LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The American Film Institute has named John William's score for the 1977 "Star Wars" the No. 1 most memorable movie score of all times.
A jury of over 500 film artists, composers, musicians, critics and historians put "Star Wars" at the top of "The Big Picture-AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores" list, revealed Friday night in Los Angeles, the AFI said in a news release.
Max Steiner's score for "Gone With the Wind" was No. 2, followed by Maurie Jarre's score for "Lawrence of Arabia," Bernard Herrman's "Psycho," Nino Rota's score for "The Godfather" and John Williams again for No. 6, "Jaws."
The Top 10 is filled out by David Raskin's score for "Laura," "The Magnificent Seven" score by Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Gold Smith's score for "Chinatown" and "High Noon" by Dimitri Tiomkin.
The list was revealed to a live audience at the Hollywood Bowl as Conductor John Mauceri led the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra through excerpts from each of the winning scores.
