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James Roy Horner (born August 14 1953) is an American
United States

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 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
s, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements
Celtic music

Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe....
. Horner won two Academy Awards for his score and song compositions for the film Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)

Titanic is a 1997 United States romantic film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
 in 1997.

er was born in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, the son of Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n immigrants Joan (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Fraenkel) and Harry Horner
Harry Horner

Harry Horner was an Austrian art director who made a successful career in Hollywood. He was born in the town of Holice, Pardubice District, which now belongs to the Czech Republic, to parents of the Germans in Czechoslovakia in Austria-Hungarys crown land Bohemia....
, who was a production designer
Production designer

Production designer is a term used in the movie industry and television industries to refer to the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts....
, set designer and occasional film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
.

Horner started playing piano at the age of five.






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James Roy Horner (born August 14 1953) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
s, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements
Celtic music

Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe....
. Horner won two Academy Awards for his score and song compositions for the film Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)

Titanic is a 1997 United States romantic film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
 in 1997.

Early life

Horner was born in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, the son of Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n immigrants Joan (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Fraenkel) and Harry Horner
Harry Horner

Harry Horner was an Austrian art director who made a successful career in Hollywood. He was born in the town of Holice, Pardubice District, which now belongs to the Czech Republic, to parents of the Germans in Czechoslovakia in Austria-Hungarys crown land Bohemia....
, who was a production designer
Production designer

Production designer is a term used in the movie industry and television industries to refer to the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts....
, set designer and occasional film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
.

Horner started playing piano at the age of five. His early years were spent in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, where he attended the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a college or university school of music located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe....
 and studied under György Ligeti
György Ligeti

Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti was a composer, born in a Hungarian History of the Jews in Romania family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen....
. He received his bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years....
 in music from the University of Southern California
University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private university, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park, Los Angeles, California neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
, and eventually earned a masters
Master's degree

A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
 and started working on his doctorate
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
 at the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
 where he studied with Paul Chihara
Paul Chihara

Paul Seiko Chihara is an United States composer.Chihara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1938. A Japanese American, he spent much of his childhood with his family in an internment camp in Minidoka National Historic Site....
, among others. After several scoring assignments with the American Film Institute
American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B....
 in the 1970s, he finished his teaching of music theory
Music theory

Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composer techniques....
 at UCLA and turned to film scoring.

In his youth Horner was acquainted with Carrie Goldsmith, daughter of the famous composer and peer Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
.

Film and television scoring

Horner began his film scoring career by working for B-movie
B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial film conceived neither as an art film nor as pornography. In its original usage, during the so-called Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
 director and producer Roger Corman
Roger Corman

Roger William Corman , sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies , is a prolific United States film producer and film director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe for example....
, with his first composer credit for Corman's big-budget Battle Beyond the Stars
Battle Beyond the Stars

Battle Beyond the Stars is a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and released in 1980 in film. The film is notable in that the screenplay was partly written by John Sayles, the score was by James Horner and the special effects were directed by James Cameron....
. His works steadily gained notice in Hollywood, which led him to take on larger projects. Horner made a breakthrough in 1982, when he had the chance to score for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the second feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
, establishing himself as a mainstream composer. Horner continued composing music for high-profile releases in the 1980s, including 48 Hrs.
48 Hrs.

48 Hrs. is a 1982 in film Action film comedy film directed by Walter Hill , starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy as a cop and convict, respectively, who team up to catch a cop-killer....
 (1981), Krull
Krull

Krull may refer to:* Confessions of Felix Krull, the title character in The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years* Krull , a 1983 heroic fantasy film...
 (1983), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 in film motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
 (1984), Commando
Commando (film)

Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
 (1985), Cocoon
Cocoon (film)

Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Ron Howard, about a group of elderly people who are rejuvenated by aliens. The movie starred Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison....
 (1985), Aliens
Aliens (film)

Aliens is a 1986 science fiction film/action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, and Bill Paxton....
 (1986, earning his first Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 nomination), Willow
Willow (film)

Willow is a 1988 fantasy film adventure film directed by Ron Howard and produced/co-written by George Lucas. Warwick Davis stars in the film, as well as Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh and Patricia Hayes....
 (1988), Glory
Glory (film)

Glory is a 1989 in film drama film war film based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as told from the point of view of its commanding officer, Robert Gould Shaw during the American Civil War....
 and Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams is a 1989 in film Cinema of the United States Fantasy film/drama film, directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W....
 (both 1989).

