Film Music Reporter

Top 5 Favorite Movies of 2015 (in alphabetical order):

– Bridge of Spies
– Creed
– Inside Out
– The Martian
– Spotlight

Runner-ups (in alphabetical order):

– The End of the Tour
– The Revenant
– Room
– Star Wars: The Force Awakens
– Trainwreck

Most Underrated Movies of 2015:

1. The Walk
2. Irrational Man
3. Danny Collins
4. Freeheld
5. Jupiter Ascending

Here is the list of all scores we considered/experienced in context of the film (includes movies to be released in 2016 that received an awards-qualiyfing release in 2015):

The 33 – James Horner
45 Years – No Original Score
5 Flights Up – David Newman
5 to 7 – Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
99 Homes – Antony Partos & Matteo Zingales
Accidental Love – John Swihart
Addicted to Fresno – Nathan Matthew David
Adult Beginners – Marcelo Zarvos
The Age of Adaline – Rob Simonsen
Alex of Venice – David Wingo
Aloft – Michael Brook
Aloha – Jonsi & Alex
American Ultra – Marcelo Zarvos
Amy – Antonio Pinto
Anomalisa – Carter Burwell
Ant-Man – Christophe Beck
Avengers: Age of Ultron – Brian Tyler & Danny Elfman
Barely Lethal – Mateo Messina
Beasts of No Nation – Dan Romer
Before We Go – Chris Westlake
Beyond the Reach – Dickon Hinchliffe
The Big Short – Nicholas Britell
Blackhat – Harry Gregson-Williams, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross
Black Mass – Tom Holkenborg
Black Sea – Ilan Eshkeri
The Boy Next Door – Randy Edelman & Nathan Barr
Boychoir – Brian Byrne
Bravetown – Angelo Milli
Break Point – Tim Anderson
Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman
Broken Horses – John Debney
Brooklyn – Michael Brook
Burnt – Rob Simonsen
Burying the Ex – Joseph LoDuca
By the Sea – Gabriel Yared
Captive – Lorne Balfe
Carol – Carter Burwell
Chappie – Hans Zimmer
Chi-Raq – Terence Blanchard
Child 44 – Jon Ekstrand
Cinderella – Patrick Doyle
Clouds of Sils Maria – No Original Score
The Cobbler – Nick Urata & John Debney
Concussion – James Newton Howard
Cop Car – Phil Mossman
Creed – Ludwig Goransson
Crimson Peak – Fernando Velazquez
Cut Bank – James Newton Howard
The D Train – Andrew Dost
Daddy’s Home – Michael Andrews
The Danish Girl – Alexandre Desplat
Danny Collins – Theodore Shapiro & Ryan Adams
Dark Places – Gregory Tripi & BT
Desert Dancer – Benjamin Wallfisch
The Diary of a Teenage Girl – Nate Heller
Digging for Fire – Dan Romer
Dope – Germaine Franco
The DUFF – Dominic Lewis
Eden – No Original Score
Effie Gray – Paul Cantelon
The End of the Tour – Danny Elfman
Everest – Dario Marianelli
Every Secret Thing – Robin Coudert
Every Thing Will Be Fine – Alexandre Desplat
Ex Machina – Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow
Experimenter – Bryan Senti
Far from the Madding Crowd – Craig Armstrong
Fantastic Four – Marco Beltrami & Philip Glass
Faults – Heather McIntosh
Fifty Shades of Grey – Danny Elfman
The Final Girls – Gregory James Jenkins
Focus – Nick Urata
Freaks of Nature – Fil Eisler
Freeheld – Hans Zimmer & Johnny Marr
Furious 7 – Brian Tyler
Get Hard – Christophe Beck
The Gift – Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
A Girl Like Her – David Bateman
The Good Dinosaur – Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna
Good Kill – Christophe Beck
Goodnight Mommy – Olga Neuwirth
Goosebumps – Danny Elfman
Grandma – Joel P. West
The Green Inferno – Manuel Riveiro
The Gunman – Marco Beltrami
The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone
He Named Me Malala – Thomas Newman
Hitman: Agent 47 – Marco Beltrami
Home – Lorne Balfe
Hot Pursuit – Christophe Beck
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 – Christophe Beck
Hotel Transylvania 2 – Mark Mothersbaugh
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 – James Newton Howard
I Smile Back – Zack Ryan
I’ll See You In My Dreams – Keegan DeWitt
In the Heart of the Sea – Roque Banos
Infinitely Polar Bear – Theodore Shapiro
Inside Out – Michael Giacchino
Insidious: Chapter 3 – Joseph Bishara
Insurgent – Joseph Trapanese
The Intern – Theodore Shapiro
Irrational Man – No Original Score
It Follows – Disasterpiece
Jem and the Holograms – Nathan Lanier
Joy – David Campbell & West Dylan Thordson
Jupiter Ascending – Michael Giacchino
Jurassic World – Michael Giacchino
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet – Gabriel Yared
Kingsman: The Secret Service – Henry Jackman & Matthew Margeson
Knock Knock – Manuel Riveiro
Krampus – Douglas Pipes
The Lady in the Van – George Fenton
