Best Movie Composer of All TIME

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

I'm not going to embed them to save from having a topic that takes a year to scroll through, so have a taste of each composer at (what I think) is their best!

Disagree with the options? Post someone I missed! Think one of the songs for a composer I posted is not their best? Post the best!

1.

(Master of everything)

2.

(That slow rise hnnnnngh, you've got to let it go the whole way)

3. Danny Elfman (Can't have Tim Burton without Johnny Depp and Danny Elfman)

4.

(He might not win the Batman duel, but he captures locations like no other)

5. Elmer Bernstein (Good luck getting this out of your head, I made this list and it's still stuck in mine)

6.

(New to the scene, with an Oscar thanks to his work with Pixar)

7.

(5 movies in, and I'm not sick of hearing his stuff)

8. Jerry Goldsmith (Probably the most robust filmography ever)

9.

(Ties to the spaghetti-western brought him and Tarantino together later on)

10.

(From a ridiculous number of 80s movies to "The Avengers" he is just outstanding)

11.

(It's cool in Greece to only go by one name)

12.

(Responsible for a lot of the growth in movie music composers)

13.

(Yes, from Nine Inch Nails. He's done a prolific amount of work with movies, TV, and video games. He won an Oscar for this, so don't doubt his credentials)

14.

(They're just too good. This soundtrack was so fitting for the movie it's unbelievable)

15.

(This movie sucked. But his soundtracks are phenomenal)

16. James Horner (I can't forgive him for Titanic and Avatar, but god damn he's good at music making)

17.

(From Anastasia to Serenity, he's making moves in the industry)

18.

(Responsible for one of the most iconic themes of all time, and worked through to Dances With Wolves {told the story way better than Avatar})

19. Michael Nyman (Incredible pianist, hasn't done much for movies but what he has done is ridiculous)

20.

(Had to include the theme of my favorite movie at least)

There's a million movie composers out there, I'm going for ones that resonated with me the most. I could only put 20 on the list, and honestly it was good to limit myself to that number.

I tried to limit myself to movies for this one, it's possible I will move to games or TV later on depending on the success of this.

[Wells 1st MRB]

I voted for Nyman. His work is incredible and also extremely hard to learn!!! If you haven't seen or heard him - go do so presently!

[Candy 1st MRB]

Nymans work on Gattaca is my favorite score of all time. I am also a big Hans Zimmer fan, first time I heard his stuff was the Lion King. By the way, excellent post 2ndLt. Kirkendall, a lot of research and you are obviously a big film score fan, me too.

[Tate 1st MRB]

I had to go with John Williams. The Jaws theme is one of my favorites and Indiana Jones as well. Those movies are good, but the music is great and is what people will remember.

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

Fuck. I messed up, I originally brought about this thread and wanted specifically to include

but I got caught up and forgot him. He'll be doing the music for the Warcraft movie that's in the works, and he did the Iron Man soundtrack. He took over the

soundtrack and has done a stellar job. See his AMA for more. I suppose I forgot about him since I was focused on movies, and his most influential work to date is a TV show.

[Lafy BAR]

Here's all the videos in a playlist. Maybe somebody can edit the original post to put it up top?

[Brault 1st MRB]

All great composers. Too many greats movie moments to choose just one. I'd like to add Christopher Franke's Babylon 5 score even though it was mostly TV, there were 5 movies that were fantastic and I loved the mood created by his music. Cheers out to all movie/soundtrack buffs!

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

All great composers. Too many greats movie moments to choose just one. I'd like to add Christopher Franke's Babylon 5 score even though it was mostly TV, there were 5 movies that were fantastic and I loved the mood created by his music. Cheers out to all movie/soundtrack buffs!

I was having him in mind for my list for TV music. There's a lot of TV music that goes unnnoticed and the

for Babylon 5 is outstanding. Seriously, why did they stop after 4 seasons with that show? Man, a 5th season would've been great. You know, 5 seasons for Babylon 5. Would've been great. Such a shame they NEVER did that.

[M. Johnson 1st MRB]

If I could vote for more than one I would, but I had to go with Howard Shore.

[Brault 1st MRB]

All great composers. Too many greats movie moments to choose just one. I'd like to add Christopher Franke's Babylon 5 score even though it was mostly TV, there were 5 movies that were fantastic and I loved the mood created by his music. Cheers out to all movie/soundtrack buffs!

I was having him in mind for my list for TV music. There's a lot of TV music that goes unnnoticed and the

for Babylon 5 is outstanding. Seriously, why did they stop after 4 seasons with that show? Man, a 5th season would've been great. You know, 5 seasons for Babylon 5. Would've been great. Such a shame they NEVER did that.

Yeah he was was great in Tangerine Dream. Ahead of his time, kind of like B5. Technically the 5th season wasn't supposed to happen. Warner Brothers really dropped the ball on that one forcing JMS to re-write his arc. Always looking for new B5 material. Supposedly going to be a reboot movie soon. Love the Garibaldi avatar by the way

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

Yea, but Straczynski actually did originally write it as a 5 season arc. He had originally planned to flesh out the Rangers more, especially Marcus. It might have even allowed him to live. But then Warner Bros. saw it and said only 4 seasons. So he cut it out to accommodate that. Then the series started, and it took off like crazy. Warner Brothers wanted more, but he couldn't do much because they were already late on renewing him. It was a surprise renewal, so he had to cut the end of Season 4, "Sleeping in Light" and bring it to the end of season 5. Which was a brilliant episode. Then he took the first episode of Season 5 and brought it back to season 4 with some re-edits. It was a messy job but he did what he had to.

[Magoo]

No Bill Conti? Talk about an iconic score.

My top three are Bill Conti for Rocky, John Barry for Dances With Wolves, and James Horner for Aliens.

[Magoo]

It is being reported that James Horner just died in a plane crash.

[Candy 1st MRB]

Noooo. Such a tragedy.

[J. Ascencio 1st MRB]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/living/feat-...rash/index.html