James Horner

Known for SoundBorn 1953-08-14Died 2015-06-22Los Angeles, California, USA

James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953–June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's Avatar (2009). Horner's other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner's other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including James Cameron, Don Bluth, Ron Howard, Joe Johnston, Edward Zwick, Walter Hill, Mel Gibson, Vadim Perelman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Nicholas Meyer, Wolfgang Petersen, Martin Campbell, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells; producers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Kirschner, Brian Grazer, Jon Landau, and Lawrence Gordon; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil. Adding to his two Academy Awards wins, Horner also won six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, and was nominated for three BAFTA Awards. Horner, who was an avid pilot, was killed in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. He was 61 years old. The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Horner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Extreme Close-Up

Angel Dusted

Hollywood in Vienna: The World of James Horner

Hacksaw Ridge

Living in the Age of Airplanes

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Braveheart

Titanic

A Beautiful Mind

Tales from the Crypt

Aliens

A Few Days at Weasel Creek

Apocalypto

Avatar

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

Captain EO

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Southpaw

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

Apollo 13

Enemy at the Gates

Glory

The Name of the Rose

Radio

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Amazing Stories

Legends of the Fall

Reflections on Titanic

Balto

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Bicentennial Man

Troy

Jumanji

House of Sand and Fog

The Land Before Time

Field of Dreams

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

Willow

The Amazing Spider-Man

Willow

Between Friends

Sneakers

The Stone Boy

The Spiderwick Chronicles

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

The Karate Kid

The Four Feathers