What Is The Best Film Score Of 2013

[Bespin 8,472]

What is according to you, the best film score of 2013 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!

 

Note : That year the Oscar went to...

 

Gravity Steven Price

[Edmilson 7,367]

The Book Thief by William Johns

[Bespin 8,472]

And the Oscars and those critic guilds I mentionned, sulked The Book Thief in their Winners, why?

 

At least it won a Grammy!

 

Maybe for the "not John Williams again" reason? 😄

 

So a part from Book Thief,  what's your 2nd choice?

[Thor 7,451]

Back in 2013, my favourite score of the year was a "double header" of WINNIE MANDELA and COPPERHEAD (Laurent Eyquem). But today, I consider PRISONERS (Jóhann Jóhannsson) the best.

 

Of the poll options, I would pick GRAND PIANO.

 

Here's my podcast episode about the 10 best scores of 2013 (in English), for anyone interested: http://celluloidtunes.no/celluloid-tunes-12-the-10-best-scores-of-2013-4th-international-edition/

[Bespin 8,472]

I can't vote on my own poll here, I'm not familar with any of these....

 

Well, that's my goal... to discover new music and composers!

[TheUlyssesian 2,473]

The Wind Rises is beautiful beyond words.

[Ollie 1,059]

Can’t be bothered this go around. None of the above made an impression.

[SteveMc 2,674]

the

book

thief 

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,008]

Grand Piano is the clear winner. Although it's highly pastichey, it's also highly entertaining.

[blondheim 1,157]

The best score of 2013 was The Desolation of Smaug.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

 

[Chewy 2,372]

I love M83's Oblivion.

 

But obviously The Book Thief is the best score of that year.

[Thor 7,451]

1 minute ago, Chewy said:

I love M83's Oblivion.

 
Great score!

[Jurassic Shark 12,008]

It's not very good compared to Tron Legacy.

[blondheim 1,157]

I also like Oblivion.

[JNHFan2000 2,938]

 

On 7/24/2021 at 5:19 PM, Bespin said:

I can't vote on my own poll here, I'm not familar with any of these....

 

Well, that's my goal... to discover new music and composers!

Romeo & Juliet is amazing.

And although Evil Dead is though listen because it's a horror. That score has so much inventive writing for orchestra and choir. It's terrific.

 

[Edmilson 7,367]

Evil Dead is indeed a great score. I wish more horror scores to be more like this one.

[Ollie 1,059]

6 hours ago, Koray Savas said:

 

 

 

You mean “William Tell Overkill”.

 

[Jay 37,249]

2013 was full of notable scores!  Just to name some of the scores that got a lot of discussion around here and elsewhere:

 

Banos - Evil Dead

Beltrami - Die Hard 5

Beltrami - Snowpiercer

Beltrami - Wolverine

Beltrami - World War Z

Djawadi - Game of Thrones Season 3

Djawadi - Pacific Rim
Elfman - Epic

Elfman - Oz the Great and Powerful

Fenton - Frozen Planet

Giacchino - Star Trek Into Darkness

Gordon - Adore

Hisaishi - The Wind Rises

Jackman - Turbo

Korzeniowski - Escape From Tomorrow

Korzeniowski - Romeo and Juliet

Mancina - Planes

Price - Gravity

McCreary - Europa Report

Ottman - Jack The Giant Slayer

Reyes - Grand Piano

Shore - The Desolation of Smaug

Silvestri - The Croods

Tilton - SimCity

Tyler - Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

Tyler - Iron Man 3

Tyler - Thor 2

Tyler - Now You See Me

Williams - The Book Thief

Young - Killing Season

Zimmer - 12 Years A Slave

Zimmer - Man of Steel

Zimmer - The Lone Ranger

Zimmer - Rush

 

Just a completely stacked year!  One of, if not the, best of the 2010s for scores!

 

Here's what a previous me considered to be the best:

 

On 12/30/2016 at 5:07 PM, Jay said:

BEST SCORES OF 2013:
1. Howard Shore - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2. Brian Tyler - Now You See Me

3. Michael Giacchino - Star Trek Into Darkness
4. Pino Donaggio - Passion

5. Laurent Perez Del Mar - Loulou, l'incroyable secret 
6. Chad Seiter - Star Trek: The Game
7. Chris Tilton - SimCity
8. Abel Korzeniowski - Escape From Tomorrow

9. John Williams - The Book Thief

10. Mark Mancina - Planes

 

Runners up

Ramin Djawadi - Pacific Rim

Víctor Reyes  - Grand Piano

Abel Korzeniowski - Romeo and Juliet
Alan Silvestri - The Croods
Danny Elfman - Epic
Henry Jackman - Turbo

 

 

From a 2021 perspective, I can certainly say that the 2013 scores I've listened to the most amount of times are certainly Desolation of Smaug, Now You See Me, Star Trek Into Darkness, Planes, Star Trek: The Game, and SimCity.

 

This is a good reminder to myself that I apparently once really liked the scores to Passion, The Croods, Epic, and Turbo, four scores I probably have not heard since 2014ish.

 

And boy, did I completely forget about Laurent Perez Del Mar, for a long time I was really into his stuff!  Whatever happened to him?

 

From your poll, I picked The Wind Rises, which apparently previous me wasn't familiar with yet somehow?

 

Here's the existing best of 2013 thread

 

https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/23996-the-6th-annual-jwfan-awards-the-best-scores-and-films-of-2013

[mstrox 6,637]

Evil Dead is an easy pick out of your options, but I’d probably opt for Desolation of Smaug overall.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

The Croods

[Jules 59]

Tie for THE WIND RISES and THE BOOK THIEF, both dreamy and beautiful. 

[SteveMc 2,674]

On 7/25/2021 at 7:52 PM, mstrox said:

Evil Dead is an easy pick out of your options, but I’d probably opt for Desolation of Smaug overall.

 

I love Tauriel's Theme

 

[Bespin 8,472]

No real concensus on that one, apart that your favourite cores of that year are not in the poll choices!