What is your favorite film score?

I don’t know about 10, but here’s a couple:

Master and Commander
The Big Chill
Badlands – especially musica poetica (theme)
Titanic – where she’s dancing in 3rd class

The Star Wars soundtrack by John Williams will always have a special place in my heart. It’s great unto itself, but it also takes me to a nostalgic place.

The Flash Gordon soundtrack, all by Queen was amaze-balls.

The first Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack was pretty freakin’ epic.

Top Gun and Footloose were the best of the Kenny Loggins songs and here did so many good soundtracks.

I’m not a huge Tarantino fan, but his films always have strong soundtracks from Pulp Fiction to Kill Bill and others.

I don’t have a top ten, or an ordered list but great themes that come to mind include:

Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back
Lawrence of Arabia
Conan the Barbarian
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
A Fistful of Dollars / For a Few Dollars More
Das Boot
Excalibur
Patton
The Lord of the Rings
The Wrath of Khan

Ok, these are operas and musicals, but there are film versions:
Carmen
Der Ring des Niebelungen
My Fair Lady

I think the Snatch soundtrack is underrated.

Ascenseur pour l’echafaud (Elevator ToThe Gallows) by Miles Davis

Star Wars

A Hard Days Night

The Wizard Of Oz

Some of my favorites:

Spirited Away
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Catch Me if You Can
Toy Story
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
How to Train Your Dragon
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Zodiac (2007)
Rosemary’s Baby
Whiplash
The Ring (2002)

These days video games have good scores

Oblivion has a surprisingly good score

I love this question times 10

Being a musician and student of Berklee School of Music, I have a few that truly stand out to me.
I have huge respect for what Bernstein and Williams have done in their lives. I have seen both of these geniuses many times. I could list every one of their contributions to film.

To me these films are synonymous with their brilliant scores. I own every one of these soundtracks and have played them countless times and pried apart their arrangements.

West Side Story – Leonard Bernstein
Hook – John Williams
Schindler’s List – John Williams
Amadeus – Mozart (Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields)
Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
The Sound of Music – Richard Rodgers

Superman introduction. Opening credits

My most memorable three:

Melancholia
Blade Runner
Inside Llewyn Davis

Are we talking film scores, like the “underscore” or soundtracks?

I love many, but my stock answer for online questions is Medicine Man which is a gift from Jerry Goldsmith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PP1Ulx-CfI

There is a difference between soundtracks and scores.
It’s easy to immediately eliminate anything that uses previously released music.
American Graffiti, Pulp Fiction, and Guardians of the Galaxy are all soundtracks.
Blade Runner, with that amazing music from Vangelis, is a score.
The music from 2001: A Space Odyssey is, at its core, a soundtrack.

Vangelis in Bladerunner

Poledouris in Conan the Barbarian

Williams in Superman, Raiders, SW films and E.T.

Kawai in Ghost in the Shell

Morricone in The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in the West
and The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Hisaishi in all of Miyazaki’s films

Kanno in Cowboy Bebop movie ( and TV series )

Shore in Silence of the Lambs

Goldsmith in LA Confidential, Legend, Forever Young, Medicine Man and Total Recall

Desplat in Benjamin Button and The Ghostwriter

Barry in Out of Africa and Bond films