We won’t bother catsplaining the importance of music to a movie. Instead, we’ll just sugeest you try watching Halloween without John Carpenter’s urgent keyboard-driven score. That being said, Carpenter didn’t make our list, but the legends who did are responsible for diverse bodies of work that not only greatly contribute to the films they were composed for, most of them are also impressive pieces of stand-alone music.
The following consists of 10 composers, along with 10 of the scores that best represent their range and talents (from iconic to underrated), as well as the one we feel is their greatest overall, which has us purring the loudest. Feel free to disagree, but like your dog, you’d be wrong.😸
10) HANS ZIMMER - Thelma & Louise; The Lion King; Broken Arrow; Crimson Tide; Gladiator; Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl; Black Hawk Down; Inception; Dunkirk; Dune. BEST SCORE: Interstellar
9) JOHN BARRY - From Russia with Love; Goldfinger; Thunderball; You Only Live Twice; The Lion in Winter; Midnight Cowboy; Mary, Queen of Scots; The Black Hole; Dances with Wolves; Chaplin. BEST SCORE: Raise the Titanic (it’s almost the sole thing that makes the movie watchable)
8) DIMITRI TIOMKIN - The High and the Mighty; Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; High Noon; The Alamo; Duel in the Sun; The Old Man and the Sea; The Fall of the Roman Empire; The Thing from Another World; Dial M for Murder; Lost Horizon. BEST SCORE: The Guns of Navarone
7) JAMES HORNER - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; 48 Hrs.; Aliens; An American Tail; Willow; Field of Dreams; Braveheart; Titanic; Deep Impact; Avatar. BEST SCORE: Apollo 13
6) MAX STEINER - King Kong; Gone with the Wind; Angels with Dirty Faces; Jezebel; Dark Victory; Sergeant York; Now Voyager; Rhapsody in Blue; The Caine Mutiny; The Searchers. BEST SCORE: Casablanca
5) ELMER BERNSTEIN - Sweet Smell of Success; To Kill a Mockingbird; Birdman of Alcatraz; The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Great Escape; Hawaii; Thoroughly Modern Millie; National Lampoon’s Animal House; Airplane!; Cape Fear (1991). BEST SCORE: The Ten Commandments
4) JERRY GOLDSMITH - Planet of the Apes; Papillon; Chinatown; The Wind and the Lion; Logan’s Run; Alien; Star Trek: The Motion Picture; Gremlins; Total Recall; L.A. Confidential. BEST SCORE: The Omen
3) ENNIO MORRICONE - For a Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in the West; The Bird with the Crystal Plumage; Exorcist II: The Heretic (the movie is balls, but the score is wonderfully eclectic); The Thing (1982); Once Upon a Time in America; The Mission; Bugsy; The Hateful Eight. BEST SCORE: The Untouchables
2) BERNARD HERRMANN - Citizen Kane; The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); North by Northwest; The 7th Voyage of Sinbad; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Psycho; Mysterious Island; Cape Fear (1962); Obsession; Taxi Driver (the guy certainly left on a high note). BEST SCORE: Vertigo
1) JOHN WILLIAMS (who else?) - The Poseidon Adventure; The Towering Inferno; Jaws; Star Wars (and its sequels); Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Superman (1978); E.T. the Extraterrestrial; JFK; Schindler’s List; Saving Private Ryan. BEST SCORE: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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