I’m gonna start my coverage of the best that the movies had to offer this decade although I don’t think I’ll have a list of my favorites of the decade that I can stand by until March at the earliest, especially since I have to do a 2019 lists first. But I’m gonna start now with genre or category-specific lists to not just dump everything at once.
Today, we are starting with the following music-specific categories: Best Musical, Score, and Songs Written for Motion Pictures.
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In terms of cinema, what will 2009 be remembered as? There are many possiblities, but it is kind of hard to tell right now. One such possibility is that it will be remembered as the year of the woman, as many are already calling it. And yes, there have been many instances that can help it be looked back as such. The biggest one, is the fact that Kathryn Bigelow made history by being the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker and to be the first woman to direct a Best Picture winner, both being very deserved. Then there are the box office stories. Sandra Bullock had two box office hits in 2009: The Proposal and The Blind Side, with the latter being the first movie to cross the 200 million dollar mark with a woman getting sole billing on the posters. Meanwhile, Meryl Streep showed with Julie & Julia and It’s Complicated that actresses don’t have to be young to drive movies towards making more than 100 million dollars. Also, both of those movies were written and directed by women. Then there are the not-so-financially-successful but acclaimed movies that were focused on female character and/or were made by women such as An Education, Precious, Julia, Drag Me to Hell, and others.
A music score can sometimes make or break a movie. It can make it by supporting the story of the film and making us feel what the character are feeling. It can break it by being overpowering and distracting the audience from the screen or for feeling out of place.
There are times when the music not only aids the movie, but also stands on it’s own as something you can listen to often and bring back what you felt during the movie. That is what all the scores in this list have in common. These are the scores that not only sound fantastic, but also made me feel something and made me remember them long after the movie was over
Here are my top 10 scores of the decade:
(click on the links to listen to my favorite track from each score)
A Journey Through Cinematic Heaven and Hell 