Hans Zimmer hands down in my book. I have alot of his music from movies lol. Clint mansell has one good song which is Death Is The Road To Awe.
Hans Zimmer's comopsings for Thin Red Line are just, butiful, they make alot of the movie. Yann Tiersen also has some good music!
John Williams
Michael Giacchino (Up, Incredibles, Ratatouille, Speed Racer, Lost, Cloverfield)
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[B]My top 17 favourite film composers, and some examples of their greatest work:[/B]
(While I'm reasonably certain about the order of the composers, the scores themselves are not in order)
[B]1. Miklos Rozsa [/B]
(Ben-Hur, El Cid, Quo Vadis, King of Kings, Julius Caesar, Sodom and Gomorrah, Ivanhoe, Plymouth Adventure, Time After Time, Valley of the Kings, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Madame Bovary, Young Bess, Knights of the Round Table, Spellbound, The Power...)
[B]2. Ennio Morricone [/B]
(The Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West, Fistful of Dynamite, The Five Man Army, The Great Silence, The Mission, The Big Gundown, Navajo Joe, The Mercenary, Sahara, My Name is Nobody, Guns for San Sebastian, Massacre in Rome, Legend of 1900, Once Upon a Time in America...)
[B]3. Jerry Goldsmith [/B]
(Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Patton, Alien, Poltergeist I & II, The Blue Max, Innerspace, Masada, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Capricorn One, King Solomon's Mines, The Wind and the Lion, MacArthur, The Omen Trilogy, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Rambo films...)
[B]4. Mario Nascimbene[/B]
(Barabbas, One Million Years BC, The Vikings, Solomon and Sheba, Alexander The Great, Carthage in Flames, Constantine and the Cross, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, The Mongols...)
[B]5. Dimitri Tiomkin[/B]
(Guns of Navarone, Fall of the Roman Empire, Land of the Pharaohs, The Giant, The Alamo, 55 Days in Peking, High Noon...)
[B]
6. John Williams[/B]
(Star Wars Episode I-VI, Indy films, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, Superman The Movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jurassic Park, Hook, Schindler's List...)
[B]7. Alex North:[/B]
(Spartacus, Cleopatra, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Shoes of the Fisherman...)
[B]8. Alfred Newman:[/B]
(The Robe, How The West Was Won, The Egyptian (with Bernard Herrmann), David and Bathsheba, Captain from Castile...)
[B]9. Bernard Herrmann:[/B]
(Psycho, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Egyptian (with Alfred Newman), Jason and the Argonauts, Vertigo...)
[B]10. Elmer Bernstein:[/B]
(Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kings of the Sun...)
[B]
11. Franz Waxman:[/B]
(The Silver Chalice, Taras Bulba, Demetrius and the Gladiators...)
[B]12. Ron Goodwin:[/B]
(Where Eagles Dare, Force 10 From Navarone, Battle of Britain...)
[B]13. John Barry:[/B]
(Zulu, early Bond films, Out of Africa, Dances With Wolves, Raise The Titanic...)
[B]14. Maurice Jarre:[/B]
(Lawrence of Arabia, The Message, Lion of the Desert, Dr. Zhivago...)
[B]15. Max Steiner:[/B]
(King Kong, Helen of Troy, King Richard and the Crusaders...)
[B]16. Erich Wolfgang Korngold:[/B]
(The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, The King's Row...)
[B]17. Basil Poleudoris:[/B]
(The Hunt for Red October, Conan The Barbarian, Free Willy I & 2...)
I think that includes about everyone who has almost consistently written good scores. I was tempted to also include Howard Shore due to his great work in the LOTR films, but I chose not to because I'm not familiar with his other work (you can't really call a composer good from only having heard what is basically one longer work, can you?). Same thing with Bronislau Kaper (I like his score from the 1962 'Mutiny on the Bounty', but his other work is unfamiliar).
James Horner has written some great scores, but he also has this annoying habit of constantly reusing his music in other films. Alan Silvestri is pretty enjoyable sometimes, but often his music also bores me. I hate Hans Zimmer's music, though that's just my opinion, so don't get mad at me for saying it.
