Match Cut's Top 30 Scores (Stage II - Ballot)

[Barty]

I'm changing it to the Top 30, because it's more in line with the number of nominations we had. 50 is just too broad for this type of list.

Anyway, there were 108 scores that received two votes or more, so here they are.... (I'm too lazy to put scores with "The" in the title in A-Z order, so keep that in mind)

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8 1/2 - Nino Rota
A Zed and Two Noughts -- Michael Nyman
Akira (Shoji Yamashiro)
Alexander Nevsky, Prokofiev
Aliens - James Horner
Amelie - Yann Tiersen
Batman - Danny Elfman
Batman Returns - Danny Elfman
Beetle Juice (Danny Elfman)
Birth - Alexandre Desplat
Black Orpheus – Luis Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Blue Velvet - Angelo Badalamenti
Brazil -- Michael Kamen
Chinatown (Jerry Goldsmith)
Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone
Conan the Barbarian -- Basil Poledouris
Contempt - Georges Delerue
Dances With Wolves, Barry
Dawn of the Dead (Goblin)
Dead Man (Young)
Demonlover (Sonic Youth)
E.T. -- John Williams
Edward Scissorhands - Danny Elfman
Elevator to the Gallows Miles Davis
Fargo (Carter Burwell)
Fountain, The - Clint Mansell
Gattaca, Michael Nyman
Ghost Dog The RZA
Glory - James Horner
Gone With The Wind - Max Steiner
Halloween – John Carpenter
Hana-bi, Joe Hisaishi
Hook - John Williams
In The Mood For Love - Michael Galasso
Jaws – John Williams
JFK - John Williams
Jurassic Park, John Williams
King Kong – Max Steiner
Koyaanisqatsi -- Phillip Glass
Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
Lucifer Rising - Bobby Beausoleil
Mulholland Drive (Angelo Badalamenti)
Nashville - Various
Oldboy, Yeong-wook Jo
Once Upon a Time in America, Morricone
Once Upon A Time in the West - Ennio Morricone
Paris, Texas (Cooder)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure – Danny Elfman
Planet of the Apes – Jerry Goldsmith
Popeye (Harry Nilsson)
Prince of Egypt - Hans Zimmer
Princess Mononoke (Joe Hisaishi)
Prospero's Books -- Michael Nyman
Psycho - Bernard Herrmann
Punch Drunk Love Jon Brion
Raiders of the Lost Ark - John Williams
Raising Arizona -- Carter Burwell
Ravenous - Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn
Requiem for a Dream - Clint Mansell
Romeo and Juliet (1968, Nino Rota)
Schindler's List - John Williams
Signs - James Newton Howard
Solaris - Cliff Martinez
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - James Horner
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Jerry Goldsmith
Star Wars – John Williams
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - John Williams
Sunset Boulevard - Franz Waxman
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
Superman - John Williams
Suspiria (The Goblins)
Talk to Her - Alberto Iglesias
Taxi Driver (Bernard Herrmann)
The Conversation - David Shire
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Michael Nyman
The Draughtsman's Contract - Michael Nyman
The Elephant Man -- John Morris
The Empire Strikes Back -- John Williams
The Fountain - Clint Mansell
The Godfather – Nino Rota
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – Ennio Morricone
The Great Escape - Elmer Bernstein
The Holy Mountain – Don Cherry, Ronald Frangipane, Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Last of the Mohicans - Trevor Jones
The Last Temptation of Christ -- Peter Gabriel
The Lion King - Hans Zimmer
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Howard Shore
The Machinist, Roque Banos
The Man Who Planted Trees - Chartrand and Rogers'
The Matrix - Don Davis
The Mission - Ennio Morricone
The Passion of Joan of Arc: Voices of Light - Richard Einhorn
The Pink Panther -- Henry Mancini
The Thin Red Line - Hans Zimmer
The Third Man - Anton Karas
The Untouchables Ennio Morricone
The Wild Blue Yonder -- Ernst Reijsiger
The Wizard of Oz – Harold Arlen
This is Spinal Tap -- Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer
Three Colours: Bleu - Zbigniew Preisner
To Live and Die in L.A. (Wang Chung)
True Stories - David Byrne
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Angelo Badalamenti
Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Michel Legrand
Vertigo – Bernard Herrmann

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I will post the voting thread in a bit.

[Raiders]

Why wouldn't we just vote in this thread?

[Russ]

The Fountain is in there twice.

[balmakboor]

The Fountain is in there twice.

That's because it's twice as good as the others.

[Yxklyx]

How many will we vote for and how is the vote? Ranked?

[Spinal]

The music for The Fountain is good, but I thought that the way that it was used in the movie was intrusive and distracting.

[balmakboor]

The music for The Fountain is good, but I thought that the way that it was used in the movie was intrusive and distracting.

There is a line between intrusive and being a major element. If you can remember the music at all, it is because it intruded on the experience. To me, the music in The Fountain is very important and needs to be heard to make the experience complete.

I was joking btw about it being twice as good as the others.

[Stay Puft]

There is a line between intrusive and being a major element. If you can remember the music at all, it is because it intruded on the experience. To me, the music in The Fountain is very important and needs to be heard to make the experience complete.

I'd argue the same of Requiem for a Dream. That's what I love about Aronofsky's movies first and foremost - they foreground music. Or more accurately, music is a necessary element in Aronofsky's cinema of rhythm. And this is probably most true of The Fountain anyways. The music, the images, the editing - they inform each other, are inseperable. They constitute the emotional experience. They are not tools enslaved as means to emotional or narrative ends. The music does not "underscore," it does not sit idly by in its neo-classical undergarments while the rest of the movie gets on - it is the movie. It is the story.

[Russ]

There is a line between intrusive and being a major element. If you can remember the music at all, it is because it intruded on the experience. To me, the music in The Fountain is very important and needs to be heard to make the experience complete.
My nomination for the "Would you care for a little movie to go with that SCORE?" award goes to Goblin's contribution to Suspiria.

[Sycophant]

Man... I really should have gotten in on the noms. Earlier, I couldn't come up with anything. Seeing the ballot, my mind is completely flooded with "Oh, no. Why isn't that there?"

[Duncan]

I just want to say that it's awesome Reijsiger's The Wild Blue Yonder score got nominated. It's one of the few film scores I listen to regularly on its own.

[Ezee E]

I cannot believe that There Will Be Blood is not yet on there.

In two months, it would win this thing.

[balmakboor]

I cannot believe that There Will Be Blood is not yet on there.

In two months, it would win this thing.

It must be pretty good. I've heard that a few times. How have people been able to see the film?

[Ezee E]

It must be pretty good. I've heard that a few times. How have people been able to see the film?
I was half-kidding. There have been a few screenings held in San Francisco (8 missed it) and some other places. I saw a reel of it at Telluride.