Top Scores 2008: 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, Music From The Movies, Tracksounds, Soundtracknet, IGN Music, Movie Wave, MainTitles, Score Blog, Org Scores, BSO Spirit, Scoremagacine, CineYBso, Colonne Sonore, Soundtracks.pl, Filmmusik 2000, Cinemascope, Muzyka Filmowa, FSM and Soundtracks Reviewed.
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.
| Rank | Soundtrack | Composer |
| 1 | Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea | Joe Hisaishi |
| 2 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Alexandre Desplat |
| 3 | Let The Right One In | Johan Soderqvist |
| 4 | Slumdog Millionaire | A.R. Rahman |
| 5 | Revolutionary Road | Thomas Newman |
| 6 | City of Ember | Andrew Lockington |
| 7 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | John Williams |
| 8 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | James Horner |
| 9 | Defiance | James Newton Howard |
| 10 | Wanted | Danny Elfman |
| 11 | Tropic Thunder | Theodore Shapiro |
| 12 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Andrew Lockington |
| 13 | Wall-E | Thomas Newman |
| 14 | I Am Legend | James Newton Howard |
| 15 | The Incredible Hulk | Craig Armstrong |
| 16 | Surf's Up | Mychael Danna |
| 17 | The Boy in Striped Pajamas | James Horner |
| 18 | Speed Racer | Michael Giacchino |
| 19 | Bolt | John Powell |
| 20 | The Bucket List | Marc Shaiman |
| 21 | Milk | Danny Elfman |
| 22 | The Reader | Nico Muhly |
| 23 | Che | Alberto Iglesias |
| 24 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| 25 | Frost/Nixon | Hans Zimmer |
| 26 | Bangkok Dangerous | Brian Tyler |
| 27 | The Forbidden Kingdom | David Buckley |
| 28 | The Dark Knight | Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard |
| 29 | Max Payne | Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders |
| 30 | Quantum of Solace | David Arnold |
| 31 | The Other Boleyn Girl | Paul Cantelon |
| 32 | Passengers | Edward Shearmur |
| 33 | American Gangster | Marc Streitenfeld |
| 34 | Hancock | John Powell |
| 35 | Kung Fu Panda | Hans Zimmer & John Powell |
| 36 | Babylon A.D. | Atli Orvarsson |
| 37 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Danny Elfman |
| 38 | Untraceable | Christopher Young |
| 39 | The Express | Mark Isham |
| 40 | 10,000 B.C. | Harald Kloser & Thomas Wander |
| 41 | The Happening | James Newton Howard |
| 42 | Rambo | Brian Tyler |
| 43 | Horton Hears a Who! | John Powell |
| 44 | The Duchess | Rachel Portman |
| 45 | Valkyrie | John Ottman |
| 46 | Appaloosa | Jeff Beal |
| 47 | Nim's Island | Patrick Doyle |
| 48 | The Great Debaters | James Newton Howard & Peter Golub |
| 49 | Eagle Eye | Brian Tyler |
| 50 | Stop-Loss | John Powell |
| 51 | The Spirit | David Newman |
| 52 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Randy Edelman |
| 53 | The Life Before Her Eyes | James Horner |
| 54 | In Bruges | Carter Burwell |
| 55 | Get Smart | Trevor Rabin |
| 56 | Leatherheads | Randy Newman |
| 57 | Doomsday | Tyler Bates |
| 58 | Burn After Reading | Carter Burwell |
| 59 | Meet Dave | John Debney |
| 60 | Fool's Gold | George Fenton |
| 61 | The X-Files: I Want To Believe | Mark Snow |
| 62 | Sleepwalking | Christopher Young |
| 63 | Death Race | Paul Haslinger |
| 64 | Vantage Point | Atli Orvarsson |
| 65 | Changeling | Clint Eastwood |
| 66 | Marley & Me | Theodore Shapiro |
| 67 | 27 Dresses | Randy Edelman |
| 68 | Mirrors | Javier Navarrete |
| 69 | Jumper | John Powell |
| 70 | Iron Man | Ramin Djawadi |
| 81 | Sex and the City | Aaron Zigman |
| 82 | Twilight | Carter Burwell |
| 83 | Body of Lies | Marc Streitenfeld |
| 84 | The Day The Earth Stood Still | Tyler Bates |
| 85 | The Mist | Mark Isham |
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