Pitchfork’s 50 Best Movie Scores of All Time (2019)
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We’re defining scores as original music composed for a film, with recurring motifs and almost always without vocals. This type of work is often the result of a collaboration between a composer and director, and created in tandem with a movie to steadily enhance the narrative onscreen. Put another way: Whereas a soundtrack highlights moments of a movie, a score blankets the entire film. (We’re only looking at narrative films in this list; we are not including documentaries.)
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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Under the Skin
2013, in 10 top lists Check -
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There Will Be Blood
2007, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Virgin Suicides
1999, in 6 top lists Check -
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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 28 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
1958 — a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows, in 10 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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Shaft
1971, in 10 top lists Check -
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Halloween
1978, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Social Network
2010, in 13 top lists Check -
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999, in 7 top lists Check -
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Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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Dead Man
1995, in 12 top lists Check -
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Eraserhead
1977, in 20 top lists Check -
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985, in 6 top lists Check -
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Solyaris
1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check -
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Drive
2011, in 8 top lists Check -
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in 18 top lists Check -
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Phantom Thread
2017, in 8 top lists Check -
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Rocky
1976, in 20 top lists Check -
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Casino Royale
1967, in 2 top lists Check -
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Akira
1988, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Hired Hand
1971, in 3 top lists Check -
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Annihilation
2018, in 3 top lists Check -
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1980, in 25 top lists Check -
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Le mépris
1963 — a.k.a. Contempt, in 17 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989, in 10 top lists Check -
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
1983, in 6 top lists Check -
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Sicario
2015, in 2 top lists Check -
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La planète sauvage
1973 — a.k.a. Fantastic Planet, in 10 top lists Check -
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961, in 9 top lists Check -
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Ceddo
1977, in 5 top lists Check -
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Anatomy of a Murder
1959, in 12 top lists Check -
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Walkabout
1971, in 13 top lists Check -
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Once Upon a Time in America
1984, in 19 top lists Check -
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Murasaki Shikibu: Genji monogatari
1987 — a.k.a. The Tale of Genji, in 0 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 28 top lists Check -
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Blue Velvet
1986, in 27 top lists Check -
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Suspiria
1977, in 17 top lists Check -
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Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
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Jackie
2016, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les stances à Sophie
1971 — a.k.a. Sophie's Ways, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Pink Panther
1963, in 4 top lists Check -
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Batman
1989, in 9 top lists Check -
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Teesri Manzil
1966 — a.k.a. The Third Floor, in 1 top list Check -
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Trouble Man
1972, in 0 top lists Check -
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Wo hu cang long
2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check
Last updated on Apr 6, 2023 by baraka92; source