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AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores (Top 25)

Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute in 2005.
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Year
Composer
Director(s)
Film Score
1
1977
John Williams
George Lucas
Star Wars
2
1939
Max Steiner
Victor Fleming
Gone with the Wind
3
1962
Maurice Jarre
David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia
4
1960
Bernard Herrmann
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
5
1972
Nino Rota
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather
6
1975
John Williams
Steven Spielberg
Jaws
7
1944
David Raksin
Otto Preminger
Laura
8
1960
Elmer Bernstein
John Sturges
The Magnificent Seven
9
1974
Jerry Goldsmith
Roman Polanski
Chinatown
10
1952
Dimitri Tiomkin
Fred Zinnemann
High Noon
11
1938
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Michael Curtiz & William Keighley
The Adventures of Robin Hood
12
1958
Bernard Herrmann
Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo
13
1933
Max Steiner
Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
King Kong
14
1982
John Williams
Steven Spielberg
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
15
1985
John Barry
Sydney Pollack
Out of Africa
16
1950
Franz Waxman
Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard
17
1962
Elmer Bernstein
Robert Mulligan
To Kill a Mockingbird
18
1968
Jerry Goldsmith
Franklin J. Schaffner
Planet of the Apes
19
1951
Alex North
Elia Kazan
A Streetcar Named Desire
20
1964
Henry Mancini
Blake Edwards
The Pink Panther
21
1959
Miklos Rozsa
William Wyler
Ben-Hur
22
1954
Leonard Bernstein
Elia Kazan
On the Waterfront
23
1986
Ennio Morricone
Roland Joffé
The Mission
24
1981
Dave Grusin
Mark Rydell
On Golden Pond
25
1962
Alfred Newman
Henry Hathaway, John Ford, & George Marshall
How the West Was Won
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