Jerry Goldsmith Awards Outland
Over a career spanning nearly fifty years, Jerry Goldsmith accumulated eighteen Academy Award nominations (winning once), nine Golden Globe nominations, five Emmy wins, and four BAFTA nominations. He never won an Oscar for his genre work — Planet of the Apes, Chinatown, Alien, Star Trek: The Motion Picture — his single Academy Award came for The Omen (1976). His Outland score (1981) was not nominated. (wikipedia)
Eighteen Oscar nominations, one win — for The Omen, not his genre work
| Year | Film | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Freud | Best Music Score—Substantially Original | Nominated |
| 1966 | A Patch of Blue | Best Music Score—Substantially Original | Nominated |
| 1967 | The Sand Pebbles | Best Original Music Score | Nominated |
| 1969 | Planet of the Apes | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1971 | Patton | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated |
| 1974 | Papillon | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated |
| 1975 | Chinatown | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1976 | The Wind and the Lion | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1977 | The Omen | Best Original Score | Won |
| 1977 | The Omen ("Ave Satani") | Best Original Song | Nominated |
| 1979 | The Boys from Brazil | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1980 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1983 | Poltergeist | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1984 | Under Fire | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1987 | Hoosiers | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1993 | Basic Instinct | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1998 | L.A. Confidential | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated |
| 1999 | Mulan (shared with Matthew Wilder and David Zippel) | Best Original Musical or Comedy Score | Nominated |
Five Primetime Emmys from a television career that predated his film work
| Year | Project | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Thriller (shared with Pete Rugolo) | Outstanding Achievement in Music for Television | Nominated |
| 1966 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Outstanding Music — Composition | Nominated |
| 1973 | The Red Pony | Outstanding Music Composition | Won |
| 1975 | QB VII (Parts I and II) | Outstanding Music Composition for a Special | Won |
| 1976 | Babe | Outstanding Music Composition for a Special | Won |
| 1981 | Masada (Part 2) | Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or Special | Won |
| 1995 | Star Trek: Voyager | Outstanding Main Title Theme Music | Won |
Nine Golden Globe nominations, no wins
Per the Wikipedia overview, the nominated works include Seven Days in May, The Sand Pebbles, Chinatown, Alien, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Under Fire, Basic Instinct, L.A. Confidential, and Mulan. He never won a competitive Golden Globe for Best Original Score.
Four BAFTA nominations including Alien and Chinatown
| Year | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Chinatown | Nominated |
| 1975 | The Wind and the Lion | Nominated |
| 1979 | Alien | Nominated |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Nominated |
Berklee honorary doctorate and a posthumous Walk of Fame star
- Annie Award (1998): Music in a Feature Production, Mulan (shared with Matthew Wilder and David Zippel) — Won
- Honorary Doctorate of Music, Berklee College of Music (1991)
- Hollywood Walk of Fame (2017): Posthumous star at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard, unveiled May 9, 2017. (npr)
His most influential scores — Planet of the Apes, Chinatown, Alien — all lost
The absence of an Academy Award for Goldsmith's most influential scores is itself part of his legacy. His Planet of the Apes score (1968), built on twelve-tone writing and an enlarged percussion section of stainless-steel mixing bowls, inverted horn mouthpieces, and a bass slide whistle, lost to John Barry's The Lion in Winter. Chinatown (1974) lost to The Godfather Part II. Alien (1979) was nominated but lost to A Little Romance. His Outland score received no major-awards nominations at all.