AFI Top 25 Movie Scores
| 1 |
Star Wars |
1977 |
20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm |
John Williams |
| 2 |
Gone with the Wind |
1939 |
Selznick International |
Max Steiner |
| 3 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
1962 |
Columbia |
Maurice Jarre |
| 4 |
Psycho |
1960 |
Paramount |
Bernard Herrmann |
| 5 |
The Godfather |
1972 |
Paramount |
Nino Rota |
| 6 |
Jaws |
1975 |
Universal |
John Williams |
| 7 |
Laura |
1944 |
20th Century Fox |
David Raksin |
| 8 |
The Magnificent Seven |
1960 |
United Artists |
Elmer Bernstein |
| 9 |
Chinatown |
1974 |
Paramount |
Jerry Goldsmith |
| 10 |
High Noon |
1952 |
United Artists |
Dimitri Tiomkin |
| 11 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
1938 |
Warner Bros. |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| 12 |
Vertigo |
1958 |
Paramount |
Bernard Herrmann |
| 13 |
King Kong |
1933 |
RKO |
Max Steiner |
| 14 |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
1982 |
Universal |
John Williams |
| 15 |
Out of Africa |
1985 |
Universal |
John Barry |
| 16 |
Sunset Blvd. |
1950 |
Paramount |
Franz Waxman |
| 17 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
1962 |
Universal |
Elmer Bernstein |
| 18 |
Planet of the Apes |
1968 |
20th Century Fox |
Jerry Goldsmith |
| 19 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
1951 |
Warner Bros. |
Alex North |
| 20 |
The Pink Panther |
1964 |
United Artists |
Henry Mancini |
| 21 |
Ben-Hur |
1959 |
MGM |
Miklós Rózsa |
| 22 |
On the Waterfront |
1954 |
Columbia |
Leonard Bernstein |
| 23 |
The Mission |
1986 |
Warner Bros. |
Ennio Morricone |
| 24 |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Universal |
Dave Grusin |
| 25 |
How the West Was Won |
1962 |
MGM, Cinerama Releasing |
Alfred Newman |
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