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The fact that How to Train Your Dragon is only an honorable mention is…a choice.

Shame on you for not making HTTYD number 1 The music made that trilogy FLAWLESS!

Alan Menken and Hans Zimmer went hard for the scores to Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt and we're all very grateful. The Pocahontas score is so memorable to me even as a kid watching it, I just get chills especially in the ending scene. Add Stephen Schwartz to the mix of these two composers and you get MAGIC!

How is How to Train Your Dragon only an honorable mention???

Let's just say that any animated movie that has Hans Zimmer in the composer (Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, The Lion King and many more) has the best score in animated movies. Just by the thumbnail alone, I knew Hans would be number one, this man can do no wrong 👍

Thomas Newman’s score for Finding Nemo is a noteworthy choice. The score makes you feel like you’re in the underwater world that is both beautiful and dangerous.

While not as popular as some of these other movies, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron had an amazing score, and for a movie with a main character who DIDNT talk, the music was a nice compliment and did amazing with portraying his emotions through music and narration. It also had the amazing talent of Hans Zimmer and Bryan Adams.

This honestly should be a top 20 since there are so many good ones. John Powell doing the How to Train Your Dragon soundtrack and Michael Giacchino for The Incredibles are among my favorites. Powell for httyd absolutely killed it. Forbidden Friendship will forever be one of the greatest scores in animated movies

How is Pixar's Up not on this list? The music brilliantly depicted the life-long love story of Ellie and Carl within minutes. Also, Hercules?!? You hear the trumpets at the beginning of "Go the Distance" and it give you chills. If you have been to Disney world, that some is a staple in the fireworks and just fills you with hope. Finally, Huchback of Notre Dame should also be on the list.

How is HTTYD only an honorable mention? It's often cited as one of the best written movie scores of all time!

Can we talk about Spirit Stallion of the Cimmaron tho, every single song in that soundtrack is FLAWLESS

Hans Zimmer's score on The Lion King is truly fantastic! It can really show how much work he has put to make this movie a masterpiece. It also shows the emotion how we can feel during the scene of Mufasa's death. We get to feel the loss of a father just as how Hans Zimmer felt. Truly emotional!

Can't believe there's no love for Jerry Goldsmith's score for Mulan. That haircut scene? That avalanche scene? His theme for the Huns? It was so good it got an Oscar nomination too!

My favorite composers are Michael Giacchino, The Newman Cousins, Alan Menkin, John Powell, Hans Zimmer, John Williams and Danny Elfman

I'm so happy that *BRAVE* made the list, it's such a beautiful score! I listen to it daily as a way of relaxing, and just to cheer me up when I'm sad. For me it's just one of those score's that you listen to and you play the film in your head as its playing.

IT IS A COMPLETE AN UTTER *CRIME* YOU DIDNT INCLUDE THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME'S SOUNDTRACK ON THIS LIST. To this day, it still gives me goosebumps!

The hunchback of Notre Dame deserve to be at least in the special mentions

One of the greatest musical scores for an animated movie are in my opinion are The Land Before Time from the late James Horner, Inside Out from Michael Giacchino and the underrated Batman: Mask of the Phantasm from Shirley Walker. They're epic, emotional and were robbed for an Academy Award. Truly beautiful and worth hearing.

I'm a huge fan of Hans Zimmer, love his work. Just love how talented he is when it comes to music. I love Joe Hisashi, soundtracks, how beautiful they are from most of the Ghibli films directed by Hayao Miyazaki like the Wind Rise, Spirited away, Princess Mononoke and more.

Speaking of game-changer, Don Bluth's animated film The Secret of N.I.M.H. is also one because it was the first animated film scored by Jerry Goldsmith. And he was the first composer to score an animation as if it were a live action film, that is to say, to eschew the Mickey Mousing that had traditionally accompanied these things and rely instead on giving the picture a real dramatic core. The approach was, of course, brilliant, and that's the way that most animated films are being scored to this day.

Anything composed by Alan Menken is amazing!!

Ahh, I was praying that HTTYD would be number one. John Powell created multiple masterpieces.

I never thought I would say this but Hans Zimmer always does an amazing job in composing music scores in both Live Action and Animated films. That's pretty awesome, good job Hans!

