BOT's TOP 100 Film Scores: The Fourth Will Be With You, Always --- RECOUNT DONE, NEW TOP 100 POSTED

[TomCruiseTop]

2 minutes ago, 4815162342 said:

The Cameron Offensive strikes a heavy blow, propelling a film that was well outside the Top 100 the past two times into the upper two-thirds. This combined arms assault will have additional repercussions later on. Horner and Cameron had substantial friction during composing, as the film had not been completed at the time Horner arrived in London, with the result that some aspects of the score had to be written overnight. In spite of Horner's dissatisfaction, he was nominated for an Academy Award. He and Cameron would eventually bury the hatchet, and reunite 11 years later.

There he is. Sad that it's so low down the list (it is in my top 5 OST's of all time). Fun fact - I've visited the house where Jim and James made this soundtrack! 

[4815162342]

#62 Requiem for a Dream (2000)

 

Composed by Clint Mansell

 

306 Points

Top 10 Placements: 1

 

 

Next up we have another rebounder, as Requiem for a Dream had been at #37 in 2015 and then well outside the Top 100 last time around. Mansell utilized a minimalist style for composing the music, with a lot of focus on simple, repeating, pulsating melodies. Mansell and Aronofsky envisioned Requiem to be almost a monster movie in style, in that the audience only hears the music when something bad happens.
 

Edited July 10, 2019 by 4815162342

[4815162342]

#61 Forrest Gump (1994)

 

Composed by Alan Silvestri

 

308 Points

Top 5 Placements: 1

 

 

Silvestri returns for a film score that is definitely not of the MCU variety. The score is heavily based on two themes, a soft, gentle piano cue that bookends the movie with recurrences in-between, and a more soaring, energetic cue that references particular standout moments of the titular character's life, such as the music in the sample shown above. Silvestri will be back.

 

 

 

#60-56 will be posted later tonight

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[4815162342]

5 minutes ago, JamesCameronScholar said:

There he is. Sad that it's so low down the list (it is in my top 5 OST's of all time). Fun fact - I've visited the house where Jim and James made this soundtrack! 

 

Horner will be back for more.

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#60 Alexander Nevsky (1938)

 

Composed by Sergei Prokofiev

 

316 Points

#1 Placements: 1

Top 5 Placements: 1

 

 

We now turn to one of the oldest films in the Top 100. Sadly it could not have a threepeat of being ranked exactly at #50. Prokofiev and the director Sergei Eisenstein collaborated very closely during production to match music perfectly with the action upon the screen. Prokofiev would experiment with different microphone distances to create a sense of distortion for some elements of the score.
 

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#59 The Lion King (1994)

 

Composed by Hans Zimmer

 

316 Points

Top 5 Placements: 1

Vote Tiebreaker Over Alexander Nevsky

 

 

There was a time where even The Zimmer worked with the Disney Empire. And in many ways it is very different from what you would consider a Zimmer score to be, and yet this was the one that has gotten him his sole Oscar. The love for this score has moderated a bit this time around, dropping from the mid-20s it reached the prior two times. It will be interesting to see how much, if at all, his work for the 2019 Dismake will be.
 

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#58 Chariots of Fire

 

Composed by Vangelis

 

317 Points

#1 Placements: 1

Top 10 Placements: 1

 

 

Another iconic cinema music theme now shows up, courtesy of the Greek electronic composer Vangelis. It was a deliberate decision from the get-go to use a electronic/synth based score for the film, as opposed to traditional orchestra, to give some anachronistic modernity to the film. Originally a pre-existing Vangelis tune was to be the centerpiece for the score, but Vangelis insisted he could write something better, and thence came the now memorable main theme.
 

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#57 Interstellar (2014)

 

Composed by Hans Zimmer

 

321 Points

Top 5 Placements: 1

Top 10 Placements: 1

 

 

And now we get a much more stereotypical Zimmer film score, one born of his frequent collaborations with Christopher Nolan over the last 14 years. Only slightly dropping from 2017, this organ-empowered film score seems to have stabilized in the estimation of the BOT crew. When Zimmer began work, Nolan chose not to provide Zimmer with a script or any plot details , but instead gave the composer a single page that told the story of a father leaving his child for work. Much of the electronic/synth aspects of the score was performed by Zimmer himself.

