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Jay 37,312 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Best scores of the 21st century? In no particular order 1) Fellowship of the Ring by Howard Shore 2) A.I. Artificial Intelligence by John Williams 3) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by John Williams 4) War Horse by John Williams 5) Lincoln by John Williams 6) Celeste by Lena Raine 7) Signs by James Newton Howard 8) Living in the Age of Airplanes by James Horner 9) LOST by Michael Giacchino 10) Matrix Reloaded by Don Davis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Going by your criteria, I have so far come up with a subjective six: Memoirs of a Geisha, by John Williams The Lord of the Rings by Howard Shore Finding Nemo by Thomas Newman Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Tan Dun Jane Eyre by Dario Marianelli How To Train Your Dragon by John Powell 1 minute ago, Jay said: Best scores of the 21st century? In no particular order 1) Fellowship of the Ring by Howard Shore 2) A.I. Artificial Intelligence by John Williams 3) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by John Williams 4) War Horse by John Williams 5) Lincoln by John Williams 6) Celeste by Lena Raine 7) Signs by James Newton Howard 8) Living in the Age of Airplanes by James Horner 9) LOST by Michael Giacchino 10) Matrix Reloaded by Don Davis Ah, but he says one film per composer. Makes things a challenge. Taikomochi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 11, 2018 Author Share Posted June 11, 2018 3 minutes ago, Jay said: Best scores of the 21st century? No, best FILM scores of the 21st century, limited to one film per composer. Lost isn't qualified for instance, otherwise I would mention Angels in America as Thomas Newman's finest 21st century score, but that's television thus it isn't qualified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,312 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 14 minutes ago, Steve McQueen said: Ah, but he says one film per composer. Makes things a challenge. Oh, missed that part Williams - Harry Potter Shore - LOTR Raine - Celeste JNH - Signs Horner - Airplanes Giacchino - LOST Davis - Reloaded McCreary - Battlestar Galactica Tilton - SimCity Tyler - Now You See Me 10 minutes ago, Lewya said: No, best FILM scores of the 21st century, limited to one film per composer. Lost isn't qualified for instance, otherwise I would mention Angels in America as Thomas Newman's finest 21st century score, but that's television thus it isn't qualified. Oi, so many restrictions! What makes Celeste or SimCity or Battlestar Galactica or LOST less worthy of attention because they were composed for a different medium? Well with your new criteria Williams - Harry Potter Shore - LOTR JNH - Signs Horner - Airplanes Giacchino - Tomorrowland Davis - Reloaded Tyler - Now You See Me Elfman - Wanted Perez Del Mar - The Red Turtle Levi - Under the Skin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 11, 2018 Author Share Posted June 11, 2018 28 minutes ago, Jay said: Jesus christ so many restrictions! What makes Celeste or SimCity or Battlestar Galactica or LOST less worthy of attention because they were composed for a different medium? I didn't say telvision scores or game scores were less worthy - it isn't the case (at least one television score would make my list had I not specifically asked for film scores in particular), I was just interested in what people would mention as the top 10 FILM scores of the century (limited to one film per composer). No other reason than that, just wanted to see which 10 films (limited to one per composer) people would single out as having the best scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Revenge of the Sith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 The limitation of one film per composer certainly reduces the amount of great choices, but here are some scores that would be on my list: Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (best score of the century so far, in my opinion) Michael Giacchino's Up John Williams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens Hans Zimmer's Interstellar Justin Hurwitz's La La Land Alexandre Desplat's Fantastic Mr. Fox Taikomochi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 11, 2018 Author Share Posted June 11, 2018 Limited to one film per composer to make things a bit more interesting and challenging, otherwise I am sure several posters would mention several Williams's scores on their lists - something I would too had we not limited ourselves to one film per composer. I'd probably have three Williams's scores in my top 10 (A.I, Geisha and Sith) without the limitation, but it is more interesting this way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 If you want to limit it to one score per composer, it's not an honest Top 10 because the drop in quality beyond the top 5 composers is too steep. The second best score by a top 5 or top 3 composer is still better than the rest. So, I won't limit myself in this list like that. Best and most influential (no order): 1. Fellowship Of The Ring 2. Return Of The King 3. Desolation Of Smaug 4. Spider-Man (Elfman) 5. The Dark Knight 6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 7. LOST 8. Tron Legacy 9. Revenge Of The Sith 10. Inception Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 1,136 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Memoirs of a Geisha and The Force Awakens are the best scores of the century thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford Interstellar Road To Perdition Ratatouille Signs The Tree Of Life Horton Hears A Who! 3:10 To Yuma The Fountain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Road to Perdition A.I. Interstellar The Skin I live In Fellowship of the Ring The Childhood of a Leader There Will Be Blood Arrival Femme Fatale Mission to Mars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,477 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 8 hours ago, Lewya said: Limited to one