James Horner

Sound

Born: 1953-08-14

Died: 2015-06-22

From: Los Angeles, California, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.7

Also Known As

James Roy Horner

Biography

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.

Awards & Nominations14 won · 43 nominated

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

I See You (Theme from Avatar)

2010

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

Avatar

2010

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

Avatar

2010

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture

2010

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

Avatar

2009

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

I See You (Theme from Avatar)

2009

Nominated

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Composer

The New World

2005

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Original Score

The Missing

2004

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

House of Sand and Fog

2004

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

A Beautiful Mind

2002

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Original Song

2002

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Original Score

A Beautiful Mind

2002

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Original Song

2001

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

A Beautiful Mind

2001

Nominated

Juno Award for International Album of the Year

Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture

1999

🏆 Won

Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score

Titanic

1998

🏆 Won

Satellite Award for Best Original Song

My Heart Will Go On

1998

🏆 Won

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Song

Titanic

1998

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Song

My Heart Will Go On

1998

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Titanic

1998

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Song of the Year

1998

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

1998

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Record of the Year

1998

🏆 Won

Satellite Award for Best Original Score

Titanic

1998

Nominated

Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score

Titanic

1998

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

Titanic

1998

Nominated

Grammy Award for Record of the Year

My Heart Will Go On

1998

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

1998

Nominated

Grammy Award for Song of the Year

My Heart Will Go On

1998

Nominated

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Song

Titanic

1998

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Original Score

Titanic

1998

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Original Song

My Heart Will Go On

1998

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Titanic

1998

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

Titanic

1997

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

My Heart Will Go On

1997

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

Titanic

1997

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Song

My Heart Will Go On

1997

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

My Heart Will Go On

1997

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

Titanic

1997

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Apollo 13

1996

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Braveheart

1996

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

Braveheart

1996

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

Braveheart

1995

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

1995

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

Legends of the Fall

1994

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

Dreams to Dream

1991

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

1990

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

Field of Dreams

1990

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

1990

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

Glory

1989

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Song of the Year

Somewhere Out There

1987

🏆 Won

Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

Somewhere Out There

1987

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Song

Somewhere Out There

1987

Nominated

Grammy Award for Song of the Year

Somewhere Out There

1987

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Score

Aliens

1987

Nominated

Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

Somewhere Out There

1987

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

Somewhere Out There

1986

James Horner

Also Known As

Biography

Awards & Nominations14 won · 43 nominated

Acting9 titles

Hollywood in Vienna: The World of James Horner

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Reflections on Titanic

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

Unmasking Zorro

Alba Gu Brath! The Making of 'Braveheart'

Uncovering Wolfen

Hollywood in Vienna

Sound145 titles

Extreme Close-Up

Angel Dusted

Aliens

A Few Days at Weasel Creek

Tales from the Crypt

Braveheart

A Beautiful Mind

Titanic

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Living in the Age of Airplanes

Captain EO

Apocalypto

Avatar

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

The Name of the Rose

Apollo 13

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Glory

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Amazing Stories

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Enemy at the Gates

Legends of the Fall

Southpaw

Bicentennial Man

Balto

Radio

Troy

House of Sand and Fog

Jumanji

Reflections on Titanic

The Land Before Time

Field of Dreams

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Willow

The Stone Boy

Between Friends

Sneakers

An American Tail

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

The Journey of Natty Gann

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

The Dresser

48 Hrs.

The Amazing Spider-Man

Swing Kids

Commando

Ransom

*batteries not included

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Patriot Games

Tummy Trouble

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Cocoon

The Four Feathers

The Mask of Zorro

Once Upon a Forest

The Karate Kid

The Pelican Brief

Clear and Present Danger

Willow

The Man Without a Face

The Perfect Storm

The Rocketeer