Top Film Scores of 2017 & Oscar Predictions

Posted: December 31, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News

Top 5 Favorite Movies of 2017 (in alphabetical order):

– Call Me By Your Name
– The Disaster Artist
– The Florida Project
– The Post
– The Shape of Water

5 Runner-ups (in alphabetical order):

– Beatriz at Dinner
– The Big Sick
– Brigsby Bear
– Downsizing
– I, Tonya

Most Underrated Movies of 2017 (in alphabetical order):

– The Circle
– A Cure for Wellness
– Downsizing
– Life
– Wonder Wheel

Here is the list of all scores we considered/experienced in context of the film (includes movies to be released in 2018 that received an awards-qualiyfing release in 2017):

– 2:22 (Lisa Gerrard & James Orr)
– 3 Generations (West Dylan Thordson)
– 47 Meters Down (tomandandy)
– Alien: Covenant (Jed Kurzel)
– Aftermath (Mark Todd)
– All Eyez on Me (John Paesano)
– All Nighter (Alec Puro)
– American Assassin (Steven Price)
– American Made (Christophe Beck)
– Annabelle: Creation (Benjamin Wallfisch)
– The Assignment (Giorgio Moroder & Raney Shockne)
– Atomic Blonde (Tyler Bates)
– Baby Driver (Steven Price)
– The Bad Batch (No score)
– Band Aid (Lucius)
– Battle of the Sexes (Nicholas Britell)
– Baywatch (Christopher Lennertz)
– Beach Rats (Nicholas Leone)
– Beatriz at Dinner (Mark Mothersbaugh)
– Beauty and the Beast (Alan Menken)
– Before I Fall (Adam Taylor)
– The Beguiled (Phoenix)
– The Belko Experiment (Tyler Bates)
– The Big Sick (Michael Andrews)
– Birth of the Dragon (H. Scott Salinas & Reza Safinia)
– Black Butterfly (Federico Jusid)
– The Book of Henry (Michael Giacchino)
– The Book of Love (Justin Timberlake & Mitchell Owens)
– Born in China (Barnaby Taylor)
– The Boss Baby (Hans Zimmer & Steve Mazzaro)
– Brad’s Status (Mark Mothersbaugh)
– Brigsby Bear (David Wingo)
– Brimstone (Tom Holkenborg)
– The Bye Bye Man (The Newton Brothers)
– Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (Theodore Shapiro)
– Carrie Pilby (Michael Penn)
– Cars 3 (Randy Newman)
– Chasing Coral (Dan Romer & Saul Simon MacWilliams)
– CHiPs (Fil Eisler)
– Churchill (Lorne Balfe)
– The Circle (Danny Elfman)
– Collide (Ilan Eshkeri)
– Colossal (Bear McCreary)
– Crown Heights (Mark De Gli Antoni)
– A Cure for Wellness (Benjamin Wallfisch)
– The Dark Tower (Tom Holkenborg)
– Dean (Mark Noseworthy & Orr Rebhun)
– Death Note (Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross)
– Despicable Me 3 (Heitor Pereira)
– Detour (Toydrum)
– Detroit (James Newton Howard)
– Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (Edward Shearmur)
– The Dinner (No principal composer)
– The Discovery (Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans)
– A Dog’s Purpose (Rachel Portman)
– Dunkirk (Hans Zimmer)
– The Emoji Movie (Patrick Doyle)
– The Exception (Ilan Eshkeri)
– Everything, Everything (Ludwig Goransson)
– Fallen (Mark Isham)
– A Family Man (Mark Isham)
– The Fate of the Furious (Brian Tyler)
– Fifty Shades Darker (Danny Elfman)
– First They Killed My Father (Marco Beltrami)
– Fist Fight (Dominic Lewis)
– Flatliners (Nathan Barr)
– Free Fire (Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury)
– Friend Request (Gary Go and Martin Todsharow)
– Fun Mom Dinner (Julian Wass)
– Get Out (Michael Abels)
– A Ghost Story (Daniel Hart)
– Gifted (Rob Simonsen)
– Girls Trip (David Newman)
– The Glass Castle (Joel P West)
– Going in Style (Rob Simonsen)
– Ghost in the Shell (Clint Mansell & Lorne Balfe)
– Good Time (Oneohtrix Point Never)
– Goon: Last of the Enforcers (Trevor Morris)
– The Great Wall (Ramin Djawadi)
– Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Tyler Bates)
– The Hero (Keegan DeWitt)
– The Hitman’s Bodyguard (Atli Orvarsson)
– Home Again (John Debney)
– The House (Andrew Feltenstein & John Nau)
– How to Be a Latin Lover (Craig Wedren)
– The Hunter’s Prayer (Federico Jusid)
– I Do…Until I Don’t (Dexter Story)
– I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Brooke Blair & Will Blair)