The Last Five Years – Jason Robert Brown
The Last Witch Hunter – Steve Jablonsky
The Lazarus Effect – Sarah Schachner
Learning to Drive – Dhani Harrison & Paul Hicks
Legend – Carter Burwell
Little Accidents – Marcelo Zarvos
Little Boy – Stephan Altman & Mark Foster
The Loft – John Frizzell
The Longest Ride – Mark Isham
Love & Mercy – Atticus Ross
Love the Coopers – Nick Urata
Macbeth – Jed Kurzel
Mad Max: Fury Road – Tom Holkenborg
Maggie – David Wingo
Magic Mike XXL – No Original Score
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. – Daniel Pemberton
Man Up – Dickon Hinchliffe
Manglehorn – Explosions in the Sky & David Wingo
The Martian – Harry Gregson-Williams
Max – Trevor Rabin
The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – John Paesano
McFarland, USA – Antonio Pinto
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – Brian Eno & Nico Muhly
Meadowland – Adam Taylor
Minions – Heitor Pereira
Miss You Already – Harry Gregson-Williams
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – Joe Kraemer
Mississippi Grind – Scott Bomar
Mistress America – Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips
Monkey Kingdom – Harry Gregson-Williams
Mortdecai – Geoff Zanelli
Mr. Holmes – Carter Burwell
Mustang – Warren Ellis
My All American – John Paesano
Nasty Baby – Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
The Night Before – Marco Beltrami & Miles Hankins
No Escape – Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders
Our Brand Is Crisis – David Wingo
The Overnight – Julian Wass
Pan – John Powell
Paper Towns – Son Lux
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 – Rupert Gregson-Williams
Pawn Sacrifice – James Newton Howard
The Peanuts Movie – Christophe Beck
The Perfect Guy – Atli Orvarsson & Dave Fleming
Pitch Perfect 2 – Mark Mothersbaugh
Pixels – Henry Jackman
Playing It Cool – Jake Monaco
Point Break – Tom Holkenborg
Poltergeist – Marc Streitenfeld
Predestination – Peter Spierig
Results – Justin Rice
The Revenant – Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto
Ricki and the Flash – No Original Score
Rock the Kasbah – Marcelo Zarvos
Room – Stephen Rennicks
Run All Night – Tom Holkenborg
Samba – Ludovico Einaudi
San Andreas – Andrew Lockington
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse – Matthew Margeson
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – Thomas Newman
Secret in Their Eyes – Emilio Kauderer
Self/less – Antonio Pinto & Dudu Aram
Serena – Johan Soderqvist
Seventh Son – Marco Beltrami
Shaun the Sheep Movie – Ilan Eshkeri
She’s Funny That Way – Ed Shearmur
Sicario – Johann Johannsson
Sisters – Christophe Beck
Sleeping with Other People – Andrew Feltenstein & John Nau
Slow West – Jed Kurzel
Son of Saul – No Original Score
Song One – Jenny Lewis & Jonathan Lewis
Southpaw – James Horner
Spectre – Thomas Newman
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – John Debney
Spotlight – Howard Shore
Spy – Theodore Shapiro
The Stanford Prison Experiment – Andrew Hewitt
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams
Steve Jobs – Daniel Pemberton
Stonewall – Rob Simonsen
Straight Outta Compton – Joseph Trapanese
Strangerland – Keefus Ciancia
Suffragette – Alexandre Desplat
Taken 3 – Nathaniel Mechaly
Tales of Halloween – Various Composers
Ted 2 – Walter Murphy
Terminator Genisys – Lorne Balfe
Testament of Youth – Max Richter
Tomorrowland – Michael Giacchino
Tracers – Lucas Vidal
Trainwreck – Jon Brion
The Transporter Refueled – Alexandre Azaria
Trash – Antonio Pinto
True Story – Marco Beltrami
Trumbo – Theodore Shapiro
Truth – Brian Tyler
The Voices – Olivier Bernet
Unexpected – Keegan DeWitt
Unfinished Business – Alex Wurman
Unfriended – No Original Score
Vacation – Mark Mothersbaugh
The Vatican Tapes – Joseph Bishara
Victor Frankenstein – Craig Armstrong
The Visit – (Epilogue theme: Paul Cantelon)
The Walk – Alan Silvestri
A Walk in the Woods – Nathan Larson
The Water Diviner – David Hirschfelder
We Are Your Friends – Segal
The Wedding Ringer – Christopher Lennertz
Welcome to Me – David Robbins
Where to Invade Next – No Original Score
While We’re Young – James Murphy
Wild Card – Dario Marianelli
Wolf Totem – James Horner
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death – Marco Beltrami, Marcus Trumpp & Brandon Roberts
Woman in Gold – Hans Zimmer & Martin Phipps
Youth – David Lang
Z for Zachariah – Heather McIntosh

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