The Lion King is known as the best animated movie of Disney and the score is one of the reasons

Imagine making an animated movie and have Hans Zimmer, Sir Elton John and Tim Rice to make the music. That's the beauty of The Lion King

Agree with the Lion King. The soundtrack was a big part for me when growing up, I remember I had it on cassette tape. "Under the Stars" is probably my favorite. Alan Menken is brilliant as well.

httyd should be way higher than just a notable mention. I mean let's be honest

Why wasn't the Spirit: Stallion of The Cimmaron sountrack included?

Alan Meknen's score for the hunchback of Notre Dame is my favorite. It's thrilling listening to church piano inside the soundtrack.

I'd add, at least as an honorable mention, The Little Mermaid. The music put you there, and I would argue neither Beauty and the Beast nor The Lion King would have happened without it.

Hans Zimmer is one of my favorite film composers while everyone likes "The Lion King" but to me I always LOVED "The Prince Of Egypt" as his greatest scores soundtrack.

Thank you for putting The Prince of Egypt on this list, I love its music! Wish The Book of Life and Coco made the top 10, though.

Hans Zimmer Lion King is a masterpiece and I love every musical score that in it. The movie wouldn’t have been the same without Hans Zimmer composing for the movie

I would have been very upset if Hisaishi wasn't on the list. His music is always so haunting and stays with you long after the credits roll. My favorites are actually "Princess Mononoke" and "Castle in the Sky." The first movie that made me want to buy the soundtrack because of the score, though, was "Mulan." I just love its music. Jerry Goldsmith did it very well.

Hans Zimmer is my favorite music composer in animated films! His take on a great many of his contributions are nothing short of grand and epic proportions. The greatest example is The Lion King with its African influence and engaging musical segments.

How did Dinosaur's score not make this list. That's one of my favorite James Newton Howard Scores

I feel like James Newton Howard’s various Disney animated scores deserve a mention: Atlantis (“The Submarine”), Treasure Planet (“Silver Comforts Jim”) and Raya and the Last Dragon (“Running on Raindrops”) all stand as some of his best work. And How to Train Your Dragon deserved far more than an honorable mention. It’s easily one of the best musical scores ever written.

Po, a cartoon bear who makes people laugh and cry, but mostly laugh and amazed.

Not even an honorable mention for The Hunchback or Notredame! Absurd!!! The best animated score in my oppinion.

I absolutely LOVE the music in Spirited Away.

James Newton Howard when he orchestrated Disney’s Dinosaur (whether or not it’s animated): The Egg Travels is an emotional track and somewhat brings a tear to one’s eye. Atlantis: The Lost Empire is another good example. The Crystal Chamber is my favorite one: when Princess Kida walks towards the crystal, the music in the background is uplifting, dramatic and majestic with a heavy choir. James Newton Howard is one of the greatest movie composers of all time, second to Hans Zimmer. There’re those composers out their who make themes so majestic it would make the listener cry (for joy or sadness).

I find the lack of Mulan disturbing. That score was EPIC. Also Treasure Planet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis, all three of the Cartoon Saloon movies - hell, you should make a Top 20 list and then some.

Anybody else shocked that How to Train Your Dragon didn't even make the actual list?

How is How to Train Your Dragon is in Honorable mentions only??? I know it's a tough competition with Lion King (no. 1 totally deserved) but he should be in first three - I always get teary eyed when I listen to the Forbidden Friendship track. And Ratatouille should be in the list - you can literally hear Paris in the score. I adore Zimmer's score in Kung Fu Panda, Giacchino' Incredibles, and songs from Road to El Dorado - Elton John rocks!

When will you do Top 21 best animated movie villains of each year (2000-2021)?

This should have been a top 20, since you left many other scores (Up, Soul, Howl's Moving Castle...)

As much as I do agree with the list, these are my top 10 Chicken Run from Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell The Incredibles from Michael Giacchino Finding Nemo from Thomas Newman (though Wall-E is close) The Prince of Egypt from Hans Zimmer An American Tale from James Horner Coralline from Bruno Coulais Corpse Bride from Danny Elfman Up from Michael Giacchino Star Chaser from Andrew Belling Spider-Man into the Spiderverse from Daniel Pemberton I know some are stop and claymation but I still count them as a form of animation.