– In Dubious Battle (Hauschka)
– An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Jeff Beal)
– Ingrid Goes West (Nick Thorburn & Jonathan Sadoff)
– It (Benjamin Wallfisch)
– It Comes at Night (Brian McOmber)
– John Wick: Chapter 2 (Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard)
– Kidnap (Federico Jusid)
– King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (Daniel Pemberton)
– Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Henry Jackman & Matthew Margeson)
– Kong: Skull Island (Henry Jackman)
– Lady Macbeth (Dan Jones)
– Landline (Chris Bordeaux, Jordan Cohen & Clyde Lawrence)
– The Last Face (Hans Zimmer)
– The Last Word (Nathan Matthew David)
– The Layover (Leah Haywood & Daniel James and Rob Ellmore)
– Leap! (Klaus Badelt)
– The LEGO Batman Movie (Lorne Balfe)
– The LEGO Ninjago Movie (Mark Mothersbaugh)
– Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 (Mark Isham)
– Life (Jon Ekstrand)
– The Limehouse Golem (Johan Söderqvist)
– The Little Hours (Dan Romer)
– Logan (Marco Beltrami)
– Logan Lucky (David Holmes)
– The Lost City of Z (Christopher Spelman)
– The Lovers (Mandy Hoffman)
– Loving Vincent (Clint Mansell)
– Lowriders (Bryan Senti)
– Marjorie Prime (Mica Levi)
– Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (Daniel Pemberton)
– Maudie (Michael Timmins)
– Mean Dreams (Son Lux)
– Megan Leavey (Mark Isham)
– Monster Trucks (David Sardy)
– mother! (No full score)
– The Mummy (Brian Tyler)
– My Cousin Rachel (Rael Jones)
– Norman (Jun Miyake)
– The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (Heitor Pereira)
– Okja (Jaeil Jung)
– The Only Living Boy in New York (Rob Simonsen)
– Our Souls at Night (Elliot Goldenthal)
– The Ottoman Lieutenant (Geoff Zanelli)
– Paris Can Wait (Laura Karpman)
– Patti Cake$ (Jeremy Jasper & Jason Binnick)
– Personal Shopper (No score)
– Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Geoff Zanelli)
– Power Rangers (Brian Tyler)
– The Promise (Gabriel Yared)
– Queen of the Desert (Klaus Badelt)
– Raw (Jim Williams)
– Rebel in the Rye (Bear McCreary)
– Rememory (Gregory Tripi)
– Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul Haslinger)
– Rings (Matthew Margeson)
– Rock Dog (Rolfe Kent)
– Rough Night (Dominic Lewis)
– The Sense of an Ending (Max Richter)
– Sandy Wexler (Rupert Gregson-Williams)
– Sleepless (Michael Kamm)
– Sleight (Charles Scott IV)
– The Shack (Aaron Zigman)
– Shot Caller (Antonio Pinto)
– Smurfs: The Lost Village (Christopher Lennertz)
– Snatched (Theodore Shapiro & Chris Bacon)
– Song to Song (Additional Music: Hanan Townshend)
– Sophie and the Rising Sun (David Mansfield)
– The Space Between Us (Andrew Lockington)
– Spider-Man: Homecoming (Michael Giacchino)
– Split (West Dylan Thordson)
– Step (Raphael Saadiq & Laura Karpman)
– Stronger (Michael Brook)
– T2 Trainspotting (Rick Smith)
– Table 19 (John Swihart)
– Their Finest (Rachel Portman)
– The Ticket (Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans)
– To the Bone (Fil Eisler)
– Transformers: The Last Knight (Steve Jablonsky)
– Trespass Against Us (Tom Rowlands)
– Tulip Fever (Danny Elfman)
– Underworld: Blood Wars (Michael Wandmacher)
– Unforgettable (Toby Chu)
– A United Kingdom (Patrick Doyle)
– Unlocked (Stephen Barton)
– Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Alexandre Desplat)
– Viceroy’s House (A.R. Rahman)
– Victoria & Abdul (Thomas Newman)
– Voice from the Stone (Michael Wandmacher)
– Wakefield (Aaron Zigman)
– The Wall (No score)
– War for the Planet of the Apes (Michael Giacchino)
– War Machine (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis)
– War on Everyone (Lorne Balfe)
– Wilson (Jon Brion)
– Wind River (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis)
– Wish Upon (tomandandy)
– Wonder Woman (Rupert Gregson-Williams)
– Woodshock (Peter Raeburn)
– xXx: Return of Xander Cage (Brian Tyler & Robert Lydecker)
– The Zookeeper’s Wife (Harry Gregson-Williams)

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