Top 20 Film Scores of 2025

It’s that time of the year again, while the music album scene of 2025 isn’t as strong as 2024—but then again, high bar—television wise, we’re on a steady decline since the end of Succession—by that, I mean the lion share of TV shows are simply deteriorating the medium, not to mention, Fielder and Robinson single handedly keeping the flagship of Television, HBO afloat—and arguably though not even close to the 2023 in terms of strength and variety, 2025 is a slightly better year than 2024 in terms of movies, spectrum-wise, some big disappointments, higher highs, some pleasant surprises and what have you. However, even if the music in the films mentioned below might not be in perfect sync with the images, they are noteworthy nonetheless.

So, without any further ado, here are the top 20 film scores of 2025:

Honorable Mentions: Sorry, Baby (Lia Ouyang Rusli); Wake Up Dead Man (Nathan Johnson); Predator: Badlands (Schachner & Wallfisch); The Roses (Theodore Shapiro); Materialists (Daniel Pemberton); Weapons (Ryan Holladay); The Phoenician Scheme (Alexandre Desplat)

20) “Thunderbolts*” – Son Lux

Key Tracks: “It’s Bucky”, “Thunderbolts*”, “There’s Something Wrong With Me”

19) “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning” – Max Aruj, Alfie Godfrey

Key Tracks: “A Light We Cannot See”, “Ascending”, “Come Home Ethan”, “Sacrifice Teaser”

18) “Mickey 17” – Jung Jaeil

Key Tracks: “Immigrant”, “Nasha”, “Arrival”, “Bon Appetit With Strings”, “Mayhem”, “Corridor of Love”

17) Avatar: Fire and Ash – Simon Franglen

Key Tracks: “Caravan At Night”, “Lo;ak”, “The Windtraders”

16) Eddington – Daniel Pemberton, Bobby Krlic

Key Tracks: “Bedtime”, “Butterfly Pursuit”, “No Justice No Peace”, “Distrubing The Peace”

15) The Smashing Machine – Nala Sinephro

Key tracks: “The Prix”, “Smashing Machine”, “The High”

14) The Shrouds – Howard Shore

Key Tracks: “Fluid of Grief”, “Gravetech”, “Wrapped in a Shroud”, “The Shrouds”

13) Black Bag – David Holmes

Key Tracks: “Black Bag”, “Zurich”, “Would you kill for me George”

12) Happyend – Lia Ouyang Rusli

Key Tracks: “LOVE (V1)”, “LOVE (V2)”, “Happyend Theme”

11) TRON: Ares – Nine Inch Nails

Key Tracks: “Still Remains”, “Who Wants To Live Forever”, “As Alive As You Need Me To Be”, “Forked Reality”, “Echoes”

10) “The Fantastic 4: First Steps” – Michael Giacchino

Key Tracks: “Out to Launch”, “A Galactus Case of the Munchies”, “F4, First Cue”, “Tripping the Lights Fantastic”

9) Train Dreams – Bryce Dessner

Key Tracks: “Passageways I & II”, “Home”, “The Cut”, “Voices in the Trees”

8) Jay Kelly – Nicholas Britell

Key Tracks: “The Chase”, “Searching For Daisy”, “Do You Remember This Like I Do?”, “Jay and Ron”, “Here In Italy”, “To Paris – Fanfare”

7) No Other Choice – Cho Young-Wuk

Cho’s Score—not yet released—combined with the film’s use of classical music and banger needle drops, provides a perfect sonic range for the narrative to unravel with the tone that it does

6) Marty Supreme – Daniel Lopatin

Key Tracks: “The Call”, “Marty’s Dream”, “The Apple”, “Endo’s Game”, “Holocaust Honey”, “Hoff’s”, “Vampire’s Castle”, “End Credits”

5) Resurrection: M83

Key Tracks: “Resurrection”, “Sullen Passage”

4) 28 Years Later – Young Fathers

Key Tracks: “Boots”, “Alpha”, “Mania”, “Remember”, “Pals”

3) Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix

Key Tracks: “CCD”, “Tell Teddy I’m Sorry”, “Resurrectionem”, “Star Saliva/ Industry”, “Grand Tango”, “Saliva Antifreeze”

2) Sinners – Ludwig Göransson

Key Tracks: “Why You Here/Before The Sun Went Down”, “Smokestack Twins”, “Together Forever”, “(Delta) Slim’s Patch”, “Hole Up ‘Til Sunrise”

1) One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood

Key Tracks: “One Battle After Another”, “Baby Charlene”, “Trust Device”, “The French 75”, “Perfidia Beverly Hills”, “River of Hills”

Thanks for reading this article on the top 20 film scores of 2025! If you haven’t already, here is the 2024 list of the top 10 film scores. For more, stay tuned here at Feature First.