Jump to content

4815162342

BOT's TOP 100 Film Scores: The Threequel (Submission Deadline March 22nd at 6:00 PM PST) NO MORE EXTENSIONS

Recommended Posts

It is time for the third volume edition of BOT's Top 100 Film Scores of All Time.

 

One of the most important aspects for many films is its score, the musical background that helps push the action and atmosphere of a scene forward. The music of a film can invigorate, excite, inspire joy, grief, fear, and terror, it helps bring the emotions and tensions out in a scene. It can be powerfully evocative and grab your attention and pull it along, or it can be more subtle and quiet, slowly luring you in. Talking about film music is a recurring topic in many threads on this forum, and it's once again time to see what the consensus for this place is concerning what film scores are our top choice.
 
The rules for eligibility are simple:
 
1) The score must be from a theatrically released motion picture.
 
2) The score must have a majority of its material composed for the motion picture. This disqualifies films with a majority of their music being pre-existing material, such as adaptations of Broadway musicals, Tarantino films using licensed songs and music pieces, films using predominantly classical music (2001: A Space Odyssey for example), etc.

 

3) Musicals originally made for the screen are eligible. I will leave it to the individual member's discretion to decide whether music written as themes for a song that also plays freestanding from lyrics can be considered part of the "original" score

 

 

You can submit lists of 10, 25, 50, 75, or 100. The lists are weighted so that the options with more listings have greater value for each ranking. The scoring for the 5 options is as follows:

 

List of 10:
1- 100
2- 85
3- 70
4- 55
5- 40
6- 30
7- 20
8- 10
9- 5
10- 1

 

List of 25:

Spoiler

1- 100 2. 90 3. 80 4. 70 5. 60 6-8- 50 9-12- 40 13-16- 30 17-20- 20 21- 15 22- 10 23- 5 24- 3 25- 1

 

List of 50:

Spoiler

1- 100 2- 95 3- 90 4- 85 5- 80 6- 75 7- 70 8- 65 9- 60 10- 50 11-15- 45 16-20- 40 21-25- 35 26-30- 30 31-35- 25 36-40- 20 41-43- 15 44-46- 10 47- 8 48- 5 49- 3 50- 1

 

List of 75:

Spoiler

1- 100 2- 98 3- 95 4- 93 5- 90 6- 88 7- 86 8- 84 9- 82 10- 80 11- 77 12- 74 13- 71 14- 68 15- 65 16- 62 17- 59 18- 56 19- 53 20- 50 21-25- 46 26-30- 42 31-35- 38 36-40- 34 41-45- 30 46-50- 25 51-55- 20 56-60- 15 61-65- 10 66-68- 8 69-71- 5 72- 4 73- 3 74- 2 75- 1

 

List of 100:

1- 100

2- 99

3- 98

...

100- 1

 

 

Lists can be posted in this thread if you want to share, but I would ask that you PM them to me so I can easily keep track of them all in one bunch rather than sift through a thread to see if I missed anyone. Also feel free to use this thread to promote the scores you really love (for example the Nolanites pushing Zimmer) and discuss the merits or demerits of them with others.
 
 
Deadline for submissions is tentatively Sunday March 5 at 11:59 PM PST. There may be extensions if necessary.

 

 

 

For reference, here are the past rankings:

 

2015

Spoiler

 

1. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

5. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

7. Jaws (1975)

8. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

9. Superman (1978)

10. Jurassic Park (1993)

11. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

12. The Godfather (1972)

13. Inception (2010)

14. Schindler’s List (1993)

15. Back to the Future (1985)

16. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

17. Blade Runner (1982)

18. Chariots of Fire (1981)

19. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

20. Rocky (1976)

21. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 

22. Interstellar (2014)

23. Tron Legacy (2010)

24. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

25. Halloween (1978)

26. The Lion King (1994)

27. Titanic (1997)

28. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

29. The Social Network (2010)

30. Gone with the Wind (1939)

31. Batman (1989)

32. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

33. The Incredibles (2004)

34. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

35. Psycho (1960)

36. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

37. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

38. Up (2009)

39. The Third Man (1949)

40. Beauty and the Beast (1991)

41. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

42. Goldfinger (1964)

43. Gladiator (2000)

44. Henry V (1989)

45. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

46. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

47. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

48. Chinatown (1974)

49. Conan the Barbarian (1982)

50. Alexander Nevsky (1938)

51. Transformers (2007)

52. Sunshine (2007)

53. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

54. Spider-Man (2002)

55. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

56. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

57. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

58. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

59. The Great Escape (1963)

60. Star Trek (2009)

61. Forrest Gump (1994)

62. Mullholland Drive (2001)

62. The Mission (1986)

64. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)

