The 193 greatest scores of 193 composers
And here we have chronologically the greatest 193 film music scores by as much composers. I've put them in the comment because it's such a long list.
Additions welcome !
Additions welcome !
For the friends of good music, here are some goodies for your ears.
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1936 Chaplin, Charles - Modern Times
1939 Steiner, Max - Gone With the Wind
1940 Harline, Leigh - Pinocchio
1942 Korngold, Erich Wolfgang - King's Row
1944 Prokofiev, Sergej - Ivan the Terrible
1944 Raksin, David - Laura
1948 Walton, William - Hamlet
1948 Vaughn-Williams, Ralph - Scott of the Antarctic
1949 Khachaturian, Aram [22 entries in the MDB] - The Battle for Stalingrad
1949 Shostakovich, Dimitri - The Fall of Berlin
1949 Copland, Aaron - The Red Pony
1949 Karas, Anton - The Third Man
1951 Farnon, Robert - Captain Horatio Hornblower
1952 Alwyn, William - The Crimson Pirate
1952 Young, Victor - The Quiet Man
1954 Ifukube, Akira - Godzilla
1954 Bernstein, Leonard - On the Waterfront
1954 Hayasaka, Fumio [41 entries in the MDB] - The Seven Samurai
1955 Schumann, William - Night of the Hunter
1956 Barron, Louis and Bebe - Forbidden Planet
1956 Sainton, Phillip - Moby Dick
1957 Arnold, Malcolm - The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 Bernard, James - Dracula
1958 Davis, Miles - L'ascenseur pour l'echaffaut
1958 Herrmann, Bernard - The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958 Moross, Jerome - The Big Country
1958 Nascimbene, Mario - The Vikings
1959 Ellington, Duke - Anatomy of a Murder
1959 Rózsa, Miklós - Ben-Hur
1959 Baxter, Les - The Sacred Idol
1960 Gold, Ernest - Exodus
1960 Bernstein, Elmer - The Magnificent Seven
1960 Previn, André - The Subterraneans
1961 Johnson, Laurie - The Avengers (TV)
1962 Newman, Alfred - How the West Was Won
1962 Kaper, Bronislau - Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 Waxman, Franz - Taras Bulba
1963 North, Alex - Cleopatra
1963 Böttcher, Martin - Winnetou
1964 Mizzy, Vic - The Addams Family (TV)
1964 Tiomkin, Dimitri - The Fall of the Roman Empire
1965 Guaraldi, Vince - A Boy Named Charlie Brown (TV)
1965 Frankel, Benjamin - Battle of the Bulge
1965 Glass, Paul - Bunny Lake is Missing
1965 Gray, Barry - Thunderbirds (TV)
1966 Kaempfert, Bert - A Man Could Get Killed
1966 Bacalov, Luis - Django
1966 Hefti, Neal - Duel at Diablo
1966 Bruns, George - Jungle Book, The
1966 Cordell, Frank - Khartoum
1966 Thomas, Peter - Raumpatrouille (TV)
1966 Courage, Alexander - Star Trek: The Cage (TV)
1967 Vol, Frank de - The Dirty Dozen
1968 Shankar, Ravi - Charly
1968 Nicolai, Bruno - Corri, uomo, corri
1968 Stevens, Morton - Hawaii 5-0 (TV)
1968 Umiliani, Piero - Sweden, Heaven and Hell
1968 Goodwin, Ron - Where Eagles Dare
1969 Bacharach, Burt - Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
1969 Giombini, Marcello - Sabata
1969 Ramin, Sid - Stiletto
1970 Roubaix, Francois de - L'homme d'orchestre
1970 Jones, Quincy - They Call Me Mister Tibbs
1971 Carlos, Wendy - A Clockwork Orange
1971 Harris, Johnny - Man in the Wilderness
1971 McKuen, Rod - Scandalous John
1971 Hayes, Isaac - Shaft
1971 Legrand, Michel - Summer of '42
1971 Mellé, Gil - The Andromeda Strain
1971 Ellis, Don - The French Connection
1971 Barry, John - The Last Valley
1971 Grainer, Ron - The Omega Man
1971 Gross, Charles - Valdez is Coming
1972 Ortolani, Riz - Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972 Koo, Joseph - Fist of Fury
1972 Rubinstein, John - Jeremiah Johnson
1972 Helms, Jim - Kung Fu (TV)
1972 Angelis, Guido and Maurizio de - Piu forte, ragazzi !
1972 Schickele, Peter - Silent Running
1972 Theodorakis, Mikis - State of Siege
1972 Mayfield, Curtis - Superfly
1972 Rota, Nino - The Godfather
1973 Vorzon, Barry de - Dillinger
1973 Schifrin, Lalo - Enter the Dragon
1973 Goraguer, Alain - La planete sauvage
1973 Ferrio, Gianni - L'ile mysterieuse
1973 Martin, George - Live and Let Die
1973 Costa, Don - Soul of Nigger Charly, The
1973 Cosma, Vladimir - The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973 Giovanni, Paul - The Wicker Man
1973 Lewis, Michael J. - Theatre of Blood
1973 Karlin, Fred - Westworld
1974 Hancock, Herbie - Death Wish
1974 Bachelet, Pierre - Emmanuelle
1974 Bennett, Richard Rodney - Murder on the Orient Express
