Your Top List of Best Soundtracks

[Penelope]

Off the top of my head, and in chronological order:

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 1938)
Now, Voyager (Max Steiner, 1942)
Laura (David Raksin, 1944)
Peyton Place (Franz Waxman, 1957)
Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre, 1965)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Ennio Morricone, 1968)
Basic Instinct (Jerry Goldsmith, 1992)
Little Women (Thomas Newman, 1994)
Gladiator (Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer, 2000)
The Painted Veil (Alexandre Desplat, 2006)

[Eric]

Best Original Scores:
Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith, 1982)

An absolutely stellar choice, of course.

[flipp525]

These skew more recent and the list is very much off the top of my head. Also, I shamelessly stole one film score that will, no doubt, be at the top of Penelope's list but I give credit to him for introducing it to me:

Best Original Scores:
All That Heaven Allows (Frank Skinner, 1955)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Elmer Berstein, 1962)
Taxi Driver (Bernard Herrmann, 1976)
Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith, 1982)
Out of Africa (John Barry, 1985)
The Glass Menagerie (Henry Mancini, 1987)
Little Women (Thomas Newman, 1994)
As Good As It Gets (Hans Zimmer, 1997)
All About My Mother (Alberto Iglesias, 1999)
The Virgin Suicides (Air, 2000)
Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo, Santaolalla, 2005)

Best Soundtracks:
The Big Chill (1983)
Flashdance (1983)
Footloose (1984)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Heathers (1989)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
Gross Pointe Blank (1997)
Pleasantville (1998)
Magnolia (1999)



Edited By flipp525 on 1226003096

[Big Magilla]

As dreaMaker is himself a serious film composer I'm sure he means the latter, though you could do both.

[Penelope]

Well, now, a clarification is necessary: do you mean the collection of songs in a movie (Saturday Night Fever, Footloose, Dirty Dancing) or just the music score written by the composer?

[dreaMaker]

No need to explain...
I ll make my list this day later