John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith

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For posterity reasons, I will say that Ludwig Goransson is ****ing excellent and will probably eclipse Hans Zimmer eventually.
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This may sound kind of random but Barry's work on the much-maligned 1976 KING KONG is excellent. He apparently thought so too–he recycled some of it for BODY HEAT years later.
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John Barry deserves a mention too.

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Williams had an incredibly creative burst from the end of the '60s into the early '80s, but his work gets really spotty after that.
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John Williams has been nominated for 54 Academy Awards, winning 5; 6 Emmy Awards, winning 3; 26 Golden Globe Awards, winning 4; 76 Grammy Awards, winning 26; 16 British Academy Film Awards, winning 7; 23 Saturn Awards, winning 10. In 2022, Williams was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, "for services to film music".
With 54 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person,[1][2] and is the second most nominated person in Academy Awards history behind Walt Disney with 59, as well as the only person in the history of the Academy Awards to have received nominations in seven consecutive decades. Forty-eight of Williams's Oscar nominations are for Best Original Score and five are for Best Original Song. He won four Oscars for Best Original Score and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score (Fiddler on the Roof).
Williams has won the Grammy Awards for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media several times for his scores for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Book Thief, The Force Awakens and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The competition includes composers of instrumental music of any genre.
Major associations
Academy Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1968 Best Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment Valley of the Dolls Nominated [3]
1970 Best Score of a Musical Picture – Original or Adaptation Goodbye, Mr. Chips Nominated [4]
Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical) The Reivers Nominated
1972 Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score Fiddler on the Roof Won [5]
1973 Best Original Dramatic Score Images Nominated [6]
The Poseidon Adventure Nominated
1974 Cinderella Liberty Nominated [7]
Best Song "Nice to Be Around" (from Cinderella Liberty) Nominated
Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation Tom Sawyer Nominated
1975 Best Original Dramatic Score The Towering Inferno Nominated [8]
1976 Best Original Score Jaws Won [9]
1978 Star Wars Won [10]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Nominated
1979 Superman Nominated [11]
1981 The Empire Strikes Back Nominated [12]
1982 Raiders of the Lost Ark Nominated [13]
1983 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Won [14]
Best Original Song "If We Were in Love" (from Yes, Giorgio) Nominated
1984 Best Original Score Return of the Jedi Nominated [15]
1985 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Nominated [16]
The River Nominated
1988 Empire of the Sun Nominated [17]
The Witches of Eastwick Nominated
1989 The Accidental Tourist Nominated [18]
1990 Born on the Fourth of July Nominated [19]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Nominated
1991 Home Alone Nominated [20]
Best Original Song "Somewhere in My Memory" (from Home Alone) Nominated
1992 Best Original Score JFK Nominated [21]
Best Original Song "When You're Alone" (from Hook) Nominated
1994 Best Original Score Schindler's List Won [22]
1996 Best Original Song "Moonlight" (from Sabrina) Nominated [23]
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Sabrina Nominated
Best Original Dramatic Score Nixon Nominated
1997 Sleepers Nominated [24]
1998 Amistad Nominated [25]
1999 Saving Private Ryan Nominated [26]
2000 Best Original Score Angela's Ashes Nominated [27]
2001 The Patriot Nominated [28]
2002 A.I. Artificial Intelligence Nominated [29]
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Nominated
2003 Catch Me If You Can Nominated [30]
2005 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Nominated [31]
2006 Memoirs of a Geisha Nominated [32]
Munich Nominated
2012 The Adventures of Tintin Nominated [33]
War Horse Nominated
2013 Lincoln Nominated [34]
2014 The Book Thief Nominated [35]
2016 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Nominated [36]
2018 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Nominated [37]
2020 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Nominated [38]
2023 The Fabelmans Nominated [39]
2024 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Nominated [40]
BAFTA Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1976 Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music Jaws and The Towering Inferno Won [41]
1979 Star Wars Won [42]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Nominated
1981 Best Original Film Music The Empire Strikes Back Won [43]
1982 Raiders of the Lost Ark Nominated [44]
1983 Best Score for a Film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Won [45]
1989 Empire of the Sun Won [46]
1994 Schindler's List Won [47]
1999 Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music Saving Private Ryan Nominated [48]
2003 Catch Me If You Can Nominated [49]
2006 Memoirs of a Geisha Won [50]
2012 Best Original Music War Horse Nominated [51]
2013 Lincoln Nominated [52]
2014 The Book Thief Nominated [53]
2016 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Nominated [54]
2020 Best Original Score Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Nominated [55]
Emmy Awards
Year Category N

How it got to court Idk. Surely a welfare check on the actors would suffice.

Yeah, it totally recasts what you see in the movie. Ortolani is great. Ruggero Deodato was put on trial for killing his actors in that movie! Can there be any greater testament to a film's effectiveness? I'd LOVE to do something so convincing I was prosecuted for it!
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Oh **** I loved that. Such a juxtaposition considering the content. It's one of the soundtracks I have on vinyl. ️

You're spending too much time mingling with uncivilized rabble, not like us cultured folks who know our CANNIBAL HOLOCAUSTs.
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It's not often I meet someone who knows Italian horror.

Of course! It's me!
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You have great taste!

Of course. Lots of other Italians in there too when one is contemplating the best.
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Oooh yes. Are you also a fan of Fabio Frizzi, and Goblin perhaps?

A legit answer. His best work–admitting that it's a VERY wide category–was on ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST.
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Probably Ennio Morricone.

Rhetorical or not, if your answer is Zimmer, you definitely need to see a lot more movies (on a real list, he wouldn't even crack the top 20, not even with CRIMSON TIDE under his belt).
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Chariots of *******…
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Very good - reminds me of the Miller's Crossing theme
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