We cast our vote in the ABC Classic’s 2022 Classic 100: Music for the Screen countdown and we are happy to report that our top vote, John Williams’s music for the Star Wars series, is now officially Australia’s favourite music for the screen!
With over 215,000 votes, this was the biggest countdown yet. The top 100 soundtracks spanned beloved music for film, TV and video games across genres and generations. On the video games music front, Kojo Kondo’s The Legend of Zelda came in at no. 23!
Check out the rest of the interesting statistics from the ABC Classic 2022 Classic 100: Music for the Screen countdown:
- Total votes: 215,486 (the biggest Classic 100 to date!)
- Winner: Star Wars series (John Williams, 1)
- Highest voted standalone film: The Mission (Ennio Morricone, 3)
- Highest voted TV series: Game of Thrones (Ramin Djawadi, 10)
- Highest voted video game: The Legend of Zelda series (Koji Kondo, 23)
- Highest voted animated film: Howl’s Moving Castle (Joe Hisaishi, 21)
- Highest voted female composer: Doctor Who (Delia Derbyshire, 12)
story source: ABC Classic
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