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I just found this, John Barry's 12 favourite film scores of all time (in no order, although his #1 is Streetcar):
A Streetcar Named Desire - Alex North
Juliet of the Spirits - Nino Rota
The Adventures of Robin Hood - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Sea Hawk - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Max Steiner
Star Wars - John Williams
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone
Once Upon a Time in America - Ennio Morricone
The Big Country - Jerome Moross
Goldfinger - John Barry
Midnight Cowboy - John Barry
Chariots of Fire - Vangelis
You can read what he says about his choices here: https://johnbarry.org.uk/images/fsts/John_Barry_for_the_Record-David_Toop_FSTS-32.pdf
He included two of his own scores among his favourites.
He got two of his own on there and couldn't find room for one Goldsmith? smdh lol
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I think you have to take these lists with a grain of salt when it comes to omissions. If anybody asked me my ten favorite scores I could rattle off ten immediately, but if I gave the matter any thought I'd probably substitute a few of those choices.
Plus, on the whole, I don't think film composers listen, on record, to nearly as much film music as posters here do. They take their work very seriously, have great respect for some of their colleagues but for their own pleasure put on a classical record or jazz or whatever. I base this on reading interviews with film composers.
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In the book "The Art of Bond--From Storybook to Screen" Steven Spielberg mentions how much he admires John Barry's scores; if memory serves, he mentions the Bonds and singles out The Lion in Winter, The Ipcress File, The Quiller Memorandum. He Mentions the song "Goldfinger" for what it did for the series, but said that his favorite Bond song was "Live and Let Die." Elsewhere he has expressed admiration for Quincy Jones' In Cold Blood.
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Faltermeyer mentioned The Mission and The Name Of The Rose.
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I met John Corigliano when he was a guest instructor at my college, and I had to ask him, which film composers / scores he most admired.
He considered Jerry Goldsmith the best, and also greatly admired John Williams (he did not name specific scores of theirs however). He expressed admiration for East of Eden ("Aaron couldn't have written a better Americana theme"), and Rozsa's epic scores (particularly for their brass writing). He was trying to remember the name of another film, but could not; based on his description I'm pretty sure he was talking about The Milagro Beanfied War.
Bear in mind these were "off the cuff" choices. Given more time I'm sure he would have thought of others.
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According to his wife, George Romero died listening to Victor Young's THE QUIET MAN, one of his favourite films.
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