# Classic 100 Music in the Movies

In 2013, the Australian radio station ABC Classic FM held a Classic 100 Music in the Movies countdown.
The selection of works that was available in the survey was determined between 15 April and 26 April 2013 (with the public being able to add works to the list initiated by the station). Voting (by the public) for the finalised list of works was held between 3 May and 17 May 2013, and the countdown was broadcast from 7 to 10 June 2013.

## Countdown results

The results of the countdown are as follows:
| Rank | Composer | Film | Work | Year of film release |
| 1 | Ennio Morricone | The Mission | Score | 1986 |
| 2 | John Williams | Star Wars | Score | 1977 |
| 3 | Howard Shore | The Lord of the Rings | Score | 2001 |
| 4 | Vangelis | Chariots of Fire | Score | 1981 |
| 5 | Maurice Jarre | Doctor Zhivago | Score | 1965 |
| 6 | Maurice Jarre | Lawrence of Arabia | Score | 1962 |
| 7 | Ludwig van Beethoven | The King's Speech | Piano Concerto No. 5 | 2010 |
| 8 | John Barry | Out of Africa | Score | 1985 |
| 9 | Michael Nyman | The Piano | Score | 1993 |
| 10 | John Williams | Schindler's List | Score | 1993 |
| 11 | Tomaso Albinoni | Gallipoli | Adagio in G minor | 1981 |
| 12 | Bruce Smeaton | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Score | 1975 |
| 13 | Richard Strauss | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Also sprach Zarathustra | 1968 |
| 14 | Eric Coates | The Dam Busters | Score | 1955 |
| 15 | John Williams | Indiana Jones | Score | 1981–2008 |
| 16 | Ennio Morricone | Cinema Paradiso | Score | 1988 |
| 17 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Amadeus | Requiem | 1984 |
| 18 | Mikis Theodorakis | Zorba the Greek | Score | 1964 |
| 19 | Scott Joplin | The Sting | Score | 1973 |
| 20 | Anton Karas | The Third Man | Score | 1949 |
| 21 | Ennio Morricone | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Score | 1966 |
| 22 | Dmitri Shostakovich | The Gadfly | Score | 1956 |
| 23 | Samuel Barber | Platoon | Adagio for Strings | 1986 |
| 24 | John Williams, William Ross, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, Alexandre Desplat | Harry Potter | Score | 2001 |
| 25 | Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt | Pirates of the Caribbean | Score | 2003 |
| 26 | Richard Wagner | Apocalypse Now | "Ride of the Valkyries" | 1979 |
| 27 | Mark Knopfler | Local Hero | Score | 1983 |
| 28 | John Barry | Dances with Wolves | Score | 1990 |
| 29 | Ludwig van Beethoven | A Clockwork Orange | Symphony No. 9 | 1971 |
| 30 | Georges Bizet | Gallipoli | "The Pearl Fishers' Duet" | 1981 |
| 31 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Elvira Madigan | Piano Concerto No. 21 | 1967 |
| 32 | Monty Norman | James Bond films | "James Bond Theme" | 1962 |
| 33 | Richard Addinsell | Dangerous Moonlight | Warsaw Concerto | 1941 |
| 34 | Henry Mancini | The Pink Panther | Score | 1964 |
| 35 | Elmer Bernstein | The Magnificent Seven | Score | 1960 |
| 36 | George Gershwin | Manhattan | Rhapsody in Blue | 1979 |
| 37 | Paul Dukas | Fantasia | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | 1940 |
| 38 | Max Steiner | Gone with the Wind | Score | 1939 |
| 39 | George Gershwin | An American in Paris | An American in Paris | 1951 |
| 40 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Out of Africa | Clarinet Concerto | 1985 |
| 41 | Nigel Westlake | Antarctica | Score | 1991 |
| 42 | Nino Rota | The Godfather | Score | 1972 |
| 43 | Tan Dun | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Score | 2000 |
| 44 | Stanley Myers | The Deer Hunter | Score (inc. "Cavatina") | 1978 |
| 45 | Gustav Mahler | Death in Venice | Symphony No. 5 | 1971 |
| 46 | Johann Sebastian Bach | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Cello Suite No. 1 | 2003 |
| 47 | Bernard Herrmann | Psycho | Score | 1960 |
| 48 | Johann Sebastian Bach | Fantasia | Toccata and Fugue in D minor | 1940 |
