Overall Ranking of Best Score Nominees

Since I've done a couple of years so far, I'm going to go ahead and start putting up an overall ranking of all of the ones I've "judged". It's really hard to do this because...scores are so different, and not easily compared. So things may switch around occasionally. Anyway, here you go! N00bs italicized.

I've also now organized the rankings a bit more specifically into categories.

The Absolute Essentials

1. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - Howard Shore

2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - John Williams

3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun

4. Pan's Labyrinth - Javier Navarette

5. The Social Network - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

6. Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
7. Wall-E - Thomas Newman

Fantastically Awesome

8. Shakespeare in Love - Stephen Warbeck
9. Up - Michael Giacchino

10. How to Train Your Dragon - John Powell

11. Notes on a Scandal - Philip Glass
12. The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders

13. The Queen - Alexandre Desplat
14. Slumdog Millionaire - AR Rahman

Quite Good

15. Prince of Egypt - Stephen Schwartz, Hans Zimmer
16. Mulan - Jerry Goldsmith, Matthew Wilder, David Zippel

17. The King's Speech - Alexandre Desplat

18. Chocolat - Rachel Portman
19. A Bug's Life - Randy Newman

20. Avatar - James Horner

21. Monsters Inc. - Randy Newman

22. A.I. Artificial Intelligence - John Williams
23. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat

24. Inception - Hans Zimmer
25. Milk - Danny Elfman

26. Malena - Ennio Morricone

27. The Patriot - John Williams

Not Bad

28. 127 Hours - A.R. Rahman

29. The Good German - Thomas Newman

30. Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer

31. Gladiator - Hans Zimmer

32. A Beautiful Mind - James Horner

33. Defiance - James Newton Howard

34. Babel - Gustavo Santaolalla

Um...?

35. Patch Adams - Marc Shaiman

So there you have it! More updates to come! Check out the years' rankings so far...

1998 Musical/Comedy - 2000 - 2001 - 2006 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010