what are your favorite movie soundtracks.

Besides most of the others already mentioned, if you can find it, it was one of my best music purchases ever.

Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man. Motown MOTD-5241

Have been enjoying Kissing Jessica Stein soundtrack this winter - great mix of female vocal jazz with one Lyle Lovett that is probably the hi-lite. Amazing movie as well - maybe a best of for the year wierd for me in that I usually run as fast as possible from romantic comedies. A couple of other favourites are Heaven's Prisoner track (blues)and a Nina Rota compilation of Felini movie music (sure Tom Waits has this one in his collection).

I have a list of ONE:
Superfly (by Curtis Mayfield, of course)

"Gosford Park" was a huge surprise it was so good. The
soundtrack from Almodovar's "Talk To Her" of all things is
very subtle, for him. Enjoyed it so much I bought a CD
with songs from all his other movies.

You can't go wrong with Slipknot's list, especially the glorious Vangelis "Blade Runner". Almost all of Vangelis' film work is recommended. As is John Barry's James Bond series. The list of great film composers is immence, but the best way to get acquainted with this music is to simply pay attention to the score as you watch the film. Luckily, most good scores accompany good movies (do they make them anymore?).
A very short list:
The Wicker Man-Paul Giovanni
Black Robe-Georges Delerue
Ragtime-Randy Newman
El Cid-Miklos Rozsa
Excalibur-Trevor Jones
Fantastic Planet (La Planete Sauvage)-Alain Goaguer
Local Hero-Mark Knopfler

It's great to see you have an interest. Your on the right (sound)track!