Favorite score work in a movie? (scene, music, best, theme)

[texan2yankee]

My two favorite movie soundtracks are The Color Purple and Oh Brother, Where Art Though?.

[FluidFreedom]

Bill Conti The Big Blue Soundtrack


Anything Danny Elfman does.

[JONOV]

Chariots of Fire.

[UrbanCrossroads]

Some of my favorites:

1492: Conquest of Paradise


The Imitation Game


The Black Hole


Terms of Endearment


Central Station


The Thin Red Line


Conan the Barbarian is probably my favorite ever.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by texan2yankee

My two favorite movie soundtracks are The Color Purple and Oh Brother, Where Art Though?.

Both excellent choices.

Is there a difference between soundtrack and score? I ask because Forrest Gump has a great soundtrack but I'm not sure it's the same thing.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by JONOV

Chariots of Fire.

Great one. That's Vangelis. They also did the musical scores for Bladerunner and The Bounty and 1492 (and probably lots of others) - very evocative and really set the mood for all those movies.

[AFtrEFkt]

Vangelis is one guy: Evangelos Papathanassiou. "Vangelis" is the tweak of his first name. He's scored many films, and also has many great albums of original music to his credit.

[citylove101]

Ill go into the Wayback machine for two of my favorite soundtracks:

Bernard Herman's work in North by Northwest

Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer's score for The Best Years of Our Lives

[Miss Hepburn]

Gladiator - mainly cuz of Lisa Gerrard, tho...then ANYthing by Max Richter, wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHPTPUpQ1I

[Mark S.]

When it comes to film music, there is Ennio Morricone, and there is everyone else. A great light has gone out of the world.