AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores (2005)

AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores

Top 100 Scores

1. Star Wars (1977) (composed by John Williams)
2. Gone with the Wind (1939) (composed by Max Steiner)
3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (composed by Maurice Jarre)
4. Psycho (1960) (composed Bernard Herrmann)
5. The Godfather (1972) (composed by Nino Rota)
6. Jaws (1975) (composed by John Williams)
7. Laura (1944) (composed by David Raksin)
8. The Magnificent Seven (1960) (composed by Elmer Bernstein)
9. Chinatown (1974) (composed by Jerry Goldsmith)
10. High Noon (1952) (composed by Dimitri Tiomkin)
11. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
12. Vertigo (1958) (composed by Bernard Herrmann)
13. King Kong (1933) (composed by Max Steiner)
14. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (composed by John Williams)
15. Out of Africa (1985) (composed by John Barry)
16. Sunset Boulevard (1950) (composed by Franz Waxman)
17. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (composed by Elmer Bernstein)
18. Planet of the Apes (1968) (composed by Jerry Goldsmith)
19. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (composed by Alex North)
20. The Pink Panther (1964) (composed Henry Mancini)
21. Ben-Hur (1959) (composed by Miklós Rózsa)
22. On the Waterfront (1954) (composed by Leonard Bernstein)
23. The Mission (1986) (composed by Ennio Morricone)
24. On Golden Pond (1981) (composed by Dave Grusin)
25. How the West Was Won (1962) (composed by Alfred Newman, Ken Darby)