The Best Composers Ever!

539 items • Updated 4/17/2026

Points from my "The Best Films Ever Made"-Lists. Vol. 1 = 100%, Vol. 2 = 50%, Vol. 3 = 33%, Vol. 4 = 25%, Vol. 5 = 20 %, Vol. 6 = 17%

1		Max Steiner Music Department
2		Ennio Morricone Composer
3		Franz Waxman Music Department
4		Alfred Newman Music Department
5		Nino Rota Composer
6		Hans Zimmer Music Department
7		Dimitri Tiomkin Music Department
8		Thomas Newman Music Department
9		Georges Delerue Composer
10		John Williams Music Department
11		Philippe Sarde Composer
12		Alexandre Desplat Composer
13		Maurice Jarre Composer
14		Miklós Rózsa Music Department
15		Bernard Herrmann Music Department
16		Elmer Bernstein Music Department
17		Carter Burwell Composer
18		Jerry Goldsmith Music Department
19		James Newton Howard Music Department
20		Armando Trovajoli Composer
21		Eduard Artemyev Composer
22		Alberto Iglesias Composer
23		Friedrich Hollaender Composer
24		Roy Webb Music Department
25		Herbert Stothart Composer
26		John Barry Music Department
27		Henry Mancini Music Department
28	👤	Georges Auric Composer
29	👤	Carlo Rustichelli Composer
30		Erik Nordgren Composer
31		Wojciech Kilar Composer
32		Frank Skinner Music Department
33		Howard Shore Music Department
34		Victor Young Music Department
35		Mark Isham Composer
36		Gustavo Santaolalla Music Department
37		Adolph Deutsch Composer
38	👤	Cyril J. Mockridge Composer
39	👤	Takanobu Saitô Composer
40	👤	Heinz Roemheld Music Department
41	👤	Alessandro Cicognini Composer
42		William Alwyn Composer
43		Danny Elfman Music Department
44		Hugo Friedhofer Music Department
45		Mychael Danna Composer
46		Michel Legrand Composer
47	👤	Fumio Hayasaka Composer
48		Quincy Jones Music Department
49		Piero Piccioni Composer
50		Bronislau Kaper Music Department

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