2000:

#1 Chicken Run (Powell/Gregson-Williams)
#2 East-West (Doyle)
#3 Sunshine (Jarre)
#4 Dinosaur (Howard)
#5 Gladiator (Zimmer/Gerrard)
#6 The 13th Warrior (Goldsmith)
#7 The Patriot (Williams)
#8 The Legend of Bagger Vance (Portman)
#9 On the Beach (Gordon)
#10 Quills (Warbeck)

2001:

#1 The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Shore)
#2 Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (Goldenthal)
#3 A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Williams)
#4 Enemy at the Gates (Horner)
#5 The Mummy Returns (Silvestri)
#6 Atlantis - The Lost Empire (Howard)
#7 Band of Brothers (Kamen)
#8 Moulin Rouge (Armstrong)
#9 The Tailor of Panama (Davey)
#10 Pearl Harbor (Zimmer)

2002:

#1 The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Shore)
#2 Far from Heaven (Bernstein)
#3 Star Wars - Ep. II: Attack of the Clones (Williams)
#4 Road to Perdition (Newman)
#5 Spirited Away (Hisaishi)
#6 Dinotopia (Jones)
#7 The Hours (Glass)
#8 Frida (Goldenthal)
#9 Treasure Planet (Howard)
#10 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Williams/Ross)

2003:

#1 The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Shore)
#2 The Matrix Revolutions (Davis)
#3 Angels in America (Newman)
#4 Children of Dune (Tyler)
#5 Gods and Generals (Frizzell/Edelman)
#6 Secondhand Lions (Doyle)
#7 The Last Samurai (Zimmer)
#8 Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (Gregson-Williams)
#9 Looney Tunes - Back in Action (Goldsmith)
#10 Johnny English (Shearmur)

2004:

#1 Troy (Yared)
#2 Deep Blue (Fenton)
#3 The Polar Express (Silvestri)
#4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Williams)
#5 The Passion of the Christ (Debney)
#6 Arsène Lupin (Wiseman)
#7 Nouvelle-France (Doyle)
#8 King Arthur (Zimmer)
#9 Two Brothers (Warbeck)
#10 Spider-Man 2 (Elfman)

2005:

#1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Doyle)
#2 Star Wars - Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith (Williams)
#3 Fateless (Morricone)
#4 Soul of the Ultimate Nation (Shore)
#5 Memoirs of a Geisha (Williams)
#6 A History of Violence (Shore)
#7 Nanny McPhee (Doyle)
#8 Howl's Moving Castle (Hisaishi)
#9 Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nott)
#10 The Legend of Zorro (Horner)

2006:

#1 The Nativity Story (Danna)
#2 Eragon (Doyle)
#3 Planet Earth (Fenton)
#4 The Departed (Shore)
#5 The Black Dahlia (Isham)
#6 The Good German (Newman)
#7 Lady in the Water (Howard)
#8 The Queen (Desplat)
#9 Casino Royale (Arnold)
#10 The Da Vinci Code (Zimmer)

2007 (the contenders, or what might look like being contenders, so far):

Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales 1 (Franke)
Beowulf (Silvestri)
Earth (Fenton)
The Golden Age (Armstrong)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Hooper)
The Last Legion (Doyle)
Leningrad (Morricone)
Spider-Man 3 (Young)

Any questions?

CK

quote:

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Originally posted by Camillu:
Isn't there anything from the first 5 months of 2007 that you liked?

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I haven't even heard anything from 2007 so far. Except Spider-Man 3, which I judge as heard in the movie. All the rest is "anticipatory", so to speak.

quote:

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Originally posted by Christian Kühn:
#9 [b]The Tailor of Panama (Davey)
#8 Howl's Moving Castle (Hisaishi)
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Hey Christian, what are these like?

The Davey score I know nothing about.

This year I've only heard a few I'll remember strongly in years to come - so far anyway:
- Zodiac (Shire)
- The Lives of Others (Yared/Moucha)
- Island of Lost Souls (Jane Antonia Cornish)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Zimmer)
- Becoming Jane (Adrian Johnston)
- Planet Earth (Fenton)
- Angel (Rombi)

Meanwhile, these were the ones I really liked in 2006...

- The Queen (Desplat)
- The Painted Veil (Desplat)
- Volver (Iglesias)
- United 93 (Powell)
- The Nativity Story (Danna)
- The Good German (Newman)
- Lady in the Water (Newton Howard)
- La Sconosciuta (Morricone)
- Notes on a Scandal (Glass)
- The Black Dahlia (Isham)
- Charlotte's Web (Elfman)
- Commonwealth Games (Gordon)
- Alatriste (Banos)
- The Departed (Shore)
- Perfume (Tykwer/klimek/Heil)
- The Banquet (Tan Dun)
- Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Beltrami)
- The Illusionist (Philip Glass)

And two cues that stood out from otherwise less interesting works:
- 'Endless Flight' from BABEL
- 'End Titles' from LITTLE CHILDREN

Hey, what the heck, why not have 2005 as well?

- War of the Worlds (Williams)
- Karol un uomo diventato papa (Morricone)
- The Proposition (Cave/Ellis)
- Cefalonia (Morricone)
- Star Wars Episode III (Williams)
- Ladies in Lavender (Hess)
- 2046 (Umebayashi w/ Raben, Delerue, et al)
- The Beautiful Country (Preisner)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Williams)
- Fateless (Morricone)
- The Beat My Heart Skipped (Desplat)
- Hostage (Desplat)
- Kingdom of Heaven (Gregson-Williams)
- Upside of Anger (Desplat)
- Where the Truth Lies (Danna)
- Syriana (Desplat)
- Proof (Warbeck)
- Munich (Williams)
- Pride and Prejudice (Marianelli)
- The Constant Gardener (Iglesias)
- Legend of Zorro (Horner)
- The New World (Horner)
- parts of The Chumscrubber and Batman Begins as well.