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#56 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

 

Composed by Thomas Newman

 

321 Points

Top 10 Placements: 1

Vote Tiebreaker over Interstellar

 

 

We shift back to a more traditional film score with Thomas Newman's work on the adaptation of the Stephen King novella. Newman found it challenging composing for the film, since he found the content of the scenes themselves to be so emotional he didn't want the music to undercut or distract from that. This score was one of those that benefitted from the shifting population of list contributors, rising over 30 spots.

 

 

[The Panda]

2 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

#60 Alexander Nevsky (1938)

 

Composed by Sergei Prokofiev

 

316 Points

#1 Placements: 1

Top 5 Placements: 1

 

 

We now turn to one of the oldest films in the Top 100. Sadly it could not have a threepeat of being ranked exactly at #50. Prokofiev and the director Sergei Eisenstein collaborated very closely during production to match music perfectly with the action upon the screen. Prokofiev would experiment with different microphone distances to create a sense of distortion for some elements of the score.
 

Way to low!!!

[Plain Old Tele]

58?!

 

58?!?!!  

 

 

[Pure Spirit]

46 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said:

58?!

 

58?!?!!  

 

 

The British Empire is crumbling. 

[TalismanRing]

1 hour ago, Plain Old Tele said:

58?!

 

58?!?!!  

 

 

 

But did you send in a list?

 

I'm the Top 10. I had it #9

[DAR]

1 hour ago, Plain Old Tele said:

58?!

 

58?!?!!  

 

 

Hey it’s a shock people even know the score

[Fancyarcher]

1 hour ago, Plain Old Tele said:

58?!

 

58?!?!!  

 

 

And to think it was #18 last time. Quite the tumble. 

[4815162342]

1 hour ago, Fancyarcher said:

And to think it was #18 last time. Quite the tumble. 

 

This countdown has some shakeups.

 

Nothing as controversial as Rocky IV doing pretty well in 2017 though I think.

[LawrenceBrolivier]

On 7/9/2019 at 3:58 PM, 4815162342 said:

#71 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

 

Composed by John Williams

 

289 Points

#1 Placements: 1

Am I really the only person who put this at #1? 

(sees a Pirates of the Caribbean sequel and Blade Runner 2049 on the list) 

This list is going to give me a headache, isn't it. 

(sees Aliens, which is maybe Horner's most derivative score ever, with 75% of it coming from Battle Beyond the Stars/Star Trek II, and the other 25% coming from Goldsmith's score and Khachaturian's ballet) 

(takes aspirin) 

14 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

And now we get a much more stereotypical Zimmer film score

Interstellar is one of the most unique entries in Zimmer's filmography, I'd argue. 

Edited July 11, 2019 by LawrenceBrolivier

[cannastop]

15 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

And in many ways it is very different from what you would consider a Zimmer score to be

What that it has a melody?

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#55 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

 

Composed by Alexandre Desplat

 

324 Points

 

 

Next up for the Top 100 is a film that has slowly been making its way further up each time around, from 75 to 66 to now 55. At this rate it should be in the 40s for the 2021 iteration. Much of the score is inspired by Russian and Eastern European folk music, and the score heavily relies upon the Balalaika to provide much of the legwork.

Edited July 12, 2019 by 4815162342

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#54 The Godfather: Part II (1974)

 

Composed by Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola

 

328 Points

 

 

Next up for the Top 100 is one of the best regarded films in cinema. Though its predecessor had been declared ineligible for the Academy Awards, Godfather Part II made up for that by winning the Oscar for Original Score. Improving 20 spots from last time around, it still has a fair ways to go before it matches its 2015 apex.
 

Edited July 12, 2019 by 4815162342