010	The Ghost Writer	Alexandre Desplat
2010	The Social Network	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
2011	Hanna	The Chemical Brothers
2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin
2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	T Bone Burnett
2014	Inherent Vice	Jonny Greenwood
2014	Under the Skin	Mica Levi
2015	Anomalisa	Carter Burwell
2015	Carol	Carter Burwell
2016	La La Land	Justin Hurwitz, Pasek and Paul
2017	Phantom Thread	Jonny Greenwood^[1]
2018	If Beale Street Could Talk	Nicholas Britell^[2]
2019	I Lost My Body	Dan Levy^[3]

Year	Winner	Composer(s)
2020	Soul	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross^[4]
2021	Parallel Mothers	Alberto Iglesias^[5]
2022	RRR	M. M. Keeravani^[6]
2023	The Zone of Interest	Mica Levi^[7]
2024	Challengers	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross^[8]
2025	Sirāt	Kangding Ray

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1990s	Richard Horowitz and Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990) Zbigniew Preisner (1991) Zbigniew Preisner (1992) Zbigniew Preisner (1993) Howard Shore (1994) Patrick Doyle (1995) Hal Willner and The Hey Hey Club Musicians (1996) Philip Glass (1997) Elliot Goldenthal (1998) Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman (1999)
2000s	Tan Dun (2000) Howard Shore (2001) Elmer Bernstein (2002) Benoît Charest (2003) Michael Giacchino (2004) Joe Hisaishi and Youmi Kimura (2005) Alexandre Desplat (2006) Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (2007) A. R. Rahman (2008) T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton (2009)
2010s	Alexandre Desplat / Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010) The Chemical Brothers (2011) Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin (2012) T Bone Burnett (2013) Jonny Greenwood / Mica Levi (2014) Carter Burwell (2015) Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2016) Jonny Greenwood (2017) Nicholas Britell (2018) Dan Levy (2019)
2020s	Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2020) Alberto Iglesias (2021) M. M. Keeravani (2022) Mica Levi (2023) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2024) Kangding Ray (2025)

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(Winners are announced in the year of film release; ceremonies are held in the following calendar year.)