Intimate descriptions of my ticklish spots coming soon.

Favorite Composers w/ Top Three Scores
1. John Williams - Jurassic Park, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back
2. James Horner - Glory, Legends of the Fall, Willow
3. Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek: The Motion Picture, First Knight, Total Recall
4. John Powell - How to Train Your Dragon, Solo, Chicken Run
5. Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good The Bad & The Ugly
6. James Newton Howard - Lady in the Water, The Last Airbender, The Village
7. David Arnold - Independence Day, Stargate, Tomorrow Never Dies
8. Danny Elfman - Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Spider-Man 2
9. Michael Giacchino - Medal of Honor: Frontline, Ratatouille, Secret Weapons Over Normandy
10. Alexandre Desplat - Little Women, The Shape of Water, Valerian

My Collection
A complete and continually-updated list of scores I own (e.g. doesn't include listens from Spotify or YouTube). The rating key below details information about star ratings, color coding, etc.

Rating Key:
***** - Ascended
****½ - Personal fave
**** - Excellent
***½ - Great
*** - Solid
**½ - Mediocre
** - Bad
*½ - very bad
??? - Have it but haven't listened to it yet

Oscar Araujo
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (2010) ****

David Arnold
Stargate (1994) ****½
Last of the Dogmen (1995) ****
Independence Day (1996) *****
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ****½
Godzilla (1998) ****
The World is Not Enough (1999) ****½
Shaft (2000) ***
The Musketeer (2001) ***
Changing Lanes (2002) *½
Die Another Day (2002) ***
Casino Royale (2006) ****
Quantum of Solace (2008) ****
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) ****

John Barry
From Russia With Love (1963) ****
Somewhere in Time (1980) ***
Out of Africa (1985) ****
Dances With Wolves (1990) ****

Tyler Bates
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) ***

Christophe Beck
Frozen (2013) ***

Marco Beltrami
The Giver (2014) ****
Seventh Son (2014) ***½

Elmer Bernstein
The Magnificent Seven (1960) ****½

Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story (1961) ***½

Ludovic Bource
The Artist (2011) ****

Carter Burwell
True Grit (2009) ***½

Gareth Coker
Ori and the Blind Forest (2015) ****½

Bill Conti
Rocky (1976) ****

Daft Punk
Tron: Legacy (2010) ****

Neil Davidge
Halo 4 (2012) **** w. Kazuma Jinnouchi

Don Davis
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) ***
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) ***

John Debney
Cutthroat Island (1995) ****½
Lair (2007) ****½ w. Kevin Kaska

Oliver Deriviere
Remember Me (2013) ****½
Supernova (2015) ***

Alexandre Desplat
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) ***½
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) ***½
The Monuments Men (2014) ****
Godzilla (2014) ***½

Ramin Djawadi
Medal of Honor (2010) **½

Patrick Doyle
Henry V (1989) ****
Much Ado About Nothing (1993) ****
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) ****
Sense and Sensibility (1995) ***½
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) ****
Thor (2011) ****
Cinderella (2015) ***½

Randy Edelman
Gettysburg (1993) ***

Danny Elfman
Beetlejuice (1988) ****
Batman (1989) *****
Edward Scissorhands (1990) *****
Batman Returns (1992) ****
Sommersby (1993) ****
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) ****
Black Beauty (1994) ****
Mission: Impossible (1996) ***½
Spider-Man (2002) ****
Big Fish (2003) ****
Spider-Man 2 (2004) ****
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) ***½
Charlotte's Web (2006) ***
Alice in Wonderland (2010) ***½
Iris: Cirque Du Soleil (2011) ****
Real Steel (2011) ****
Frankenweenie (2012) ***
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) ***½
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) ***½

