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Apr 3, 2024 · The soundtrack to a film or TV show is a hugely important part of the storytelling of a movie. A film composer’s music can evoke emotion, tell a narrative, and create a mood on its own. The musical score really can make or break a movie experience for viewers.
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- Joe Hisaishi. Japan’s answer to John Williams, Joe Hisaishi is his home nation’s most celebrated film composer, whose long-running collaboration with Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki has often drawn comparisons to the American film composer, and his partnership with Steven Spielberg.
- Rachel Portman. In 1997, Portman became the first female composer to win an Oscar in the Best Score category, for her soundtrack to the adaption of Jane Austen’s Emma.
- Thomas Newman. Thomas Newman, whose father is the great Oscar-decorated composer Alfred Newman, started composing for synthesisers, before beginning to incorporate electronic and orchestral instruments.
- Maurice Jarre. A giant of 20th-century film music, French movie maestro Maurice Jarre penned the much-loved scores for Lawrence of Arabia, Ghost and Doctor Zhivago.
this is a list of MY top 37 film/TV music composers... I feel like the TV composers often get overlooked in all of the lists on here that I've seen so I thought I'd give them a shout!
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- Rachel Portman. Four women in cinematic history have won Academy Awards for Best Original Score: Marilyn Bergman for Yentl, Rachel Portman for Emma, Ann Dudley for The Full Monty, and Hildur Guonadottir for Joker.
- Elmer Bernstein. With due deference to Howard Shore, Phillip Glass, Alexandre Desplat, and other worthy contenders, Elmer Bernstein has over 250 credits as a film composer.
- Jerry Goldsmith. With over 250 credits amassed from 1953 until his death in 2004, Jerry Goldsmith is responsible for some of the most memorable film music of all time.
- Hans Zimmer. German composer Hans Zimmer earned his first Oscar nomination for Rain Man in 1989. Five years later, he won the Academy Award for scoring The Lion King.
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- Gladiator. Since the film’s release, Gladiator has gone on to achieve legendary status for Zimmer, from the beautiful, otherworldly ‘Elysium’ to the epic orchestral ‘Honour Him’.
- Pirates of the Caribbean. Zimmer collaborated with Klaus Badelt on ‘The Curse of the Black Pearl’, writing the film’s main themes as a duo. Although critics berated the composers’ work for its lack of connections to the ‘swashbuckling’ genre, Zimmer and Badelt succeeded in creating a score which is both epically beautiful and cheekily evocative of the unpredictable Captain Jack.
- Sherlock Holmes. Zimmer famously made use of (and was personally responsible for trashing!) a broken pub piano in his soundtrack to Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes remake.
- Inception. Unbelievably, Zimmer revealed his entire score for the Christopher Nolan film originated from Edith Piaf’s song ‘Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien’ – from the thunderous trombone theme to the threatening semitone-based melody in the violins.
100 Greatest Movie Composers. This list is a list of best film composers chosen based on composition, originality, variation, variety, quantity and success in the film score business.
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Michel Legrand is a three-time Academy Award-winning French composer, conductor and pianist who composed over 200 film and television scores as well as recorded over a hundred albums of jazz, popular and classical music.
