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 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
2 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 359 |
3 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | 519 |
4 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards | 908 |
5 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 1007 |
6 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 1143 |
7 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | 1354 |
8 | A Shot in the Dark | 1964 | Blake Edwards | 1544 |
9 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold | 1849 |
10 | Days of Wine and Roses | 1962 | Blake Edwards | 1998 |
11 | It Came from Outer Space | 1953 | Jack Arnold | 2313 |
12 | This Island Earth | 1955 | Joseph M. Newman | 2513 |
13 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 2526 |
14 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | 2702 |
15 | Silver Streak | 1976 | Arthur Hiller | 2791 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 44 |
2 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 58 |
3 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 106 |
4 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
5 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
6 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 217 |
7 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 221 |
8 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 383 |
9 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 468 |
10 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 471 |
11 | Salň | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 928 |
12 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | 1451 |
13 | The Great Silence | 1968 | Sergio Corbucci | 1479 |
14 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1600 |
15 | Duck, You Sucker | 1971 | Sergio Leone | 1676 |
16 | The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Quentin Tarantino | 1707 |
17 | Teorema | 1968 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1855 |
18 | Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion | 1970 | Elio Petri | 2048 |
19 | Fist in His Pocket | 1965 | Marco Bellocchio | 2081 |
20 | La Cage aux Folles | 1978 | Edouard Molinaro | 2111 |
21 | In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2350 |
22 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma | 2600 |
23 | Danger: Diabolik | 1968 | Mario Bava | 2660 |
24 | The Legend of 1900 | 1998 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 2737 |
25 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | 1970 | Dario Argento | 2783 |
26 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | 1989 | Pedro Almodóvar | 2803 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
2 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 209 |
3 | How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford | 708 |
4 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 975 |
5 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 997 |
6 | The Gunfighter | 1950 | Henry King | 1104 |
7 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 1136 |
8 | Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Henry King | 1185 |
9 | Dodsworth | 1936 | William Wyler | 1212 |
10 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 1213 |
11 | The Seven Year Itch | 1955 | Billy Wilder | 1425 |
12 | Ball of Fire | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1446 |
13 | Leave Her to Heaven | 1945 | John M. Stahl | 1448 |
14 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1530 |
15 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | William Dieterle | 1656 |
16 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor | 1913 |
17 | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster | 2065 |
18 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan | 2143 |
19 | Gentleman's Agreement | 1947 | Elia Kazan | 2150 |
20 | Heaven Can Wait | 1943 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2168 |
21 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2232 |
22 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 2470 |
23 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 | Elia Kazan | 2517 |
24 | A Letter to Three Wives | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2558 |
25 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King | 2651 |
26 | The Westerner | 1940 | William Wyler | 2724 |
27 | The Mark of Zorro | 1940 | Rouben Mamoulian | 2763 |
28 | You Only Live Once | 1937 | Fritz Lang | 2802 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
2 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
3 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | 280 |
4 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 562 |
5 | Adam's Rib | 1949 | George Cukor | 574 |
6 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 686 |
7 | The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Billy Wilder | 691 |
8 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 1090 |
9 | The Naked City | 1948 | Jules Dassin | 1749 |
10 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1987 |
11 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | 2182 |
12 | Criss Cross | 1949 | Robert Siodmak | 2518 |
13 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | 2544 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
2 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 43 |
3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 48 |
4 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 67 |
5 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 102 |
6 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 223 |
7 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 238 |
8 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 349 |
9 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton | 435 |
10 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 501 |
11 | A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg | 509 |
12 | Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg | 674 |
13 | Crash | 1996 | David Cronenberg | 756 |
14 | Philadelphia | 1993 | Jonathan Demme | 828 |
15 | After Hours | 1985 | Martin Scorsese | 992 |
16 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears | 1052 |
17 | Hugo | 2011 | Martin Scorsese | 1120 |
18 | The Brood | 1979 | David Cronenberg | 1132 |
19 | The Game | 1997 | David Fincher | 1173 |
20 | Mrs. Doubtfire | 1993 | Chris Columbus | 1241 |
21 | Spotlight | 2015 | Tom McCarthy | 1373 |
22 | Eastern Promises | 2007 | David Cronenberg | 1459 |
23 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1605 |
24 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Peter Jackson | 1679 |
25 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | 1774 |
26 | Naked Lunch | 1991 | David Cronenberg | 1875 |
27 | Scanners | 1981 | David Cronenberg | 2121 |
28 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Peter Jackson | 2198 |
29 | Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley | 2327 |
30 | Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith | 2371 |
31 | eXistenZ | 1999 | David Cronenberg | 2391 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 45 |
2 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 107 |
3 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 264 |
4 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan | 347 |
5 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon | 540 |
6 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 952 |
7 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1095 |
