James Horner
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.
Filmography (96)
The Magnificent Seven
Hacksaw Ridge
Southpaw
Wolf Totem
The 33
The Amazing Spider-Man
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
Black Gold
The Karate Kid
Avatar
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Life Before Her Eyes
Apocalypto
All the King's Men
The New World
Flightplan
The Legend of Zorro
The Chumscrubber
Troy
The Forgotten
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
House of Sand and Fog
The Missing
Radio
Windtalkers
The Four Feathers
A Beautiful Mind
Enemy at the Gates
Iris
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Perfect Storm
Bicentennial Man
The Mask of Zorro
Deep Impact
Mighty Joe Young
Titanic
The Devil's Own
Ransom
Courage Under Fire
The Spitfire Grill
Braveheart
Apollo 13
Jumanji
Casper
Jade
Balto
Legends of the Fall
Clear and Present Danger
The Pagemaster
The Pelican Brief
The Man Without a Face
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Swing Kids
Once Upon a Forest
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Jack the Bear
Patriot Games
Sneakers
Thunderheart
Unlawful Entry
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
The Rocketeer
Once Around
Another 48 Hrs.
Glory
In Country
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Field of Dreams
Dad
Cocoon: The Return
The Land Before Time
Red Heat
Willow
Young Guns
*batteries not included
Project X
Aliens
An American Tail
The Name of the Rose
Commando
Cocoon
Volunteers
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Krull
Brainstorm
Uncommon Valor
Gorky Park
Testament
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
48 Hrs.
Deadly Blessing
Wolfen
The Hand
