The lists below include only films for which the composers contributed original music regardless of whether they were credited.
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 194 |
2 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 244 |
3 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 318 |
4 | Body Heat | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan | 702 |
5 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 742 |
6 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 825 |
7 | Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | 853 |
8 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 856 |
9 | The Ipcress File | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | 912 |
10 | Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | 930 |
11 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 1568 |
12 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt | 2320 |
13 | Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young | 2535 |
14 | Chaplin | 1992 | Richard Attenborough | 2770 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 100 |
2 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 164 |
3 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 169 |
4 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
5 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 234 |
6 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 273 |
7 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 360 |
8 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis | 436 |
9 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 493 |
10 | Trading Places | 1983 | John Landis | 632 |
11 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt | 911 |
12 | Far from Heaven | 2002 | Todd Haynes | 1099 |
13 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1110 |
14 | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 1145 |
15 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese | 1235 |
16 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 1261 |
17 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1293 |
18 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1383 |
19 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1891 |
20 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin | 1938 |
21 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman | 2003 |
22 | Heavy Metal | 1981 | Gerald Potterton | 2492 |
23 | ¡Three Amigos! | 1986 | John Landis | 2616 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 75 |
2 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 108 |
3 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 189 |
4 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 346 |
5 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 466 |
6 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 476 |
7 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 506 |
8 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 733 |
9 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | 846 |
10 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 888 |
11 | True Grit | 2010 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 934 |
12 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | 967 |
13 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | Martin McDonagh | 1272 |
14 | Carol | 2015 | Todd Haynes | 1279 |
15 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1387 |
16 | The Kids Are All Right | 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko | 1619 |
17 | Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | Spike Jonze | 1655 |
18 | The Blind Side | 2009 | John Lee Hancock | 1681 |
19 | The Rookie | 2002 | John Lee Hancock | 1898 |
20 | Anomalisa | 2015 | Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman | 2061 |
21 | The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Joel Coen | 2272 |
22 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2284 |
23 | Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | Todd Haynes | 2307 |
24 | Gods and Monsters | 1998 | Bill Condon | 2365 |
25 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | 2519 |
26 | Twilight | 2008 | Catherine Hardwicke | 2521 |
27 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2605 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 200 |
2 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 201 |
3 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 229 |
4 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 326 |
5 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 371 |
6 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 467 |
7 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 807 |
8 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 838 |
9 | The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | Fred Zinnemann | 1573 |
10 | Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Herbert Ross | 1658 |
11 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 1820 |
12 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1896 |
13 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | 1924 |
14 | Women in Love | 1969 | Ken Russell | 2293 |
15 | Julia | 1977 | Fred Zinnemann | 2713 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
2 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 694 |
3 | The King's Speech | 2010 | Tom Hooper | 696 |
4 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 842 |
5 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | 917 |
6 | Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | Wes Anderson | 963 |
7 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | 1029 |
8 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 1087 |
9 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 1275 |
10 | Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | 1419 |
11 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 1498 |
12 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard | 1563 |
13 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck | 1660 |
14 | The Imitation Game | 2014 | Morten Tyldum | 1668 |
15 | The Shape of Water | 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | 2064 |
16 | Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | 2218 |
17 | Birth | 2004 | Jonathan Glazer | 2672 |
18 | Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson | 2757 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 203 |
2 | The Nightmare before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 297 |
3 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 495 |
4 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 617 |
5 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 652 |
6 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 655 |
7 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 711 |
8 | Coraline | 2009 | Henry Selick | 717 |
9 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest | 773 |
10 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 787 |
11 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton | 873 |
12 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | 886 |
13 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 1072 |
14 | Mission: Impossible | 1996 | Brian De Palma | 1435 |
15 | Silver Linings Playbook | 2012 | David O. Russell | 1441 |
16 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1764 |
17 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | 1807 |
