{"id":3754,"date":"2005-09-24T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2021-06-08T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:22:13","slug":"afis-top-25-movie-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/09\/24\/afis-top-25-movie-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"AFI’s Top 25 Movie Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n       From the AFI press release<\/u>: \u201cAmerican Film Institute (AFI) revealed the top 25 film scores of all time in The Big Picture: AFI’s 100 Years of Film Scores<\/i>, a one-night only presentation produced by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in cooperation with AFI.  A jury of over 500 film artists, composers, musicians, critics and historians selected John Williams’ iconic score from the classic film STAR WARS as the most memorable film score of all time.  John Williams is additionally noteworthy as the most represented composer on the list with three scores making the top 25.
    \u201c[\u2026] While television broadcasts have announced the previous eight installments of AFI’s 100 Years\u2026<\/i> series, this event marks the first time an AFI countdown was revealed before a live audience.\u201d
The Honorees Are\u2026
 <\/td>FILM TITLE<\/b><\/td>YEAR<\/b><\/td>COMPOSER<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
01<\/td>STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE<\/td>1977<\/td>John Williams<\/td><\/tr>
02<\/td>GONE WITH THE WIND<\/td>1939<\/td>Max Steiner<\/td><\/tr>
03<\/td>LAWRENCE OF ARABIA<\/td>1962<\/td>Maurice Jarre<\/td><\/tr>
04<\/td>PSYCHO<\/td>1960<\/td>Bernard Herrmann<\/td><\/tr>
05<\/td>THE GODFATHER<\/td>1972<\/td>Nino Rota<\/td><\/tr>
06<\/td>JAWS<\/td>1975<\/td>John Williams<\/td><\/tr>
07<\/td>LAURA<\/td>1944<\/td>David Raksin<\/td><\/tr>
08<\/td>THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN<\/td>1960<\/td> Elmer Bernstein<\/td><\/tr>
09<\/td>CHINATOWN<\/td>1974<\/td> Jerry Goldsmith<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>HIGH NOON<\/td>1952<\/td>Dimitri Tiomkin<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD<\/td>1938<\/td>Erich Wolfgang Korngold<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>VERTIGO<\/td>1958<\/td>Bernard Herrmann<\/td><\/tr>
13<\/td>KING KONG<\/td>1933<\/td>Max Steiner<\/td><\/tr>
14<\/td>E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL<\/td>1982<\/td>John Williams<\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>OUT OF AFRICA<\/td>1985<\/td>John Barry<\/td><\/tr>
16<\/td>SUNSET BLVD<\/td>1950<\/td>Franz Waxman<\/td><\/tr>
17<\/td>TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD<\/td>1962<\/td>Elmer Bernstein<\/td><\/tr>
18<\/td>PLANETS OF THE APES<\/td>1968<\/td>Jerry Goldsmith<\/td><\/tr>
19<\/td>A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE<\/td>1951<\/td>Alex North<\/td><\/tr>
20<\/td>THE PINK PANTHER<\/td>1964<\/td>Henry Mancini<\/td><\/tr>
21<\/td>BEN-HUR<\/td>1959<\/td>Miklos Rozsa<\/td><\/tr>
22<\/td>ON THE WATERFRONT<\/td>1954<\/td>Leonard Bernstein<\/td><\/tr>
23<\/td>THE MISSION<\/td>1986<\/td>Ennio Morricone<\/td><\/tr>
24<\/td>ON GOLDEN POND<\/td>1981<\/td>Dave Grusin<\/td><\/tr>
25<\/td>HOW THE WEST WAS WON<\/td>1962<\/td>Alfred Newman<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/center>    This list is okay by me, I guess, although obviously it would have even more<\/i> John Williams.  And Adventures of Robin Hood<\/i> would be higher up.  Quibbles?  I can’t say the On Golden Pond<\/i> made any kind of impression on me, so I’m surprised to see it ranking so high.  And, now that I think of it, no Elmer Bernstein’s Ten Commandments<\/i>???
    P.S.: want to hear some film music right now?  Check out Film Music Radio<\/a>, streaming twenty-four hours a day.   (Plus there’s the Soundtrack.net podcast at iTunes<\/a>.)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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