Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in music (scoring of a musical picture) category

West Side Story(1961)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.



Let's Make Love(1960)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 11

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.



Flower Drum Song(1961)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.



Bells Are Ringing(1960)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls ...



Paris Blues(1961)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 9

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.



Babes in Toyland(1961)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo ...



Can-Can(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female...



Pepe(1960)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.