[Jon Aanensen]

As the list-lover I am, I have a list featuring all the films I ever saw. I also have a list containing the number of films I have seen scored by each composer. Zimmer is on top, I have seen 66 films scored by him. The list is for movies only, no tv-series.

Here is the list from 66 to 5. I decided not to publish the rest, as it’s too big! A massive number of composers with only one film.

HANS ZIMMER 66
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD 46
SYLVESTER LEVAY 44
THOMAS NEWMAN 36
MARK ISHAM 31
JERRY GOLDSMITH 30
HOWARD SHORE 24
JAMES HORNER 24
TANGERINE DREAM 23
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG 23
ALAN SILVESTRI 20
MARCO BELTRAMI 20
JONATHAN ELIAS 19
HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS 19
GRAEME REVELL 18
MARK MANCINA 18
CARTER BURWELL 17
TREVOR RABIN 17
JOHN WILLIAMS 15
MICHAEL KAMEN 15
GARY CHANG 14
JOHN POWELL 13
ANGELO BADALAMENTI 13
CHRISTOPHER FRANKE 13
TREVOR JONES 13
RANDY EDELMAN 13
HAROLD FALTERMEYER 13
JAY FERGUSON 13
JAN HAMMER 13
DANNY ELFMAN 12
BRIAN TYLER 12
JOHN OTTMAN 12
DAVID ARNOLD 11
MARC SHAIMAN 11
MAURICE JARRE 11
ENNIO MORRICONE 10
JOHN DEBNEY 10
PAUL HASLINGER 10
BRAD FIEDEL 9
HARRY MANFREDINI 9
KLAUS BADELT 9
ELMER BERNSTEIN 9
JOHAN SØDERQVIST 9
NICK GLENNIE-SMITH 8
GEIR BØHREN 8
BENT ÅSERUD 8
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT 8
STEVE JABLONSKY 8
JOHN CARPENTER 8
LORNE BALFE 8
BT 8
JACK NITZSCHE 7
PATRICK O’HEARN 7
MAGNE FURUHOLMEN 7
JOHANNES RINGEN 7
JOHN BARRY 6
ALAN HOWARTH 6
SHIRLEY WALKER 6
ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL 6
BENJAMIN WALLFISCH 6
BILL CONTI 6
EDWARD SHEARMUR 6
IRA NEWBORN 6
PHILIP GLASS 6
BASIL POLEDOURIS 6
DAVID FOSTER 6
HARALD KLOSER 6
PATRICK LEONARD 6
TIM TRUMAN 6
TROND BJERKNES 6
GEORGE FENTON 6
SIMON BOSWELL 5
SVEIN GUNDERSEN 5
ERIC SERRA 5
ROBERT FOLK 5
DAVE GRUSIN 5
DAVID HOLMES 5
TYLER BATES 5
YVES LAFERRIERE 5
RICHARD GIBBS 5
JOHN FRIZZELL 5
WILLIAM ROSS 5
MICHAEL HOENIG 5
JOSEPH BISHARA 5
VANGELIS 5
DON DAVIS 5
DANIEL LICHT 5

[Nick Zwar]

Whoa, that’s an impressive statistic. Not sure how I could ever compile a list of all the movies I ever watched.

[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.).

[Malte Müller]

Impossible for me to create such a list. I probably also watched nearly all Williams movies. A few non-Spielberg I don’t remmeber if I have… and I didn’t see much of the TV work. Lots of Goldsmith often because of Goldsmith and of Zimmer movie probably which is no surprise since he is involved in every 2nd blockbuster for years literally 😉

[Jon Aanensen]

I started on the list in the early 90s. I didn’t really watch movies as a kid in the 80s.

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