| 49 | Malcolm Arnold | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Score | 1957 |
| 50 | Camille Saint-Saëns | Babe | Symphony No. 3 | 1995 |
| 51 | Henry Mancini | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Score | 1961 |
| 52 | Edward Elgar | Hilary and Jackie | Cello Concerto | 1998 |
| 53 | Giacomo Puccini | A Room with a View | "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi | 1985 |
| 54 | Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard | Gladiator | Score | 2000 |
| 55 | Johann Sebastian Bach | The English Patient | Goldberg Variations | 1996 |
| 56 | Francis Lai | A Man and a Woman (Un homme et un femme) | Score | 1966 |
| 57 | Yann Tiersen | Amélie | Score | 2001 |
| 58 | Hans Zimmer | The Lion King | Score | 1994 |
| 59 | Charlie Chaplin | Limelight | Score | 1952 |
| 60 | Ludwig van Beethoven | The King's Speech | Symphony No. 7 | 2010 |
| 61 | Bruce Rowland | The Man from Snowy River | Score | 1982 |
| 62 | Johann Strauss II | 2001: A Space Odyssey | "The Blue Danube" | 1968 |
| 63 | Philip Glass | Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi | Score | 1982, 1988, 2002 |
| 64 | John Barry | Born Free | Score | 1966 |
| 65 | Vangelis | Blade Runner | Score | 1982 |
| 66 | Sergei Rachmaninoff | Brief Encounter | Piano Concerto No. 2 | 1945 |
| 67 | Hubert Parry | Chariots of Fire | "Jerusalem" | 1981 |
| 68 | Various (inc. Cliff Eidelman, Michael Giacchino, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Dennis McCarthy and Leonard Rosenman) | Star Trek | Score | 1979–2013 |
| 69 | John Williams | Superman | Score | 1978 |
| 70 | Sergei Rachmaninoff | Shine | Piano Concerto No. 3 | 1996 |
| 71 | Edward Elgar | Elizabeth | "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations | 1998 |
| 72 | Jean-Michel Jarre | Gallipoli | Oxygène | 1981 |
| 73 | Elmer Bernstein | The Great Escape | Score | 1963 |
| 74 | Ernest Gold | Exodus | Score | 1960 |
| 75 | Claude Debussy | Ocean's Eleven | "Clair de lune" from Suite bergamasque | 2001 |
| 76 | Burt Bacharach | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Score | 1969 |
| 77 | Larry Adler | Genevieve | Score | 1953 |
| 78 | Gabriel Yared | The English Patient | Score | 1996 |
| 79 | Ry Cooder | Paris, Texas | Score | 1984 |
| 80 | Bernard Herrmann | North by Northwest | Score | 1959 |
| 81 | Edward Elgar | Brassed Off | Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 | 1996 |
| 82 | Patrick Doyle | Sense and Sensibility | Score | 1995 |
| 83 | Nino Rota | Romeo and Juliet | Score | 1968 |
| 84 | Maurice Ravel | 10 | Boléro | 1979 |
| 85 | Philip Glass | The Hours | Score | 2002 |
| 86 | John Barry | Midnight Cowboy | Score | 1969 |
| 87 | Johann Sebastian Bach | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 | 1990 |
| 88 | Howard Shore | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Score | 2012 |
| 89 | James Horner | Titanic | Score | 1997 |
| 90 | Johann Sebastian Bach | Schindler's List | English Suite No. 2 | 1993 |
| 91 | Nigel Westlake | Miss Potter | Score | 2006 |
| 92 | Alfredo Catalani | Diva | "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from La Wally | 1981 |
| 93 | Bernard Herrmann | Vertigo | Score | 1958 |
| 94 | Max Steiner | Casablanca | Score | 1942 |
| 95 | Ralph Vaughan Williams | The Year My Voice Broke | The Lark Ascending | 1987 |
| 96 | John Williams | Jurassic Park | Score | 1993 |
| 97 | Dario Marianelli | Pride & Prejudice | Score | 2005 |
| 98 | Luis Bacalov | Il Postino: The Postman | Score | 1994 |
| 99 | John Williams | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Score | 1982 |
| 100 | George Frideric Handel | Four Weddings and a Funeral | "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" | 1994 |

## Programming

For more information about the works broadcast (including performers and recording details), see ABC Classic FM's programming notes:
* Numbers 100 to 52
* Numbers 51 to 38
* Numbers 37 to 1