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Nov 29, 2018 - 4:20 AM
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Thor
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We've done a number of variations of these over the years (usually by decade or individual year), but due to a recent thread over on JWFAN, I decided to go through the entire film history and choose my favourites. I don't expect anyone else to share theirs; it's a lot of work, but I thought it would be interesting to share mine here too.
Also, I'm sure I'll have to replace some of these as I remember favourites I've forgotten in a respective year. It's a dynamic list. I've tried to keep a balanced list of scores I love to listen to, and scores that work great in their movie -- even though they are very different areas.
OK, I can’t start at the beginning of film history in the 1890s, since there were no original scores. They were also rare in the 1900s and 1910s, although shout-outs to these – all of with whom I’m familiar and like:
1908: L’Assasinat de Duc de Guise (Camille Saint-Saens)
1915: The Birth of a Nation (Joseph Carl Breil)
1916: Intolerance (Joseph Carl Breil)
1918: A Dog’s Life (Charlie Chaplin)
…and then let’s start proper in 1920:
1920: ?
1921: The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
1922: Nosferatu (Hans Erdmann)
1923: La Roue (Arthur Honegger)
1924: Greed (William Axt)
1925: Battleship Potemkin (Edmund Meisel)
1926: ?
1927: Metropolis (Gottfried Huppertz)
1928: October (Dmitri Shostakovich)
1929: ?
1930: Der Blaue Engel (Friedrich Hollaender)
1931: City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
1932: ?
1933: King Kong (Max Steiner)
1934: Madame Bovary (Darius Milhaud)
1935: Captain Blood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
1936: The Plow that Broke the Plains (Virgil Thomson)
1937: The Prince and the Pauper (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
1938: Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Prokofiev)
1939: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
1940: Rebecca (Franz Waxman)
1941: 49th Parallell (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
1942: The Jungle Book (Miklos Rozsa)
1943: The Song of Bernadette (Alfred Newman)
1944: Jane Eyre (Bernard Herrmann)
1945: Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Prokofiev)
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (Hugo Friedhofer)
1947: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Bernard Herrmann)
1948: Bicycle Thieves (Alessandro Cicognini)
1949: Passport to Pimlico (Georges Auric)
1950: Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman)
1951: Quo Vadis (Miklos Rozsa)
1952: Viva Zapata! (Alex North)
1953: Julius Caesar (Miklos Rozsa)
1954: Sansho the Bailiff (Fumio Hayasaka)
1955: The Man With the Golden Arm (Elmer Bernstein)
1956: The Ten Commandments (Elmer Bernstein)
1957: Peyton Place (Franz Waxman)
1958: The Big Country (Jerome Moross)
1959: Ben Hur (Miklos Rozsa) – tricky year, Sleeping Beauty and The 400 Blows are very close
1960: The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein)
1961: King of Kings (Miklos Rozsa)
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein)
1963: The Leopard (Nino Rota)
1964: The Fall of the Roman Empire (Dimitri Tiomkin)
1965: The Agony and the Ecstasy (Alex North)
1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone) – but something in me really wants to select Not With My Wife You Don’t! Seriously. One of my JW favourites of the 60s.
1967: Our Mother’s House (Georges Delerue)
1968: Planet of the Apes (Jerry Goldsmith) – but what a year in terms of film music!
1969: The Reivers (John Williams)
1970: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Arne Nordheim) – unless Jane Eyre counts, being a TV movie
1971: Get Carter (Roy Budd)
1972: L'Apocalypse des Animaux (Vangelis) – but Solaris and Images a very close second
1973: Papillon (Jerry Goldsmith) – but Cinderella Liberty a close second
1974: The Towering Inferno (John Williams)
1975: Jaws (John Williams)
1976: The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith)
1977: Star Wars (John Williams)
1978: Superman: The Movie (John Williams)
1979: Alien (Jerry Goldsmith)
1980: The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (John Williams)
1982: Blade Runner (Vangelis)
1983: Return of the Jedi (John Williams)
1984: The Neverending Story (Giorgio Moroder & Klaus Doldinger)
1985: Ladyhawke (Andrew Powell)
1986: Aliens (James Horner)
1987: Empire of the Sun (John Williams) – but Pelle the Conqueror a close second
1988: Midnight Run (Danny Elfman)
1989: The Abyss (Alan Silvestri) – but The Last Crusade a close second
1990: Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman)
1991: Hook (John Williams) – but Beauty and the Beast a close second
1992: Alien 3 (Elliot Goldenthal)
1993: Jurassic Park (John Williams)
1994: The Shawshank Redemption (Thomas Newman)
1995: Waterworld (James Newton Howard) -- but Crimson Tide and Heat a close second
1996: The Rock (Hans Zimmer & Nick Glennie-Smith)
1997: Titanic (James Horner)
1998: The Thin Red Line (Hans Zimmer)
1999: The Mummy (Jerry Goldsmith), but Snow Falling on Cedars a close second (what a year!)
