2005 Film Score Order

Here we have the films I’ve seen for 2005 broken down into my order of favorite music score, best to worst (click here for the list in order of my liking of the movies themselves). This is a very rough pass at the list, and is very temporary. The order of the items is hardly definitive, particularly in much of the bottom half of the list, where I simply couldn’t even remember the scores in particular, or how good they were exactly. I may be misremembering some of those. I’ll work at the order of these entries through the end of the year.

  1. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (John Powell)
  2. Steamboy (Steve Jablonsky)
  3. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (John Ottman)
  4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (Joby Talbot)
  5. Charlie And The Chocalate Factory (Danny Elfman)
  6. Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge Of The Sith (John Williams)
  7. Robots (John Powell)
  8. Sahara (Clint Mansell)
  9. King Kong (James Newton Howard)
  10. The Legend Of Zorro (James Horner)
  11. War Of The Worlds (John Williams)
  12. The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (Cliff Eidelman)
  13. Elektra (Christophe Beck)
  14. Serenity (David Newman)
  15. Flightplan (James Horner)
  16. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Julian Nott)
  17. Unleashed (Massive Attack)
  18. Sky High (Michael Giacchino)
  19. Madagascar (Hans Zimmer)
  20. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, Graeme Revell, John Debney)
  21. Jarhead (Thomas Newman)
  22. Wedding Crashers (Rolfe Kent)
  23. Red Eye (Marco Beltrami)
  24. The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (Christopher Young)
  25. Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire (Patrick Doyle)
  26. Aeon Flux (Graeme Revell)
  27. The Family Stone (Michael Giacchino)
  28. Bad News Bears (Ed Shearmur)
  29. Corpse Bride (Danny Elfman)
  30. Fantastic Four (John Ottman)
  31. The Matador (Rolfe Kent)
  32. The Greatest Game Ever Played (Brian Tyler)
  33. The Island (Steve Jablonsky)
  34. The Weather Man (Hans Zimmer)
  35. March Of The Penguins (Alex Wurman)
  36. The Ring 2 (Henning Lohner, Martin Tillman, Hans Zimmer)
  37. House Of Wax (John Ottman)
  38. Fun With Dick And Jane (Theodore Shapiro)
  39. The Fog (Graeme Revell)
  40. A History Of Violence (Howard Shore)
  41. Be Cool (John Powell)
  42. Millions (John Murphy)
  43. The Brothers Grimm (Dario Marianelli)
  44. Constantine (Klaus Badelt & Brian Tyler)
  45. Duma (John Debney)
  46. Shopgirl (Barrington Pheloung)
  47. Magnificent Desolation 3D (Blake Neely)
  48. Hostage (Alexandre Desplat)
  49. Stealth (BT)
  50. Cursed (Marco Beltrami)
  51. Capote (Mychael Danna)
  52. Munich (John Williams)
  53. High Tension (François Eudes)
  54. Land Of The Dead (Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek)
  55. Zathura (John Debney)
  56. The Ringer (Mark Mothersbaugh)
  57. Casanova (Alexandre Desplat)
  58. Dark Water (Angelo Badalamenti)
  59. Stay (Asche & Spencer)
  60. Into The Blue (Paul Haslinger)
  61. Cry Wolf (Michael Wandmacher)
  62. Bewitched (George Fenton)
  63. The Skeleton Key (Ed Shearmur)
  64. The Interpreter (James Newton Howard)
  65. Just Like Heaven (Rolfe Kent)
  66. Ice Princess (Christophe Beck)
  67. Assault On Precinct 13 (Graeme Revell)
  68. Derailed (Ed Shearmur)
  69. A Lot Like Love (Alex Wurman)
  70. Kingdom Of Heaven (Harry Gregson-Williams)
  71. Lord Of War (Antonio Pinto)
  72. The Cave (Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek)
  73. The Upside Of Anger (Alexandre Desplat)
  74. Batman Begins (Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard)
  75. Domino (Harry Gregson-Williams)
  76. The Amityville Horror (Steve Jablonsky)
  77. The Ice Harvest (David Kitay)
  78. Must Love Dogs (Craig Armstrong)
  79. Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla)
  80. Doom (Clint Mansell)
  81. Saw II (Charlie Clouser)
  82. Fever Pitch (Craig Armstrong)
  83. The Jacket (Brian Eno)
  84. Herbie: Fully Loaded (Mark Mothersbaugh)
  85. Man Of The House (David Newman)
  86. Just Friends (Jeff Cardoni)
  87. The Dukes Of Hazzard (Nathan Barr)
  88. Elizabethtown (Nancy Wilson)
  89. The 40 Year Old Virgin (Lyle Workman)
  90. Walk The Line (T Bone Burnett)
  91. A Sound Of Thunder (Nick Glennie-Smith)
  92. Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (John Debney)
  93. Waiting… (Adam Gorgoni)
  94. Chicken Little (John Debney)
  95. Alone In The Dark (Reinhard Besser)
  96. The Pacifier (John Debney)
  97. Kicking & Screaming (Mark Isham)
  98. Alexandre Desplat (Syriana)
  99. Mindhunters (Tuomas Kantelinen)
  100. The Kid & I (Damon Fox)
  101. Transporter 2 (Alexandre Azaria)
  102. Rumor Has It… (Marc Shaiman)
  103. The Producers (Mel Brooks)
  104. The Constant Gardner (Alberto Iglesias)
  105. Crash (Mark Isham)

Disqualified, due to either no music or all non-original music:

  1. Broken Flowers
  2. Good Night, And Good Luck
  3. Melinda And Melinda
  4. Match Point

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