The ”Best” Film Scores of 2024

Although we're now a couple months into 2025, I finally present you with the "best" film scores of 2024. As usual, there are some very mainstream scores in here that most observers would agree with and there are a few left field choices. If you're a longtime listener, that shouldn't surprise you. As with all of these lists, although I say they're the "best", what I really mean is these are my favorites. Who's to say what's really the best? Surely not me.

If you can't control yourself, look below to see what scores I picked, though you'll miss out on the why of it all. And make sure to check out my conversation with David Rosen (from Piecing It Together) to see what we think are the best film scores of the decade (so far).

• Evil Does Not Exist – Eiko Ishibashi
• Smile 2 – Cristobal Tapia de Veer
• Megalopolis - Osvaldo Golijov
• AGGRO DR1FT – AraabMuzik
• Dune 2 – Hans Zimmer
• The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
• Challengers – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
• Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) - Jerome Rebotier
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - John Paesano
• A Different Man – Umberto Smerilli