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