I'm curious what film+tv/classical composers the video game music fans here fancy?

Film: John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, & Basil Poledouris
TV: Ron Jones & Joseph LoDuca
Classical: Bach & Beethoven

Film: Christopher Young, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri, David Arnold, James Horner, James Newton Howard, Howard Shore, Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino.
Classical: Beethoven, Brahms, Barber, Debussy, Ravel, Britten, Rorem, Dvorak, Messiaen, Poulenc, Puccini, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky.

Film:  James Horner, Alan Silvestri, and Hans Zimmer

Classical:  Chopin & Vivaldi.

I normally don't notice TV, but last night I heard a moving piece from the end of one of the Simpsons episodes where Homer meets his mother.  The credits are rolling and he's staring at the stars.  Could somone point me in the right direction?

Film: Joe Hisaishi!!!!!!!!!, Michael Nyman, Phillip Glass, Yann Tiersen, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Thomas Nyman
Classical: Err, what?

I forgot a TV one: Shirley Walker

Also, if I was to extend my film composer list to ten, I'd add these:

JNH, Danny Elfman, Bernard Herrmann, Bruce Broughton, David Arnold, Alan Silvestri, Randy Edelman

Thomas Newman got married to Michael Nyman and I wasn't notified???

gj loser

Mine..

John Carpenter (Halloween series, Escape From New York)
Danny Elfman (Batman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Tales from the Crypt)
Klaus Badelt (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Time Machine)
Yeong-wook Jo (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance)
Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream)
Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks and other Lynch films, The Beach)
Thomas Newman (American Beauty, Shawshank, Green Mile, Pay It Forward, and the Six Feet Under theme owns me)
Jeff Beal (Carnivale, Monk)
Mike Post (Law & Order theme ftw)

-Mike

I own your soul, don't mock me boy.

Besides, Michael Nyman is better than Thomas Newman anyway =p.

Film: John Williams, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Randy Newman, Bruce Broughton, Max Steiner,

TV: Jeff Beal,

Classical: many, Mozart, Satie, Beethoven, Handel,

As for film composers, Trevor Rabin is occasionally good. One of the best main motif writers. His works on Yes are meh, though. I'm not sure how Kosuke Yamashita is classified, but he is presumably a TV composer, and sometimes good too.

film: Howard Shore, Danny Elfman, Joe Hisaishi

TV: Whoever did the music for Arrested Development

Classical: Debussy+Ravel (almost automatic for a Hamauzu fan), Brahms, Bach

Film: Nino Rota, Charlie Chaplin

Classical: Mozart, Bach, etc.

I'll also post my favourite works.

FILM

Love:
Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes, Logan's Run, The Mummy)
Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, North by Northwest, Journey to the Center of the Earth)
Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-man, Nightmare before Christmas)

Hate: Zimmer, Badelt, Jyulan

CLASSICAL

Love:
Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, Symphony of the Psalms)
Béla Bartók (The Miraculous Mandarin -best piece of music ever-; Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; Concerto for Piano no. 2)
Shostakovich (Symphonies no. 5 and 10)
Debussy (La Mer, Suite Bergamasque, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
Ravel (Bolero, Daphnis et Chloé)

Hate: Boulez, Bach, Mozart

I like all the really big guys of film, but I seem drawn towards the composers that don't get quite as much attention (and/or work). My personal favorite would be Basil Poledouris. Conan the Barbarian and Robocop are just unbeatable in my book. Although what comes darn near close is Bruce Broughton's Tombstone. I also love Vince DiCola solely for his work in Rocky IV.

As for classical, I have a real soft spot for Chopin's Nocturnes. Also love Bach, Beethoven, all the greats.

Your taste rocks, if I may say so. ^_^

Well, Boulez speaks for itself, really... but I don't care for Bach much either. It made me a pariah in school.

I'd say just about all the above listed film composers falls within a given preference of mine, but I'd like to add Harry Gregson-Williams (Sinbad: Legend of The Seven Seas), Julian Nott (Wallace & Gromit), Shigeru Umebayashi (Fearless), and Javier Navarrete (Pan's Labyrinth).

Heh, thanks. :) It doesn't hurt that the movies are thoroughly awesome as well. It's a win-win situation.

Goblin, Fabio Frizzi, Riz Ortolani, Stelvio Cipriani, Stefano Mainetti, Nico Fidenco, Ennio Morricone, Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, Francesco De Masi, Pino Donaggio, Bruno Nicolai, Masaru Satoh, Akira Ifukube, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Chumei Watanabe, Isao Tomita, Bernard Herrmann, John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream, Wendy Carlos, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Horner, Alan Silvestri, Elmer Bernstein, Richard Band, Craig Safan, John Barry, Basil Poledouris, David Newman, Laurence Rosenthal, Leonard Rosenmann, ...