18 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro | 1966 |
19 | Corpse Bride | 2005 | Tim Burton and Mike Johnson | 1989 |
20 | To Die For | 1995 | Gus Van Sant | 2024 |
21 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Tim Burton | 2179 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 188 |
2 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 205 |
3 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 412 |
4 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | 494 |
5 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 623 |
6 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 809 |
7 | Zootopia | 2016 | Byron Howard and Rich Moore | 1039 |
8 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2016 | Gareth Edwards | 2060 |
9 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | 2011 | Brad Bird | 2080 |
10 | Star Trek into Darkness | 2013 | J.J. Abrams | 2089 |
11 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 2014 | Matt Reeves | 2429 |
12 | Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | J.J. Abrams | 2454 |
13 | Incredibles 2 | 2018 | Brad Bird | 2505 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 16 |
2 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 21 |
3 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
4 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 166 |
5 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 291 |
6 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 487 |
7 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 560 |
8 | The Omen | 1976 | Richard Donner | 637 |
9 | Hoosiers | 1986 | David Anspaugh | 701 |
10 | First Blood | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff | 775 |
11 | Basic Instinct | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven | 796 |
12 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 817 |
13 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 948 |
14 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante | 1146 |
15 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 1190 |
16 | Rudy | 1993 | David Anspaugh | 1194 |
17 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth | 1203 |
18 | Logan's Run | 1976 | Michael Anderson | 1580 |
19 | Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Jonathan Frakes | 1672 |
20 | Lonely Are the Brave | 1962 | David Miller | 1704 |
21 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 2018 |
22 | Air Force One | 1997 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2347 |
23 | The Mummy | 1999 | Stephen Sommers | 2388 |
24 | Outland | 1981 | Peter Hyams | 2687 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
2 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
3 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 13 |
4 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
5 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
6 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 245 |
7 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 405 |
8 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 877 |
9 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1178 |
10 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1237 |
11 | Marnie | 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1401 |
12 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1463 |
13 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1528 |
14 | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 1958 | Nathan Juran | 1785 |
15 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2165 |
16 | The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2578 |
17 | Sisters | 1972 | Brian De Palma | 2587 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 61 |
2 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 129 |
3 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 185 |
4 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 262 |
5 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 385 |
6 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer | 393 |
7 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 524 |
8 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 625 |
9 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 776 |
10 | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 1478 |
11 | The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick | 1494 |
12 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 1844 |
13 | Commando | 1985 | Mark L. Lester | 1850 |
14 | Apocalypto | 2006 | Mel Gibson | 1879 |
15 | 48 Hrs. | 1982 | Walter Hill | 1919 |
16 | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | 2008 | Mark Herman | 1971 |
17 | The Land before Time | 1988 | Don Bluth | 2120 |
18 | The Rocketeer | 1991 | Joe Johnston | 2298 |
19 | Cocoon | 1985 | Ron Howard | 2400 |
20 | An American Tail | 1986 | Don Bluth | 2406 |
21 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2456 |
22 | Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Phillip Noyce | 2786 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
2 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 187 |
3 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 414 |
4 | Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall | 521 |
5 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 677 |
6 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 914 |
7 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1027 |
8 | Primal Fear | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit | 1558 |
9 | Major League | 1989 | David S. Ward | 1566 |
10 | The Hunger Games | 2012 | Gary Ross | 1581 |
11 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann | 1645 |
12 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1735 |
13 | Blood Diamond | 2006 | Edward Zwick | 1771 |
14 | Nightcrawler | 2014 | Dan Gilroy | 1811 |
15 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | Francis Lawrence | 1950 |
16 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2007 |
17 | Michael Clayton | 2007 | Tony Gilroy | 2027 |
18 | My Best Friend's Wedding | 1997 | P.J. Hogan | 2040 |
19 | The Devil's Advocate | 1997 | Taylor Hackford | 2337 |
20 | I Am Legend | 2007 | Francis Lawrence | 2385 |
21 | Falling Down | 1993 | Joel Schumacher | 2511 |
22 | Space Jam | 1996 | Joe Pytka | 2525 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
2 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 406 |
3 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 425 |
4 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 433 |
5 | Ghost | 1990 | Jerry Zucker | 740 |
6 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 764 |
7 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir | 857 |
8 | Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Adrian Lyne | 879 |
9 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 923 |
10 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 980 |
11 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 1064 |
12 | Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | 1271 |
13 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1480 |
14 | The Damned | 1969 | Luchino Visconti | 1976 |
15 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 2045 |
16 | Top Secret! | 1984 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 2278 |
17 | Enemy Mine | 1985 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2648 |