Horner's scores also began to see a secondary life with their usage in film trailers for other movies. Excerpts from his score for Aliens rank second in the most commonly-used soundtrack cues for film trailers. Also, an unused fragment from Aliens was featured in a scene from Die Hard
Die Hard

Die Hard is the first action film in the Die Hard series. The film was produced by Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon , along with Joel Silver....
. Several films whose scores were composed by Michael Kamen
Michael Kamen

Michael Kamen was an United States composer , orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician....
 have had Horner music for the trailers; most notably, the music from Willow
Willow (film)

Willow is a 1988 fantasy film adventure film directed by Ron Howard and produced/co-written by George Lucas. Warwick Davis stars in the film, as well as Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh and Patricia Hayes....
 is substituted for the theme Kamen wrote for the 1993 remake of The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers (1993 film)

The Three Musketeers is a 1993 in film film version of the The Three Musketeers from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Stephen Herek from a screenplay by David Loughery and starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell and Oliver Platt....
.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Horner also displayed a talent for writing orchestral scores for children's films (particularly those produced by Amblin Entertainment
Amblin Entertainment

Amblin Entertainment is an United States film and television production company founded by critically and financially successful director, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy , a film producer and Frank Marshall another film producer in 1981....
), with credits for An American Tail
An American Tail

An American Tail is a 1986 in film animation film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth, originally released in movie theatres on November 21, 1986....
 (1986), The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time

The Land Before Time is a 1988 theatrical animated film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth. It was originally released by Universal Studios and Sullivan Bluth Studios....
 (1988), An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is an animation produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, presented by Universal Pictures and originally released to movie theatres in 1991....
 (1991), We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1987 children's book drawn and written by Hudson Talbott, and published by Dragonfly Books. A Tyrannosaurus named Rex is the main character and narrator....
 (1993), and Casper
Casper (film)

Casper is a 1995 in film live-action feature film based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons and comic strips. The ghosts featured in the film were created through computer-generated imagery....
 and Balto
Balto (film)

Balto is a 1995 in film animated/live action produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1995....
 (both 1995).

1995 saw Horner produce no fewer than six scores, including his commercially successful and critically-acclaimed works for Braveheart
Braveheart

Braveheart is an Academy Award-Winning, 1995 historical action-drama movie film producer and Film director by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role....
 and Apollo 13
Apollo 13 (film)

Apollo 13 is a 1995 in film film that dramatized the ill-fated Apollo 13 in 1970. The movie was adapted by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert from the book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, and was directed by Ron Howard ....
. Horner's greatest financial success would come in 1997 with an enormously popular score to Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)

Titanic is a 1997 United States romantic film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
, which was greatly influenced by the music of Clannad
Clannad

Clannad are a Grammy Award-winning Irish Musical ensemble, from Gweedore , County Donegal. Their music has been variously described as bordering on folk music and folk rock, Music of Ireland, Celtic music and New Age music....
. The album became the best-selling instrumental soundtrack in history with over 24 million copies sold worldwide, and is the third best-selling soundtrack album ever, trailing only Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
's The Bodyguard soundtrack (over 37 million) and the Bee Gees
Bee Gees

The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
' Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)

Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track is the soundtrack album from the blockbuster film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta....
 (40 million). In early 1998, Horner won Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for Best Original Dramatic Score
Academy Award for Original Music Score

The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of Film score written specifically for the film by the submitting composer....
 and Best Original Song for "My Heart Will Go On
My Heart Will Go On

"My Heart Will Go On" is the theme song of the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic . With music by James Horner, lyrics by Will Jennings, with background vocals by Skyler Jett and produced by Walter Afanasieff, was recorded by Celine Dion....
" (which he co-wrote with Will Jennings
Will Jennings

Wilbur "Will" Jennings is an United States songwriter. He attended school just outside Tyler, TX, in the nearby Chapel Hill Independent School District ....
), in addition to three Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
s and two Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
s.

