Howard Shore’s Oscar-winning score work on “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy has been voted the UK’s favourite film music in a new poll in which more than 10,000 votes were cast.
The aim of the poll was to find the nation’s most popular piece of film music. The top 100 were played on Classic FM radio before radio presenter Jonathan Ross revealed the number-one choice on Monday evening.
John Williams meanwhile was the nation’s favourite composer with five entries in the top twenty alone, including second and third place with “Schindler’s List” and “Star Wars” respectively along with “Jurassic Park” (#8), “Harry Potter” (#11) and “Indiana Jones” (#13).
Bond composer John Barry made the top ten twice with “Out of Africa” (#4) and “Dances With Wolves” (#7), so did Ennio Morricone with “The Good, The Bad And The Ugly” (#9) and “The Mission” (#10). Hans Zimmer made the Top 20 twice with “Gladiator” (#5) and “Interstellar” (#17).
The rest included notable classics like Vangelis’ work on “Chariots of Fire” (#12), Maurice Jarre for “Doctor Zhivago” (#15), Elmer Bernstein for “The Magnificent Seven” (#16), Nino Rota for “The Godfather” (#18), James Horner for “Titanic” (#19) and Klaus Bedelt for “Pirates of the Caribbean” (#20).
Two very British films also made the list with Debbie Wiseman’s work on “Wilde” taking sixth place and Nigel Hess’ score for “Ladies in Lavender” taking fourteenth.
Source: Sky News