Hans Zimmer, John Williams, and Danny Elfman. Those are my favorites.
[QUOTE=Corporal Yippie;20589795]yo where the fuck is danny elfman[/QUOTE]
ew danny elfman.
[QUOTE=Corporal Yippie;20589795]yo where the fuck is danny elfman[/QUOTE]
Sorry, composers who do every single piece of work in a minor key are barred from nomination.
[QUOTE=djshox;20592365]Sorry, composers who do every single piece of work in a minor key are barred from nomination.[/QUOTE]
Well that's a pretty shallow way think about his music, isn't it?
But you do have a point.
Joe Hisaishi!
Alan Menken.
Come on, you guys have to know about him.
Randy and Thomas Newman.
He's not my favorite, but Bruno Coulais has done some cool shit.
Hans Zimmer
Gladiator and The Dark Knight are my favourite.
Klaus Badelt bitches. Time Machine, Pirates, "Dark Horse" off of extrememusic, Equilibrium, etc, etc. He's just great.
Also, what's wrong with Danny Elfman? He did Batman and everything. His Hulk score wasn't bad either.
Umebayashi Shigeru's soundtrack for "In the mood for love" is excellent.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0tMmsUEGOY&feature=related[/media]
Still agree'ing with Clint Mansell though. Requiem for a Dream is so epic.
That's bloody excellent.
George Fenton is one of my favorites, he did the scores for Blue Planet and Planet Earth.
[B]Some compositions from my favourite film composer, Miklos Rozsa:[/B]
Various pieces from King of Kings (1961):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PabhBbNQOd0[/URL]
"Prelude" from Ben-Hur (1959):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZg8nt3J-4&feature=related[/URL]
"Parade of the Charioteers" from Ben-Hur (concert performance):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a33DkH2h0XY[/URL]
"Miracle and Finale" from Ben-Hur:
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4VflEzefY[/URL]
The previous piece as it appears in the film (film footage, contains spoilers):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSaNxldiSQ&feature=related[/URL]
"The Overture" and "Prelude" from El Cid (1962):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-jAYHaAueY&feature=related[/URL]
"The Overture" from Julius Caesar (1953):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPBlTL17Lck[/URL]
"Ave Caesar March" and "Quo Vadis Domine" from Quo Vadis (1951):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8cARpn37Ik[/URL]
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojrh2RDatTY[/URL]
Sodom and Gomorrah (1963):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JDDBPcpTc4&feature=related[/URL]
Young Bess (1954):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH64ZlgGl0I[/URL]
Plymouth Adventure (1955):
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fAkrv2dq1A[/URL]
It's really a shame that no one makes film scores like these anymore...
Im gonna have to say the trainspotting soundtrack, just for Iggy Pop.
My personal favorite is Yann Tiersen. [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUG4LUP1Bog[/MEDIA]
(And I still like Danny Elfman, no matter what you say.) [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFmkjBqkloA[/MEDIA]
Dr. Zhivago
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-Q4nmYqc4[/media]
Soundtrack by Maurice Jarre
Besides some really good composer that have mentioned before, Micael Giacchino belongs to a best of list.
Example:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lh5pOF0THs[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We3ht-BskBk[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaLegF2hAxI[/url]
Lord of the Rings
Forrest Gump
Narnia
Pirates of the Caribbean
Those are films not composers.
[QUOTE=BmB;20679827]Those are films not composers.[/QUOTE]
The soundtracks from those movies.
I like Two Steps From Hell
Come on, am I the only only one here who know Micheal Giachhino? That guy is a seriously underrated composer. His music is so powerful and emotional, truly breathtaking. I especially loved his work on Medal of Honor:Frontline(yes, a game).
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DikOOKAsLEY[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLiRgNFvfGw[/media]
You must not have read the thread, mister.
Jerry Goldsmith, Georgio Meroder and Akira Yamaoka
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