Since Titanic, Horner has continued to score for major productions (including The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm (film)

The Perfect Storm is a 2000 film adapted from the The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and features George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C....
, A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind (film)

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 in film United States film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel....
, The Mask of Zorro
The Mask of Zorro

The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 in film swashbuckler film directed by Martin Campbell, and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stuart Wilson ....
, The Legend of Zorro
The Legend of Zorro

The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 in film sequel to 1998 in film The Mask of Zorro, both directed by Martin Campbell. Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles as the Zorro and his spouse, and Rufus Sewell stars as the villain....
 and Radio
Radio (film)

This article is about a film, for other uses see Radio .Radio, released October 2003, is a film directed by Mike Tollin that is based on the true story of T.L....
). Aside from the major projects, Horner periodically tackles smaller projects as well (such as Iris and Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius
Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a motion picture based on the life, specifically the golfing career, of Bobby Jones , the first player in the sport to ever consecutively win all four of the men's major golf championships ....
). He frequently scores for the films of director Ron Howard, a partnership that began with Cocoon
Cocoon (film)

Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Ron Howard, about a group of elderly people who are rejuvenated by aliens. The movie starred Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison....
 in 1985. Coincidentally, Horner's end title music from Glory
Glory (film)

Glory is a 1989 in film drama film war film based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as told from the point of view of its commanding officer, Robert Gould Shaw during the American Civil War....
 can be heard in the trailer for Howard's Backdraft
Backdraft (film)

Backdraft is a 1991 in film Cinema of the United States action film-drama film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro and Scott Glenn....
.

Horner composed the current theme music for the CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948 in television, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
. The theme was introduced as part of the debut of Katie Couric
Katie Couric

Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric is an United States journalist who became well-known as co-host of NBC's Today . In 2006, she made a highly publicized move from NBC to CBS, and on September 5, 2006 she became the first solo female anchor of the weekday evening news on one of the three traditional United States broadcast networks....
 as anchor on September 5, 2006. It has since been adopted by most other CBS News
CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports....
 programs as well.

Recently, Horner finished the score for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a United Kingdom?United States 2008 in film drama film directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman, starring Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis and Vera Farmiga....
.

Controversy

Horner has been accused of transposing hooks
Hook (music)

A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase , that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener"....
 and orchestral motifs
Motif (music)

In music, a motif or motive is a perceivable or salience recurring fragment or succession of notes that may be used to construct the entirety or parts of complete melody and theme s....
, sometimes entire passages from other scores, both his and those of other composers, most notably Sergey Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian

Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Union-Armenians composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music....
, Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
 and Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
. The Adagio from the ballet Gayaneh by Khachaturian, for example, turns up almost bar for bar in Horner's music for Aliens; the same is true of the Main Title music from Red Heat
Red Heat

Red Heat is a 1988 in film buddy cop film directed by Walter Hill . The film stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Moscow Narc Ivan Danko; James Belushi, as Chicago detective Art Rid?ic....
, which is lifted wholesale from Prokofiev's Cantata for the Anniversary of the October Revolution. The most notorious issue arose with his borrowing of the work Powerhouse
Powerhouse

Powerhouse or Power House may refer to:* Power station, a facility for the generation of electric power.* The Power-House, a 1916 novel by John Buchan...
 by Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott

Raymond Scott , was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants....
 for the opening credits of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film released through The Walt Disney Company. It stars Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, and Marcia Strassman....
, which resulted in a lawsuit against Disney for not crediting the work's original composer; the suit was ultimately settled to all parties' satisfaction. Meanwhile, portions of Horner's score to Patriot Games
Patriot Games (film)

Patriot Games is a 1992 in film film based on the Patriot Games by Tom Clancy. It was released on June 5, 1992 and directed by Phillip Noyce....
 bear considerable resemblance to Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayaneh, while parts of Star Trek III
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 in film motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
 echo Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Music from the ballet was extracted by Prokofiev as three suites for orchestra and as a piano work....
; furthermore, Battle Beyond the Stars
Battle Beyond the Stars