My top scores for sure are Lion King, Beauty & The Beast and Spirited Away... just hearing the music transports me into those movies. Spirited Away in particular is the immersive experience it is in a large part thanks to the score

Quite disappointed that you haven't listed How to Train Your Dragon on the list, they are amazing and beautiful it makes me cry just hearing the soundtracks.

Love these! Do a top 10 Thomas Newman's scores!

The Lion King wouldn’t be this amazing if it wasn’t for Hans Zimmer, Sir Elton John, and Tim Rice.

Finding Nemo and Ratatouille are masterclasses in emotion, just wonderful pieces. Love this list.

That’s amazing!

I adore the soundtrack from "Tangled" and I feel like it is ignored! The music is breathtaking and emotional and just beautiful. I agree with others that "Up" and "In and Out" should be on this list, and that "How to Train Your Dragon" definitely should have been more than an honorable mention. Thank you, though, for such a great list! There are a few that I'm not as familiar with and would like to explore more.

I love film scores they’re really amazing I went and saw spirited away with my boyfriend yesterday and the score to it is really awesome. Joe hishishi work on that is super intense I love his work that he did on other films that I’ve watched like Ponyo and my neighbor Totoro my favorite film score would have to be the lion King honestly I went for my phase of listening to the soundtrack to that and also like in the movie and I still love that movie today you guys should talk about top 10 video game Composer‘s on your next list which would be really cool

Also James Horner's efforts for the Don Bluth animated films should also deserve some mention: The Land Before Time An American Tail An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West

Flawless film scores missing from this list: - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas by Harry Gregson-Williams - Atlantis: The Lost Empire by James Newton Howard - The Nightmare Before Christmas by Danny Elfman - The Land Before Time by James Horner - Beauty & the Beast by Alan Menken (if Zimmer can have multiple entries on this list, why Menken can't?) - Although How to Train Your Dragon by Powell recieved an 'Honorable mention', it is amongst the best

Hans Zimmer is definitely one of the best. My fav (which I was hoping to see/hear) is the score from Kung Fu Panda 2 during the fight with Shen.

Dan Romer with the Luca score is super underrated. Take me gravity gets me motivated.

Between Lion King, Finding Nemo & Beauty & the Beast, they all have the best scores of the whole animation industry.

The music scores in these animated films are all absolute masterpiece! the composers are just genius!!!

The first movie my son saw in a theater was How to Train Your Dragon. It's perfect! Funny, moving, inspiring, and the music still can make my heart ache, bring me to tears, and give me goosebumps. My son, who is now 16 years old, said someone had to be soulless to not include the score from How to Train Your Dragon in the top five. Personally, I think you need to reconsider...for the sake of your soul. Thank you.

Lion king and the Prince of Egypt, you can't get better than that. P.S I'm glad you mentioned How To Train Your Dragon. That music is EPIC.

I think Madagascar 3 deserves atleast an honourable mention. The way Hans Zimmer made Dubois theme song was just so scary, it's like the villain is absolutely a death threat for the characters and for the audience. Also I know this isn't part of the composing work but it's still a music anyway, Frances McDormand's singing in that movie was absolutely perfect. Till this day I still can't believe that a movie like Madagascar can get a high class composer like Hans Zimmer to make it

Very very great epic list I like it a lot very great job mis mojo one of my absolute favorite list ever 💗

I was hoping to see Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron on here. At least an honorable mention

WatchMojo Top 10 Best Voice Celebrity score video on the top and this MsMojo video below it proves it I'm a big fan lol.

One of my favourites is the score and soundtrack of Wolf Walkers. Great movie and great music.

