| César Award for Best Original Music | |
| Presenter: | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| Country: | France |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Holder: | Andrea Laszlo De Simone for The Animal Kingdom (2024) |
This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Original Music (French: link=no|'''César de la meilleure musique originale'''). Before 2000, the award was called "César Award for Best Music". With three awards out of eleven nominations, Alexandre Desplat is both the most nominated and most rewarded composer.
| Year | English title | Original title | Composer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Le Vieux Fusil | François de Roubaix | |
| India Song | Carlos d'Alessio | ||
| Let Joy Reign Supreme | Que la fête commence | Philippe d'Orléans and Antoine Duhamel | |
| Un linceul n'a pas de poches | Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint | ||
| 1977 | The Judge and the Assassin | Le Juge et l'Assassin | Philippe Sarde |
| Barocco | |||
| À nous les petites Anglaises | Mort Shuman | ||
| The Big Operator | Le Grand Escogriffe | Georges Delerue | |
| Police Python 357 | |||
| Je t'aime moi non plus | Serge Gainsbourg | ||
| 1978 | Providence | Miklos Rozsa | |
| Animal | L'Animal | Vladimir Cosma | |
| Bilitis | Francis Lai | ||
| Le Crabe-tambour | Philippe Sarde | ||
| 1979 | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | Préparez vos mouchoirs | Georges Delerue |
| The Song of Roland | La Chanson de Roland | Antoine Duhamel | |
| A Simple Story | Une histoire simple | Philippe Sarde | |
| Violette Nozière | Pierre Jansen | ||
| Year | Winner and nominees | Original title | Composer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (45th) | |||
| I Lost My Body | J'ai perdu mon corps | Dan Levy | |
| Atlantics | Atlantique | Fatima Al Qadiri | |
| An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | ||
| Les Misérables | Marco Casanova and Kim Chapiron | ||
| Oh Mercy! | Roubaix, une lumière | Grégoire Hetzel | |
| 2021 (46th) [2] | |||
| La Nuit Venue | Rone | ||
| Bye Bye Morons | Adieu les cons | Christophe Julien | |
| DNA | ADN | Stephen Warbeck | |
| My Donkey, My Lover & I | Antoinette dans les Cévennes | Mateï Bratescot | |
| Summer of 85 | Été 85 | Jean-Benoït Dunckel | |
| 2022 (47th) | |||
| Annette | Ron Mael and Russell Mael | ||
| BAC Nord | Guillaume Roussel | ||
| Black Box | Boîte noire | Philippe Rombi | |
| Paris, 13th District | Les Olympiades | Rone | |
| The Velvet Queen | La panthère des neiges | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis | |
| 2023 (48th) [3] [4] | |||
| Full Time | À plein temps | Irène Drésel | |
| Final Cut | Coupez ! | Alexandre Desplat | |
| The Innocent | L'Innocent | ||
| The Night of the 12th | La Nuit du 12 | ||
| Pacifiction | Marc Verdaguer and Joe Robinson | ||
| The Passengers of the Night | Les Passagers de la nuit | Anton Sanko | |
| 2024 (49th) [5] [6] | |||
| The Animal Kingdom | Le Règne animal | Andrea Laszlo De Simone | |
| Disco Boy | Vitalic | ||
| Junkyard Dog | Chien de la casse | Delphine Malausséna | |
| Just the Two of Us | L'Amour et les Forêts | Gabriel Yared | |
| Les Trois Mousquetaires : D'Artagnan | |||
| Les Trois Mousquetaires : Milady | |||