film scores

It’s too bad Hans Zimmer ruined film scores for everyone with his generic brand of meh. 

I would never be so bold as to opine that any composer is the "best" but Morricone is certainly among the top film composers. Other most worthy contributors to the genre I really enjoy are Bernard Hermann and John Barry. I have most of Hermann's film scores on vinyl and greatly enjoy his work. The City of Prague Philharmonic has a well recorded, excellent sounding "The James Bond Collection" 4 disc set of James Bond film music (John Barry.) One aspect of that recording I like is that some of the cutesy smarmy sounding vocal tracks in the original recordings have been rescored as instrumentals and sound much better to my tastes. Barry's 1972 film score for "Zulu" is also excellent. I stumbled into a set of Mark Isham film score recordings a few years ago and have come to appreciate his composing talents as well. I look forward to hearing the release of the film score for the new film "Joker" by the Icelandic composer Hildur Guonadottir. Lastly, film music buffs should check out Chandos Recording's "Film Music" series, it's a deep exploration of the genre: http://https//www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHUSB%200020

I also forgot to mention another favorite, Nino Rota. Ricardo Chailly's recordings of Fellini soundtracks and the Godfather scores are recordings I listen to frequently. 

A couple that have a cult following among vinyl collectors for recording quality are
The Mission by Morricone
Empire of the Sun by Williams.