> Are you ordering these randomly, by how much you like the composer's output, or using some other method?

Volume. Anyone who I've heard 30 or more scores from made the cut.

> Would also be curious to hear what interests/surprises you looking at these holistically now (though I bet you're more than happy to be done with commentary).

I think the surprises were already noted in earlier post comments or rankings (Puss in Boots and Inception were big climbers in the RC era), so there's no net new shocker here.

It helps that these were maintained over the life of the project. Doing a Jackman/Djawadi-sized one from scratch might've been feasible in the last week, but doing a Balfe or Powell one would've been very hard, and a Zimmer-sized one likely impossible.

And I think I noted earlier that Ramin's career pre-Thrones was very different, much more in the direction of sound design and textural/atmospheric music, as you'll note the preponderance of his earlier works in the lower end of the rankings.