AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute in 2005.

John Williams leads with 3 scores in the list, including the top choice, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

AFI 100 Years… series
100 Movies – (1998) 100 Stars – (1999) 100 Laughs – (2000) 100 Thrills – (2001) 100 Passions – (2002) 100 Heroes and Villains – (2003) 100 Songs – (2004) 100 Movie Quotes – (2005) 100 Film Scores – (2005) 100 Musicals – (2006) 100 Cheers – (2006) 100 Movies (10th Anniversary) – (2007) AFI's 10 Top 10 – (2008)

Rank	Film	Year	Studio	Composer
1.	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope	1977	20th Century Fox	John Williams
2.	Gone with the Wind	1939	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Max Steiner
3.	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	Columbia Pictures	Maurice Jarre
4.	Psycho	1960	Paramount Pictures	Bernard Herrmann
5.	The Godfather	1972	Paramount Pictures	Nino Rota
6.	Jaws	1975	Universal Studios	John Williams
7.	Laura	1944	20th Century Fox	David Raksin
8.	The Magnificent Seven	1960	United Artists	Elmer Bernstein
9.	Chinatown	1974	Paramount Pictures	Jerry Goldsmith
10.	High Noon	1952R	United Artists	Dimitri Tiomkin
11.	The Adventures of Robin Hood	1938	Warner Bros.	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
12.	Vertigo	1958	Paramount Pictures	Bernard Herrmann
13.	King Kong	1933	RKO Pictures	Max Steiner
14.	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	Universal Studios	John Williams
15.	Out of Africa	1985	Universal Studios	John Barry
16.	Sunset Boulevard	1950	Paramount Pictures	Franz Waxman
17.	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Universal Studios	Elmer Bernstein
18.	Planet of the Apes	1968	20th Century Fox	Jerry Goldsmith
19.	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Warner Bros.	Alex North
20.	The Pink Panther	1964	United Artists	Henry Mancini
21.	Ben-Hur	1959	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Miklós Rózsa
22.	On the Waterfront	1954	Columbia Pictures	Leonard Bernstein
23.	The Mission	1986	Warner Bros.	Ennio Morricone
24.	On Golden Pond	1981	Universal Studios	Dave Grusin
25.	How the West Was Won	1962	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cinerama Releasing Corporation	Alfred Newman

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