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Jun 16, 2021 - 12:52 AM
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Faivre0616
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That’s a really hard one. I love most of my favorite composers equally seeing as they all have different distinctive styles, but I do tend to answer Thomas Newman or John Williams to this question. Lately, though, I’ve been listening to a lot of Michel Legrand, a French composer who worked on many movies of the French New Wave, and I absolutely love his scores.
Listen to this piece for “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg’ and dare telling me this is not making you emotional... It’s even more moving if you see the movie and the story it is associated to. I have an undying love for Thomas Newman’s work (American Beauty, The Green Line, The Shawshank Redemption, Revolutionary Road, Little Women, Finding Nemo…) but just considering these past days my answer would be Michel Legrand.
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Don't really have to think about that one. It's Jerry Goldsmith, he's been my favorite compooser for about 25 years now.
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Of course, very difficult... like many here, I have not just "one" favorite film composer. Dimitri Tiomkin, Miklós Rózsa, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Bruce Broughton, Maurice Jarre, Jerry Fielding, John Barry, Leonard Rosenman, James Horner, Elliot Goldenthal, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard are among my favorite film composers, no doubt. And certainly John Williams, for sure.
However, you asked for "favorite", not "favorites", so everything considered, including for how long I have loved their film scores and when I think back on the impact and influence they had on my (musical) life, how often I turn to their music... then I have to say my favorite film composers are
Jerry Goldsmith
Ennio Morricone
I know that's still two, but either one fits as my personal "favorite" quite well.
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That guy who represents a shark with two notes.
me too
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Jun 16, 2021 - 4:58 AM
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MusicMad
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That’s a really hard one. I love most of my favorite composers equally seeing as they all have different distinctive styles, but I do tend to answer Thomas Newman or John Williams to this question. Lately, though, I’ve been listening to a lot of Michel Legrand, a French composer who worked on many movies of the French New Wave, and I absolutely love his scores....
Welcome, Faivre0616, to the forum! Your opening question is one posed many times and for many of us the question generates the same answer, if not the same name.
You mention John Williams: he or Jerry Goldsmith will be the name stated in many answers ... in my case, it's John Barry ... no change for almost 50 years 
The highly rated Thomas Newman does not feature in my list of favourite composers; I certainly prefer Michel Legrand of the two but there are far too many names I'd list ahead of both.
Mitch
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1 Sylvester Levay
2 Hans Zimmer
3 Harold Faltermeyer
4 Jonathan Elias
5 Tim Truman
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