Having wrapped up my survey of 2015 scores (as well as a few 2014 scores that became eligible for this year's Scoreboard voting after finally getting releases), it's time to throw my hat into the ring.

List:
1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2) Tomorrowland
3) Jupiter Ascending
4) Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Seasons 1 & 2
5) Da Vinci's Demons Season 3
6) Pan
7) San Andreas
8) Seventh Son
9) Cinderella
10) Victor Frankenstein

Composer of the Year: Michael Giacchino

Track of the Year: The Jedi Steps and Finale (Runners Up: Homecoming, Commitment, The Tank Yard)

Details:
1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (John Williams) – This one took a few listens to grow on me, and then it was all I could listen to for days. It wiped the floor with the rest of the year.

2) Tomorrowland (Michael Giacchino)
3) Jupiter Ascending (Michael Giacchino) – These are ever so close together in quality. The glorious thematic statements from the former provide the tiebreaker, but the bombast and perfectly-constructed action cues of the latter are brilliant nonetheless.

4) Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Seasons 1 & 2 (Bear McCreary) – Gets included based on the strength of its many lengthy, energetic tracks from Scoreboard-eligible Season 1, as well as its rousing, ultra-cool main theme.

5) Da Vinci's Demons Season 3 (Bear McCreary) – The “weakest” album of this series is still a marvel, with McCreary continuing to deftly interpret his wealth of themes and the added sonic depth producing quite a few series highlights (namely the mammoth, quasi-liturgical The Tank Yard).

6) Pan (John Powell) – The year’s finest fantasy work, with the climactic battle material standing as one of the composer’s most addictive stretches.

7) San Andreas (Andrew Lockington) – Yet another gloriously thematic, powerfully orchestrated showcase for this guy.

8) Seventh Son (Marco Beltrami) – A speaker-shaking delight from start to finish; it’s the composer’s Van Helsing.

9) Cinderella (Patrick Doyle) – Regal, optimistic, and enrapturing.

10) Victor Frankenstein (Craig Armstrong) – My favorite Armstrong score to date.

If we were voting on purely 2015 releases (i.e., IFMCA-style), then SHIELD S1 and 7th Son would have dropped out, leaving room for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Jurassic World, the kings of the **** summer action scores. In very close contention were Christophe Beck’s Ant-Man; Thomas Newman’s Bridge of Spies; Maurizio Malagnini's Peter and Wendy; and James Horner’s Wolf Totem.

You really do need more than a top ten to do the year any justice. I heard 67 new scores in 2015 (69 if we count SHIELD S1 and 7th Son), and more than half were **** or better. So additional kudos to the following solid works:
Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (Austin Wintory)
Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues (Armand Amar)
Carlos, King Emperor: Season 1 (Federico Jusid)
Come What May (Ennio Morricone)
Creed (Ludwig Goransson)
Crimson Peak (Fernando Velazquez)
Far from the Madding Crowd (Craig Armstrong)
The Good Dinosaur (Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna)
The Hateful Eight (Ennio Morricone)
Human (Armand Amar)
The Hunt (Steven Price)
Krampus (Douglas Pipes)
The Martian (Harry Gregson-Williams)
Muhammad: The Messenger of God (A.R. Rahman)
Outlander Season 1 Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Bear McCreary)
Paper Planes (Nigel Westlake)
Persona Non Grata (Naoki Sato)
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Thomas Newman)
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide (Geoff Knorr, Griffin Cohen & Grant Kirkhope)
Texas Rising (Bruce Broughton & John Debney)