Who are your TOP FIVE favorite composers scoring for films? Mine are as follows: 1. Philip Glass (While not exclusively a film composer, he has composed some of my favorite soundtracks) 2. James Horner 3. Alexandre Desplat 4. Joe Hisaishi 5. Thomas Newman
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Here are my favorites: 1)Elmer Bernstein 2)Jerry Goldsmith 3)John Williams 4)Hans Zimmer 5)John Barry
Only 3. 1) John Carpenter 2) Jerry Goldsmith 3) Brad Fiedel
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1) Danny Elfman 2) John Williams 3) Hans Zimmer 4) Alan Silvestri 5) Alan Menkin
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1) Jerry Goldsmith 2) Danny Elfman 3) Howard Shore 4) John Williams 5) James Horner
1) Bernard Herrmann 2) Thomas Newman 3) Hans Zimmer 4) John Williams 5) Alan Silvestri
I don't really have a top five list, since I equally enjoy different composer styles - but I'll do my best.
John Powell is one of my favourites, but lately I've been listening to and transcribing a lot of Joe Hisaishi's stuff (I can't stop listening to the opening from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind!). Alexandre Desplat is really good at capturing emotion. I love Hans Zimmer, because of the way he thinks and works. And finally, Howard Shore has to make my list because his score for Lord of the Rings was a masterpiece.