Best film score

Battle of Britain - William Walton's music for the "Battle in the Air" sequence

The Deer Hunter [NAP]

Gladiator

LOTR

The Piano

I don't think gladiator fits the bill. I don't think it fits in with the mood of the film in many places. It's always to grand and violent when much of the film is about sadness and loss.

Lord of the Rings or Star Wars.

rustyboy 09 Jan 12:15

I believe a film score should not just be a "good piece of music" but should fit perfectly with the mood and tone of the film. For these reason i'm suggesting the score to the film the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford to be one of the best of all time!

Given you think the music needs to fit the mood and tone of the film, I think you should at least give us an idea what this film is about.

Shaft

cowboys and stuff innit

Easy Rider
American Graffiti

lawrence of arabia

Jackie Brown

James Bond films

jackie brown is a very good shout based on the criteria of fitting in with the mood of the film ;)

Pulp Fiction worked pretty well.

deliverance..duelling banjos..nap

West Side Story.....the mutts nuts

into the wild

Beat me to it Mr R..

Once Upon A Time In The West .

I agree rusty, another to mention is Ainda by Madredeus which is the soundtrack to Wim Wenders film The Lisbon Story

Braveheart.

days of heaven, the music and photgraphy are exceptional, the film score is of course, by ennio morricone

Magnificent 7

Run Lola Run

Bladerunner

I've seen 10 twice

Surprised nobody mentioned Morricone and the spaghetti trilogy

A Fistful of Dollars,
For a Few Dollars More, and
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Gabriels Oboe from the Mission

Quite a few others I can't think of.

High Noon, and that clock ticking all the way through, and of course ''Do not foresake me, oh my darling.''

The Thin Red Line
by Hans Zimmer

godfather, and the scene in the restaurant before michael kills the two men, the noise of the train in the back round instead of music was perfect.

Surprised nobody mentioned Morricone and the spaghetti trilogy

I did mention his best spaghetti work .

Taxi Driver

Profondo Rosso - Goblin

Ah yes, sorry 626, one of his minor works :)

the sting

4-4

Escape to Victory

Dances With Wolves ... :o)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Midnight Express
Dr. Zhivago

armageddon

Best film score?

POWs 5 Germans 4

(Escape to Victory flick imo)

ffs excuse me CJ just saw that! Great minds etc. Although I was counting the disallowed winner :)

the red pony

The piece of music that runs through Requiem for a Dream is superb IMO and seems to capture the despair etc of the film.

Agree PA, was done by Clint Mansell, and i bought the CD!

Know it wasn't a score, but the sound track to Jackie Brown was supremely good too.

good, bad and the ugly 1000000% nap material.

ffs your all idiots, Dambusters here endeth the lesson B-)

Cinema Paradiso

Jurassic park for me. Or anything by that zimmerman fella

high noon

deliverance - duelling banjos

Psycho , Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, Vertigo (all Bernard Herrmann, who would probably have half the Top 20 imo)

Jaws has to be up there , and other John Williams scores, Raiders of The Lost Ark , ET ,Star Wars

Morricone as already mentioned. John Barry brilliant too.

Angelo Badalamenti for the instrumental parts of The Beach

Bill Conti for the Rocky movies. He is also responsible for many other familiar tunes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Conti

dumb and dumber
unfortunately the cd soundtrack is not the same as the songs in the film

Dances With Wolves
Once Upon A Time In America

Chariots of Fire

Psycho

Paris, Texas

Taxi Driver, Bladerunner, My Summer of Love