Top 3 (In my opinion): 1. Finding Nemo 2. Kung Fu Panda 3. The Lion King According to how long it took me to comment, this was the toughest choice EVER! I had six movies to choose because their music so God damn good, it was so difficult to decide, and I apologize for the long wait. This is where I finally made my choice, both Finding Nemo and Kung Fu Panda are the best scores I've ever heard but the reason I put Finding Nemo at the top spot was it was so calm and relaxing, the smooth music was so powerful, I loved it better than the Chinese music in Kung Fu Panda, even though their music was unbelievably outstanding. I would say the music is best used with violins, flutes and of course pianos. The lion King also was worthy enough to take the last spot because it so catchy and amazing with its African music, it is definitely worth listening to over and over again, however, the reason I lower it down on this list, and that goes with other movies on this list, was because some music was used in songs, I am judging this based on their musical soundtrack or background. And there you have it, and like it was so difficult, it messed up my mind. Can you guys figure out what other movies I had in my mind? I'll give a hint: it has a connection with one or more of these movies on my list. Let me know. :)

Thanks!

I did not just see How to Train Your Dragon in HONOURABLE MENTIONS

HANS ZIMMER IS A KING AND WE ALL KNOW IT... such a treasure. I am proud to say he was my 1st concert experience ever in Sydney 2019!

The Lion King is great, don't get me wrong, but HTTYD and The Prince of Egypt just make me feel so many emotions 🥲 True masterpieces.

No love for AKIRA? Come on, that soundtrack was easily one of the best of any movie!

Sooo animated movies have good music.

How To Train Your Dragon ONLY AN HONORABLE MENTION!? Should have been at least #2

how can you not nominate UP!!!! that movies music is sooooo sooooooo soothing!!!!

The Angry Birds movie 2 soundtrack is pretty awesome, in my opinion. Especially tracks like Submarine and Up to Speed.

So many good movies

It is an absolute crime that How to Train Your Dragon is an HONORABLE MENTION. That is one of my favorite movie scores of all time. This list is filled with some amazing composers, most of which are my favorite, but the fact that HTTYD didn't even MAKE the list... I am upset.

1. The Little Mermaid 2. The Lion King 3. Pocahontas 4. Hercules 5. Tarzan 6. Tangled 7. Frozen 8. Frozen 2 9. Prince of Egypt 10. Joseph King of Dreams

I know its very classic orchestral arrangement but James horners land before time score is amazing and deserves at least a top 20 spot.

How to train your dragon is only an honorable mention, one dislike coming up

Pocahontas being on this list is an actual insult, and leaving hunchback and how to train your dragon 1,2, and 3 off is just plain wrong.

The Nightmare Before Christmas - Danny Elfman

It’s a CRIME that How to Train Your Dragon is only an honorable mention

SPIRIT- Im Free

The fact that neither Up nor Inside Out made the list is a crime. I get that only ten spots are available, but they’re some of the most emotional and powerful scores in any animated movie and deserved at the very least an honorable mention

I feel like Inside Out should have made the list, The music in that movie really adds so much Emotion (pun intended) to the movie and it’s very pretty music! Good list though ^^

I love music from James Horner and Steve Vinwood for Balto.

was this top for me? cause i saw that " Lion king" was at #1 and that's one of my three favorite disney movies of all time! anywho, happy wednesday Ms Mojo, and take care, God bless you and i hope to see you soon for more tops like this one, greetings from Colombia.

Chicken Run - John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams Dinosaur and Atlantis. The Lost Empire - James Newton Howard The Secret of NIMH and Mulan - Jerry Goldsmith The Black Cauldron - Elmer Bernstein An American Tail and The Land Before Time - James Horner Tarzan - Mark Mancina Bambi - Frank Churchill and Ed Plumb Pinocchio - Paul Smith and Leigh Harline All of Alan Menken's scores in the movies of the Disney Renaissance Anastasia - David Newman The Rescuers Down Under - Bruce Broughton The Iron Giant - Michael Kamen Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Joe Hisaishi

I'm so glad Kung Fu Panda is on here, I love the music in that trilogy! It's so underrated! How is How To Train Your Dragon, not on this list!? I thought it would be number 1! It's a lot better than Pocahontas!

amazing how watch and ms mojo post videos with kung fu panda in the thumbnail 😁

I was very shocked that HTTYD was only an honorable mention....

Oh, and I forgot to mention, that I ADORE the music from Wall-e. Thomas Newman is a genius! Definitely would be in my top 10.

Happy day of the Dead msmojo

I would like to go 5 minutes, just once, talking about Pocahontas without bringing up its historical inaccuracies. It's gotten too much hate for it.

This could've been and should've been a top 15 with the honorable mentions that were in here.