Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Best American Film Soundtracks

Now here’s a curious list from Entertainment Weekly magazine. Described as the best American soundtracks it includes music from A Hard Day’s NightOnce Upon a Time in the West, Oliver! and others which are really not American films. It’s good to see some entries here where the film’s not been that well received but the soundtracks are excellent, such as Morricone’s stunning work for The Mission and John Barry’s beautiful score for Out of Africa.

  • 1. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
  • 2. The Sound Of Music (1965)
  • 3. Saturday Night Fever (1997)
  • 4. West Side Story (1961)
  • 5. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
  • 6. Superfly (1972)
  • 7. The Graduate (1967)
  • 8. The Godfather (1972)
  • 9. Purple Rain (1984)
  • 10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • 11. Oklahoma! (1955)
  • 12. The Harder They Come (1973)
  • 13. Psycho (1960)
  • 14. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  • 15. American Graffiti (1973)
  • 16. Vertigo (1958)
  • 17. Trainspotting (1996)
  • 18. My Fair Lady (1964)
  • 19. Gone With The Wind (1939)
  • 20. Mary Poppins (1964)
  • 21. Once Upon A Time In The West (1969)
  • 22. Pat Garret & Billy The Kid (1973)
  • 23. Pinocchio (1940)
  • 24. Goldfinger (1964)
  • 25. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
  • 26. Star Wars (1977)
  • 27. Grease (1978)
  • 28. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • 29. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  • 30. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
  • 31. Easy Rider (1969)
  • 32. Ben-Hur (1959)
  • 33. Help! (1965)
  • 34. Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
  • 35. Performance (1970)
  • 36. The Band Wagon (1953)
  • 37. Chinatown (1974)
  • 38. Cabaret (1972)
  • 39. King Kong (1933)
  • 40. Shaft (1971)
  • 41. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
  • 42. Carousel (1956)
  • 43. The Pink Panther (1964)
  • 44. Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
  • 45. Let It Be (1970)
  • 46. Fantasia (1940)
  • 47. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  • 48. Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
  • 49. The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
  • 50. Oliver! (1968)




  • 51. The Sting (1973)
  • 52. Funny Girl (1968)
  • 53. Jaws (1975)
  • 54. Woodstock (1970)
  • 55. The Music Man (1962)
  • 56. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • 57. Amadeus (1984)
  • 58. The King And I (1956)
  • 59. Beat Street (1984)
  • 60. The Man With The Golden Arm (1955)
  • 61. The Mission (1986)
  • 62. Pretty In Pink (1986)
  • 63. Taxi Driver (1976)
  • 64. The Last Waltz (1978)
  • 65. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
  • 66. Singles (1992)
  • 67. Manhattan (1979)
  • 68. South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut (1999)
  • 69. Magnolia (1999)
  • 70. Spartacus (1960)
  • 71. Pump Up The Volume (1971)
  • 72. Ragtime (1981)
  • 73. Tommy (1975)
  • 74. The Moderns (1988)
  • 75. Repo Man (1984)
  • 76. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  • 77. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
  • 78. Out Of Africa (1985)
  • 79. Stop Making Sense (1984)
  • 80. Beauty And The Beast (1991)
  • 81. Local Hero (1983)
  • 82. Do The Right Thing (1989)
  • 83. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  • 84. Rushmore (1998)
  • 85. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1984)
  • 86. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • 87. The Long Riders (1980)
  • 88. Waiting To Exhale (1995)
  • 89. Jackie Brown (1997)
  • 90. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
  • 91. Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2001)
  • 92. The Piano (1993)
  • 93. The Virgin Suicides (2000)
  • 94. Planet Of The Apes (1968)
  • 95. Good Will Hunting (1997)
  • 96. Above The Rim (1994)
  • 97. Nashville (1975)
  • 98. Beetlejuice (1988)
  • 99. One From The Heart (1982)
  • 100. Blue Velvet (1986)

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