Academy Award For Best Original Score - Female Nominees

Female Nominees

Three women have won in the scoring categories. Two are composers: Rachel Portman, who won for Emma (1996), and Anne Dudley, who won for The Full Monty (1997); the third, is lyricist Marilyn Bergman, who won for Yentl (1983) in the Original Song Score category, sharing the award with co-lyricist Alan Bergman (her husband) and composer Michel Legrand.

The only female composers nominated for multiple Scoring Oscars are Rachel Portman, who was nominated for Emma (1996) (for which she won), The Cider House Rules (1999), and Chocolat (2000); and Angela Morley, a transsexual, who was nominated twice, for The Little Prince (1974) and The Slipper and the Rose (1976).