200 Greatest Film Scores

  1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - John Williams
  2. Gone With The Wind (1939) - Max Steiner
  3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre
  4. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) - Elmer Bernstein
  5. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Ennio Morricone
  6. Psycho (1960) - Bernard Herrmann
  7. The Godfather (1972) - Nino Rota
  8. Jaws (1975) - John Williams
  9. The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Elmer Bernstein
10. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) - John Williams
11. Batman (1989) - Danny Elfman
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Howard Shore
13. The Omen (1976) - Jerry Goldsmith
14. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
15. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - John Williams
16. The Pink Panther (1963) - Henry Mancini
17. Vertigo (1958) - Bernard Herrmann
18. The Lion In Winter (1968) - John Barry
19. Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Maurice Jarre
20. King Kong (1933) - Max Steiner
21. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) - Jerry Goldsmith
22. Superman (1978) - John Williams
23. Dances With Wolves (1990) - John Barry
24. How The West Was Won (1962) - Alfred Newman
25. Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Franz Waxman
26. Braveheart (1995) - James Horner
27. Schindler's List (1993) - John Williams
28. Ben-Hur (1959) - Miklos Rozsa
29. The Mission (1986) - Ennio Morricone
30. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - John Williams
31. Ivan The Terrible (1944) - Sergei Prokofiev
32. Modern Times (1936) - Charles Chaplin
33. Rocky (1976) - Bill Conti
34. Kings Row (1942) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
35. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Franz Waxman
36. Laura (1944) - David Raksin
37. Conan the Barbarian (1982) - Basil Poledouris
38. Goldfinger (1964) - John Barry
39. High Noon (1952) - Dimitri Tiomkin
40. Alexander Nevsky (1938) - Sergei Prokofiev
41. A Place In The Sun (1951) - Franz Waxman
42. Glory (1989) - James Horner
43. Now, Voyager (1942) - Max Steiner
44. Chariots of Fire (1981) - Vangelis
45. Cinema Paradiso (1988) - Ennio Morricone
46. The Red Pony (1949) - Aaron Copland
47. Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) - Henry Mancini
48. Out of Africa (1985) - John Barry
49. Scott of the Antarctic (1948) - Ralph Vaughan-Williams
50. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Herbert Stothart
51. The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) - Bernard Herrmann
52. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) - Malcolm Arnold
53. Chinatown (1974) - Jerry Goldsmith
54. The Great Escape (1963) - Elmer Bernstein
55. Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) - Ennio Morricone
56. Exodus (1960) - Ernest Gold
57. Spellbound (1945) - Miklos Rozsa
58. The Red Violin (1999) - John Corigliano
59. The Sea Hawk (1940) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
60. On The Waterfront (1954) - Leonard Bernstein
61. Adventures of Don Juan (1948) - Max Steiner
62. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Alex North
63. Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Danny Elfman
64. Citizen Kane (1941) - Bernard Herrmann
65. Planet of the Apes (1968) - Jerry Goldsmith
66. Krull (1983) - James Horner
67. The Third Man (1949) - Anton Karas
68. Around The World In 80 Days (1956) - Victor Young
69. Henry V (1989) - Patrick Doyle
70. A Summer Place (1959) - Max Steiner
71. Love Story (1970) - Francis Lai
72. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - Michael Kamen
73. Alien (1979) - Jerry Goldsmith
74. Romeo and Juliet (1968) - Nino Rota
75. North By Northwest (1959) - Bernard Herrmann
76. The Big Country (1958) - Jerome Moross
77. On Golden Pond (1981) - Dave Grusin
78. Godzilla (1954) - Akira Ifukube
79. The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946) - Hugo Friedhofer
80. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - John Williams
81. Forrest Gump (1994) - Alan Silvestri
82. Captain From Castile (1947) - Alfred Newman
83. Gladiator (2000) - Hans Zimmer
84. The Ten Commandments (1956) - Elmer Bernstein
85. Spartacus (1960) - Alex North
86. Taxi Driver (1976) - Bernard Herrmann
87. Hatari! (1962) - Henry Mancini
88. Taras Bulba (1962) - Franz Waxman
89. The Lost Weekend (1945) - Miklos Rozsa
90. Patton (1970) - Jerry Goldsmith
91. El Cid (1961) - Miklos Rozsa
92. Walk On The Wild Side (1962) - Elmer Bernstein
93. The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) - Bernard Herrmann
94. The Natural (1984) - Randy Newman
95. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) - Alfred Newman
96. Once Upon A Time In America (1984) - Ennio Morricone
97. Jurassic Park (1993) - John Williams
98. Born Free (1966) - John Barry
99. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - Max Steiner
