American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score
by Thomas Newman
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American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is ranked as the best album by Thomas Newman.
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American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AwaitingAndrew | My Favorite Film Scores & Soundtracks | 5/73 | - |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 60 Music Albums of 2000 | 45/60 | 1 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 78 Music Albums of 2000 | 58/78 | 1 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 36 Music Albums of 2000 | 27/36 | 1 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 60 Music Albums of 2000 | 32/60 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 60 Music Albums of 2000 | 18/60 | 4 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 64 Music Albums of 2000 | 61/64 | 0 |
| 2026 | Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 2201-2300 | 57/100 | - |
| 2025 |  BroknsocialShawn | Top 50 Music Albums of the 2000s | 41/50 | 4 |
| 2025 | AwaitingAndrew | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 35/100 | 13 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 35 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 143 | |||
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American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/20/2025 16:51 | DommeDamian | 7,885 | 48/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2025 10:32 | TonySayers61 | 26,117 | 64/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2024 00:22 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,774 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/21/2010 20:28 | #7713 | TOP COMMENT
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Thomas Newman's scores are amazing, reminds me somewhat of David Amram scores of the late 50s. I think that he is the nephew of Alfred Newman, the famous composer who wrote the soundtrack to "How Green was my valley",1941 Film by John Ford.. in my opinion, one of the greatest scores ever written.
poppmusic TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/15/2015 07:55 | #149812 | TOP COMMENT
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Not only beautiful in it's own right, but hugely influential, it's creative enough to be a part of this website and the music canon.
telefunker 04/20/2009 17:51 | #3661 | TOP COMMENT
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hauntingly beautiful.. and you never hear movies scored like this..
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