Academy Award for Best Score (Musical or Adaptation) 1940
12th Academy Awards · held February 29, 1940 · 23 nominees
- Winner Stagecoach · Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken
- Nominee Babes in Arms · Roger Edens, Georgie Stoll
- Nominee Dark Victory · Max Steiner
- Nominee Eternally Yours · Werner Janssen
- Nominee First Love · Charles Previn
- Nominee Golden Boy · Victor Young
- Nominee Gone with the Wind · Max Steiner
- Nominee Gulliver's Travels · Victor Young
- Nominee Intermezzo · Lou Forbes
- Nominee Man of Conquest · Victor Young
- Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Dimitri Tiomkin
- Nominee Nurse Edith Cavell · Anthony Collins
- Nominee Of Mice and Men · Aaron Copland
- Nominee She Married a Cop · Cy Feuer
- Nominee Swanee River · Louis Silvers
- Nominee The Great Victor Herbert · Phil Boutelje, Arthur Lange
- Nominee The Hunchback of Notre Dame · Alfred Newman
- Nominee The Man in the Iron Mask · Lucien Moraweck, Lud Gluskin
- Nominee The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Nominee The Rains Came · Alfred Newman
- Nominee They Shall Have Music
- Nominee Way Down South · Victor Young
- Nominee Wuthering Heights · Alfred Newman