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 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 246 |
| 2 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 280 |
| 3 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 356 |
| 4 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 889 |
| 5 | Body Heat | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan | 957 |
| 6 | Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | 981 |
| 7 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 1036 |
| 8 | Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | 1259 |
| 9 | The Ipcress File | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | 1336 |
| 10 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 1596 |
| 11 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt | 2015 |
| 12 | Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young | 2181 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 109 |
| 2 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 151 |
| 3 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 154 |
| 4 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 196 |
| 5 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 209 |
| 6 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 388 |
| 7 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis | 431 |
| 8 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 489 |
| 9 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 603 |
| 10 | Trading Places | 1983 | John Landis | 818 |
| 11 | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 890 |
| 12 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt | 1037 |
| 13 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1160 |
| 14 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1226 |
| 15 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1343 |
| 16 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese | 1411 |
| 17 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1653 |
| 18 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin | 1740 |
| 19 | Far from Heaven | 2002 | Todd Haynes | 1768 |
| 20 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 2025 |
| 21 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 2052 |
| 22 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman | 2614 |
| 23 | Heavy Metal | 1981 | Gerald Potterton | 2647 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 67 |
| 2 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 101 |
| 3 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 104 |
| 4 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 451 |
| 5 | Carol | 2015 | Todd Haynes | 545 |
| 6 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 553 |
| 7 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 591 |
| 8 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 609 |
| 9 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | 631 |
| 10 | True Grit | 2010 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 685 |
| 11 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 905 |
| 12 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 1050 |
| 13 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | Martin McDonagh | 1109 |
| 14 | The Kids Are All Right | 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko | 1201 |
| 15 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1203 |
| 16 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | 1238 |
| 17 | The Blind Side | 2009 | John Lee Hancock | 1674 |
| 18 | Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | Spike Jonze | 1880 |
| 19 | The Rookie | 2002 | John Lee Hancock | 1919 |
| 20 | Twilight | 2008 | Catherine Hardwicke | 2165 |
| 21 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 22 | Anomalisa | 2015 | Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman | 2247 |
| 23 | Burn after Reading | 2008 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 2326 |
| 24 | Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | Todd Haynes | 2524 |
| 25 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2694 |
| 26 | Gods and Monsters | 1998 | Bill Condon | 2847 |
| 27 | The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Joel Coen | 2858 |
| 28 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | 2976 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 241 |
| 2 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 268 |
| 3 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 287 |
| 4 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 432 |
| 5 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 496 |
| 6 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 662 |
| 7 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 1237 |
| 8 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 1291 |
| 9 | Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Herbert Ross | 1415 |
| 10 | The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | Fred Zinnemann | 1727 |
| 11 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 2009 |
| 12 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | 2112 |
| 13 | Beaches | 1988 | Garry Marshall | 2278 |
| 14 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 2452 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 375 |
| 2 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | 467 |
| 3 | Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | 549 |
| 4 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 564 |
| 5 | The King's Speech | 2010 | Tom Hooper | 625 |
| 6 | Little Women | 2019 | Greta Gerwig | 661 |
| 7 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 692 |
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 718 |
| 9 | Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | Wes Anderson | 757 |
| 10 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 773 |