film per composer to make things a bit more interesting and challenging, otherwise I am sure several posters would mention several Williams's scores on their lists - something I would too had we not limited ourselves to one film per composer. I'd probably have three Williams's scores in my top 10 (A.I, Geisha and Sith) without the limitation, but it is more interesting this way Absolutely agreed. The more specific parameters you set up, the more challenging and fun it is to assemble a list. I'll have to think about this myself; I don't think I've ever done a top 10 of the 21st century in this fashion. I'll get back to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaug The Iron 510 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Fellowship of the Ring: Shore Philosopher's stone: Williams How to train your Dragon: Powell Pirates of the caribbean at words end: Zimmer The Avangers: Silvestri Peter Pan: Howard Spider Man: Giacchino Age of Ultron: Elfman Deathly Hallows part 2: Desplet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Can't give ten, but here's seven I could agree to as 'for sures': The Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore Artificial Intelligence - John Williams Interstellar - Hans Zimmer TRON: Legacy - Daft Punk UP - Michael Giacchino How to Train Your Dragon - John Powell Kubo and the Two Strings - Dario Marianelli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,301 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 13 hours ago, Jay said: 6) Celeste by Lena Raine 7 hours ago, Koray Savas said: The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,312 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Yay, another Celeste fan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,505 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 In no particular order: THE LORD OF THE RINGS, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, TRON:LEGACY, THE MATRIX RELOADED/REVOLUTIONS, INTERSTELLAR THE HATEFUL 8, TRAFFIC, SIGNS, THE CIRCLE, ANGELS IN AMERICA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 If you follow the limitations then you cannot have the best 10 scores of this young century. Its as simple as that. John Williams, James Horner, and James Newton Howard each have multiple entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,505 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 In that case, one has to choose the score that one likes the best, as I did, with POA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Revolt Richard. Even the original post says Lord of the Rings making no distinction between 3 different scores. Overrated Imho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Giacchino's Lost can't be ignored - its scope and impact is undeniable. Remains his finest hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,312 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 13, 2018 Author Share Posted June 13, 2018 On 6/12/2018 at 3:44 PM, JoeinAR said: If you follow the limitations then you cannot have the best 10 scores of this young century. Its as simple as that. John Williams, James Horner, and James Newton Howard each have multiple entries. Yes, you can have a top 10 (limited to one film per composer), how difficult is that to understand? I totally disagree with what you write, only Williams would have multiple entries in the top 10 if we hadn't limit ourselves to one per composer (ok, Shore would have more than one entry too for me), the others simply haven't written good enough music imo. I don't see how Horner etc can have multiple entries on any list at all. This is precisely one of the reasons I limited it to one per composer, otherwise I was afraid that there would be certain fanboy tendencies shining through some lists, like say only listing three composers to take up the entire list - as if their efforts would be better than the rest, then I would argue that people simply haven't heard enough and/or aren't open-minded enough. On 6/12/2018 at 9:17 PM, JoeinAR said: Revolt Richard. Even the original post says Lord of the Rings making no distinction between 3 different scores. Overrated Imho Fine, I admit making the error of counting the entire trilogy as one entry, The Fellowship of the Ring then. On 6/12/2018 at 6:03 AM, Sharky said: Road to Perdition A.I. Interstellar The Skin I live In Fellowship of the Ring The Childhood of a Leader There Will Be Blood Arrival Femme Fatale Mission to Mars Interesting list, I haven't heard The Skin I Live In and Femme Fatale. I am a pretty big fan of Sakamoto, so I will have to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JoeinAR 1,949 Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Signs, King King, Drag me to Hell, Avatar, Amazing Spiderman, Legend of Zorro, Up (even a blind pig finds an acorn), Sorcerer's Stone, The Force Awakens, War Horse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,823 Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 if I limit myself to just one composer, I come up with this (I haven't listened to much soundtracks of this century) -A.I. - Williams -Lord of the Rings (i am not sure which film) - Shore -A Single Man - Korzeniowski -The Passion of Christ-Debney -The Hours-Glass -Final Fantasy - Goldenthal -Howl's moving Castle - Hisaishi -Atonement - Marianelli -The Village-Howard -There will be blood-Greenwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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_deleted_ 203 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2003) Minority Report (2002) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy other scores of the 21st century... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 384 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 A.I. Artificial Intelligence About Schmidt Angels In America Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Inception The Incredibles K-PAX Signs Spirited Away There Will Be Blood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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