2000: Gladiator (Hans Zimmer)
2001: A.I. – Artificial Intelligence (John Williams)
2002: Whale Rider (Lisa Gerrard)
2003: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Howard Shore)
2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (John Williams), but Crash and Passion of the Christ a close second
2005: Memoirs of a Geisha (John Williams)
2006: World Trade Center (Craig Armstrong)
2007: El Greco (Vangelis), but Transformers a close second
2008: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (James Horner), but Standard Operating Procedure a close second
2009: Avatar (James Horner)
2010: Inception (Hans Zimmer)
2011: Jane Eyre (Dario Marianelli)
2012: Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
2013: Prisoners (Jóhann Jóhannsson)
2014: The Unknown Known (Danny Elfman)
2015: The Duke of Burgundy (Cat’s Eyes)
2016: Nerve (Rob Simonsen)
2017: Valley of Shadows (Zbigniew Preisner)
2018: Videoman (Waveshaper & Robert Parker)
2019: A Hidden Life (James Newton Howard)
2020: Blood Machines (Carpenter Brut)
2021: Pleasure (Karl Frid)
2022: Benedetta (Anne Dudley)
2023: ?
I know I have question marks for '26, '29 and '32. There are some great movies these years, but not a lot in terms of score, or original score.
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That is a really great list. And not that it matters in the scheme of things, but I agree with most of the choices you've made.
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I ought to sue Thor!...but what the hey, I’m flattered at the theft!
1975: Jaws by John Williams
1976: The Omen by Jerry Goldsmith
1977: Suspiria by Goblin
1978: The Fury by John Williams
1979: The Muppet Movie by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher
1980: The Fog by John Carpenter
1981: The Great Muppet Caper by Joe Raposo
1982: Poltergeist by Jerry Goldsmith
1983: Under Fire by Jerry Goldsmith
1984: Gremlins by Jerry Goldsmith
1985: Return to Oz by David Shire
1986: King Kong Lives by John Scott
1987: Hellraiser by Christopher Young
1988: Land Before Time by James Horner
1989: Little Mermaid by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
1990: Gremlins 2 by Jerry Goldsmith
1991: Hook by John Williams
1992: Batman Returns by Danny Elfman
1993: Nightmare Before Christmas by Danny Elfman
1994: Miracle on 34th Street by Bruce Broughton
1995: Far From Home by John Scott
1996: Homeward Bound 2 by Bruce Broughton
1997: The Lost World by John Williams
1998: A Bug’s Life by Randy Newman
1999: Sleepy Hollow by Danny Elfman
2000: Chicken Run by John Powell and HGW
2001: Monsters Inc by Randy Newman
2002: Eight Legged Freaks by John Ottman
2003: Looney Tunes Back in Action by Jerry Goldsmith
2004: Mickey Donald and Goofy in The Three Musketeers by Bruce Broughton
2005: An Unfinished Life by Christopher Young
2006: Pan's Labyrinth by Javier Navarrete
2007: The Orphanage by Fernando Velasquez
2008: Horton Hears a Who by John Powell
2009: Drag Me to Hell by Christopher Young
2010: How to Train Your Dragon by John Powell
2011: The Adventures of Tintin by John Williams
2012: The Amazing Spider-Man by James Horner
2013: Frozen by Christophe Beck
2014: How to Train Your Dragon 2 by John Powell
2015: Shaun the Sheep Movie by Ilan Eshker
2016: Pete's Dragon by Daniel Hart
2017: Ferdinand by John Powell
2018: Fallen Kingdom by Michael Giacchino
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But you didn't ask my lawyers!
The same idiom? What do you mean by that, sir Thor?
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Oh!...oh dear, pardon my being predictable then. ^^;
It probably says something about my predictability that upon being quizzed, my (fellow film score-loving) grandfather was very easily able to guess that Poltergeist is my all-time favorite score in the entire world, without much hinting at all.
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