Top Original Film Scores & Songs of 2014

Posted: January 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News

Here is the list of all scores we considered/experienced in context of the film (includes movies to be released in 2015 that received an awards-qualiyfing release in 2014):

22 Jump Street – Mark Mothersbaugh
3 Days to Kill – Guillaume Roussel
300: Rise of an Empire – Junkie XL
About Last Night – Marcus Miller
Addicted – Aaron Zigman
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Christophe Beck
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Hans Zimmer
American Sniper – Clint Eastwood
And So It Goes – Marc Shaiman
Annabelle – Joseph Bishara
Annie – Greg Kurstin
Are You Here – David Carbonara
Bad Words – Rolfe Kent
Begin Again – Gregg Alexander
Before I Go to Sleep – Edward Shearmur
Belle – Rachel Portman
The Best of Me – Aaron Zigman
Better Living Through Chemistry – Andrew Feltenstein & John Nau
Beyond the Lights – Mark Isham
Big Eyes – Danny Elfman
Big Hero 6 – Henry Jackman
Birdman – Antonio Sanchez
Black or White – Terence Blanchard
Blended – Rupert Gregson-Williams
Blood Ties – Yodelice
The Book of Life – Gustavo Santaolalla
The Boxtrolls – Dario Marianelli
Boyhood – No score
Breathe In – Dustin O’Halloran
Brick Mansions – Trevor Morris
Cake – Christophe Beck
Calvary – Patrick Cassidy
Camp X-Ray – Jess Stroup
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Henry Jackman
Cavemen – Ronen Landa
Cesar Chavez – Michael Brook
Chef – No composer credited, additional music by Lyle Workman
Citizenfour – No original score
Cold Comes the Night – Jeff Grace
Cold in July – Jeff Grace
Cuban Fury – Daniel Pemberton
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Michael Giacchino
Dear White People – Kathryn Bostic
Deliver Us from Evil – Christopher Young
The Devil’s Knot – Mychael Danna
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them – Son Lux
Divergent – Junkie XL
Dolphin Tale 2 – Rachel Portman
Dom Hemingway – Rolfe Kent
The Double – Andrew Hewitt
The Drop – Marco Beltrami
Dracula Untold – Ramin Djawadi
Draft Day – John Debney
Dumb and Dumber To – Empire of the Sun
Earth to Echo – Joseph Trapanese
Edge of Tomorrow – Christophe Beck
Endless Love – Christophe Beck
Enemy – Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
The Equalizer – Harry Gregson-Williams
Exodus: Gods and Kings – Alberto Iglesias
The Expendables 3 – Brian Tyler
The Face of Love – Marcelo Zarvos
Fading Gigolo – Bill Maxwell
The Fault in Our Stars – Nathaniel Walcott and Mike Mogis
Foxcatcher – Rob Simonsen
Frank – Stephen Rennicks
Fury – Steven Price
Gambit – Rolfe Kent
The Gambler – Jon Brion & Theo Green
Get On Up: The James Brown Story – Thomas Newman
Gimme Shelter – Olafur Arnalds
The Giver – Marco Beltrami
God’s Pocket – Nathan Larson
Godzilla – Alexandre Desplat
Gone Girl – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Good Girl – Martin Leon
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
Grand Piano – Victor Reyes
Guardians of the Galaxy – Tyler Bates
The Guest – Steve Moore
Happy Christmas – No score
Heaven Is for Real – Nick Glennie-Smith
Hector and the Search for Happiness – Dan Mangan & Jesse Zubot
Hercules – Fernando Velazquez
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Howard Shore
The Homesman – Marco Beltrami
Horrible Bosses 2 – Christopher Lennertz
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – John Powell
The Humbling – Marcelo Zarvos
The Hundred-Foot Journey – A.R. Rahman
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – James Newton Howard
I, Frankenstein – Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil
I Origins – Will Bates & Phil Mossman
If I Stay – Heitor Pereira
The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
The Immigrant – Chris Spelman
In Secret – Gabriel Yared
Inherent Vice – Jonny Greenwood
Into the Storm – Brian Tyler
Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
The Interview – Henry Jackman
Into the Woods – Stephen Sondheim
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – Patrick Doyle
