[Thor Joachim Haga]

That would be impossible for me too.

In 1993, I snatched a notebook from the school’s stationery cupboard, which I turned into a ‘film book’ where I logged all the films I saw, and gave them a grade. I shared a photo of this rather cute, self-glued book on my Facebook account in 2019.

Then many years passed without any kind of log. From 2014, I started logging the films I saw, on MUBI – one list for all films seen per year (at first also including repeat viewings, but I later took them out), and another for new films of the year.

But I suppose Jon’s project is easier to do – it’s just a matter of perusing the IMDB profiles of the composers in my collection, and then checking how many I’ve seen. Still, though, a LOT of work. I can’t picture myself ever being in a position to do so with several hundred film composers.

I know for certain that John Williams wins. I’ve seen every single feature film, short film, documentary he’s ever done. Plus about 60-70% of his television work (the rest remains lost at the present time). So maybe some 300-400 titles, depending on how you define it?

Hans Zimmer is up there for me too. Will do a tally at some point, although – again – one would need some parameters (fiction, documentary, short films, feature films, tv series etc. etc.).