Okay, we've had favourite score, how about favourite composer?
A few of mine include: Alan Silvestri Bill Conti John Williams I've got albums by all of them, and they're great :). |
my fave movie score composers are:
david newman; especially for don't tell mom the babysitter's dead and heathers thomas newman; especially for pay it forward, american beauty and the player |
Are they brothers or is it just a coincidence?
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they are brothers, according to imdb.com.
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Hans Zimmer, particularly for his work on THE THIN RED LINE.
Jon Brion just for MAGNOLIA (I know I'm obsessed...) and of course, John Williams I'll think of more later, I'm sure |
James Newton Howard, whose credits include:
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Man :) You forgot Junior (1994), & Waterworld (1995) TWTCommish :) two very well done scores. I am a score -a -holic. I collect them like crazy.
Here my favorites (And yes I have tons of their work all full and complete on audio and mp3!) :P Jerry Goldsmith (the 'burbs, dennis the menace, alien) Howard Shore (the fly) Danny Elfman (Beetlejice, Batman 1+2, Pee Wee Films) James Newton Howard (junior) Randy Edelman (the mask (1994) was awesome) John Debney (hocus pocus) Michael Kamen (the die hard series) Alan Silvestri (predator - the ultimate in my book) John Williams (home alone 1+2, star wars, jurassic park 1+2) James Horner (Legends of the fall!) Marc Shaiman (the addams family films) Randy Newman (toy story 1+2, meet the parents, three amigos!) David Newman (Heathers Is The Best!) Brad Fiedel (true lies, terminator 1+2) Elliot Goldenthal (interview with the vampire, pet sematary) John Carpenter (halloween, escape from l.a.) John Ottman (the cable guy was an awesome score) Joseph LoDuca (the evil dead) Alan Menken (little mermaid) Graeme Revell (the crow, from dusk til dawn) |
Oh yeah, definitely Elfman. The dude has done the score for...uh...every movie ever made. :) His song "What's This" (which I heard he sang himself) in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is one of the best original songs I've ever heard.
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Danny Elfman
John Williams Alan Silvestri Randy Newman |
oh come on! how can you ignore James Horner as the worlds greatest movie music composer! his music more than often makes me cry.
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My Top 5 Film Composers & two scores I loved:(In No Order)
ELMER BERNSTEIN: The Magnificent 7 & The Great Escape DANNY ELFMAN: Beetlejuice & Batman JOHN WILLIAMS: Star Wars & Superman QUINCY JONES: The Getaway(original) & The Italian Job JERRY GOLDSMITH: Planet Of The Apes(original) & Twilight Zone |
Danny Elfman. Hands down. Think Pee Wee.
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1956 The Searchers
1949 White Heat 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Key Largo 1946 The Big Sleep 1945 Mildred Pierce 1942 Casablanca 1939 Stagecoach 1939 Gone With the Wind 1938 Jezebel 1937 A Star is Born 1937 Lost Horizon 1935 The Informer 1935 Top Hat 1933 King Kong Best Score (nom) The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Academy Best Score (nom) The Life of Emile Zola 1938 Academy Best Score (nom) Jezebel 1938 Academy Best Score (nom) Gone With the Wind 1939 Academy Best Score (nom) Dark Victory 1939 Academy Best Score (nom) The Letter 1940 Academy Best Score (nom) Sergeant York 1941 Academy Best Score (win) Now, Voyager 1942 Academy Best Score (nom) Casablanca 1943 Academy Best Score (nom) The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944 Academy Best Score (win) Since You Went Away 1944 Academy Best Score (nom) Rhapsody in Blue 1945 Academy Best Score (nom) Night and Day 1946 Academy Best Score (nom) Life with Father 1947 Academy Best Score (nom) My Wild Irish Rose 1947 Academy Best Score (nom) Johnny Belinda 1948 Academy Musical Comment (win) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 Venice Film Festival Best Score (nom) Beyond the Forest 1949 Academy Best Score (nom) The Flame and the Arrow 1950 Academy Best Score (nom) The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima 1952 Academy Best Score (nom) The Jazz Singer 1952 Academy Best Score (nom) The Caine Mutiny 1954 Academy Best Score (nom) Battle Cry 1955 Academy Needless to say the best there ever was John Williams is second |
My above post was for Max Steiner
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Join the academy.
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During my second year at Uni I befriended a Prospective film music composer. What he told me was that the greatest scores not only add emotion, tension etc to the scene but can stand alone as a piece of music. Therefore I nominate Joe Hisaishi as my favourite composer. He is a man who has worked within the Japanese film industry for over a decade, and is held in high regard in his native land, while over in the States he is building his reputation, with his fine scores for Princess Mononoke and more recently Brother. Watch any Takeshi Kitano film after Boiling Point (It has no music!) and sample the delights of Hisaishi's haunting melancholic scores, that will stay with you long after the film.
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First and foremost, Bernard Herrmann.
From Citizen Kane to The Day the Earth Stood Still to Vertigo, North By Northwest and Psycho to Cape Fear to The Bride Wore Black to Taxi Driver, he's the Master in my mind. Many other favorites of course, including...
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Totally agree Holden, but, what about Ry Cooders score for Paris, Texas, not just his best work but surely a contender for best score of all time?! For comedy value Schiffrin's Enter the Dragon score is fantastic. WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
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I would have to say
Danny Elfman James Horner Hans Zimmer Randy Newman |
My favorite is John Williams.
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