James Horner

Sound

Born 1953-08-14 Died 2015-06-22 Los Angeles, California, USA 154 credits Academy Awards 2 Golden Globe Awards 3 Grammy Awards 6 Satellite Award for Best Original Score 1 Satellite Award for Best Original Song 1

Awards

Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won · 8 nominated

2010 Best Original Score Nominated Avatar
2004 Best Original Score Nominated House of Sand and Fog
2002 Best Original Score Nominated A Beautiful Mind
1998 Best Original Song Won My Heart Will Go On
1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Won Titanic
1997 Best Original Song Nominated My Heart Will Go On
1996 Best Original Dramatic Score Nominated Apollo 13, Braveheart
1990 Best Original Score Nominated Field of Dreams
1987 Best Original Song Nominated Somewhere Out There
1987 Best Original Score Nominated Aliens

Golden Globe Awards 3 won · 8 nominated

2009 Best Original Song Nominated I See You (Theme from Avatar)
2009 Best Original Score Nominated Avatar
2001 Best Original Score Nominated A Beautiful Mind
1997 Best Original Score Won Titanic
1997 Best Original Song Won My Heart Will Go On
1995 Best Original Score Nominated Braveheart
1994 Best Original Score Nominated Legends of the Fall
1991 Best Original Song Nominated Dreams to Dream
1989 Best Original Score Nominated Glory
1986 Best Original Song Nominated Somewhere Out There
— Best Original Score Won Titanic

BAFTA Awards 3 nominated

2010 Best Original Music Nominated Avatar
1998 Best Original Music Nominated Titanic
1996 Best Original Music Nominated Braveheart

Grammy Awards 6 won · 3 nominated

2010 Best Song Written for Visual Media Nominated I See You (Theme from Avatar)
2010 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture
1998 Best Song Written for Visual Media Won
1998 Record of the Year Won
1998 Song of the Year Won
1995 Best Song Written for Visual Media Nominated
1990 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Won
1987 Song of the Year Won Somewhere Out There
1987 Best Song Written for Visual Media Won Somewhere Out There

Satellite Award for Best Original Score 1 won · 2 nominated

2004 Best Original Score Nominated The Missing
2002 Best Original Score Nominated A Beautiful Mind
1998 Best Original Score Won Titanic

Satellite Award for Best Original Song 1 won · 2 nominated

2002 Best Original Song Nominated
2001 Best Original Song Nominated
1998 Best Original Song Won My Heart Will Go On

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Composer 1 nominated

2005 Best Composer Nominated The New World

Juno Award for International Album of the Year 1 nominated

1999 International Album of the Year Nominated Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture

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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.