1974 Shire, David - The Conversation
1974 Mancini, Henry - The White Dawn
1975 Cacavas, John - Airport '75
1975 Fidenco, Nico - Black Emanuelle
1975 Jarre, Maurice - The Man Who Would Be King
1975 Goldsmith, Jerry - The Wind and the Lion
1976 Bernstein, Charles - Gator
1976 Garvarentz, Georges - Killer Force
1976 Conti, Bill - Rocky
1977 Lai, Francis - Bilitis
1977 Williams, John - Star Wars
1977 Fielding, Jerry - The Gauntlet
1977 Hamlisch, Marvin - The Spy Who Loved Me
1978 Nitzsche, Jack - Blue Collar
1978 Goblin - Dawn of the Dead
1978 Carpenter, John - Halloween
1978 Gould, Morton - Holocaust (TV)
1978 Burman, Rahul Dev [256 entries in the MDB] - Shalimar
1978 Myers, Stanley - The Deer Hunter
1978 Rosenman, Leonard - The Lord of the Rings
1978 Budd, Roy - The Wild Geese
1980 Corigliano, John - Altered States
1980 Manfredini, Harry - Friday the 13th
1980 Mansfield, David - Heaven's Gate
1980 Davis, Carl - Hollywood (TV)
1980 Donaggio, Pino - Home Movies
1980 Ikebe, Shinishiro - Kagemusha
1980 Scott, John - The Final Countdown
1980 Cooder, Ry - The Long Riders
1980 Frontiere, Dominic - The Stunt Man
1981 Rosenthal, Laurence - Clash of the Titans
1981 Coppola, Carmine - Napoleon
1981 Fiedel, Brad - The Terminator
1982 Poledouris, Basil - Conan the Barbarian
1982 Magne, Michel - Les miserables
1982 Jones, Trevor - The Dark Crystal
1982 Blake, Howard - The Snowman
1983 Kraft, William - Fire and Ice
1983 Horner, James - Krull
1983 Post, Mike - The A-Team (TV)
1983 Rubinstein, Arthur B. - WarGames
1984 Hammer, Jan - Miami Vice
1984 Fried, Gerald - The Mystic Warrior
1984 Newman, Randy - The Natural
1985 Silvestri, Alan - Back to the Future
1985 Faltermeyer, Harold - Fletch
1985 Powell, Andrew - Ladyhawke
1985 Takemitsu, Toru - Ran
1985 Band, Richard - Re-Animator
1985 Broughton, Bruce - Silverado
1985 Wang Chung - To Live and Die in L. A.
1987 Mead, Abigail - Full Metal Jacket
1987 Piovani, Nicola - Good Morning, Babylon
1987 Knopfler, Mark - The Princess' Bride
1987 Morricone, Ennio - The Untouchables
1988 Fenton, George - Dangerous Liaisons
1988 Glass, Phillip - Powaqqatsi
1988 Grusin, Dave - The Milagro Beanfield War
1989 Doyle, Patrick - Henry V
1989 Delerue, Georges - La revolution francaise
1989 Gunning, Christopher - Poirot (TV)
1989 Nyman, Michael - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
1990 Chang, Gary - A Shock to the System
1990 Petit, Jean-Claude - Cyrano de Bergerac
1990 Sarde, Philippe - The Lord of the Flies
1990 Moloney, Paddy - Treasure Island
1990 Badalamenti, Angelo - Twin Peaks
1991 Menken, Alan - Beauty and the Beast
1991 Kamen, Michel - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1992 Vangelis - 1492 - Conquest of Paradise
1992 Eidelman, Cliff - Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992 Kilar, Wojciech - Dracula
1992 Waits, Tom - Night on Earth
1992 Young, Christopher - The Vagrant
1993 Howard, James Newton - Falling Down
1993 Edelman, Randy - Gettysburg
1993 Wong, James - Green Snake
1993 Elfman, Danny - The Nightmare Before Christmas
1994 Shore, Howard - Ed Wood
1995 Buckmaster, Paul - 12 Monkeys
1995 Endelman, Stephen - The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
1995 Ottman, John - The Usual Suspects
1996 Isham, Mark - Fly Away Home
1996 Goldenthal, Elliot - Michael Collins
1996 Zimmer, Hans - The Rock
1996 Davey, Shaun - Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
1998 Hirschfelder, David - Elizabeth
1998 Gordon, Christopher - Moby Dick (TV)
1998 Cmiral, Elia - Ronin
2000 Dun, Tan - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001 Tiersen, Yann - Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
2002 Beltrami, Marco - I Am Dina
2003 Gerard, Lisa - Whale Rider
2004 Coulais, Bruno - Les choristes
2004 Giacchino, Michael - The Incredibles
2004 Pook, Jocelyn - The Merchant of Venice
2004 Yared, Gabriel - Troy (Rejected score)
2005 Revell, Graeme - Sin City
I was going to add Paul Glass' BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, but you already had it there. Excellent. :)
I'd say Philippe Sarde's greatest score was FORT SAGANNE, but I'm not sure what year that was (perhaps 1981?)
And how about Roy Webb's score for Hitchcock's NOTORIOUS from 1946?
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