Known For
Sound
Born
Aug 14, 1953
Died
Jun 22, 2015
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
154 titles
James 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.
Known For
Filmography
Stjepan Hauser plays Bach and Morricone @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Music
Willow: Behind the Magic
Music
Willow
Music
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
Avatar Flight of Passage
Music
Hacksaw Ridge
Thanks
The Magnificent Seven
Original Music Composer
The 33
Original Music Composer
Southpaw
Original Music Composer
Living in the Age of Airplanes
Music
Wolf Totem
Original Music Composer
Uncovering Wolfen
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood in Vienna: The World of James Horner
Self
Reflections on Titanic
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man
Original Music Composer
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
Original Music Composer
Black Gold
Original Music Composer
Hollywood in Vienna
Self
The Karate Kid
Original Music Composer
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
Self
Avatar
Original Music Composer
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Original Music Composer
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Original Music Composer
Alba Gu Brath! The Making of 'Braveheart'
Self
The Life Before Her Eyes
Original Music Composer
Apocalypto
Original Music Composer
All the King's Men
Original Music Composer
The New World
Original Music Composer
The Legend of Zorro
Original Music Composer
Flightplan
Original Music Composer
The Chumscrubber
Original Music Composer
The Forgotten
Original Music Composer
Troy
Original Music Composer
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Original Music Composer
House of Sand and Fog
Original Music Composer
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
Self
The Missing
Original Music Composer
Radio
Original Music Composer
Beyond Borders
Original Music Composer
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Music
The Four Feathers
Original Music Composer
Windtalkers
Original Music Composer
A Beautiful Mind
Original Music Composer
Iris
Original Music Composer
Raptor
Music
Unmasking Zorro
Self
Enemy at the Gates
Original Music Composer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Original Music Composer
Maybe It's Better not to Win - Scoring Searching for Bobby Fischer
Music
The Perfect Storm
Original Music Composer