[Nicolai P. Zwar]

I’m doing this on the fly, as you can see… just a few minutes for each decade… not too much thinking about it… so these lists are of course subject to change without notice, they could be fine-tuned or updated or changed at any given time… but you have to start somewhere…

So let’s go with the next “surrounding decades”… (now I slowly start to realize why starting with the 1970s was a good idea… it enables me to branch out forward and backward… didn’t consciously start out with that intention, but seems to make it easier and quicker to just compile these lists without spending too much time pondering on it. Interestingly enough, it seems also to become less composer centric than the 1970s…

Here we go with 1950s:

1950  Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman)
1951  The Day the Earth Stood Still (Bernard Herrmann)
1952  High Noon (Dimitri Tiomkin)
1953  Beneath the 12‑Mile Reef (Bernard Herrmann)
1954  Godzilla (Akira Ifukube)
1955  East of Eden / Rebel Without a Cause (Leonard Rosenman)
1956  Forbidden Planet (Louis and Bebe Barron)
1957  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Dimitri Tiomkin)
1958  The Big Country (Jerome Moross)
1959  North by Northwest (Bernard Herrmann)

And the 1990s:

1990  Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman)
1991  Cape Fear (Bernard Herrmann / Elmer Bernstein)
1992  Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Wojciech Kilar)
1993  Tombstone (Bruce Broughton)
1994  Wyatt Earp (James Newton Howard)
1995  Braveheart (James Horner)
1996  Last Man Standing (Ry Cooder / Elmer Bernstein)
1997  Kundun (Philip Glass)
1998  The Thin Red Line (Hans Zimmer)
1999  American Beauty (Thomas Newman)