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  1. Film Comment's 101 Film Score Milestones's icon

    Film Comment's 101 Film Score Milestones

    Favs/dislikes: 10:0. This Essential List of 101 Great Film Score Milestones (in chronological order) from 1933-2001 was compiled by John Caps in the November-December 2003 issue of Film Comment magazine in an article titled "Soundtracks 101 – Essential Movie Music: A Listener's Guide." The article also provided a brief history of film music in the introduction and further details on each of the choices. Facts and Commentary About the List: •The list was created to mark the 70th anniversary of the film score in 2003. • The list consisted of composed instrumental film scores (whether symphonic or electronic, classical or pop in style), not film musicals or song scores, from American and British films (English-language films). •These were films from the talkie era onwards (and recognizing that silent films were never silent). •The quality of a film often has nothing to do with the rating of its film score, e.g., Taras Bulba (1962, Waxman). •According to the author, the list was "representative rather than exhaustive; all of the scores in the list "contribute something memorable, something personal, to their films - and communicate one step further to us as music." •Predictably, one-fourth of the list was taken by the six giants of the Golden Age (Steiner, Waxman, Korngold, Newman, Rozsa, Herrmann). Yet the author also recognized some of the great, but seemingly forgotten, figures of the recent past: Laurence Rosenthal, Richard Rodney Bennett, Dave Grusin, David Shire, and Basil Poledouris.
  2. Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Movie Soundtracks's icon

    Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Movie Soundtracks

    Favs/dislikes: 13:0. Entertainment Weekly selected their definitive list of movie music, dubbed their "guide to the movie soundtracks that move us most."
  3. John Williams Soundtracks's icon

    John Williams Soundtracks

    Favs/dislikes: 8:0. "America's Composer" has earned 5 Oscars, 18 Grammys, 7 BAFTAs, and over 20 gold and platinum records, not to mention a record 45 Oscar nominations.
  4. Hans Zimmer's Soundtracks's icon

    Hans Zimmer's Soundtracks

    Favs/dislikes: 12:0. Feature films that credit Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer as their composer. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) is not included because he was not credited.
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