Ilan Eshkeri
Stardust (2007) ****

Toby Fox
Undertale (2015) ****½

John Frizell
Gods and Generals (2003) w. Randy Edelman ****

Michael Giacchino
Medal of Honor (1999) ****½
Medal of Honor: Underground (2000) ****½
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002) ***
Medal of Honor: Frontline (2002) *****
Call of Duty (2003) ***
Secret Weapons Over Normandy (2003) ****½
The Incredibles (2004) ****½
Lost: Season 1 (2006) ***½
Lost: Season 2 (2006) ***
Ratatouille (2007) ****½
Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007) ****
Cloverfield (2008) ****
Lost: Season 3 (2008) ***
Speed Racer (2008) ***½
Star Trek (2009) ****
Lost: Season 4 (2009) ****
Up (2009) ****
Lost: Season 5 (2010) ***
Lost: Season 6 (2011) ***½
Lost: The Last Episodes (2011) ***½
Super 8 (2011) ***½
John Carter (2012) ****½
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) ***½
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) ***
Jupiter Ascending (2015) ****½
Tomorrowland (2015) ***½
Jurassic World (2015) ***½
Inside Out (2015) ****
Star Trek Beyond (2016) ***
Doctor Strange (2016) ****
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) ***

Elliot Goldenthal
Alien³ (1992) ****
Frida (2002) ****

Jerry Goldsmith
The Blue Max (1966) ****
Chinatown (1974) ****½
The Wind and the Lion (1975) ???
The Omen (1976) ****½
Damien: Omen II (1978) **½
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) *****
The Final Conflict (1981) ****
Poltergeist (1982) ****½
Under Fire (1983) ****½
Gremlins (1984) ***½
Legend (1985) ****½
Hoosiers (1986) ****
Total Recall (1990) *****
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) ***½
Rudy (1993) ****
First Knight (1995) ****½
Mulan (1998) ****
The Mummy (1999) ****

Ludwig Göransson
Creed (2015) ****
Black Panther (2018) ****
Creed II (2018) ****

Harry Gregson-Williams
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) ****

Vince Guaraldi
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) ****

Nicholas Hooper
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) ***
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) **½

James Horner
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) ****½
Krull (1983) ****
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984) ****
An American Tail (1986) ****
Willow (1988) *****
The Land Before Time (1988) ****½
Field of Dreams (1989) ***½
Glory (1989) *****
The Rocketeer (1991) ****½
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) ****
Legends of the Fall (1994) *****
Casper (1995) ***½
Apollo 13 (1995) ****½
Braveheart (1995) ****
The Spitfire Grill (1996) *****
Titanic (1997) ****
The Mask of Zorro (1998) ****½
A Beautiful Mind (2001) ****
The Four Feathers (2002) ***½
The Legend of Zorro (2005) ****
Avatar (2009) ****½
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) ****½
Le Dernier Loup (Wolf Totem) (2015) ****

James Newton Howard
Waterworld (1995) ****
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) ****
Treasure Planet (2002) ***½
King Kong (2005) ****
Lady in the Water (2006) ****½
The Last Airbender (2011) ****½
Maleficent (2014) ****
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) ****

Justin Hurwitz
La La Land (2016) ****

Maurice Jarre
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) *****
Doctor Zhivago (1965) ****

Kazuma Jinnouchi
Halo 5: Guardians (2015) ***½

Trevor Jones
Last of the Mohicans (1992) w. Randy Edelman ***½

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Finding Neverland (2004) ****

Michael Kamen
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) ***

Wojciech Kilar
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) ****

Kevin Kiner
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) **

Grant Kirkhope
Banjo-Kazooie (1998) ***½

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) ****½
The Sea Hawk (1940) ****½
Kings Row (1942) ****

Abel Korzeniowski
Romeo and Juliet (2013) ****½

Joe Kraemer
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) ****

Christopher Lennertz
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003) ***½
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004) ***
Medal of Honor: European Assault (2005) ****
Starhawk (2012) ***½

Andrew Lockington
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) ****

Mark Mancina
Twister (1996) ???