Jamesy Boy – Jermaine Stegall
Jersey Boys – Bob Gaudio
Joe – Jeff McIlwain & David Wingo
John Wick – Tyler Bates
The Judge – Thomas Newman
Kill the Messenger – Nathan Johnson
Laggies – Benjamin Gibbard
The Last of Robin Hood – Nick Urata
Le Week-End – Jeremy Sams
Legend of Hercules – Tuomas Kantelinen
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return – Toby Chu
The Lego Movie – Mark Mothersbaugh
Let’s Be Cops – Christophe Beck & Jake Monaco
Life After Beth – BRMC
Life Itself – Joshua Abrams
Life of Crime – The Newton Brothers
Locke – Dickon Hinchliffe
A Long Way Down – Dario Marianelli
Love Is Strange – No score
The Love Punch – Jean-Michael Bernard
Low Down – Ohad Talmor
Lucy – Eric Serra
Magic in the Moonlight – No score
Maleficent – James Newton Howard
The Maze Runner – John Paesano
Men, Women & Children – Bibio
A Merry Friggin’ Christmas – Ludwig Goransson
Million Dollar Arm – A.R. Rahman
A Million Ways to Die in the West – Joel McNeely
Miss Meadows – Jeff Cardoni
Monuments Men – Alexandre Desplat
A Most Violent Year – Alex Ebert
A Most Wanted Man – Herbert Gronemeyer
Mr. Peabody & Sherman – Danny Elfman
Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon
Muppets Most Wanted – Christophe Beck
My Old Lady – Mark Orton
Need for Speed – Nathan Furst
Neighbors – Michael Andrews
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb – Alan Silvestri
Nightcrawler – James Newton Howard
Night Moves – Jeff Grace
No Good Deed – Paul Haslinger
Noah – Clint Mansell
Non-Stop – John Ottman
November Man – Marco Beltrami
Obvious Child – Chris Bordeaux
Oculus – The Newton Brothers
The One I Love – Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
Only Lovers Left Alive – Jozef Van Wissem & SQÜRL
The Other Woman – Aaron Zigman
Ouija – Anton Sanko
Palo Alto – Dev Hynes and Robert Schwartzman
Penguins of Madagascar – Lorne Balfe
Planes: Fire & Rescue – Mark Mancina
Pompeii – Clinton Shorter
The Pretty One – Julian Wass
Pride – Christopher Nightingale
The Purge: Anarchy – Nathan Whitehead
The Quiet Ones – Lucas Vidal
Rage – Laurent Eyquem
The Raid 2 – Joseph Trapanese
The Railway Man – David Hirschfelder
Red Army – Christophe Beck & Leo Birenberg
Ride Along – Christopher Lennertz
The Right Kind of Wrong – Rachel Portman
Rio 2 – John Powell
Rob the Mob – Stephen Endelman
RoboCop – Pedro Bromfman
Rosewater – Howard Shore
The Rover – Antony Partos
Sabotage – David Sardy
Selma – Jason Moran
Sex Tape – Michael Andrews
The Skeleton Twins – Nathan Larson
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – Robert Rodriguez & Carl Thiel
Snowpiercer – Marco Beltrami
St. Vincent – Theodore Shapiro
Still Alice – Ilan Eshkeri
Stonehearst Asylum – John Debney
Tammy – Michael Andrews
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Brian Tyler
That Awkward Moment – David Torn
The Theory of Everything – Johann Johannsson
They Came Together – Craig Wedren & Matt Novack
Think Like a Man Too – Christopher Lennertz
Third Person – Dario Marianelli
This Is Where I Leave You – Michael Giacchino
Top Five – Ludwig Goransson
The Town That Dreaded Sundown – Ludwig Goransson
Transcendence – Mychael Danna
Transformers: Age of Extinction – Steve Jablonsky
Tusk – Christopher Drake
The Two Faces of January – Alberto Iglesias
Two Night Stand – Matthew and Neil de Luca
Unbroken – Alexandre Desplat
Under the Skin – Mica Levi
Vampire Academy – Rolfe Kent
Venus in Fur – Alexandre Desplat
Veronica Mars – Josh Kramon
Very Good Girls – Jenny Lewis
A Walk Among the Tombstones – Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
Walk of Shame – John Debney
What If – A.C. Newman
When the Game Stands Tall – John Paesano
Whiplash – Justin Hurwitz
White Bird in a Blizzard – Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd
Wild – No score
Wild Tales – Gustavo Santaolalla
Winter’s Tale – Hans Zimmer & Rupert Gregson-Williams
Wish I Was Here – Rob Simonsen
X-Men: Days of Future Past – John Ottman
You’re Not You – Jeanine Tesori

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  1. Mr. Big says:

    Great list!