Could movies exist without music? No doubt. Hollywood could exist without cocaine and casting couches, too, but it wouldn't be nearly as awesome, would it? This Sunday night, The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will celebrate the songs that made moviegoers feel the cinematic moment. OK, other than "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)," the nominees for Best Original Song are pretty fucking lame this year. Still, that fact doesn't diminish the importance of music in movies, so while the field is weak this year, Complex celebrates the superior sounds of cinema with The 50 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time. Before anyone screams out, "Yo, where da fuck is da Godfather ova heah?!" we're talking strictly songs, no scores (that's another list!). So what takes the prize?





yo March 3rd, 2010 at 09:42 AM
Juno is top 50. Easily. Purple Rain = GOAT.
dylan March 3rd, 2010 at 09:44 AM
you forgot about Space Jam.
ZombieMutantBaby March 3rd, 2010 at 10:36 AM
what was it you said bout scores ?!? @ complex ... nice SCORE tho ...
suckitmarshall March 3rd, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Um, best song "Uptown Anthem"???? FOH. "Know The Ledge" might be the best rap song EVER, let alone on this kinda shitty soundtrack.
/// March 3rd, 2010 at 03:08 PM
the wackness is easily top 5
michael March 3rd, 2010 at 03:24 PM
the only wes anderson movie this ist features is rushmore, and that's at 32? FOH. Tenenbaums is in the top 10. Seu Jorge's Bowie covers for life aquatic deserve a spot as well. His soundtrancks are like art (kudos, music supervisor randal poster).
D Leino March 4th, 2010 at 12:43 AM
No reservoir dogs? no Fast and The Furious? my 2 favourite soundtracks by far.
a. March 4th, 2010 at 07:28 AM
yall had to forget about beaches huh?
ryan March 4th, 2010 at 11:36 AM
c.o.l.o.r.s. by ice t in the movie colors should have been on this list
JasonZ March 4th, 2010 at 01:24 PM
More Than A Game? Drake, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Eminem-Forever? That alone makes it a great soundtrack, but it also has Drop It Low.