[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Okay, and now let’s bracket it with the 1940s and the 2000s… not sure I can go any further in either direction…

So for the 1940s:

1940  Rebecca (Franz Waxman)
1941  Citizen Kane (Bernard Herrmann)
1942  The Jungle Book (Miklós Rózsa)
1943  I Walked With a Zombie (Roy Webb)
1944  Double Indemnity (Miklós Rózsa)
1945  The Lost Weekend (Miklós Rózsa)
1946  The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Miklós Rózsa)
1947  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Bernard Herrmann)
1948  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Max Steiner)
1949  The Red Pony (Aaron Copland)

And the 2000s:

Now this decade demonstrates the need to “group” some things, otherwise it becomes boring.

The best film score of 2001 is Howard Shore’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS, but it extends to 2003. It’s basically just one long film score released over three years, so I could just insert:

2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

and be done with it. But I guess that’s not so interesting, so I pick an alternative title for each year. In any case, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is the winner of the decade.

So here we go with a “Lord of the Rings” free selection of the decade:

2000  Unbreakable (James Newton Howard)
2001  A.I. Artificial Intelligence (John Williams)
2002  Star Trek – Nemesis (Jerry Goldsmith)
2003  The Last Samurai (Hans Zimmer)
2004  The Village (James Newton Howard)
2005  Kingdom of Heaven (Harry Gregson‑Williams)
2006  Pan’s Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete)
2007  Zodiac (David Shire)
2008  The Dark Knight (Hans Zimmer)
2009  Avatar (James Horner)