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I think Thomas Newman (American Beauty, The Horse Whisperer, The Shawshank Redemption) & John Williams (do I really have to list them) are the best composers today. Close second: Jerry Goldsmith, Danny Elfman, Randy Newman, and Hans Zimmer.
FYI, John Williams and lietmotif? He definitely wasn't the first to use this. Composers in the classical era (17th, 18th, 19th century) as well as Old Hollywood quite frequently wrote in lietmotif.
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