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Poll: Best Score Winners (1930s-1940s)

A poll by BonaFideBOSS
Which of these films of the 1930s and the 1940s, that won the Academy Award for Best Music, do you think has the best score?

Discuss here

Results of 214 votes:

  1. 1.

    The Wizard of Oz (1939)

     
    Award: Best Original Score Music by: Herbert Stothart
  2. 2.

    Pinocchio (1940)

     
    Award: Best Original Score Music by: Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, and Ned Washington
  3. 3.

    The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

     
    Award: Best Original Score Music by: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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