Greatest Film Score?

[Ciprian]

A few of the scores I like:

Babel



Eastern Promises



Jacob's Ladder



Spartacus

 

[ServerOfAnubis]

The Shining
BEN-HUR!!!!!
2001: A Space Odyssey
Halo 3
The Dark Knight
Passion Of The Christ
Gladiator
Eyes Wide Shut
Assassins Creed
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Geisha
Schindler's List
The Fast And The Furious(the first one)
The One
Godfather
Sleepy Hollow
Van Helsing
...

and for me the most beautiful movie score ever written is Big Fish. It's so powerful and means everything in the movie. I was a little bit pissed when LOTR win best music. Just a little...

 

[Sebastian]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Godfather

 

[Mr. Big Noodles]

Coraline
In Bruges (I don't know if the score was written specifically for the film or not, but it's interesting.)
Back To The Future

 

[JeffFromMtl]

The soundtrack that Explosions in the Sky composed for Friday night Lights was incredible.

I'm also a huge fan of scores by Yann Tiersen. Amélie had some beautiful stuff in it.

 

[Daemoniac]

Shit, how the hell could I have forgotten Hellraiser

 

[Dan]

The Land Before Time

 

[Mr. Big Noodles]

The Land Before Time

Forgot about that one. I was thinking about that music a couple days ago. Beautiful.

 

[petereanima]

i think all of my favourites have been posted already, but to give them another vote:

LOTR
The Godfather
Hellraiser

and i like most of Hans Zimmers (yes, also Pirates...) and Danny Elfmans stuff.

 

[JunkMan]

Requim for a dream

the most buitiful peice of music ever writen, period



dunno how to post vids, sorry XD

 

[brick]

"A Beautiful Mind"

 

[Monk]

Alien (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Black Hole (John Barry)
Sunshine (Underworld)

 

[SerratedSkies]

Pirates of the Caribbean. Hans Zimmer is my hero.

 

[TaronKeim]

Volver by Alberto Iglesias

A strange mix of cartoon, spy, latin and melancholy music.

Runner Up would have to be:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

Dreadful film with one of the most beautiful and solemn scores I've heard.

_TJK*

 

[AvantGuardian]

The Hours - Philip Glass

 

[Ramsay777]

man, I'm surprised no one's mentioned Steve Jablonki's work on Transformers!!

I have to agree with the folk who mentioned The Piano, LOTR, Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribean Too

 

[Sang-Drax]

The Fountain - by Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet, and Mogwai. It's worth half the movie.

 

[hide]

Prospero's Book - pure Nyman goodness

 

[Axel]

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Aye. Shame it didn't get mentioned til the 5th page.

 

[matty2fatty]

^This, 28 Days Later, 25th Hour, and anything by John Williams. There are a few others I find pretty stimulating but I can't think of them offhand.

If you liked this go listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The music from the first sequence (after he wakes up in the hospital) is from one of their songs called East Hastings....amazing stuff.