Battle Beyond the Stars is a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and released in 1980 in film. The film is notable in that the screenplay was partly written by John Sayles, the score was by James Horner and the special effects were directed by James Cameron....
 and Troy
Troy (film)

Troy is an epic film released on May 14, 2004, concerning the Trojan War. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad, but includes material from Virgil's Aeneid and other sources, and frequently diverges from myth....
 lift cues from the Cantata from Prokofiev's score for Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)

Alexander Nevsky is the film score for the 1938 Sergei Eisenstein film Alexander Nevsky , composed by Sergei Prokofiev. He later Arrangement the music in the form of a cantata for mezzo-soprano, choir, and orchestra....
: Finally, one of the themes from Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II....
 uses eight notes from John Williams' theme for Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
.

Horner has also been accused of self-plagiarism—reusing elements of his own previous scores in another: For example, sections of Horner's score for the aforementioned Battle Beyond the Stars reappear in near-identical form throughout his other scores of the 1980s. The Braveheart
Braveheart

Braveheart is an Academy Award-Winning, 1995 historical action-drama movie film producer and Film director by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role....
 background theme uses the same chord progression of the main theme from Glory. Several cues from Titanic sound very similar to cues written for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the second feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
 notably the score for the ship leaving Southampton closley resembles the section 'Enterprise Clears Moorings', and the sequence leading upto Titanic's collision with the iceberg borrow elements from the 'Kirk's Explosive Reply' motif. The signature theme
Leitmotif

A leitmotif is a recurring musical Theme , associated with a particular person, place, or idea. The word has also been used by extension to mean any sort of recurring theme, whether in music, literature, or the life of a fictional character or a real person....
 for the alien Klingon
Klingon

Klingons are a warrior race in the fictional Star Trek universe. They are recurring villains in the 1960s television show Star Trek: The Original Series, and have appeared in all five spin-off series and seven feature films....
s in Star Trek III resembles Khan's motif previously used by Horner for the human villain and his cohorts in the previous Star Trek film, but this was identical to that for the Xenomorphs
Xenomorph (Alien)

The alien, also called the xenomorph, is a fictional parasitoid Extraterrestrial life in popular culture species that is the primary antagonist of the Alien ....
 in the film Aliens; this particular sound is also used in the Widow sequences from Krull
Krull (film)

Krull is a 1983 heroic fantasy film film director by Peter Yates and film producer by Ron Silverman. Released by Columbia Pictures, it stars Kenneth Marshall as Prince Colwyn and Lysette Anthony as Princess Lyssa....
. Many of the melodies from A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind (film)

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 in film United States film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel....
 are similar to those from Bicentennial Man
Bicentennial Man (film)

Bicentennial Man, or Andrew?NDR114 in Japan, is a 1999 in film film starring Robin Williams based on the well-known novella The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov....
, which in turn are very similar to those from Sneakers
Sneakers (film)

Sneakers is a 1992 caper story film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and written by Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It was filmed in late 1991 and released in 1992....
. A key theme in Casper
Casper (film)

Casper is a 1995 in film live-action feature film based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons and comic strips. The ghosts featured in the film were created through computer-generated imagery....
 is also repeated at the end of The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spiderwick Chronicles (film)

The Spiderwick Chronicles is a 2008 in film fantasy film film adaptation of Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's bestselling The Spiderwick Chronicles....
. Also noted is a slight motif that has been referred to as "the danger theme" , an eerie progression of four notes mostly played by brass instruments, that Horner has relied on in several films, including Willow
Willow (film)

Willow is a 1988 fantasy film adventure film directed by Ron Howard and produced/co-written by George Lucas. Warwick Davis stars in the film, as well as Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh and Patricia Hayes....
 and most notoriously (and repeatedly), Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II....
 and Troy

These contentions are points of fierce debate between proponents of Horner and his detractors. While they generally acknowledge that Horner has a tendency to reuse musical ideas, opinions on the issue vary greatly. Some believe it truly compromises the merits of Horner's music, while others feel it is a minor problem that has been exaggerated, and a common practice generally inclusive of other composers.

