re: The Top 10 greatest film composers according to Chat GPT...

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Morricone at #2 is very solid.

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I don't object to Morricone in the Top 5 even, but Steiner is way too low as he was the proto-Williams.

I like Zimmer probably the best of the 3, but my big 3 are:

Williams at 1 (54 Oscar noms), then Steiner and Zimmer at 2a and 2b.

Generally uncredited in the early 30s, Steiner scored King Kong (1933), Gone With the Win (1939), and dozens of other huge films with iconic scores - Jezebel, Dark Victory, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, A Summer Place, White Heat, The Glass Menagerie, The Jazz Singer (1952), The Caine Mutiny, The Searchers.