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re: The Top 10 greatest film composers according to Chat GPT...
Posted on 5/8/24 at 8:59 am to ScottFowler
Posted on 5/8/24 at 8:59 am to ScottFowler
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Morricone at #2 is very solid.
I don't object to Morricone in the Top 5 even, but Steiner is way too low as he was the proto-Williams.
I like Zimmer probably the best of the 3, but my big 3 are:
Williams at 1 (54 Oscar noms), then Steiner and Zimmer at 2a and 2b.
Generally uncredited in the early 30s, Steiner scored King Kong (1933), Gone With the Win (1939), and dozens of other huge films with iconic scores - Jezebel, Dark Victory, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, A Summer Place, White Heat, The Glass Menagerie, The Jazz Singer (1952), The Caine Mutiny, The Searchers.
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Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:03 am to SammyTiger
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in my mind John Williams is #1. it is just insane how epic his career is.
Being of a certain age, I'm just used to John Williams scoring the big pictures (Jaws, Star Wars then off to the races, right?). What boggles my mind is that I heard the Peter Gunn theme hundreds of times and only in my 50s did I realize that Williams is playing the piano on that. He was basically Mancini's protégé at that point, although he also worked with Goldsmith and Bernstein.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:05 am to Ace Midnight
what stand out to me about Williams is his franchise theme work.
There are a lot of great scores out there, but if I tell you to hum theme… the average person probably can’t do more than 10.
William’s scores are so identifiable.
There are a lot of great scores out there, but if I tell you to hum theme… the average person probably can’t do more than 10.
William’s scores are so identifiable.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:21 am to RollTide1987
I'd have a hard time narrowing to down to 10, but Miklós Rózsa would be on the list somewhere
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:21 am to SammyTiger
a Composure who is going to be the next big one is Ludwig Goransson.
He now works with Ryan Coogler and he’s in with Christopher Nolan.
Oppenheimer was a beautiful score and the Mandalorian theme is one of the best i’ve heard in a long time.
Some great TV work in community and New girl.
He now works with Ryan Coogler and he’s in with Christopher Nolan.
Oppenheimer was a beautiful score and the Mandalorian theme is one of the best i’ve heard in a long time.
Some great TV work in community and New girl.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:30 am to SammyTiger
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in my mind John Williams is #1. it is just insane how epic his career is.
1. Lost In Space
2. Film Adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof
3. The Poseidon Adventure
Then we get to the heavy hitters
4. Jaws- creates the theme song for all sharks for ever
5. Star Wars
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. Superman
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. ET
10. Jurassic Park
11, Shindlers List
12. Harry Potter
Just madness. absolutely crazy
That's not even counting other such film scores he did that also went on to be Oscar nominees such as the following:
Hook
JFK
Home Alone
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
The Patriot
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:34 am to RollTide1987
yeah i really listen iconic songs the average person could sing if asked.
which is wild how long that list is.
which is wild how long that list is.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:39 am to udtiger
quote:You're God damn right Jerry Goldsmith.
Jerry Goldsmith?
Patton
The Omen
Planet of the Apes
Hoosiers
Chinatown
Papillon
L.A. Confidential
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:54 am to RollTide1987
Maurice Jarre (Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, and many others) should be at least top 5 imo
ETA: No one's even close to John Williams
ETA: No one's even close to John Williams
This post was edited on 5/8/24 at 9:55 am
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:18 am to Fewer Kilometers
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You're God damn right Jerry Goldsmith.
Now, I'll toss out a name that just doesn't have the volume to be on this list, but is one of the great composers, ever, just on a score-for-score basis:
Vangelis
His Hollywood career was, effectively, 15 years:
Chariots of Fire
Blade Runner
Antartica
The Bounty (1984)
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Alexander
That is fantastic for such a short period of time and so few films scored.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 12:19 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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You're God damn right Jerry Goldsmith.
and one of my personal favorites Total Recall (1990)
Posted on 5/8/24 at 6:02 pm to ThuperThumpin
Powder is also an underrated Goldsmith score.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 9:11 am to RollTide1987
No John Berry?
Posted on 5/9/24 at 5:34 pm to RollTide1987
I can't think of a better example of a film not being the same without it's composer than Interstellar with Zimmer. It still would have been a beautiful and fascinating movie but Hans Zimmer's score is what made it an experience instead of just a movie. The docking scene alone was one of the most intense things I've ever watched the first time I saw it and the overall theme was unlike anything before it
Posted on 5/9/24 at 8:38 pm to Corso
Bear McCready is another one on the way up. He's going to work his way into the Top 10, if he isn't already there
Posted on 5/9/24 at 10:43 pm to RollTide1987
Any top 10 list without James Horner is a joke.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 5:37 am to RollTide1987
Henry Mancini - Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Great Race, Charade, and so many others, including several Oscar winners
Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:51 am to eph4v29
And don’t forget Williams wrote the Olympics theme and the NBC news theme.
Williams
Zimmer
Everyone else.
Williams
Zimmer
Everyone else.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 6:43 pm to DownSouthJukin
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No Elmer Bernstein?
Or Henry Mancini.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:06 pm to ColdDuck
Yes Williams is just by far and away the absolute number 1, probably of all time now and in the future. He’s written many iconic themes for franchises that will live forever
Zimmer would be a great #1 without Williams, but John Williams just blows everything else out of the water. I’d argue his accomplishments may be greater than the whole of every other movie composer
Zimmer would be a great #1 without Williams, but John Williams just blows everything else out of the water. I’d argue his accomplishments may be greater than the whole of every other movie composer
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