List of film scores

2009
  • Avatar
    Avatar (film)

    Avatar is an upcoming 3-D film science fiction film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 18, 2009....
     (in post-production)
2008
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)

    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a United Kingdom?United States 2008 in film drama film directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman, starring Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis and Vera Farmiga....
  • The Spiderwick Chronicles
    The Spiderwick Chronicles (film)

    The Spiderwick Chronicles is a 2008 in film fantasy film film adaptation of Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's bestselling The Spiderwick Chronicles....


2007
  • The Life Before Her Eyes


2006
  • Apocalypto
    Apocalypto

    Apocalypto is a 2006 epic film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Rudy Youngblood. Set in ancient Central America, during the declining period of the Maya civilization, Apocalypto depicts the journey of a Mesoamerican tribesman who must escape human sacrifice and rescue his family after the capture and destruction of his village....
  • All the King's Men
    All the King's Men (2006 film)

    All the King's Men is a 2006 film adaptation of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. It was directed by Steven Zaillian, who also produced and scripted the film....


2005
  • The Chumscrubber
    The Chumscrubber

    The Chumscrubber is a 2005 in film dark comedy film directed by Arie Posin and written by Posin and Zac Stanford, starring an Ensemble cast....
  • Flightplan
    Flightplan

    Flightplan is a 2005 thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, and Sean Bean....
  • The Legend of Zorro
    The Legend of Zorro

    The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 in film sequel to 1998 in film The Mask of Zorro, both directed by Martin Campbell. Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles as the Zorro and his spouse, and Rufus Sewell stars as the villain....
  • The New World
    The New World

    The New World is a 2005 in film Drama film / romance film directed by Terrence Malick. It is a historical adventure set during the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement and inspired by the historical figures John Smith of Jamestown and Pocahontas....


2004
  • The Forgotten
  • Troy
    Troy (film)

    Troy is an epic film released on May 14, 2004, concerning the Trojan War. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad, but includes material from Virgil's Aeneid and other sources, and frequently diverges from myth....
  • Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius
    Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius

    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a motion picture based on the life, specifically the golfing career, of Bobby Jones , the first player in the sport to ever consecutively win all four of the men's major golf championships ....


2003
  • House of Sand and Fog
    House of Sand and Fog

    House of Sand and Fog is a 2003 in film Cinema of United States drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The screenplay by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto is based on the House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III....
  • The Missing
    The Missing

    The Missing is a 2003 film directed by Ron Howard , based on the novel The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson.This Western Thriller set in 1880's New Mexico is notable for the authentic use of the Southern Athabaskan languages language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it....
  • Beyond Borders
    Beyond Borders

    Beyond Borders is a 2003 in film about aid workers, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen.Although it reflected Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful....
  • Radio
    Radio (film)

    This article is about a film, for other uses see Radio .Radio, released October 2003, is a film directed by Mike Tollin that is based on the true story of T.L....


2002
  • The Four Feathers
    The Four Feathers (2002 film)

    The Four Feathers is a 2002 in film United States drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Bruce Maus, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson....
  • Windtalkers
    Windtalkers

    Windtalkers is a 2002 in film action film war film directed by John Woo, director of Face/Off and the Mission: Impossible to Mission: Impossible ....


2001
  • Iris
  • A Beautiful Mind
    A Beautiful Mind (film)

    A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 in film United States film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel....
  • Enemy at the Gates
    Enemy at the Gates

    Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II....


2000
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  • The Perfect Storm
    The Perfect Storm (film)

    The Perfect Storm is a 2000 film adapted from the The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and features George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C....


1999
  • Bicentennial Man
    Bicentennial Man (film)

    Bicentennial Man, or Andrew?NDR114 in Japan, is a 1999 in film film starring Robin Williams based on the well-known novella The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov....


1998
  • Mighty Joe Young
    Mighty Joe Young (1998 film)

    Mighty Joe Young is a 1998 Disney family film starring Bill Paxton and Charlize Theron and directed by Ron Underwood. It is based on the 1949 film Mighty Joe Young ....
  • The Mask of Zorro
    The Mask of Zorro

    The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 in film swashbuckler film directed by Martin Campbell, and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stuart Wilson ....
  • Deep Impact
    Deep Impact (film)

    Deep Impact is a 1998 in film science fiction-drama film disaster film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG in the United States on May 8, 1998....


