Best movies that are oscar winners in music (scoring: original song score and adaptation -or- scoring: adaptation) category

The Sting(1973)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 40

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.



Barry Lyndon(1975)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.



The Great Gatsby(1974)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.