Name your favourite 5 film composers and scores/pieces

Pretty self explanatory from the title; name your five (it was three but that wasn’t enough ha) favourite composers and scores/tracks from scores.

Mine are (at the moment)

Thomas Newman – Shawshank Redemption – Stoic Theme

Alan Silvestri – Mouse Hunt – Title Theme

Danny Elfman – Spiderman 2 – Title Theme

John Williams – The Terminal – The Tale of Viktor Navorski

John Murphy – 28 Days Later – Title Theme

So it seems my favourites are all basically main themes, not sure what that says about my taste but hey, I guess for me they are the most infectious, impressive pieces which capture the mood of each film perfectly. Come on then, let’s hear yours!

I thought this would have been a good discussion, damn I was wrong haha

Thomas Newman – ‘Road to Perdition” is my all time favorite! Good call on that one. But also dig Zimmer, Tyler Bates, and Martin O’Donnell (Halo)

I like this thread, I want more suggested listening!

SoundFix said
Pretty self explanatory from the title; name your five (it was three but that wasn’t enough ha) favourite composers and scores/tracks from scores.

Mine are (at the moment)

Thomas Newman – Shawshank Redemption – Stoic Theme

Alan Silvestri – Mouse Hunt – Title Theme

Danny Elfman – Spiderman 2 – Title Theme

John Williams – The Terminal – The Tale of Viktor Navorski

John Murphy – 28 Days Later – Title Theme

So it seems my favourites are all basically main themes, not sure what that says about my taste but hey, I guess for me they are the most infectious, impressive pieces which capture the mood of each film perfectly. Come on then, let’s hear yours!

I really like the work of Howard Shore on Lord Of The Rings films.

JonBuice said
Thomas Newman – ‘Road to Perdition” is my all time favorite! Good call on that one. But also dig Zimmer, Tyler Bates, and Martin O’Donnell (Halo) I like this thread, I want more suggested listening!

Thanks for commenting dude, I did wonder why no one had voiced there opinions yet!

Yeah Zimmer is awesome too, love his work on Inception. I know Tyler Bates, haven’t heard many of his scores accept 300 and Watchmen and I will have to check out Martin O’Donnell (I don’t play many games)

SoundFix said
Pretty self explanatory from the title; name your five (it was three but that wasn’t enough ha) favourite composers and scores/tracks from scores.

Mine are (at the moment)

Thomas Newman – Shawshank Redemption – Stoic Theme

Alan Silvestri – Mouse Hunt – Title Theme

Danny Elfman – Spiderman 2 – Title Theme

John Williams – The Terminal – The Tale of Viktor Navorski

John Murphy – 28 Days Later – Title Theme

So it seems my favourites are all basically main themes, not sure what that says about my taste but hey, I guess for me they are the most infectious, impressive pieces which capture the mood of each film perfectly. Come on then, let’s hear yours!

AudioAgent said
I really like the work of Howard Shore on Lord Of The Rings films.

Yes, great composer, a truly epic score for an epic film!

For the moment I think these are my choices:

Alan Silverstri – Forrest Gump Suite

Dario Marianelli – Liz On Top Of The World (Pride & Prejudice)

John Williams – Catch Me If You Can

Michael Giacchino – Married Life (Up)

Andrea Guerra – Opening from The Pursuit of Happyness

Honorable Mentions:

Howard Shore on Mrs. Doubtfire

Randy Newman on Toy Story

Zbigniew Priesner on Secret Garden

Nicholas Hooper – Harry Potter – Dumbledore’s Farewell – simple, but deadly. John Williams – Enough to say his name, but, if you wish: – Home Alone – Somewhere In My Memory - Jurassic Park - Harry Potter - Star Wars – Imperial March (Hello!!! ) -Indiana Jones These are themes for forever. -Howard Shore – of course -Hans Zimmer – enough to say -Steve Jablonsky…

John Williams…so many to mention but of course Star Wars (The Throne Room and End Credits) Jaws (One Barrel Chase) Jaws 2 (Attack on the Water Skier) The Towering Inferno (An Architect’s Dream) Raiders of the Lost Ark (The Miracle of the Ark)

John Barry…all his Bond scores

Jerry Goldsmith…once again so many to mention…Planet of the Apes (The Hunt) , Star Trek the Motion Picture (Main Theme) Poltergeist (Twisted Abduction, Escape from Suburbia) The Omen (Main Theme)

Bernard Herrmann…Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho etc

Miklos Rozsa….,Eye of the Needle (“The Fight” is a stunning track) Ben Hur (Main Theme), Spellbound, The Red House..

Max Steiner…King Kong

OK that’s 6, but I couldn’t help myself!!

Hans Zimmer – “Rock”(Main theme), “Crysis” (Main theme), “Transformers” (1st film theme)