Best Movie Music Composer

[Slayer]

Share your opinions please. May help to throw in Movie titles.
As for myself, it's an easy choice.

ENNIO MORRICONE

 

[blse59]

James Horner, Nino Rota (Romeo & Juliet, Godfather, etc.), Bernard Herrmann (Taxi Driver, etc.).

 

[Berwhale]

Clint Mansell

Movies: Pi, Moon, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Black Swan, High-Rise.

Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream (it's not a happy film)...

 

[hdspeakerman]

James Newton Howard

 

[Deleted member 23424]

I'm sure all the greats will be mentioned in this thread, I'll let nature take its course, but just a quick shout for Colin Stetson. And Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead). And Oneohtrix Point Never.

Hereditary, Uncut Gems, The Master, There Will Be Blood all hail from the very top drawer.

 

[Descartes]

Here is my list with at least one movie
- Ennio Morricone: “The Good the Bad the Ugly” and all the spaghetti westerns
- Marco Beltrami: “3:10 to Yuma” and “The Hurt Locker”
- John Williams: Star Wars
Hans Zimmer: Interstellar” “Inception” “Gladiator” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series, & Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy
- John Barry: James Bond
- Klaus Badelt: Pirates of the Caribbean
- Alexandre Desplat: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” “Zero Dark Thirty”
- Javier Navarrete: “Pan’s Labyrinth,”
- Rachel Portman: Chocolat
- Jonny Greenwood: “There Will Be Blood”
….
Anyhow here is an impressive list enjoy!

The Greatest Film Composers of All Time & Their Best Movie - IMDb

The Greatest Film Composers of All Time & Their Best Movie

www.imdb.com

 

[Martini]

Gotta throw Danny Elfman on the list.

 

[Longshan]

Share your opinions please. May help to throw in Movie titles.
As for myself, it's an easy choice.

ENNIO MORRICONE

EVERYONE WHO DID NOT SAY 'BERNARD HERMANN' IS WRONG.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go cough on Hans Zimmer.

 

[Longshan]

James Horner, Nino Rota (Romeo & Juliet, Godfather, etc.), Bernard Herrmann (Taxi Driver, etc.).

All great picks here.

 

[Thunder22]

I really like what Patrick Pietschmann does with some of these. Check out this one.

 

[litemotiv]

A couple of my favorites:

Angelo Badalamenti

Twin Peaks

The Beach

Johann Johannsson (†)

The Theory of Everything

John Murphy

Sunshine

28 Days Later

Max Richter

Shutter Island / Arrival

 

[Booker]

Karel Svoboda is not worldwide famous, but his works deserve to be mentioned among those above.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=karel+svoboda+filmov%C3%A1+hudba

 

[Jukebox]

Loved the movie and the groovy Jazz

 

[polmuaddib]

Don't forget the greeks...

 

[audio2design]

Star Wars, Raiders Of The Lost Arc, Superman, Schindler's List, Harry Potter, Valley of the Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof (film adaptation), Jaws, Close Encounters, Saving Private Ryan - there is Williams, and then there is everybody else.

 

[Jim Matthews]

Elmer Bernstein gets my vote.

 

[Klonatans]

Eleni Karaindrou. She has written some beautifully melancholic music for films of Theo Angelopoulos. The music is released by ECM Records.