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My favorite scores from 2011 until now:
2011
Damsels in Distress (Suozzo)
War Horse (Williams)
Hugo/A Dangerous Mind (Shore)
Footnote (Poznansky)
2012
The Master (Greenwood)
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel/The Monuments Men (Desplat)
Gone Girl (Reznor/Ross)
Interstellar (Zimmer)
Queen and Country (McKeon)
2015
Wolf Totem (Horner)
Cinderella (Doyle)
The Walk (Silvestri)
There may be a couple of other recent memorable scores that I can't think of at the moment.
Way too early to tell if anything here will be in my top 5 of all time. I doubt it though, because there is such a huge amount of classic film music I've heard in the past that I don't think I could compile a coherent Top 5 at this point!
Of the recent ones I've listed, "The Master" comes off as the most striking. (Although I do believe it contains some earlier Greenwood pieces as well as new music.)
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"Monkey King" embodies well as to why Christopher Young is my all-time favorite composer after Goldsmith.
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Giacchino's JOHN CARTER is my favorite from the past 5 years, but it doesn't make it into the list of my Top Five Favorites of all time. Maybe somewhere around #30 or so. (Remember, I'm a Golden Age fan, and a Newmaniac to boot.... not to mention Everything Rozsa...)
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BTW: What is the correct pronunciation of Michael Giacchino's last name?
I've always said ja-KEEN-oh.
But I heard a different pronunciation from a narrator on some passing documentary I watched. As I recall, he said something like GEE-a-CHEEN-oh.
Input?
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I don't know what my "Top 5" are... let me think about that and come up with my offhand "Top 5 film scores", subject to change without notice and at any time... picking diverse composers....
Jerome Moross: The Big Country
Ennio Morricone: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Jerry Goldsmith: Alien (as in expanded film score, not the original album)
Howard Shore: The Lord Of The Rings
Vangelis: Blade Runner
(And runners up on the shortlist )
Leonard Rosenman: East of Eaden
Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia
Elmer Bernstein: To Kill A Mockingbird
John Williams: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Bernard Herrmann: Fahrenheit 451
Miklós Rózsa: El Cid
Well, guess not a Top 5 Score in there that meets your criteria. Sorry. I guess the newest member would be Shore's Lord of the Rings.
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