# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published October 29, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-jonny-greenwood-film-score*

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1. **We Need to Talk About Kevin** — score 1000/1000
   The unsettling 2011 score for Lynne Ramsay's drama about a mother and her violent son.
2. **There Will Be Blood** — score 984/1000
   The 2007 score of dissonant strings for Paul Thomas Anderson's oil epic, a landmark of modern film music.
3. **The Master** — score 891/1000
   The 2012 score for Anderson's postwar cult drama, all woozy strings and drifting woodwinds.
4. **One Battle After Another** — score 752/1000
   His propulsive 2025 score for Anderson's revolutionary action thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
5. **Bodysong** — score 752/1000
   Greenwood's 2003 debut score for Simon Pummell's documentary on the human life cycle, mixing jazz, strings and electronics.
6. **You Were Never Really Here** — score 495/1000
   His jagged 2017 electronic-and-strings score for Lynne Ramsay's Joaquin Phoenix thriller.
7. **Phantom Thread** — score 495/1000
   The lush, romantic 2017 score that earned Greenwood his first Oscar nomination.
8. **Norwegian Wood** — score 495/1000
   His 2010 score for Tran Anh Hung's adaptation of the Haruki Murakami novel.
9. **The Power of the Dog** — score 0/1000
   The tense 2021 score for Jane Campion's western, built around a cello played like a banjo, Oscar-nominated.
10. **Inherent Vice** — score 0/1000
   The 2014 score for Anderson's Pynchon adaptation, a hazy 1970s Los Angeles reverie.
11. **Spencer** — score 0/1000
   The 2021 score fusing Baroque chamber music with free jazz for Pablo Larrain's Princess Diana film.
12. **Licorice Pizza** — score 0/1000
   Greenwood's light-touch 2021 original music for Anderson's 1970s San Fernando Valley coming-of-age film.

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