65. Cloud Atlas (2012)

66. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

67. Ben-Hur (1959)

68. The Natural (1984)

69. King Kong (1933)

70. WALL-E (2008)

71. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

72. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

73. Suspiria (1977)

74. TDKR (2012)

75. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

76. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

77. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

78. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

79. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

80. Thor (2011)

81. On the Waterfront (1954)

82. American Beauty (1999)

83. Pride and Prejudice (2005)

84. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

85. Dr. Zhivago (1965)

86. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

87. The Piano (1993)

88. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

89. Angels and Demons (2009)

90. Apollo 13 (1995)

91. North by Northwest (1959)

92. Princess Mononoke (1997)

93. Her (2013)

94. RoboCop (1987)

95. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

96. Sunset Boulevard (1950)/96. The Bridge on River Kwai (1957)

98. The Fountain (2006)

99. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

100. Batman Begins (2005)

 

 

2012

Spoiler

1. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
2. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
4. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
5. Titanic
6. Back to the Future
7. Jurassic Park
8. Superman
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
11. Rocky
12. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
13. Blade Runner
14. Gladiator
15. Inception
16. Once Upon a Time in the West
17. The Social Network
18. Jaws
19. Chinatown
20. Batman
21. Halloween
22. The Last of the Mohicans
23. The Terminator
24. The Lion King
25. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

 

 

Get to it, and have fun!
 

Edited by 4815162342
  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites





I can't belive that out of all the 2016 releases I've seen so far, a Marvel film was had my favorite score. Yup Doctor Strange had an Awesome score and will be making it's way into my list this time around. by far the best soundtrack to come from Marvel so far.

 

(start at 2:40 for best part of the score).

 

 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Top 25 Scores:

 

  1. Vertigo (1958) music by Bernard Hermann
  2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) music by Maurice Jarre
  3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) music by Ennio Morricone
  4. The Lion King (1994) music by Hans Zimmer
  5. The Godfather (1972) music by Nino Rota
  6. Akira (1988) music by Tsutomu Ōhashi
  7. Princess Mononoke (1997) music by Joe Hisaishi
  8. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) music by John Williams
  9. Spirited Away (2001) music by Joe Hisaishi
  10. Star Wars (1977) music by John Williams
  11. Schindler's List (1993) music by John Williams
  12. Taxi Driver (1976) music by Bernard Hermann
  13. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) music by Howard Shore
  14. Citizen Kane (1941) music by Bernard Hermann
  15. Bicycle Thieves (1948) music by Alessandro Cicognini
  16. On the Waterfront (1954) music by Leonard Bernstein
  17. Edward Scissorhands (1990) music by Danny Elfman
  18. The Third Man (1949) music by Anton Karas
  19. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) music by Joe Hisaishi
  20. Sunset Boulevard (1950) music by Franz Waxman
  21. North by Northwest (1959) music by Bernard Hermann
  22. The Secret of NIMH (1982) music by Jerry Goldsmith
  23. The Social Network (2010) music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
  24. Moonlight (2016) music by Nicholas Britell
  25. Road to Perdition (2002) music by Thomas Newman
Edited by cannastop
  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites







7 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

With the two year gap it will be interesting to see which 2015/2016 scores people will try to push.

 

Aside from the obvious ones (SW7, Mad Max Fury Road, La La Land)

 

Fury Road for sure. But Under the Skin is still the best of the past 5 years

Link to comment
Share on other sites



















Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Guidelines. Feel free to read our Privacy Policy as well.