![]() ![]() Recommended recording: Bernard Herrmann: Bernard Herrmann – The Essential Film Music CollectionĪnd now we come to our top 3 and if ever there is a single artist who dominates 21st-century film music, it is Hans Zimmer. His scores for Alfred Hitchcock remain some of the most striking ever written. With a singular voice, the American film composer created scintillating film scores that relied less on melodic sweep and more on rhythm, tone and unusual instrumentation. Less than ten years after Max Steiner wrote the film music rulebook, Bernard Herrmann tore it up. Recommended recording: Ennio Morricone: Morricone 60 Beyond the colourful thrills of those scores, Morricone was a true music artist and one of the hardest working composers in film. The name is about as iconic as the music, and the late Italian film composer will go down in history thanks to the hugely original music he created for the ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ alone. The first of our top five is Ennio Morricone. His music for UK and US productions has only increased his fan-base – the music he wrote for Slumdog Millionaire (2008) earned him two Academy Awards, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe.ĪR Rahman: Slumdog Millionaire (Music from the Motion Picture) The most prolific and successful film composer in Indian cinema, AR Rahman’s scores and original songs have graced countless Tamil and Hindi productions. Recommended recording: Joe Hisaishi: Dream Songs – The Essential Joe Hisaishi He has won eight Japanese Academy Awards. Dubbed ‘the Japanese John Williams’, Hisaishi is a household name in his home country, but also has legions of fans around the world thanks to his sweeping, characterful scores for the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Recommended recording: John Barry: Dances With Wolves (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) His music, and songs, for many of the original James Bond films are probably good enough reason alone to include him in this list, though he enjoyed a rich and varied career beyond 007 and won five Oscars to boot. Perhaps Britain’s most famous film music export, John Barry enjoyed a high profile career throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. ![]() Recommended recording: Lawrence of Arabia (World Premiere Recording of the Complete Score)Įighth is the British film composer John Barry. His keen sense of melody was matched by an experimental streak, which often saw him integrate ethnic instrumentation and electronic sounds into his music. The first French composer to win an Oscar (for 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia), Maurice Jarre enjoyed a high profile career in his native France, the UK and Hollywood. Recommended recording: Chocolat (Music from the Miramax Motion Picture) Her painterly scores have graced award-winning films in all genres and she remains one of the UK’s most respected and highly sought-after film composers. While she was by no means the first woman to compose film music, Portman did make history in 1997 when she won an Oscar for Emma (1996). In 10th place we have film composer Rachel Portman.
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