| — |  ▶ | Star Wars Main TitleJohn Williams, 1977. The fanfare that brought full orchestras back to Hollywood | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Imperial MarchJohn Williams, 1980. A villain's theme so good the villain became the brand | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | JawsJohn Williams, 1975. Two notes. Spielberg thought it was a joke at first | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Raiders MarchJohn Williams, 1981. Adventure, scored as a brass section running downhill | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Jurassic ParkJohn Williams, 1993. Awe written before the dinosaurs were finished rendering | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Flying ThemeJohn Williams, 1982. The bike leaves the ground exactly on the downbeat | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Schindler's ListJohn Williams, 1993. Itzhak Perlman's violin, recorded in one long take | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Hedwig's ThemeJohn Williams, 2001. A celesta melody that outlasted eight films and a franchise | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Superman MarchJohn Williams, 1978. The march that taught audiences a man could fly | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Godfather WaltzNino Rota, 1972. A lone trumpet, then a waltz nobody wants to dance | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | HalloweenJohn Carpenter, 1978. Written by the director in 5/4 because he had no money | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Tubular BellsMike Oldfield, 1973. A prog rock album that became the sound of possession | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Gonna Fly NowBill Conti, 1976. The reason people run up stairs badly | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Chariots of FireVangelis, 1981. Synthesizers scoring a period film, which nobody had done | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Ecstasy of GoldEnnio Morricone, 1966. A soprano over a man sprinting through a graveyard | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Good, the Bad and the UglyEnnio Morricone, 1966. Coyote howls performed by human voices | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Once Upon a Time in the WestEnnio Morricone, 1968. Written before shooting, played on set for the actors | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | He's a PirateKlaus Badelt, 2003. Zimmer's team wrote the whole score in a week | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | TimeHans Zimmer, 2010. Four chords stretched across a film about stretched time | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Cornfield ChaseHans Zimmer, 2014. A church organ, arpeggiating a truck through corn | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Now We Are FreeHans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard, 2000. Sung in a language Gerrard invented as a child | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Why So Serious?Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard, 2008. A razor blade dragged across cello strings | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Concerning HobbitsHoward Shore, 2001. A fiddle tune that makes a place feel worth defending | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | BraveheartJames Horner, 1995. Bagpipes replaced by a solo oboe, which hurts more | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Forrest Gump Feather ThemeAlan Silvestri, 1994. Piano following a feather that has nowhere to be | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The AvengersAlan Silvestri, 2012. The one Marvel theme anybody can actually hum | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | James Bond ThemeMonty Norman, 1962. A surf guitar riff that survived six decades of lawsuits | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Pink PantherHenry Mancini, 1963. Tenor sax written for a cartoon that had not been drawn | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Blade RunnerVangelis, 1982. Synth brass over a city that never stops raining | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Terminator 2Brad Fiedel, 1991. Metal struck on tape, in a limping 13/16 | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Lux AeternaClint Mansell, 2000. Kronos Quartet strings, later stolen by every trailer | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Comptine d'un autre étéYann Tiersen, 2001. Written years before the film, borrowed for one girl in Paris | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Mia & Sebastian's ThemeJustin Hurwitz, 2016. Piano that keeps promising the ending it does not give | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | WakandaLudwig Göransson, 2018. Recorded in Senegal and South Africa before a note was written | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Can You Hear the MusicLudwig Göransson, 2023. Strings accelerating past the point of comfort | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Married LifeMichael Giacchino, 2009. A whole marriage in four minutes, no dialogue | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Test DriveJohn Powell, 2010. Flight scored by a Scottish snare and a rising choir | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Mr. MoustafaAlexandre Desplat, 2014. Balalaikas playing a memory of a hotel | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | PsychoBernard Herrmann, 1960. Strings only, because the studio cut his budget | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Lawrence of ArabiaMaurice Jarre, 1962. Written in six weeks by the third composer they asked | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Top Gun AnthemHarold Faltermeyer, 1986. Synth pads, then Steve Stevens' guitar lands | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Magnificent SevenElmer Bernstein, 1960. So American it was later sold to sell cigarettes | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Axel FHarold Faltermeyer, 1984. A synth riff cut in a day, number one in nine countries | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Gabriel's OboeEnnio Morricone, 1986. A missionary plays a reed instrument at the people about to kill him | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Cinema ParadisoEnnio Morricone, 1988. Written with his son, for a film about loving films | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Paul's DreamHans Zimmer, 2021. Bagpipes, throat singing, and a voice choir built for a desert | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Ice DanceDanny Elfman, 1990. A choir singing over snow made by a man with scissors | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The BatmanMichael Giacchino, 2022. Four notes repeated until they sound like a threat | — win | — match wins |