Top Scores 2010: Critic's Choice
This list is the final version and will not be updated. It is based on the following soundtrack review websites: Soundtrack Geek, Soundtrack Magazine, Scorenotes, Filmtracks, Movie Music UK, Scoretrack, Tracksounds, Movie Wave, MainTitles, Cinemusic, Empire Online, Scoremagacine, BSO Spirit, Colonne Sonore, Soundtracks.pl, Filmmusik 2000, Muzyka Filmowa, FSM, ScoreCrave, Film Score Click Track and Gordon And The Whale.
Each score must have at least 3 reviews to be counted and this list doesn't include game scores since reviews are pretty much non-existent. Links to my reviews of the scores will be added when available.
| Rank | Soundtrack | Composer |
| 1 | Doctor Who Series 4: The Specials | Murray Gold |
| 2 | Human Target | Bear McCreary |
| 3 | How To Train Your Dragon | John Powell |
| 4 | The Last Airbender | James Newton Howard |
| 5 | A Single Man | Abel Korzeniowski & Shigeru Umebayashi |
| 6 | Tron: Legacy | Daft Punk |
| 7 | The Road | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis |
| 8 | Black Swan | Clint Mansell |
| 9 | Monsters | Jon Hopkins |
| 10 | The Ghost Writer | Alexandre Desplat |
| 11 | The Karate Kid | James Horner |
| 12 | Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Christophe Beck |
| 13 | Tangled | Alan Menken |
| 14 | The Legend of Silk Boy | Alain Mayrand |
| 15 | Mother and Child | Edward Shearmur |
| 16 | Alice in Wonderland | Danny Elfman |
| 17 | The Wolfman | Danny Elfman |
| 18 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | David Arnold |
| 19 | Inception | Hans Zimmer |
| 20 | The Pacific | Hans Zimmer, Geoff Zanelli & Blake Neely |
| 21 | Supernatural Seasons 1-5 | Christopher Lennertz & Jay Gruska |
| 22 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 | Alexandre Desplat |
| 23 | Shrek Forever After | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| 24 | The King's Speech | Alexandre Desplat |
| 25 | Creation | Christopher Young |
| 26 | Legend of the Guardians | David Hirschfelder |
| 27 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna |
| 28 | Vampires Suck | Christopher Lennertz |
| 29 | Skyline | Matthew Margeson |
| 30 | The Expendables | Brian Tyler |
| 31 | 127 Hours | A.R. Rahman |
| 32 | Never Let Me Go | Rachel Portman |
| 33 | The Losers | John Ottman |
| 34 | The Special Relationship | Alexandre Desplat |
| 35 | Battlestar Galactica: The Plan/Razor | Bear McCreary |
| 36 | Predators | John Debney |
| 37 | Iron Man 2 | John Debney |
| 38 | Daybreakers | Christopher Gordon |
| 39 | Cop Out | Harold Faltermeyer |
| 40 | Leap Year | Randy Edelman |
| 41 | Megamind | Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe |
| 42 | Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang | James Newton Howard |
| 43 | Green Zone | John Powell |
| 44 | Centurion | Ilan Eshkeri |
| 45 | True Grit | Carter Burwell |
| 46 | Buried | Victor Reyes |
| 47 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| 48 | Toy Story 3 | Randy Newman |
| 49 | Piranha 3D | Michael Wandmacher |
| 49 | Flicka 2 | Mark Thomas |
| 50 | The Tempest | Elliot Goldenthal |
| 51 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | Howard Shore |
| 52 | Love Happens | Christopher Young |
| 53 | The Social Network | Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor |
| 54 | The SorcererŐs Apprentice | Trevor Rabin |
| 54 | Edge of Darkness | Howard Shore |
| 56 | The A-Team | Alan Silvestri |
| 57 | Legion | John Frizzell |
| 58 | The Book of Eli | Atticus Ross |
| 59 | Salt | James Newton Howard |
| 60 | Unstoppable | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| 61 | Babies | Bruno Coulais |
| 62 | Let Me In | Michael Giacchino |
| 63 | Clash of the Titans | Ramin Djawadi |
| 64 | Robin Hood | Marc Streitenfeld |
| 65 | Tamara Drewe | Alexandre Desplat |
| 66 | The Tourist | James Newton Howard |
| 67 | 44 Inch Chest | Angelo Badalamaneti |
| 68 | Dinner for Schmucks | Theodore Shapiro |
| 69 | Faster | Clint Mansell |
| 70 | The Town | Harry Gregson-Williams & David Buckley |
| 71 | Armored | John Murphy |
| 72 | Fair Game | John Powell |
| 73 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Steve Jablonsky |
| 74 | Welcome To the Riley's | Marc Streitenfeld |
| 75 | The Crazies | Mark Isham |
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