Dario Marianelli
Atonement (2007) ****

George Martin
Yellow Submarine (1968) ***

Bear McCreary
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) ****
God of War (2018) ****½

Joel McNeely
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996) ****

Alan Menken
Beauty and the Beast (1991) ****½
Aladdin (1992) ***½
Hercules (1997) ***

Ennio Morricone
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1967) ****½
The Mission (1986) ****
Cinema Paradiso (1988) *****

Mark Mothersbaugh
The Lego Movie (2014) **½

Randy Newman
A Bug's Life (1998) ***½
Toy Story 2 (1999) ***
Cars (2006) ***
Monsters University (2013) ***½

Thomas Newman
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) ****
American Beauty (1999) ****
Finding Nemo (2004) ****

Martin O'Donnell
Halo: Combat Evolved (2001) ***½ w. Michael Salvatori
Halo 2 (2004) ***½ w. Michael Salvatori
Halo 3 (2007) ***** w. Michael Salvatori
Halo 3: ODST (2009) **** w. Michael Salvatori
Halo: Reach (2010) ***½ w. Michael Salvatori
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (2011) ** w. Michael Salvatori, "adapted" by Tom Salta, Paul Lipson, Lennie Moore, Brian Trifon
Halo 2 Anniversary (2014) **** w. Michael Salvatori, adapted by Paul Lipson, Lennie Moore, Tom Salta, Brian Trifon etc.

John Ottman
Superman Returns (2006) ****

Basil Poledouris
Conan the Barbarian (1982) *****
Flesh + Blood (1985) ****

Rachel Portman
The Cider House Rules (1999) ****

John Powell
Chicken Run (2000) ****½ w. Harry Gregson-Williams
Paycheck (2003) ****
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) ***½
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) *****
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) **** w. Hans Zimmer
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) *****
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) *****
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) ****½

Victor Reyes
Grand Piano (2013) ****½

Kevin Riepl
Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013) ***½

Miklos Rozsa
Quo Vadis (1951) ****
Ben-Hur (1959) ****

Marc Shaiman
The American President (1995) ***½

Edward Shearmur
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) ****

Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) *****
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) *****
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) *****
Hugo (2011) ****
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) ****½
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) ***½
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) ****

Alan Silvestri
Back to the Future (1985) ****½
Predator (1987) ***½
Back to the Future Part III (1990) ***½
Forrest Gump (1994) ****
Judge Dredd (1995) ****
The Mummy Returns (2001) ****½
Van Helsing (2004) ***½
The Polar Express (2006) ****½
The Avengers (2012) ***

Brian Tyler
LEGO Universe (2010) ***½
Iron Man 3 (2013) ***
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) ***

Shirley Walker
Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) **** w. Danny Elfman, Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion, and many others

John Williams
Jaws (1975) ****½
Star Wars (1977) *****
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) *****
The Fury (1978) ***½
Jaws 2 (1978) ****
Superman (1978) ****½
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) *****
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) *****
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) *****
Return of the Jedi (1983) ****½
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ****½
Empire of the Sun (1987) ****
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ****
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) ***½
Always (1989) **
Presumed Innocent (1990) ***½
Home Alone (1990) ****
Hook (1991) *****
JFK (1991) ***
Far and Away (1992) ****½
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) ***½
Jurassic Park (1993) ****½
Schindler's List (1993) *****
Sabrina (1995) ***
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) ****
Amistad (1997) ****
Saving Private Ryan (1998) ***
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) ****½
The Patriot (2000) ***½
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) ****½
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) ****½
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) ****
Minority Report (2002) ***½
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) ***
Catch Me if You Can (2002) ***½
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) ****
The Terminal (2004) ****½
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) ****
War of the Worlds (2005) ***
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) ****
Munich (2005) ****
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) ***
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) ****
War Horse (2011) ****½
Lincoln (2012) ****
The Book Thief (2013) ****
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) ****½
The BFG (2016) ***½
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) ****
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) ****

Austin Wintory
Journey (2015) ****
Abzû (2016) ****½

Gabriel Yared
The English Patient (1996) ***½

Mahito Yokota
Super Mario Galaxy (2007) **** w. Koji Kondo

Christopher Young
Spider-Man 3 (2007) ***
Priest (2011) ****
The Monkey King (2014) ****

Hans Zimmer
The Lion King (1994) ****
The Prince of Egypt (1998) ****
Gladiator (2000) **** w. Lisa Gerrard
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) ***½ w. Klaus Badelt
The Last Samurai (2003) ****
King Arthur (2004) ****
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) ****
The Dark Knight (2008) ****
Interstellar (2015) ****