| 11 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | 824 |
| 12 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck | 1002 |
| 13 | The Shape of Water | 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | 1100 |
| 14 | The Imitation Game | 2014 | Morten Tyldum | 1123 |
| 15 | Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | 1543 |
| 16 | Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson | 1742 |
| 17 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard | 2056 |
| 18 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 2485 |
| 19 | Philomena | 2013 | Stephen Frears | 2859 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 199 |
| 2 | The Nightmare before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 231 |
| 3 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 339 |
| 4 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 459 |
| 5 | Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton | 486 |
| 6 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 516 |
| 7 | Batman Returns | 1992 | Tim Burton | 560 |
| 8 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 637 |
| 9 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 694 |
| 10 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 748 |
| 11 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | 811 |
| 12 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest | 908 |
| 13 | Silver Linings Playbook | 2012 | David O. Russell | 915 |
| 14 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton | 1017 |
| 15 | Mission: Impossible | 1996 | Brian De Palma | 1055 |
| 16 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro | 1361 |
| 17 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1441 |
| 18 | Corpse Bride | 2005 | Tim Burton and Mike Johnson | 1665 |
| 19 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | 2083 |
| 20 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2015 | Joss Whedon | 2103 |
| 21 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Tim Burton | 2354 |
| 22 | American Hustle | 2013 | David O. Russell | 2382 |
| 23 | Darkman | 1990 | Sam Raimi | 2464 |
| 24 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | Sam Raimi | 2587 |
| 25 | To Die For | 1995 | Gus Van Sant | 2610 |
| 26 | Frankenweenie | 2012 | Tim Burton | 2760 |
| 27 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty | 2969 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 112 |
| 2 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 184 |
| 3 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | 276 |
| 4 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 285 |
| 5 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 304 |
| 6 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 522 |
| 7 | Zootopia | 2016 | Byron Howard and Rich Moore | 855 |
| 8 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | 2017 | Jon Watts | 1159 |
| 9 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2016 | Gareth Edwards | 1284 |
| 10 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 2014 | Matt Reeves | 1435 |
| 11 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | 2021 | Jon Watts | 1494 |
| 12 | Incredibles 2 | 2018 | Brad Bird | 1582 |
| 13 | Star Trek into Darkness | 2013 | J.J. Abrams | 1613 |
| 14 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | 2011 | Brad Bird | 1615 |
| 15 | Doctor Strange | 2016 | Scott Derrickson | 1810 |
| 16 | The Batman | 2022 | Matt Reeves | 1885 |
| 17 | War for the Planet of the Apes | 2017 | Matt Reeves | 1968 |
| 18 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves | 2108 |
| 19 | Jojo Rabbit | 2019 | Taika Waititi | 2147 |
| 20 | Spider-Man: Far from Home | 2019 | Jon Watts | 2433 |
| 21 | Super 8 | 2011 | J.J. Abrams | 2451 |
| 22 | Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | J.J. Abrams | 2521 |
| 23 | Let Me in | 2010 | Matt Reeves | 2846 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 6 |
| 2 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 34 |
| 3 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 139 |
| 4 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 181 |
| 5 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 302 |
| 6 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 398 |
| 7 | The Omen | 1976 | Richard Donner | 481 |
| 8 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 511 |
| 9 | Basic Instinct | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven | 717 |
| 10 | Hoosiers | 1986 | David Anspaugh | 754 |
| 11 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante | 840 |
| 12 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 901 |
| 13 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 917 |
| 14 | First Blood | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff | 1011 |
| 15 | Rudy | 1993 | David Anspaugh | 1096 |
| 16 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth | 1156 |
| 17 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 1261 |
| 18 | Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Jonathan Frakes | 1327 |
| 19 | Logan's Run | 1976 | Michael Anderson | 1468 |
| 20 | The Mummy | 1999 | Stephen Sommers | 1529 |
| 21 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | George P. Cosmatos | 2230 |
| 22 | Lilies of the Field | 1963 | Ralph Nelson | 2476 |
| 23 | Lonely Are the Brave | 1962 | David Miller | 2491 |
| 24 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | 1979 | Robert Wise | 2706 |
| 25 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 2776 |
| 26 | The Sand Pebbles | 1966 | Robert Wise | 2795 |
| 27 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | 1990 | Joe Dante | 2800 |
| 28 | Legend | 1985 | Ridley Scott | 2909 |
| 29 | Von Ryan's Express | 1965 | Mark Robson | 2927 |
| 30 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | 1970 | Sam Peckinpah | 2963 |