100. Titanic (1997) - James Horner

101. The Untouchables (1987) - Ennio Morricone
102. Murder On The Orient Express (1974) - Richard Rodney Bennett
103. The Right Stuff (1983) - Bill Conti
104. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Thomas Newman
105. A Passage To India (1984) - Maurice Jarre
106. Cutthroat Island (1995) - John Debney
107. Friendly Persuasion (1956) - Dimitri Tiomkin
108. Blade Runner (1982) - Vangelis
109. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) - Dimitri Tiomkin
110. Bullitt (1968) - Lalo Schifrin
111. Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955) - Alfred Newman
112. It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) - Ernest Gold
113. Wait Until Dark (1967) - Henry Mancini
114. Papillon (1973) - Jerry Goldsmith
115. Halloween (1979) - John Carpenter
116. A Man For All Seasons (1966) - Georges Delerue
117. Requiem For A Dream (2000) - Clint Mansell
118. The Dambusters (1955) - Leighton Lucas
119. Midnight Express (1978) - Giorgio Moroder
120. Summer of 42' (1971) - Michel Legrand
121. Rebel Without A Cause (1955) - Leonard Rosenman
122. Hook (1991) - John Williams
123. King of Kings (1961) - Miklos Rozsa
124. Fargo (1996) - Carter Burwell
125. The Wind and the Lion (1975) - Jerry Goldsmith
126. The Song of Bernadette (1943) - Alfred Newman
127. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) - Christopher Young
128. Casino Royale (1967) - Burt Bacharach
129. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - Klaus Badelt
130. The Wild Bunch (1969) - Jerry Fielding
131. The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) - Elmer Bernstein
132. A Patch of Blue (1965) - Jerry Goldsmith
133. Ragtime (1981) - Randy Newman
134. The American President (1995) - Marc Shaiman
135. East of Eden (1955) - Leonard Rosenman
136. The Piano (1993) - Michael Nyman
137. Get Carter (1971) - Roy Budd
138. Wuthering Heights (1939) - Alfred Newman
139. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Alex North
140. Double Indemnity (1944) - Miklos Rozsa
141. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - Michel Legrand
142. City Lights (1931) - Charles Chaplin
143. Stargate (1994) - David Arnold
144. Zorba the Greek (1964) - Mikis Theodorakis
145. Young Frankenstein (1974) - John Morris
146. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) - Brad Fiedel
147. Charade (1963) - Henry Mancini
148. American Beauty (1999) - Thomas Newman
149. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Wojciech Kilar
150. Back To The Future (1985) - Alan Silvestri
151. Princess Mononoke (1997) - Joe Hisaishi
152. Finding Neverland (2004) - Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
153. Rebecca (1940) - Franz Waxman
154. Backdraft (1991) - Hans Zimmer
155. Ryan's Daughter (1970) - Maurice Jarre
156. Forbidden Planet (1956) - Bebe & Louis Barron
157. The Reivers (1969) - John Williams
158. Anthony Adverse (1936) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
159. Poltergeist (1982) - Jerry Goldsmith
160. Gattaca (1997) - Michael Nyman
161. The Alamo (1960) - Dimitri Tiomkin
162. A Little Princess (1995) - Patrick Doyle
163. The Lord of the Rings (1978) - Leonard Rosenman
164. Somewhere In Time (1980) - John Barry
165. Dinosaur (2000) - James Newton Howard
166. Shaft (1971) - Isaac Hayes
167. The Final Conflict (1981) - Jerry Goldsmith
168. The Thing (1982) - Ennio Morricone
169. Legends of the Fall (1994) - James Horner
170. Rudy (1993) - Jerry Goldsmith
171. The Thief of Bagdad (1940) - Miklos Rozsa
172. Dragonheart (1996) - Randy Edelman
173. The Robe (1953) - Alfred Newman
174. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - Dimitri Tiomkin
175. Cape Fear (1962) - Bernard Herrmann
176. An Affair To Remember (1957) - Hugo Friedhofer
177. The Village (2004) - James Newton Howard
178. Touch of Evil (1958) - Henry Mancini
179. City Slickers (1991) - Marc Shaiman
180. The Witches of Eastwick (1987) - John Williams
181. Terms of Endearment (1983) - Michael Gore
182. Home Alone (1990) - John Williams
183. Girl With A Pearl Earring (2003) - Alexandre Desplat
184. Captain Blood (1935) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
185. Unforgiven (1992) - Clint Eastwood & Lennie Niehaus
186. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Duke Ellington
187. Prince Valiant (1954) - Franz Waxman
188. The Incredibles (2004) - Michael Giacchino
189. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - James Horner
190. The Hours (2002) - Philip Glass
191. Johnny Belinda (1948) - Max Steiner
192. Silverado (1985) - Bruce Broughton
193. Henry V (1946) - William Walton
194. The Way We Were (1973) - Marvin Hamlisch
195. Mutiny On The Bounty (1962) - Bronislau Kaper
196. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) - Danny Elfman
197. Saving Private Ryan (1998) - John Williams
198. Frenzy (1972) - Ron Goodwin
199. The Miracle Worker (1962) - Laurence Rosenthal
200. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Howard Shore