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Filmtracks Composer Photo Albums
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Since the days before even its official creation, Filmtracks has maintained "tributes" to the most successful contemporary
composers. Through the first thirteen years of the site, these tributes were limited to either the most popular composers
in the industry or those whose work Filmtracks wished to specifically support. In 2009, the tributes were automated so
that at least a basic page could exist for all active, major composers, even if a wealth of information was not published
for that composer.
The most extensive composer pages feature a biography, a filmography (containing only scores for full-length productions on
the big or small screen; no television series, video games, or concerts are
included), editorial recommendations of the composer's must-have scores, several quotes from the composer, and up to two
pictures. The most basic composer pages include one picture, year of birth (and death, if applicable), and links to each
of that composer's reviews at Filmtracks.
All composer pages automatically provide data on which of his or her scores (if any) exist in the top 100 lists of
Filmtracks' traffic and viewer ratings averages. This information, as well as the statistics listed in the filmographies
and review lists, is updated once per day (or immediately upon the addition of new reviews). To qualify for a basic page
at Filmtracks, a composer must have been active in the Digital Age of film music (starting in the late-1980's) and have
several works reviewed at the site.
(see legend below for abbreviations and codes)
| RT |
FR | VR | VT | CT |
Dates | Available Information |
| Craig Armstrong | 1959- | 12 | 3.83 | 3.42 | 45,193 | 293 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | David Arnold | 1962- | 15 | 3.53 | 3.27 | 43,853 | 527 | 09/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Klaus Badelt | 1968- | 11 | 3 | 3.11 | 103,349 | 2,504 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Lorne Balfe | 1976- | 29 | 2.9 | 2.89 | 21,833 | 439 | 09/21 | | | | John Barry | 1933-2011 | 27 | 3.85 | 3.54 | 27,308 | 91 | 07/98 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Tyler Bates | 1965- | 9 | 2.11 | 2.47 | 4,444 | 105 | 09/21 | | | | Christophe Beck | 1972- | 16 | 3.06 | 3.05 | 4,381 | 69 | 05/15 | | | | Marco Beltrami | 1966- | 28 | 2.75 | 2.8 | 17,831 | 262 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Elmer Bernstein | 1922-2004 | 18 | 3.25 | 3.18 | 10,420 | 47 | 08/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Bruce Broughton | 1945- | 11 | 3.36 | 3.28 | 4,075 | 24 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Carter Burwell | 1955- | 19 | 2.84 | 2.82 | 11,013 | 153 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Mychael Danna | 1958- | 16 | 3.25 | 3.06 | 4,862 | 34 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Don Davis | 1957- | 10 | 3.2 | 3.06 | 44,199 | 1,062 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | John Debney | 1956- | 56 | 3.31 | 3.09 | 47,086 | 920 | 10/99 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Alexandre Desplat | 1961- | 31 | 3.39 | 3.23 | 15,051 | 197 | 07/09 - 05/15 | | | | Patrick Doyle | 1953- | 32 | 3.84 | 3.45 | 24,671 | 401 | 07/98 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Randy Edelman | 1947- | 20 | 3.05 | 3.15 | 28,342 | 174 | 09/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Cliff Eidelman | 1964- | 17 | 3.29 | 3.19 | 8,286 | 34 | 07/01 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Danny Elfman | 1953- | 86 | 3.16 | 3.27 | 148,807 | 1,830 | 05/97 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | George Fenton | 1950- | 14 | 3.64 | 3.42 | 16,363 | 117 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Michael Giacchino | 1967- | 43 | 3.46 | 3.21 | 21,613 | 287 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Elliot Goldenthal | 1954- | 16 | 3.13 | 3.2 | 16,911 | 563 | 07/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Jerry Goldsmith | 1929-2004 | 115 | 3.29 | 3.32 | 146,964 | 975 | 09/96 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Harry Gregson-Williams | 1961- | 40 | 3 | 2.98 | 53,301 | 969 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Lee Holdridge | 1944- | 14 | 3.77 | 3.34 | 7,361 | 147 | 08/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Tom Holkenborg | 1967- | 19 | 2.16 | 2.48 | 5,292 | 92 | 09/21 | | | | James Horner | 1953-2015 | 107 | 3.16 | 3.23 | 197,460 | 2,594 | 11/95 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | James