Best Film Scores of All Time

We know that how music is important for movies, dramas and documentaries. Here, I have listed some of the best original film scores of all time. This list is based on my taste of music and from my listening experience. I have to explore more film scores. I have arranged the list by music composers, so that the readers can easily read and remember the albums. Please, mention the other great film scores I have missed in the comments.

(Film Score. Photo Courtesy: StockSnap, Pixabay)

Bernard Hermann

1. Psycho

2. Taxi Driver

3. The Day the Earth Stood Still

4. North by Northwest

5. Vertigo

6. Mysterious Island

7. The Night Digger

Ennio Morricone

8. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

9. For A Few Dollars More

10. Once Upon A Time in The West

11. A Fistful of Dynamite 

12. The Mission

13. Once Upon A Time in America

14. A Fistful of Dollars

15. Cinema Paradiso

16. Two Mules for Sister Sara

17. Red Sonja

18. My Name Is Nobody

19. The Untouchables

20. The Hateful Eight (won Oscar 2016)

21. The Big Gundown

22. The Thing

23. A Professional Gun (The Mercenary)

24. What Am I Doing in The Middle of The Revolution (1972) (Che c’entriamo noi con la rivoluzione?)

25. Death Rides A Horse

26. Morricone 60

27. L’assoluto naturale (He and She, 1969) 

28. Allonsanfan (1974)

29. Citta Violenta (Violent City, 1970)

30. Svegliati e Uccidi (Wake Up and Die, 1966)

John Williams

31. Schindler’s List (won Oscar 1993)

32. Jurassic Park

33. The Lost World

34. Star Wars series (won Oscar 1977)

35. Indiana Jones Trilogy

36. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (won Oscar 1982)

37. Jaws (won Oscar 1975)

38. War Horse

Fact: Williams has been nominated for 51 Oscars, of which he has won 5 Oscars including Fiddler on the Roof (1972)

Howard Shore

39. The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Shore won one Oscar for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and two Oscars for The Return of the King (2003, Score and Original Song)

40. The Hobbit Trilogy

Luis Bacalove

41. Django

42. His Name Was King

43. II Grande Duello (The Grand Duel, 1972)

44. The Last Chance (L’ultima chance, 1973)

Fact: Bacalove won Oscar for The Postman in 1994

Alan Silvestri

45. Back to The Future trilogy

46. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odessey (Volume 1 is great)

47. The Walk

Hans Zimmer

48. Intersteallar

49. Gladiator

50. The Lion King (won Oscar 1995)

51. Inception

52. The Dark Knight

53. The Dark Knight Rises

54. Blade Runner 2049

55. Black Hawk Down

56. Pirates of the Caribbean series

57. Rush

58. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

59. Sherlock Holmes

60. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

61. Batman Begins

62. Man of Steel

63. The Lone Ranger

64. Kung Fu Panda 

65. The Ring & The Ring 2

66. Batman vs Superman

67. Rango

68. Mission Impossible 2

Fact: Zimmer has been nominated for 11 Oscars and has won one for The Lion King. 

Thomas Newman

69. American Beauty

70. Skyfall

Fact: Newman has been nominated for 14 Oscars.

James Horner

71. Titanic (won 2 Oscarsfor score and song, 1998)

72. Braveheart 

Other Music Composers

73. The Godfather – Nino Rota (won Oscar for The Godfather: Part II 1974)

74. Das Boot – Klaus Doldinger

75. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Tan Dun (won Oscar 2001)

76. Lawrence Of Arabia – Maurice Jarre (Jarre won 3 Oscars: Lawrence of Arabia (1963), Doctor Zhivago (1965) & A Passage to India (1984)

77. Yojimbo – Masaru Satoh

78. For Your Eyes Only – Bill Conti 

79. Solo: A Star Wars Story – John Powell

80. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Michael Giacchino

81. Gravity – Steven Price (won Oscar 2014)

82. The Martian – Harry Gregson-Williams

83. Amelie – Yann Tiersen

84. Kung Fu Hustle – Raymond Wong

85. Birdman – Antonio Sanchez

86. Whiplash – Justin Hurwitz

87. Deadpool – Junkie XL

88. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Henry Jackman

89. Wonder Woman – Rupert Gregson-Williams 

TV Series

90. Game of Thrones series – Ramin Djawadi 

91. Breaking Bad series – Dave Porter

92. Blue Planet – George Fenton

Video Games Soundtracks

93. Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain – Ludvig Forssell (Music of Metal Gear games are as great as the games. Also check out the soundtracks of other Metal Gear games)

94. Splinter Cell: Double Agent – Michael McCann (Behavior) and Cris Velasco (Soundtracks of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory are also great). 

Soundtracks of Assassin’s Creed are also good. 

Please, mention your favorite film scores that are missing in the above list.

(Header photo courtesy: Turntable by StockSnap from Pixabay)