MOVIES
Critical Response - AFI
Greatest Film Scores
This list features movies that have the greatest film scores of all time as rated by the American Film Institute.
RANK | FILMS | COMPOSER | YEAR |
1 | Star Wars | John Williams | 1977 |
2 | Gone with the Wind | Max Steiner | 1939 |
3 | Lawrence of Arabia | Maurice Jarre | 1962 |
4 | Psycho | Bernard Herrmann | 1960 |
5 | The Godfather | Nino Rota | 1972 |
6 | Jaws | John Williams | 1975 |
7 | Laura | David Raksin | 1944 |
8 | The Magnificent Seven | Elmer Bernstein | 1960 |
9 | Chinatown | Jerry Goldsmith | 1974 |
10 | High Noon | Dimitri Tiomkin | 1952 |
11 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1938 |
12 | Vertigo | Bernard Herrmann | 1958 |
13 | King Kong | Max Steiner | 1933 |
14 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | John Williams | 1982 |
15 | Out of Africa | John Barry | 1985 |
16 | Sunset Boulevard | Franz Waxman | 1950 |
17 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Elmer Bernstein | 1962 |
18 | Planet of the Apes | Jerry Goldsmith | 1968 |
19 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Alex North | 1951 |
20 | The Pink Panther | Henry Mancini | 1964 |
21 | Ben-Hur | Miklós Rózsa | 1959 |
22 | On the Waterfront | Leonard Bernstein | 1954 |
23 | The Mission | Ennio Morricone | 1986 |
24 | On Golden Pond | Dave Grusin | 1981 |
25 | How the West Was Won | Alfred Newman | 1962 |
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