Fair Game - Mark Mancina Bad Boys - Mark Mancina Crimson Tide - Hans Zimmer Beyond Rangoon - Hans Zimmer Crying Freeman - Patrick O'Hearn
Honorable mentions:
The Indian In The Cupboard - Randy Edelman The Langoliers - Vladimir Horunzhy Night Of The Running Man - Christopher Franke A Modern Affair - Jan Hammer Chicago Hope - Jeff Rona Braveheart - James Horner Copycat - Christopher Young Kiss Of Death - Trevor Jones Farlig Farvann - Reidar Skår & Bendik Hofseth
Another great great year for traditional orchestral scores !
NIXON is far and away the best score of 1995 SABRINA (John Williams) APOLLO 13 (James Horner) ACROSS THE SEA OF TIME (John Barry) JUDGE DREDD (Alan Silvestri)
CUTTHROAT ISLAND (John Debney) ROB ROY (Carter Burwell) BEYOND RANGOON (Hans Zimmer) THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (Alan Silvestri) VIRTUOSITY (Christopher Young)
1. First Knight (Jerry Goldsmith) 2. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (Basil Poledouris) 3. Waterworld (James Newton Howard) 4. Apollo 13 (James Horner) 5. Sudden Death (John Debney)
Honorable Mentions: * Congo (Jerry Goldsmith) * Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Alan Howarth) * Jumangi (James Horner) * The Quick and the Dead (Alan Silvestri) * Village of the Damned (John Carpenter)
NIXON - John Williams ( The winner! ) BRAVEHEART - James Horner APOLLO 13 - James Horner FIRST KNIGHT - Jerry Goldsmith ACROSS THE SEA OF TIME - John Barry
Not a bad year at all, a shame I had to leave out some very fine scores.
1# - UNDER SIEGE II - by Basil Poledouris (one of my personal favourites)
2# - BRAVEHEART - by James Horner
3# - BAD BOYS - by Mark Mancina
4# - HIDEAWAY - by Trevor Jones
5# - CONGO - by Jerry Goldsmith
Runner Up's
FAIR GAME - by Mark Mancina (love the Main Title) THE QUICK AND THE DEAD - by Alan Silvestri WATERWORLD - by James Newton Howard CRIMSON TIDE - by Hans Zimmer JUDGE DREDD - by Alan Silvestri SCREAMERS - by Normand Corbeil BEYOND RANGOON - by Hans Zimmer
BATMAN FOREVER -- Elliot Goldenthal THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY -- Lennie Niehaus DON JUAN DeMARCO -- Michael Kamen HEAT -- Elliot Goldenthal HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT -- Thomas Newman NIXON -- John Williams THE POSTMAN (IL POSTINO) -- Luis Enrique Bacalov ROB ROY -- Carter Burwell SENSE AND SENSIBILITY -- Patrick Doyle A WALK IN THE CLOUDS -- Maurice Jarre
Honorable mentions to APOLLO 13 (James Horner), BRAVEHEART (James Horner), CUTTHROAT ISLAND (John Debney), DOLORES CLAIBORNE (Danny Elfman -- especially how it works in the movie!), FIRST KNIGHT (Jerry Goldsmith), MURDER IN THE FIRST (Christopher Young), NIXON (John Williams), RESTORATION (James Newton Howared & Henry Purcell), ROB ROY (Carter Burwell).
WATERWORLD - JAMES NEWTON HOWARD OUTBREAK - JAMES NEWTON HOWARD FAIR GAME - MARK MANCINA CONGO - JERRY GOLDSMITH DETONATOR II: NIGHT WATCH - JOHN SCOTT
HONORABLE MENTIONS: BAD BOYS - MARK MANCINA FIRST KNIGHT - JERRY GOLDSMITH JOHNNY MNEMONIC - BRAD FIEDEL CUTTHROAT ISLAND - JOHN DEBNEY ROB ROY - CARTER BURWELL
By the way I am not so good to remember which score came which year so I hope they all are from the same year, I did not made any research, only from my memory.
Honorable mentions to APOLLO 13 (James Horner), BRAVEHEART (James Horner), CUTTHROAT ISLAND (John Debney), DOLORES CLAIBORNE (Danny Elfman -- especially how it works in the movie!), FIRST KNIGHT (Jerry Goldsmith), MURDER IN THE FIRST (Christopher Young), NIXON (John Williams), RESTORATION (James Newton Howared & Henry Purcell), ROB ROY (Carter Burwell).
Still waiting for Thor's first non-Hollywood score...
NICK OF TIME (Arthur B. Rubinstein, and the winner) BATMAN FOREVER (Elliott Goldenthal) SPECIES (Christopher Young) FIRST KNIGHT (Jerry Goldsmith) NIXON (John Williams)
Runners-Up:
Cutthroat Island (John Debney, derivative but powerful) Die Hard: With a Vengeance (Michael Kamen) The Quick and the Dead (Alan Silvestri) A Walk in the Clouds (Maurice Jarre) Operation Dumbo Drop (David Newman) The Horseman on the Roof (Jean-Claude Petit) Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde (Mark McKenzie - totally delightful) Schlafes Bruder (Norbert Jürgen Schneider, who now, idiotically, calls himself "Enjot")
Most overrated/undernourished/overblown scores of 1995: Braveheart (James Horner), Se7en (Howard Shore), Crimson Tide (a shade of things to come from Hansi Zimmer), Judge Dredd (Alan Silvestri), Mr Holland's Opus (the "American Symphony" is pathetic!, Michael Kamen), Powder (Jerry Goldsmith - mysteriously, this is a favorite of many JG fans).
Worst Score of the Year (and, Decade): GoldenEye (Eric Serra)