Most iconic soundtrack from each year since 1990?

2013 is Man of Steel for me. Agree with a lot of it though—91, 93, 2000, 05, 08

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Once I got past the mid-00s it became increasingly more difficult to really classify many of those scores as "iconic." 2011 was an absolute abysmal year for film scores and many years in the 2010s weren't much better. It's becoming increasingly obvious to me that film scores just ain't what they used to be.

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Oppenheimer was fantastic though.

Dune 2 was great as well.

1996 should be “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Some of the entrees:

The Bells of Notre Dame

Out There

Hellfire

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2006 should be The Departed

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Absolutely not. The most famous track from the soundtrack (I'm Shipping Up to Boston) isn't instrumental and isn't even original to the movie.

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1998: "The Prince of Egypt" by Steven Schwartz & Hans Zimmer

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I didn’t know Michelle Pfeiffer could sing so well.

I would call these scores not necessarily soundtracks, but a solid list.

Hans Zimmer owns this list. He probably doesn’t if you go back another 20 years.

Good grief look at all these titles by Williams. Around half of them are probably best of the year.

Story of a Woman (1970)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Pete ’n’ Tillie (1972)
Images (1972)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Cinderella Liberty (1973)
Conrack (1974)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Family Plot (1976)
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Midway (1976)
Black Sunday (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Fury (1978)
Jaws 2 (1978)
Superman (1978)
Dracula (1979)
1941 (1979)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Heartbeeps (1981)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Monsignor (1982)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
The River (1984)
SpaceCamp (1986)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

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2003 ROTK not there? FFS

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I love the score, don't get me wrong, and I think it's the best of 2003. But most of the motifs Howard Shore used in Return of the King appeared in the previous two films.

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Hans Zimmer owns this list. He probably doesn’t if you go back another 20 years.

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He doesn't. If I were to have stretched the list back into the 70s, it would have looked like this:

1989: "Batman" by Danny Elfman
1988: "Beetlejuice" by Danny Elfman
1987: "The Untouchables" by Ennio Morricone
1986: "The Mission" by Ennio Morricone
1985: "Back to the Future" by Alan Silvestri
1984: "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" by John Williams
1983: "The Right Stuff" by Bill Conti
1982: "E.T. the Extra Terrestrial" by John Williams
1981: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" by John Williams
1980: "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back" by John Williams
1979: "Star Trek" by Jerry Goldsmith
1978: "Superman" by John Williams / "Halloween" by John Carpenter
1977: "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" by John Williams
1976: "Rocky" by Bill Conti
1975: "Jaws" by John Williams
1974: "The Godfather Part II" by Carmine Coppola & Nino Rota
1973: "The Sting" by Marvin Hamlisch
1972: "The Godfather" by Nino Rota
1971: "Shaft" by Isaac Hayes
1970: "Patton" by Jerry Goldsmith

2007 would be The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford for me

Overall a great list