[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Yeah, as I said, I tend to group things and see sometimes the scope and body of work. I even hesitated to include THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, because while I see the individual scores for these films, I can also view STAR WARS as one single body of interrelated compositions. It’s even more extreme with THE LORD OF THE RINGS, which literally is just one long film and not even a “real” trilogy. (Just like the original novel eventually had a preface that began with “The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel” just because even before the movie(s) came out, people sometimes thought of it as a trilogy, which it definitely isn’t.)
So THE LORD OF THE RINGS is one film and one film score, it’s just very long (it’s a long book too).
But I agree that A.I. – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is a great score too, as are the others… which is why I annotated my selections. 🙂

As I noted, my choices are of course subject to change at any time. I might just suddenly change something or think “gee, why didn’t I include X instead of Y?”. Obviously, some years were easier than others…. 1960? Dang, what do I put in there. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN by Elmer Bernstein? SPARTACUS by Alex North? I put in PSYCHO by Bernard Herrmann, but these other two were just as good and at any other day….