Tournament: Favorite Film Score [Winner Inside!]

Introducing the first Star Wars & Film Music tournament: We'll choose our all-time favorite film score. The intended focus will be on the score as written or how it appears in the film rather than on soundtrack releases. Newcomers are always welcome! Join in whenever you feel like it!

Tournament Rules

The bracket will be generated at random when we have 128 nominations.
Read the latest posts to make sure you are voting on the current bracket.
The initial rounds will have four brackets open for approximately 24 hours at a time.
Please do not vote more than once using socks.
All decisions of the Tournament Director are final.


Nominations are closed.

The Bracket:

Violin Region

Signs - James Newton Howard (2002)
Glory - James Horner (1989)

Twister - Mark Mancina (1996)
Revenge Of The Sith - John Williams (2005)

The Nightmare Before Christmas - Danny Elfman (1993)
Jaws - John Williams (1975)

The Final Conflict ? Jerry Goldsmith (1981)
Dances With Wolves - John Barry (1990)

Finding Neverland - Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (2004)
The Prince Of Tides - James Newton Howard (1991)

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban - John Williams (2003)
Once Upon A Time In The West - Ennio Morricone (1968)

King Of Kings - Miklos Rozsa (1961)
The Last Of The Mohicans - Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman (1992)

The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith (1976)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark - John Williams (1981)

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Conan The Barbarian - Basil Poledouris (1982)
The Adventures Of Robin Hood - Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1938)

The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams (1980)
Gettysburg - Randy Edelman (1993)

Halloween - John Carpenter (1978)
Night Crossing - Jerry Goldsmith (1982)

The Lion King - Hans Zimmer (1994)
Batman Returns - Danny Elfman (1992)

Young Sherlock Holmes - Bruce Broughton (1985)
Gladiator - Hans Zimmer (2000)

Alien 3 - Elliot Goldenthal (1992)
Back To The Future - Alan Silvestri (1985)

A Little Princess - Patrick Doyle (1995)
Bram Stoker's Dracula - Wojciech Kilar (1992)

Far And Away - John Williams (1992)
Big Fish - Danny Elfman (2003)

Oboe Region

Godzilla - Akira Ifukube (1956)
The Matrix - Don Davis (1999)

The Land Before Time - James Horner (1988)
The Fellowship Of The Ring - Howard Shore (2001)

Memoirs Of A Geisha - John Williams (2005)
To Kill A Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein (1962)

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade - John Williams (1989)
Goldfinger - John Barry (1964)

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Danny Elfman (2005)
Princess Mononoke - Joe Hisaishi (1997)

The Red Violin - John Corigliano (1998)
Sunset Boulevard - Franz Waxman (1950)

Rocky II - Bill Conti (1979)
The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein (1960)

The Phantom Menace - John Williams (1999)
The Third Man ? Anton Karas (1949)
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Hook - John Williams (1991)
Farewell To The King - Basil Poledouris (1989)

Jurassic Park - John Williams (1993)
Pi

 

Hlemmur - Sigur Rós (2002)
Romeo and Juliet - Nino Rota (1968)

 

Dances With Wolves (1990) - John Barry
Superman: The Movie (1978) - John Williams
Superman Returns (2006) - John Ottman
Independence Day (1996) - David Arnold

 

Vertigo -- Bernard Herrmann
King of Kings -- Miklos Rozsa
Conan The Barbarian -- Basil Poledouris
Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- John Williams



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Jurassic Park (1993) - John Williams


MY favorite film score



Rick McCallum loves you!

 

Scott I think we should exclude Star Wars scores because we know they will win...

Nominations...
Hellbound Hellraiser II Chrsitopher Young
Batman Returns Danny Elfman
Edward Scissorhands Danny Elfman
Halloween John Carpenter

 

E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, John Williams
Black Beauty, Danny Elfman
The Land Before Time, James Horner
Signs, James Newton Howard

 

Hook by John Williams
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan by James Horner
Gladiator by Hans Zimmer
Far And Away by John Williams

 

The Lion King 1994(Hans Zimmer)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005(Danny Elfman)
King Kong 1932(Max Steiner)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2003(John Williams)

 

The Hours - Phillip Glass
Psycho - Bernard Herrmann
The Adventures of Robin Hood - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Gattaca - Michael Nyman



Also, GK, what counts as a score? Must it be orchestral? I'd like to nominated Amelie by Yann Tiersen and The Triplets of Belleville by Ben Charest but I don't know if they qualify. Also, does Shadows of the Empire count, or not?

 

The Godfather (1972) - Nino Rota
Jaws (1975) - John Williams
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - Klaus Badelt
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - Hans Zimmer

 

Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams
The Incredibles - Michael Giachhino
Finding Neverland - Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Princess Mononoke - Joe Hisaishi

 

Scores do not need to be orchestral, but they do need to be film scores. So Shadows of the Empire and video games scores are not eligible.

We've got 51 nominations so far... I'm going to round it off to 52 by adding The Natural by Randy Newman (1984).

I'll try to clean up the initial post and add dates for all films throughout the day.

 

Most of the best ones are already up there and since I don't have the highest collection in such things (HookLineAndSinker you are insane ) I can only think of two more. They being:


Plunkett & Macleane (1999) - Craig Armstrong
The Bourne Identity (2002) - John Powell

 

To Kill a Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein (1962)
The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith (1976)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - John Williams (1984)
Glory - James Horner (1989)

 

X-Men: The Last Stand - John Powell (2006)
X-Men - Michael Kamen (2000)

 

Gone With the Wind - Max Steiner (1939)
Casablanca - Max Steiner (1942)
Batman - Danny Elfman (1989)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun (2000)

 

Once Upon A Time In The West, Ennio Morricone (1968)
Willow, James Horner (1988)
Big Fish, Danny Elfman (2003)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Elliot Goldenthal (2001)

 

Some of these nominations...


The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini
Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone
The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein

 

The two I nominated are pretty far down my list, but everyone covered just about anything else I could think of.

I did forget this one, though: Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith (1974)

 

Young Sherlock Holmes - Bruce Broughton (1985)
Alexander Nevsky - Sergei Prokofiev (1938)
Trois Couleurs: Bleu - Zbigniew Preisner (1994)
Night Crossing - Jerry Goldsmith (1982)



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Kings Row (1941) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Oklahoma! (1955) - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, underscore by Adolph Deutsch
The Prince of Tides (1991) - James Newton Howard
A Little Princess (1995) - Patrick Doyle

 

Chariots of Fire by Vangelis
Doctor Zhivago by Maurice Jarre
Rocky by Bill Conti
How The West Was Won by Alfred Newman

 

Yeah, some of them are a bit... questionable.

Unless you're referring to mine, in which case you're dead wrong!

 

hey, it's a Favorite Film Score Tournament
not Best Film Score