8 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 1222 |
9 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1384 |
10 | Cast Away | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis | 1395 |
11 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1454 |
12 | Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis | 1697 |
13 | Lilo & Stitch | 2002 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 1994 |
14 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | 1996 | Renny Harlin | 2130 |
15 | Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Robert Zemeckis | 2167 |
16 | Captain America: The First Avenger | 2011 | Joe Johnston | 2620 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
2 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
3 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
4 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
5 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 134 |
6 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
7 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | 336 |
8 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 440 |
9 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 533 |
10 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper | 612 |
11 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1133 |
12 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1337 |
13 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1382 |
14 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | 1508 |
15 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 1824 |
16 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | 1868 |
17 | The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | William Dieterle | 1936 |
18 | Little Women | 1933 | George Cukor | 2096 |
19 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 2100 |
20 | The Letter | 1940 | William Wyler | 2299 |
21 | The Gay Divorcee | 1934 | Mark Sandrich | 2348 |
22 | They Died with Their Boots on | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 2487 |
23 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | 2493 |
24 | Dodge City | 1939 | Michael Curtiz | 2540 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 33 |
2 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 130 |
3 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 175 |
4 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
5 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 271 |
6 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 303 |
7 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 432 |
8 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 641 |
9 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 762 |
10 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 826 |
11 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks | 1142 |
12 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1248 |
13 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1285 |
14 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 1303 |
15 | D.O.A. | 1949 | Rudolph Maté | 1604 |
16 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1644 |
17 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 1802 |
18 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 2026 |
19 | The Westerner | 1940 | William Wyler | 2724 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 6 |
2 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
3 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 26 |
4 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
5 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 28 |
6 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 36 |
7 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 77 |
8 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 120 |
9 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 132 |
10 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 236 |
11 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 275 |
12 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | 380 |
13 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
14 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 503 |
15 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 508 |
16 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 516 |
17 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 529 |
18 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 593 |
19 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 1984 | Steven Spielberg | 695 |
20 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | 812 |
21 | Home Alone | 1990 | Chris Columbus | 822 |
22 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | J.J. Abrams | 925 |
23 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 988 |
24 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 1139 |
25 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
26 | Fiddler on the Roof | 1971 | Norman Jewison | 1277 |
27 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | 1467 |
28 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1624 |
29 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1684 |
30 | Lincoln | 2012 | Steven Spielberg | 1814 |
31 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1946 |
32 | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi | 2017 | Rian Johnson | 2072 |
33 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 2263 |
34 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen | 2306 |
35 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame | 2402 |
36 | Sleepers | 1996 | Barry Levinson | 2533 |
37 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2557 |
38 | The Terminal | 2004 | Steven Spielberg | 2575 |
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
2 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
3 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 138 |
4 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 158 |
5 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 378 |
6 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 379 |
7 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 414 |
8 | Rain Man | 1988 | Barry Levinson | 479 |
9 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | 543 |
10 | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | 591 |
11 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | 614 |
12 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 638 |
13 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 768 |
14 | As Good as It Gets | 1997 | James L. Brooks | 791 |
15 | My Beautiful Laundrette | 1985 | Stephen Frears | 869 |
16 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 927 |
17 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott | 947 |
18 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | 1234 |
19 | Kung Fu Panda | 2008 | Mark Osborne and John Stevenson | 1327 |
20 | Cool Runnings | 1993 | Jon Turteltaub | 1370 |
21 | Dunkirk | 2017 | Christopher Nolan | 1439 |
22 | Rush | 2013 | Ron Howard | 1487 |
23 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 1647 |
24 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick | 1922 |
25 | Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Bruce Beresford | 1945 |
26 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski | 1948 |
27 | Rango | 2011 | Gore Verbinski | 2164 |
28 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | Gore Verbinski | 2455 |
29 | Sherlock Holmes | 2009 | Guy Ritchie | 2528 |
30 | Man of Steel | 2013 | Zack Snyder | 2589 |
31 | Frost/Nixon | 2008 | Ron Howard | 2692 |
32 | The Simpsons Movie | 2007 | David Silverman | 2711 |