James Horner

James Roy Horner August 14 1953June 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 Camerons Titanic 1997 which became the bestselling orchestral film soundtrack of all time He also wrote the score for the highestgrossing film of all time Camerons Avatar 2009 Horners other Oscarnominated 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 Horners 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 SpiderMan 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 JeanJacques 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 singlefatality 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia