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  • May 19, 2009 at 9:23 am #1624
    Adrian
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    Hollywood reporters industry poll of the best scores in 100 years of film music.
    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con … 26006ccb3e
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    The list with some of personal favorites <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” /> .

    1 | Godfather – Nino Rota (1972) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    2 | Jaws – John Williams (1975) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    3 | Star Wars – John Williams (1977) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    4 | The Good, the Bad & the Ugly – Ennio Morricone (1966) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    5| Psycho – Bernard Herrmann (1960) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    6| E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial – John Williams (1982) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    7 | Lawrence of Arabia – Maurice Jarre (1962) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    8 | Gone With the Wind – Max Steiner (1939) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    9 | Raiders of the Lost Ark – John Williams (1982) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    10 | Chinatown – Jerry Goldsmith (1974) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    11 | Casablanca – Max Steiner (1942) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    12 | The Mission – Ennio Morricone (1986) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    13 | Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre (1965) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    14 | Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Henry Mancini (1961)
    15 | The Magnificent Seven – Elmer Bernstein (1960) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    16 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind – John Williams (1977) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    17 | The Great Escape – Elmer Bernstein (1963)
    18 | Chariots of Fire – Vangelis (1981)
    19 | Vertigo – Bernard Herrmann (1958) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    20 | Schindler’s List – John Williams (1993) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    21 | TheWizard of Oz – Herbert Stothart (1939)
    22 | To Kill a Mockingbird – Elmer Bernstein (1962)
    23 | Citizen Kane – Bernard Herrmann (1941)
    24 | American Beauty – Thomas Newman (1999) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    25 | Goldfinger – John Barry (1964)
    26 | The Pink Panther – Henry Mancini (1963)
    27 | Ben-Hur – Miklos Rozsa (1959) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    28 | Alien – Jerry Goldsmith (1979)
    29 | Dances With Wolves – John Barry (1990)
    30 | North by Northwest – Bernard Herrmann (1959) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    31 | Laura – David Raksin (1944)
    32 | Batman – Danny Elfman (1989)
    33 | Spartacus – Alex North (1960)
    34 | The Shawshank Redemption – Thomas Newman (1994) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    35 | Blade Runner – Vangelis (1982)
    36 | The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold (1957)
    37 | Out of Africa – John Barry (1985) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    38 | Superman – John Williams (1978) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    39 | Back to the Future – Alan Silvestri (1985) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    40 | Sunset Blvd. – Franz Waxman (1950)
    41 | The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams (1977) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    42 | Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann (1976) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    43 | The Natural – Randy Newman (1984)
    44 | On the Waterfront – Leonard Bernstein (1954)
    45 | Once Upon a Time in the West – Ennio Morricone (1968) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    46 | Planet of the Apes – Jerry Goldsmith (1968)
    47 | Gladiator – Hans Zimmer (2000) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    48 | Braveheart – James Horner (1995) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    49 | Edward Scissorhands – Danny Elfman (1990) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    50 | The Lord of the Rings – Howard Shore (2001) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    51 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach (1969)
    52 | The Adventures of Robin Hood – Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1938) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    53 | Shaft – Isaac Hayes (1971)
    54 | King Kong – Max Steiner (1933)
    55 | Star Trek – Jerry Goldsmith (1979)
    56 | Patton – Jerry Goldsmith (1970)
    57 | The Omen – Jerry Goldsmith (1976)
    58 | Once Upon a Time in America – Ennio Morricone (1984) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    59 | Titanic – James Homer (1997) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    60 | The English Patient – Gabriel Yared (1996)
    61 | High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin (1952)
    62 | How the West Was Won – Alfred Newman (1962)
    63 | Forrest Gump – Alan Silvestri (1994) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    64 | The Lion King – Hans Zimmer (1994) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    65 | The Third Man – Anton Karas (1949)
    66 | Exodus – Ernest Gold (1960) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    67 | Midnight Cowboy – John Barry (1969)
    68 | Toy Story – Randy Newman (1995) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    69 | Cool Hand Luke – Lalo Schifrin (1967)
    70 | Blue Velvet – Angelo Badalamenti (1986)
    71 | The Ten Commandments Elmer Bernstein (1956) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    72 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – Bernard Herrmann (1947)
    73 | Rebel Without a Cause – Leonard Rosenman (1955)
    74 | Body Heat – John Barry (1981)
    75 | Love Story – Francis Lai (1970)
    76 | 81⁄2 – Nino Rota (1963)
    77 | Beetle Juice – Danny Elfman (1988) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    78 | Touch of Evil – Henry Mancini (1958) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    79 | The Silence of the Lambs – Howard Shore (1991)
    80 | Captain Blood – Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1935) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    81 | The Day the Earth Stood Still – Bernard Herrmann (2008)
    82 | Brazil – Michael Kamen (1985)
    83 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Tan Dun (2000) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    84 | Rosemary’s Baby – Krzysztof Komeda (1968)
    85 | Kings Row – Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1942)
    86 | A Streetcar Named Desire – Alex North (1951)
    87 | Amarcord – Nino Rota (1973)
    88 | The Matrix – Don Davis (1999)
    90 | The Conformist – Georges Delerue (1970)
    91 | The Sea Hawk – Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1940) <img loading=” title=”Very Happy” />
    92 | Double Indemnity – Miklos Rozsa (1944)
    93 | City Lights – Charlie Chaplin (1931)
    94 | East of Eden – Leonard Rosenman (1955)
    95 | Shoot the Piano Player – Georges Delerue (1960)
    96 | The Conversation – David Shire (1974)
    97 | Woman in the Dunes – Toru Takemitsu (1964)
    98 | Alexander Nevsky – Sergei Prokofiev (1938)
    99 | Rain Man – Hans Zimmer (1988)
    100 | Halloween – John Carpenter (1978)

    May 19, 2009 at 9:46 am #5703
    Dan
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    Some they may have missed:

    Atonement: Dario Marianelli
    Into the Wild: Eddie Vedder (may be a bit biased as I’m a Pearl Jam fan)
    Rocky : Bill conti

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