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AFI's 100 YEARS OF FILM SCORES

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1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Composer: John Williams

387

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8.1

2. Gone with the Wind

Composer: Max Steiner

210

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3. Lawrence of Arabia

Composer: Maurice Jarre

524

8.7

4. Psycho

Composer: Bernard Herrmann

1119

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5. The Godfather

Composer: Nino Rota

924

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6. Jaws

Composer: John Williams

7.6

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7. Laura

Composer: David Raksin

7.6

7.8

8. The Magnificent Seven

Composer: Elmer Bernstein

294

7.9

8.5

9. Chinatown

Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

8.3

10. High Noon

Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin

7.6

8.1

11. The Adventures of Robin Hood

Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

389

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12. Vertigo

Composer: Bernard Herrmann

167

6.7

8.1

13. King Kong

Composer: Max Steiner

1543

7.1

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14. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Composer: John Williams

6.9

15. Out of Africa

Composer: John Barry

147

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16. Sunset Boulevard

Composer: Franz Waxman

280

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17. To Kill a Mockingbird

Composer: Elmer Bernstein

263

18. Planet of the Apes

Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

153

7.7

8.1

19. A Streetcar Named Desire

Composer: Alex North

157

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7.2

20. The Pink Panther

Composer: Henry Mancini

208

7.1

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21. Ben-Hur

Composer: Miklos Rozsa

123

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22. On the Waterfront

Composer: Leonard Bernstein

106

7.4

23. The Mission

Composer: Ennio Morricone

6.4

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24. On Golden Pond

Composer: Dave Grusin

6.1

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25. How the West Was Won

Composer: Alfred Newman

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American Film Institute (AFI) revealed the top 25 film scores of all time in The Big Picture--AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, a one-night only presentation on September 23, 2005 produced by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in cooperation with AFI. A jury of over 500 film artists, composers, musicians, critics and historians selected John Williams' iconic score from the classic film STAR WARS as the most memorable film score of all time. John Williams is additionally noteworthy as the most represented composer on the list with three scores making the top 25.

Rounding off the top 10 were film scores ranging in theme from sweeping epics to westerns, including: GONE WITH THE WIND (#2), composer Max Steiner; LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (#3), composer Maurice Jarre; PSYCHO (#4), composer Bernard Herrmann; THE GODFATHER (#5), composer Nino Rota; JAWS (#6), composer John Williams; LAURA (#7), composer David Raksin; THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (#8), composer Elmer Bernstein; CHINATOWN (#9) composer Jerry Goldsmith; and HIGH NOON (#10), composer Dimitri Tiomkin.

Spanning a century of film music and counting down from 25 to number one throughout the evening, Principal Conductor John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performed excerpts from each of the winning scores, many of them accompanied by favorite movie scenes shown on the Bowl's big video screens. While television broadcasts have announced the previous eight installments of AFI's 100 Years... series, this event marks the first time an AFI countdown was revealed before a live audience.

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