Herman Stein's obituary was published in "Variety" around 1984, I believe. I have it in my files somewhere. However, he wasn't dead, and in fact survived for another 23 years. Technically, that made him "dead-living," but still, I think he should get the award.
these threads about who is the greatest...are so silly, boring and childish, sorry folks!
Oh no!.....I’m so sorry I’ve offended you and taken up wasting some of your valuable time. I’m just going to go and sit in the corner now and think about what I’ve done. Maybe I can get together some of your previous sensational comments, put them into a book and by constantly reading them, get started on that path to becoming a gosh-darn better human being!
I personally love these kind of threads because I always find out about some composer/score I'd never heard of. I like what McCreery did with TWD. Those opening credits are chilly.
The (H)answer is easy : HANS ZIMMER! Because he's still living and because he scored "No Time To Die" (great title for a zombi movie!), a film under perfusion while the producers are forced to artificially modify the phone models that are exhibited in the film. When "No Time To Die" entered pre-production, phones looked like this :