| 31 | Outland | 1981 | Peter Hyams | 3059 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1 |
| 2 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 11 |
| 3 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 15 |
| 4 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 5 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 6 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 298 |
| 7 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 456 |
| 8 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 931 |
| 9 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1108 |
| 10 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1219 |
| 11 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1465 |
| 12 | Marnie | 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1785 |
| 13 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1791 |
| 14 | Sisters | 1972 | Brian De Palma | 2047 |
| 15 | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 1958 | Nathan Juran | 2397 |
| 16 | The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2426 |
| 17 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2707 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 50 |
| 2 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 96 |
| 3 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 149 |
| 4 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 278 |
| 5 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer | 317 |
| 6 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 430 |
| 7 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 562 |
| 8 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 572 |
| 9 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 857 |
| 10 | The Rocketeer | 1991 | Joe Johnston | 1324 |
| 11 | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | 2008 | Mark Herman | 1481 |
| 12 | Jumanji | 1995 | Joe Johnston | 1567 |
| 13 | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 1607 |
| 14 | The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick | 1630 |
| 15 | Apocalypto | 2006 | Mel Gibson | 1712 |
| 16 | Commando | 1985 | Mark L. Lester | 1918 |
| 17 | The Land before Time | 1988 | Don Bluth | 2136 |
| 18 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2180 |
| 19 | Troy | 2004 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2308 |
| 20 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2392 |
| 21 | An American Tail | 1986 | Don Bluth | 2478 |
| 22 | Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Phillip Noyce | 2488 |
| 23 | Patriot Games | 1992 | Phillip Noyce | 2544 |
| 24 | Willow | 1988 | Ron Howard | 2555 |
| 25 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | 1989 | Joe Johnston | 2568 |
| 26 | The Mask of Zorro | 1998 | Martin Campbell | 2710 |
| 27 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian | 2731 |
| 28 | The Perfect Storm | 2000 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2750 |
| 29 | 48 Hrs. | 1982 | Walter Hill | 2821 |
| 30 | The Amazing Spider-Man | 2012 | Marc Webb | 2885 |
| 31 | Cocoon | 1985 | Ron Howard | 2996 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 18 |
| 2 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 168 |
| 3 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 384 |
| 4 | Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall | 443 |
| 5 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 519 |
| 6 | The Hunger Games | 2012 | Gary Ross | 923 |
| 7 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1038 |
| 8 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1065 |
| 9 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 1205 |
| 10 | Nightcrawler | 2014 | Dan Gilroy | 1245 |
| 11 | My Best Friend's Wedding | 1997 | P.J. Hogan | 1345 |
| 12 | Major League | 1989 | David S. Ward | 1422 |
| 13 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | Francis Lawrence | 1485 |
| 14 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1581 |
| 15 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann | 1590 |
| 16 | Blood Diamond | 2006 | Edward Zwick | 1657 |
| 17 | Primal Fear | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit | 1711 |
| 18 | Space Jam | 1996 | Joe Pytka | 1765 |
| 19 | My Girl | 1991 | Howard Zieff | 1811 |
| 20 | I Am Legend | 2007 | Francis Lawrence | 2253 |
| 21 | The Village | 2004 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2390 |
| 22 | The Devil's Advocate | 1997 | Taylor Hackford | 2436 |
| 23 | Michael Clayton | 2007 | Tony Gilroy | 2539 |
| 24 | Falling Down | 1993 | Joel Schumacher | 2769 |
| 25 | Raya and the Last Dragon | 2021 | Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada | 2920 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 25 |
| 2 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 291 |
| 3 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 381 |
| 4 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 393 |
| 5 | Ghost | 1990 | Jerry Zucker | 798 |
| 6 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 860 |
| 7 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 864 |
| 8 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 921 |
| 9 | Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | 1168 |
| 10 | Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Adrian Lyne | 1312 |
| 11 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir | 1335 |
| 12 | Top Secret! | 1984 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 1492 |
| 13 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1501 |
| 14 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 1535 |
| 15 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 2591 |
| 16 | The Damned | 1969 | Luchino Visconti | 2704 |
| 17 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean | 2717 |
