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MY TOP 50 FILM SCORES

My personal list of the top fifty film scores. Only films with music and/or songs written specifically for the films were considered, although I consider sequels to be exempt if there is a substantial enough expansion of themes introduced in the previous films as well as development of new themes.

The list is constructed as follows: the first ten are my top ten and are ranked as such, followed by the remaining forty which are in alphabetical order.

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  • Ben-Hur

    1

  • A Hard Day's Night

    2

  • Star Wars

    3

  • Psycho

    4

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    5

  • The Godfather Part II

    6

  • Koyaanisqatsi

    7

  • Chinatown

    8

  • The Red Shoes

    9

  • The Third Man

    10

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    11

  • Aliens

    12

  • Batman

    13

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    14

  • Blue Velvet

    15

  • Cinema Paradiso

    16

  • Citizen Kane

    17

  • Contempt

    18

  • The Conversation

    19

  • The Day the Earth Stood Still

    20

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    21

  • Edward Scissorhands

    22

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    23

  • Godzilla

    24

  • Gone with the Wind

    25

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    26

  • The Great Escape

    27

  • How the West Was Won

    28

  • Jaws

    29

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    30

  • The Magnificent Seven

    31

  • Miller's Crossing

    32

  • The Muppet Movie

    33

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas

    34

  • The Omen

    35

  • Pinocchio

    36

  • Powaqqatsi

    37

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    38

  • The Right Stuff

    39

  • Rocky

    40

  • The Searchers

    41

  • Se7en

    42

  • Seven Samurai

    43

  • Spartacus

    44

  • Superman

    45

  • There Will Be Blood

    46

  • This Is Spinal Tap

    47

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    48

  • Vertigo

    49

  • The Wizard of Oz

    50