Soundtrack

Here is our list of the 10 best video game theme songs that you probably hummed on your way to work.

With all this year-end talk about the best of cinema, the topics that generally dominate the discussion and awards categories are recognition for acting, directing and writing. We've been highlighting a few of our other favorite movie-related subjects like the best quotes, the most GIF-able moments and now the best in movie music. Where would we be without the emotional, sweeping orchestral accompaniment and new-artist discoveries that help a movie leave a lasting impression upon our psyche? We'd be bored and bothered by too much uncomfortable silence, that's where we'd be.

Here are our favorite movie soundtracks (comprised of music with words, written and performed by a variety of artists to accompany the action onscreen) and scores (instrumental only) of 2012: