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:
- Rebecca (1940) - Franz Waxman
- Dial M for Murder (1954) - Dimitri Tiomkin
- Spellbound (1945) - Miklós Rózsa
- Notorious (1946) - Roy Webb
- North by Northwest (1959) - Bernard Herrmann
The Full List
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) - John Williams
- Gone with the Wind (1939) - Max Steiner
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre
- Psycho (1960) - Bernard Herrmann
- The Godfather (1972) - Nino Rota
- Jaws (1975) - John Williams
- Laura (1944) - David Raksin
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Elmer Bernstein
- Chinatown (1974) - Jerry Goldsmith
- High Noon (1952) - Dimitri Tiomkin
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Vertigo (1958) - Bernard Herrmann
- King Kong (1933) - Max Steiner
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - John Williams
- Out of Africa (1985) - John Barry
- Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Franz Waxman
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Elmer Bernstein
- Planet of the Apes (1968) - Jerry Goldsmith
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Alex North
- The Pink Panther (1964) - Henry Mancini
- Ben-Hur (1959) - Miklós Rózsa
- On the Waterfront (1954) - Leonard Bernstein
- The Mission (1986) - Ennio Morricone
- On Golden Pond (1981) - Dave Grusin
- How the West Was Won (1962) - Alfred Newman
