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AFI: 100 Years of Film Scores

Introduction

Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute in 2005.

Two Hitchcock films appear in the list (both scored by Bernard Herrmann).

The following Hitchcock films were also nominated but did not make the final list:

The Full List

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

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