Top 25 Film Scores of All Time

RANK		FILM Title	YEAR	COMPOSER
1		STAR WARS	1977	John Williams
2		GONE WITH THE WIND	1939	Max Steiner
3		LAWRENCE OF ARABIA	1962	Maurice Jarre
4		PSYCHO	1960	Bernard Herrmann
5		THE GODFATHER	1972	Nino Rota
6		JAWS	1975	John Williams
7		LAURA	1944	David Raksin
8		THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN	1960	Elmer Bernstein
9		CHINATOWN	1974	Jerry Goldsmith
10		HIGH NOON	1952	Dimitri Tiomkin
11		THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD	1938	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
12		VERTIGO	1958	Bernard Herrmann
13		KING KONG	1933	Max Steiner
14		E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL	1982	John Williams
15		OUT OF AFRICA	1985	John Barry
16		SUNSET BLVD.	1950	Franz Waxman
17		TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD	1962	Elmer Bernstein
18		PLANET OF THE APES	1968	Jerry Goldsmith
19		A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE	1951	Alex North
20		THE PINK PANTHER	1964	Henry Mancini
21		BEN-HUR	1959	Miklos Rozsa
22		ON THE WATERFRONT	1954	Leonard Bernstein
23		THE MISSION	1986	Ennio Morricone
24		ON GOLDEN POND	1981	Dave Grusin
25		HOW THE WEST WAS WON	1962	Alfred Newman