What is the best Jonny Greenwood film score?

Paul Thomas Anderson collaborations make up much of this list, yet the scores written for other directors are no afterthought. Dissonance on one side, lush romance on the other.

1. 1
   We Need to Talk About Kevin

   The unsettling 2011 score for Lynne Ramsay's drama about a mother and her violent son.
   1000pts
2. 2
   There Will Be Blood

   The 2007 score of dissonant strings for Paul Thomas Anderson's oil epic, a landmark of modern film music.
   984pts
3. 3
   The Master

   The 2012 score for Anderson's postwar cult drama, all woozy strings and drifting woodwinds.
   891pts
4. 4
   One Battle After Another

   His propulsive 2025 score for Anderson's revolutionary action thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
   752pts
5. 5
   Bodysong

   Greenwood's 2003 debut score for Simon Pummell's documentary on the human life cycle, mixing jazz, strings and electronics.
   752pts
6. 6
   You Were Never Really Here

   His jagged 2017 electronic-and-strings score for Lynne Ramsay's Joaquin Phoenix thriller.
   495pts
7. 7
   Phantom Thread

   The lush, romantic 2017 score that earned Greenwood his first Oscar nomination.
   495pts
8. 8
   Norwegian Wood

   His 2010 score for Tran Anh Hung's adaptation of the Haruki Murakami novel.
   495pts
9. 9
   The Power of the Dog

   The tense 2021 score for Jane Campion's western, built around a cello played like a banjo, Oscar-nominated.
   0pts
10. 10
    Inherent Vice

    The 2014 score for Anderson's Pynchon adaptation, a hazy 1970s Los Angeles reverie.
    0pts
11. 11
    Spencer

    The 2021 score fusing Baroque chamber music with free jazz for Pablo Larrain's Princess Diana film.
    0pts
12. 12
    Licorice Pizza

    Greenwood's light-touch 2021 original music for Anderson's 1970s San Fernando Valley coming-of-age film.
    0pts

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