And, what the hey, I'll throw in 2004 as well...

- Deep Blue (Fenton)
- Enduring Love (Sams)
- Birth (Desplat)
- Troy (Yared)
- Bad Education (Iglesias)
- Arsene Lupin (Wiseman)
- Kinsey (Burwell)
- The Aviator (Shore)
- The Village (Newton-Howard)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Williams)
- Spartan (Isham)
- Vanity Fair (Danna)
- Incredibles (Giacchino)
- Hellboy (Beltrami)
- The Weeping Meadow (Karaindrou)
- Nouvelle Francais (Doyle)
- La Puta y la Ballena (Goldstein/Tarrab)
- Bourne Supremacy (Powell)
- The Machinist (Banos)
- Spiderman II (Elfman)
- Spanglish (Zimmer)
- Taking Lives (Glass)
- Salem's Lot (Gordon)
- The Terminal (Williams)
- parts of Passion of the Christ (Debney)
I used to like Finding Neverland a lot, but I find it incredibly cheesy now... Weird.

2003...

- Angels in America (Newman)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (Desplat)
- Big Fish (Elfman)
- Return of the King (Shore)
- Cold Mountain (Yared)
- Master and Commander (Gordon/Davies/Tognetti)
- Ripley's Game (Morricone)
- Musashi (Morricone)
- Some who Lived (Goldstein/Tarrab)
- Jeux D'enfants (Rombi)
- Swimming Pool (Rombi)
- Matrix Reloaded (Davis)
- Matrix Revolutions (Davis)
- Gospel of John (Jeff Danna)
- Human Stain (Portman)
- Open Range (Kamen)
- Infernal Affairs II (Chan Kwong Wing)
- SWAT (Goldenthal)
- It's All About Love (Preisner)
- Intolerable Cruelty (Burwell)
- The Missing (Horner)
- Hulk (Elfman)
- The Fog of War (Glass)
- Children of Dune (Tyler)

2002...

- The Dancer Upstairs (Iglesias)
- Talk to Her (Iglesias)
- Far From Heaven (Bernstein)
- Road to Perdition (Newman)
- Nid de Guepes (Desplat)
- La Luz Prodigiosa (Morricone)
- Naqoyqatsi (Glass)
- The Hours (Glass)
- Hero (Tan Dun)
- Blue Planet (Fenton)
- Medal of Honor: Frontline (Giacchino)
- The 25th Hour (Blanchard)
- The Two Towers (Shore)
- Solaris (Martinez)
- Signs (Newton-Howard)
- Frida (Goldenthal)
- The Four Feathers (Horner)
- Unfaithful (Kaczmarek)
- Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones (Williams)
- Antwone Fisher (Danna)
- Ararat (Danna)
- Infernal Affairs (Chan Kwong Wing)
- Femme Fatale (Sakamoto)
- About Schmidt (Kent)
- Max (Dan Jones)
- Dinotopia (Jones)
- Much Ado About Something (Gordon)
- Star Trek: Nemesis (Goldsmith)

2001...

- AI, Artificial Intelligence (Williams)
- Final Fantasy (Goldenthal)
- Fellowship of the Ring (Shore)
- The Caveman's Valentine (Blanchard)
- The Score (Shore)
- Sex and Lucia (Iglesias)
- Canone Inverso (Morricone)
- Shadow of the Vampire (Dan Jones)
- Band of Brothers (Kamen)
- Charlotte Gray (Warbeck)
- Hannibal (Zimmer)
- The Ring (Zimmer)
- Mists of Avalon (Holdridge)
- Black Hawk Down (Zimmer)
- Mulholland Drive (Badalamenti/Lynch)
- Pavillion of Women (Conrad Pope)
- Hearts in Atlantis (Danna)
- When Good Ghouls Go Bad (Gordon)
- The Bank (Alan John)

2000...

- The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms (Kamen)
- Mission to Mars (Morricone)
- Titus (Goldenthal)
- The Yards (Shore)
- The Claim (Nyman)
- All the Pretty Horses (Stuart/Wilkinson/Paxton)
- Playing by Heart (Barry)
- Medal of Honor Underground (Giacchino)
- The Luzhin Defence (Desplat)
- For Love of the Game (Poledouris)
- Unbreakable (Newton-Howard)
- Gladiator (Zimmer)
- The Ninth Gate (Kilar)
- East-West (Doyle)
- Sunshine (Jarre)
- On the Beach (Gordon)
- and one cue in particular from... Chicken Run (Powell/Gregson-Williams)

sorry for my tardy reply.

Davey's The Tailor of Panama is a great little gem, one that too few people know about. It's quite thematic and has a great Middle-American sound to it, which mixes the orchestra with solo instruments and electronics very well. What I like most is a churning ostinato thats present in almost every track.

I'm bad at describing music, and the only review I know that also has sound clips would be the one at Filmtracks (what?): http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/tailor_panama.html

A cross between Under Fire and Shakespare in Love...yep, that's a pretty good description.

Hope that helped!

And...those are some lists!