Kirk Tsai
Screenwriter
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Listening again to the RCA Gerhardt series, and realize how much I love film music. So here's my favorite composers, and my favorite five (if they have done so much) scores of theirs in order.
1. John Williams -- The Empire Strikes Back, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Superman: The Movie, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Star Wars: A New Hope
2. Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- Adventures of Robin Hood, King's Row, The Constant Nymph, Escape Me Never, The Sea Wolf
3. Bernard Herrmann -- Vertigo, Three Worlds of Gulliver, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Jason and the Argunauts, Cape Fear
4. Ennio Morricone -- The Mission, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good Bad and Ugly, The Legend of 1900, Cinema Paradiso
5. Franz Waxman -- Prince Valiant, Bride of Frankenstein, Taras Bulba, Sunset Boulevard, Spirit of St. Louis
6. Sergei Prokofiev -- Alexander Nevsky, Ivan The Terrible I & II
7. James Horner -- Legends of the Fall, Braveheart, Glory, Apollo 13, Field of Dreams
8. Elmer Bernstein -- To Kill a Mockingbird, Age of Innocence, The Great Escape, Far From Heaven, The Ten Commandments
9. John Barry -- Dances With Wolves, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Somewhere in Time, Raise the Titanic, You Only Live Twice
10. Patrick Doyle -- Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Dead Again, Great Expectations, A Little Princess
1. John Williams -- The Empire Strikes Back, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Superman: The Movie, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Star Wars: A New Hope
2. Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- Adventures of Robin Hood, King's Row, The Constant Nymph, Escape Me Never, The Sea Wolf
3. Bernard Herrmann -- Vertigo, Three Worlds of Gulliver, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Jason and the Argunauts, Cape Fear
4. Ennio Morricone -- The Mission, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good Bad and Ugly, The Legend of 1900, Cinema Paradiso
5. Franz Waxman -- Prince Valiant, Bride of Frankenstein, Taras Bulba, Sunset Boulevard, Spirit of St. Louis
6. Sergei Prokofiev -- Alexander Nevsky, Ivan The Terrible I & II
7. James Horner -- Legends of the Fall, Braveheart, Glory, Apollo 13, Field of Dreams
8. Elmer Bernstein -- To Kill a Mockingbird, Age of Innocence, The Great Escape, Far From Heaven, The Ten Commandments
9. John Barry -- Dances With Wolves, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Somewhere in Time, Raise the Titanic, You Only Live Twice
10. Patrick Doyle -- Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Dead Again, Great Expectations, A Little Princess