My favorite year for film music is 1989, with so many memorable scores.
Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paradiso
Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid
Danny Elfman, Batman
Elmer Bernstein, My Left Foot
Maurice Jarre, Dead Poets Society
John Williams, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Born on the Fourth of July
Bill Lee, Do The Right Thing
Alan Silvestri, The Abyss and Back to the Future II
Hans Zimmer, Driving Miss Daisy
Patrick Doyle, Henry V
Jerry Goldsmith, The 'burbs and Star Trek V
James Horner, Glory and Field of Dreams