Newton Howard | 1951- | 70 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 82,418 | 1,391 | 12/00 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Mark Isham | 1951- | 25 | 2.84 | 2.84 | 8,919 | 52 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Steve Jablonsky | 1970- | 15 | 2.2 | 2.47 | 11,206 | 283 | 05/15 | | | | Henry Jackman | 1974- | 25 | 2.8 | 2.78 | 6,774 | 73 | 05/15 | | | | Trevor Jones | 1949- | 18 | 3.78 | 3.44 | 25,064 | 146 | 09/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Michael Kamen | 1948-2003 | 15 | 3.13 | 3.22 | 33,735 | 230 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Harald Kloser | 1956- | 9 | 2.56 | 2.53 | 3,415 | 105 | 09/21 | | | | Mark Mancina | 1957- | 15 | 3.27 | 3.12 | 10,201 | 91 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Dario Marianelli | 1963- | 11 | 3.64 | 3.33 | 5,513 | 187 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Mark McKenzie | 1957- | 10 | 3.9 | 3.38 | 3,891 | 7 | 01/00 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Joel McNeely | 1959- | 16 | 3.38 | 3.14 | 7,920 | 49 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Alan Menken | 1949- | 17 | 3.71 | 3.47 | 59,139 | 143 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Ennio Morricone | 1928-2020 | 11 | 3.18 | 3.28 | 9,575 | 73 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | David Newman | 1954- | 12 | 3.17 | 3.26 | 19,168 | 82 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Randy Newman | 1943- | 20 | 3.15 | 3.1 | 21,983 | 135 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Thomas Newman | 1955- | 37 | 3.14 | 3.18 | 58,846 | 534 | 07/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | John Ottman | 1964- | 35 | 3.17 | 3.05 | 19,894 | 437 | 08/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Basil Poledouris | 1945-2006 | 35 | 3.54 | 3.3 | 35,217 | 376 | 07/98 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Rachel Portman | 1960- | 30 | 3.31 | 3.26 | 26,756 | 151 | 07/98 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | John Powell | 1963- | 50 | 3.28 | 3.15 | 50,037 | 609 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Trevor Rabin | 1954- | 12 | 2.5 | 2.62 | 13,077 | 179 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Graeme Revell | 1955- | 19 | 2.74 | 2.78 | 16,272 | 288 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Marc Shaiman | 1959- | 12 | 3.33 | 3.14 | 19,080 | 91 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Howard Shore | 1946- | 25 | 3.56 | 3.32 | 99,362 | 3,103 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Alan Silvestri | 1950- | 40 | 3.45 | 3.35 | 37,960 | 568 | 08/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Brian Tyler | 1972- | 41 | 3.2 | 3.13 | 18,082 | 277 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Benjamin Wallfisch | 1979- | 13 | 3.46 | 3.2 | 2,855 | 14 | 09/21 | | | | Stephen Warbeck | 1953- | 7 | 3.29 | 3.23 | 9,031 | 36 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | John Williams | 1932- | 90 | 3.67 | 3.54 | 356,795 | 5,007 | 09/96 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Gabriel Yared | 1949- | 10 | 3.11 | 3.18 | 18,777 | 499 | 06/09 - 05/15 | | | | Christopher Young | 1957- | 27 | 3.48 | 3.16 | 9,891 | 181 | 09/03 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM | | Hans Zimmer | 1957- | 118 | 2.86 | 3.01 | 290,888 | 6,570 | 05/97 - 05/15 | SUM | FLM |
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Reviews:
| RT |
- Review Total (the number of reviews of that composer's works at Filmtracks)
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Ratings:
| FR |
- Filmtracks Rating (average of all ratings for that composer's reviews)
| VR |
- Viewer Rating (average of all Filmtracks readers' ratings for that composer's scores)
| VT |
- Vote Total (sum of all reader votes cast for each composer's scores)
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Comments:
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- indicates the sum of all messages posted in response to the reviews of that composer's music
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Dates:
| 1st
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| 2nd
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Extras:
| SUM |
- Editorial summary or biography of that composer's career
| FLM |
- Filmography of the composer's feature motion picture scores
| REC |
- Additional editorial recommendations
| EXQ |
- Additional quotes by the composer
| EXP |
- Additional pictures of the composer
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