H a n s Z i m m e r My favourite film music composer! Ever since my discovery of his vibrant and moving score for The Lion King, I have started collecting soundtracks featuring his music. You may not have heard of his name, but you'd most probably heard his music in films like Backdraft, Pacific Heights, Driving Miss Daisy, Days of Thunder, Rain Man, Crimson Tide, Green Card, Drop Zone and more recently Broken Arrow and The Rock. His recent projects are The Fan, a psycho-thriller starring Wesley Snipes and Robert de Niro, The Preacher's Wife (no planned released of score) . His latest release is for the film Smilla's Sense of Snow, starring Julia Ormond. Upcoming project includes The Peacemaker (starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman) and Prince Of Egypt - Dreamworks SKG's first venture into computer animated features (think Toy Story). Combining synthesised sounds with symphonic orchestral and choir passages to achieve a unique blend of symphonic and electronic music, Zimmer's style is distinctively one of a kind.

Yumbo's Zinfo Page

FilmTracks

Soundtrack Express

Movie Tunes

Ocean County Film Music Appreciation Society

The Movie Sounds Page

The Soundtrack Web

The World Wide Web of Film Music (www.filmmusic.com)

Henk's Soundtrack Corner

Scott Frost's Movie Soundtracks

Sylvain Leblanc's Soundtrack page

Marc Anthony's Musical Score Pages

Top Ten Soundtracks of The Week

The Soundtrack Resource Center

Sparhawk's Film Score Page

Alan Menken

• Pocahontas ** 1/2

Alan Silvestri

• Forrest Gump *** 1/2
• Back To The Future 2 ** 1/2

Bernard Hermann / Elmer Bernstein

• Cape Fear ** 1/2

Basil Poledouris

• Free Willy ****
• Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home ****

Carter Burwell

• Rob Roy ***

Danny Elfman

• Music For A Darkened Theatre Vol 2 **** 1/2
• Dolores Claiborne *** 1/2
• Mission Impossible ***

Dave Grusin

• The Cure *** 1/2

Ennio Morricone

• Cinema Paradiso *** 1/2

Howard Shore

• The Silence of the Lambs ** 1/2

James Horner

• Legends of the Fall ****
• Searching For Bobby Fischer ****
• Apollo 13 ****
• The Rocketeer ****
• Braveheart ****
• To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday *** 1/2
• Balto *** 1/2
• Field of Dreams *** 1/2
• An American Tail ***
• Casper ***
• Aliens ***
• Ransom ***
• The Pagemaster ** 1/2

James Newton Howard

• Alive ****

Jeff Rona

• White Squall ****

Jerry Goldsmith

• Rudy ****
• Best Shot (aka "Hoosiers") ****
• The Omen ****
• Alien ***
• Malice ** 1/2

John Williams

• Hook ****
• Empire Of The Sun ****
• Star Wars (A New Hope) ****
• Home Alone ****
• Superman: The Movie *** 1/2
• Far and Away *** 1/2
• Schindler's List *** 1/2
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York *** 1/2
• Born On The Fourth of July ***

John Barry

• Chaplin ****
• Somewhere In Time ****
• Dances With Wolves ***
• My Life *** 1/2
• The Best of John Barry: TV & Film *** 1/2
• Indecent Proposal ** 1/2

Marc Shaiman

• A Few Good Men ***

Mark Isham

• Nell ** 1/2

Mark Mancina

• Twister ****
• Speed ****
• Bad Boys (1 track) ****
• Moll Flanders *** 1/2
• Con Air *** 1/2

Maurice Jarre

• Film Music by Maurice Jarre (compilation) ****
• A Walk in the Clouds *** 1/2

Michael Convertino

• Bed Of Roses ***

Michael Kamen

• The Three Musketeers ***

Mike Newell

• Four Weddings and A Funeral ***

Patrick Doyle

• A Little Princess ****
• Sense and Sensibility *** 1/2

Rachel Portman

• Emma ****

Randy Edelman

• Come See The Paradise *** 1/2
• Dragonheart ***
• Angels in the Outfield ***
• Daylight ** 1/2
• While You Were Sleeping ** 1/2

Thomas Newman

• Little Women ****
• Fried Green Tomatoes ****

Others

• Ron Howard: Passions & Achievements ****
• The Best Of Scandinavian Film Music ****
• Horror & Science Fiction Film Music ***

My Rating System

*****	Perfect?
****	Super!
***	Enjoyable, but not "must-buy"
**	Duh... should've spent my money on tons of ice cream instead!
*	Who's this composer? I demand a refund!

- Scores are judged by their originality, quality and most importantly: listenability (which is subjective).
- Soundtracks under each composer's section are arranged in order of preference.
- Scores with rating *** 1/2 and above are worth buying, in my opinion.