Spine-tingling movie scores

▼ ROCKY

Need some motivational music for a TV commercial or sports event? Chances are you’ll use Bill Conti’s famous score.

▼ JAWS

Never has anticipated dread been captured more perfectly than in John Williams’ two-note shark theme.

▼ THE GODFATHER

Francis Ford Coppola hired Italian composer Nino Rota and felt the result gave the film even more of an Italian feel.

▼ GONE WITH THE WIND

99 separate pieces of music feature in the score by Max Steiner.

▼ A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS

Ennio Morricone and westerns go hand in hand, but never more so than with the theme song here.

▼ PSYCHO

Bernard Herrmann’s string orchestra produces perhaps the most famous piece of music in all of film – the shower scene.

▼ SUPERMAN

John Williams used the London Symphony Orchestra and bagged an Oscar nomination.

▼ CHARIOTS OF THE FIRE

Greek-born electronic composer Vangelis wrote a contemporary score for the period film.

▼ TAXI DRIVER

Bernard Herrmann contrasted sleazy noises with the saxophone and jazz.

▼ THE OMEN

Legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith won his only Oscar for the 1976 horror, which featured a choral segment with foreboding Latin chant.