What Is The Best Film Score Of 2007

[Bespin 8,480]

What is according to you, the best film score of 2007 among this list?

 

The scores of this list won an award for "Best Score", as voted by either one or more of these organizations:

• The International Film Music Critics Association Award
• The Online Film Critics Society Award
• The Los Angeles Film Critics Association

 

Let's discuss these choices made by Critics!

[Jay 37,351]

I mean, the best score of 2007 is Chrostpher Young's Spider-man 3 AINEC.  Your metrics are baffling

 

Other good 2007 scores not on your list

 

Perfume by Heil/Klimek/Tykwer

Stardust by Ilan Eshkeri

3:10 to Yuma by Marco Belatrami

Medal of Honor: Airborne by Michael Giacchino

LOST Season 3 by Michael Giacchino

[Bespin 8,480]

4 minutes ago, Jay said:

I mean, the best score of 2007 is Chrostpher Young's Spider-man 3 AINEC.  Your metrics are baffling

 

Open your mind Jay!!!

[Jay 37,351]

I've heard all these scores, my mind is open

 

I don't rely on critics to tell me what scores to listen to, I listen to everything for free on Spotify and make up my own mind

 

 

Out of the scores on your poll, I like Ratatouille the most, and The Golden Compass and The Bourne Ultimatum are good too.

 

But Spider-man 3 blows them all out of the water!

 

Medal of Honor Airborne is potentially the best MOH score

 

and Perfume is one of the coolest one hit wonder scores out there

 

Nothing about Atonement, Enchanted, Zodiac, There Will Be Blood, or Once made me want to listen to them again

[Marian Schedenig 8,192]

12 minutes ago, Jay said:

and Perfume is one of the coolest one hit wonder scores out there

 

I've only heard it in the film and never got around to checking it out on album (I still intend to)… but there's also Cloud Atlas, so they're only a one hit wonder if Perfume is no good.

[Jurassic Shark 12,066]

I don't particularly like any of the options, but I might choose Atonement.

[Jay 37,351]

4 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

I've only heard it in the film and never got around to checking it out on album (I still intend to)… but there's also Cloud Atlas, so they're only a one hit wonder if Perfume is no good.

 

Oh right, I did listen to Cloud Atlas once and liked it, I forgot.  I need to re-listen to that one

[Marian Schedenig 8,192]

3 minutes ago, Jay said:

Oh right, I did listen to Cloud Atlas once and liked it, I forgot.  I need to re-listen to that one

 

I recommend that.

[Bespin 8,480]

43 minutes ago, Jay said:

I've heard all these scores, my mind is open

 

I don't rely on critics to tell me what scores to listen to, I listen to everything for free on Spotify and make up my own mind.

 

Imagine the AFI hires you as a judge to vote for the best 2007 score, you don't change your choice?

 

You really stick with Spider-Man 3?

[Richard Penna 3,686]

Spidey 3 and I Am Legend.

 

I heard a bit of There WIll Be Blood the other week when I watched a few bits of the film, but while there's one cue I like (somewhere where they first arrive in the middle of nowhere), most of that score falls too much into the experimental/abstract for me, and sometimes becomes distracting for me.

[Edmilson 7,436]

Why no one has mentioned the REAL best score of 2007?

 

 

[Jay 37,351]

1 hour ago, Bespin said:

 

Imagine the AFI hires you as a judge to vote for the best 2007 score, you don't change your choice?

 

You really stick with Spider-Man 3?

 

Absolutely I do

[mstrox 6,651]

Ratatouille is the only score I’ve heard, so easy vote.  Did Once even have a score to speak of? If we’re counting songs, that one would have won for me.

 

Granted, I’ve only heard the Spider-man 3 score once (in theaters), but my only memory of it was thinking that they mangled Elfman’s theme in the main credits.

[Bespin 8,480]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

 

Absolutely I do

 

YOU'RE FIRED!

 

Well, you would be fired!

[Edmilson 7,436]

Ratatouille is a fun score, one of the best from Gia's early years. Well deserved Oscar nomination.

[Ollie 1,059]

Ratatouille.

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Ratatouille! Because it's Gia's best effort

[Romão 2,274]

There Will be blood, easily

[KK 3,307]

14 minutes ago, Romão said:

There Will be blood, easily

 

What he said.

 

Followed by Atonement.

[Bespin 8,480]

In 2007, the Oscar for the Best Score went to....

 

Atonement

Dario Marianelli

[Thor 7,495]

My favourite of 2007 is EL GRECO (Vangelis), closely followed by TRANSFORMERS (Steve Jablonsky).

 

Of the options in the voll, I voted for THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM.

[Bespin 8,480]

For the moment, the only score I know in this list, is Atonement, which I like very much.

 

There Will Be Blood (Jonny Greenwood) is on my wishlist... we'll see...

 

[Jay 37,351]

You need more Giacchino and Powell in your life

[Bespin 8,480]

7 minutes ago, Jay said:

You need more Giacchino and Powell in your life

 

Probably!

 

I must admit I have more interest in discovering John Powell than Giacchino for my next "quest".

[HunterTech 990]

Wow, didn't think I'd see this high a praise for Spidey 3 from some, given I would've expected some other score to be considered more technically proficient.

 

The mid/late 2000s were definite formative years in terms of my tastes in film music, with 07 having 3 that has always stuck with me (TMNT, Bayformers, SM3). Given how much I've raved about it, I suppose Chris Young was always gonna be my pick of the year for what arguably is his biggest movie.

 

Based on what's actually here though, I have to go with Ratatouille on the basis it's the only one that I've heard of this lot. I'm quite slow when it comes to new music, so perhaps one day I can more properly think about it.

[Jay 37,351]

Spider-Man 3 is an amazing score that perhaps only doesn't get a lot of notice because there's no legal way to listen to it

[Edmilson 7,436]

Maybe if streaming services for music like Spotify existed in 2007 and were as popular as they are today, Spidey 3 would've gotten an official release. 

[Jay 37,351]

I thought the score album release was canceled due to a dispute between Sony and Elfman over the use of his themes in the score

[HunterTech 990]

Unfortunately, it's hard to tell without a real concrete explanation for its lack of release, may it be for Elfman interference, too much (then) unused material being on the "album" promo assembly (plus how to handle the additional material from others), an alleged lack of interest/low sales, and whatever else I've seen be mentioned elsewhere.

[Jay 37,351]

I think it'd be fun if one day the specialty labels gets to release his album program, then like 2 years later a comprehensive 2CD complete edition

[Bespin 8,480]

Just voted for "Atonement", there's a hard core of Giacchino fans on the forum!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,516]

Best score of 2007? Easy. ZODIAC.

It's also 2007's best film.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

On 19/07/2021 at 9:53 AM, Thor said:

My favourite of 2007 is EL GRECO (Vangelis), closely followed by TRANSFORMERS (Steve Jablonsky).

 

Of the options in the voll, I voted for THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM.

I forgot about TRANSFORMERS.

My favorite of those mentioned.

 

Good call, Thor!