Schindler's List : Great years for film composers.

Great years for film composers.

#1. John Williams. 1977. The creators of Raiders Of The Lost Ark kick-start my From Star Wars To Predator list.

#2. James Horner. 1995. Ron Howard and Mel Gibson win the film industry's highest honors for directing.

#3. Jerry Goldsmith. 1982. Homecoming for Hollywood's brand new king and for a Vietnam War veteran. All is not well.

#4. Hans Zimmer. 2008. Ron Howard and Christopher Nolan both receive DGA nominations.

#5. John Williams. 1993. Steven Spielberg directs the biggest money-maker of its time before directing the year's Best Picture winner.

#6. John Williams. 1989. Two very different American heroes have two very different experiences.

Re: Great years for film composers.

I don't understand this, sorry.

Here, let me help.

#1. Star Wars & Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
#2. Braveheart & Apollo 13
#3. Poltergeist & First Blood
#4. The Dark Knight & Frost/Nixon
#5. Jurassic Park & Schindler's List
#6. Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade....Born On The Fourth Of July

These are the movies I was referring to. Each pair of movies was scored by the same composer in the same year.

Re: Here, let me help.

And yet there's not a single mention of Elmer Bernstein...
Shame on you!!

Shame... shame... shame... shame... shame, etc etc.

Re: Here, let me help.

Ah ok, thanks.

That was an amazing year for Williams, 1977.

1978 was also pretty good year for Goldsmith, I think; I love his score to The Boys From Brazil, & Capricorn One was much improved by having his music in some scenes...no-one did 'sinister' like Goldsmith.

Thanks for your input…

You're right. No one did sinister like Goldsmith. His Oscar-winning score for The Omen was outstanding. Though I never saw The Boys From Brazil and Capricorn One...not sure how I would connect them in a brief explanation for Jerry Goldsmith in 1978.

Kind of like how John Williams also had a decent year in 1978 as well. The decent score for Jaws 2 and his great score for Superman. The two movies don't really have anything interesting in common.

But anyway, thanks for the input...and for realizing the pattern. Not everyone at this thread seems to have recognized the pattern.
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