1997
  • Titanic
    Titanic (1997 film)

    Titanic is a 1997 United States romantic film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
  • The Devil's Own
    The Devil's Own

    The Devil's Own is a 1997 in film film starring Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Rub?n Blades, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles and Treat Williams....
 1996
  • Ransom
  • To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
    To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

    To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday is a 1996 in film film starring Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes, Kathy Baker, Wendy Crewson and, in cameo appearances, Michelle Pfeiffer....
  • Courage Under Fire
    Courage Under Fire

    Courage Under Fire is a motion picture, released in 1996, starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon. It is one of the first films to depict the 1991 Gulf War....
  • The Spitfire Grill
    The Spitfire Grill

    The Spitfire Grill is a 1996 United States motion picture that tells a story of a woman who was just released from prison. A central theme is redemption....


1995
  • Jade
    Jade (film)

    Jade is an erotic thriller film written by Joe Eszterhas, produced by Robert Evans , directed by William Friedkin and starring David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Richard Crenna and Michael Biehn....
  • Balto
    Balto (film)

    Balto is a 1995 in film animated/live action produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1995....
  • Jumanji
    Jumanji (film)

    Jumanji is a 1995 United States fantasy film directed by Joe Johnston and based on Chris Van Allsburg's popular 1981 Jumanji. The story is about a supernatural and ominous board game which makes animals and other jungle hazards appear upon each roll of the dice....
  • Apollo 13
    Apollo 13 (film)

    Apollo 13 is a 1995 in film film that dramatized the ill-fated Apollo 13 in 1970. The movie was adapted by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert from the book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, and was directed by Ron Howard ....
  • Casper
    Casper (film)

    Casper is a 1995 in film live-action feature film based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons and comic strips. The ghosts featured in the film were created through computer-generated imagery....
  • Braveheart


1994
  • Legends of the Fall
    Legends of the Fall

    Legends of the Fall is an Academy Award-Winning, 1994 in film drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn....
  • The Pagemaster
    The Pagemaster

    The Pagemaster, a live action/animated film released by 20th Century Fox on November 23, 1994 is based on an illustrative book of the same name by David Kirschner and Ernie Contreras....
  • Clear and Present Danger
    Clear and Present Danger (film)

    Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 in film film directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy. It is a 1994 in film sequel to the 1992 in film film Patriot Games and was followed by a 2002 in film sequel The Sum of All Fears ....


1993
  • Bopha!
    Bopha!

    Bopha! is a 1993 in film drama film film directed by Morgan Freeman and starring Danny Glover. It was adapted from a 1986 Play by Percy Mtwa and was Freeman's directorial debut....
  • House of Cards
    House of Cards (1993 film)

    House of Cards is a 1993 in film drama film directed by Michael Lessac and starring Kathleen Turner and Tommy Lee Jones. It follows the struggle of a mother to reconnect with her daughter who has been traumatized by the death of her father....
  • Jack the Bear
    Jack the Bear

    Jack the Bear is a 1993 in film comedy-drama film starring Danny DeVito. It is based on a novel by Dan McCall....
  • The Man Without a Face
    The Man Without a Face

    The Man Without a Face is a 1993 drama starring and directed by Mel Gibson. The movie is based on Isabelle Holland's 1972 novel of the same name....
  • Once Upon A Forest
    Once Upon a Forest

    Once Upon a Forest is a 1993 in film animated film with an environmental theme, released on June 18, 1993 by 20th Century Fox with the Garfield cartoon Fishy Feline....
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer
    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    Searching for Bobby Fischer is an acclaimed 1993 film based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin, played by Max Pomeranc. Adapted from the book of the same name by Joshua's father Fred, the film was written and directed by Steven Zaillian....
  • Swing Kids
    Swing Kids (film)

    Swing Kids is a film produced in 1992 in film and directed by Thomas Carter . The runtime is approximately 112 minutes. The film is considered as being part of the Lindy Hop revival of the 1980s and 1990s, and responsible for bringing more people to this dance form....
  • We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
    We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)

    We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is an animated film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1993....
  • The Pelican Brief
    The Pelican Brief (film)

    The Pelican Brief is a 1993 in film legal thriller film based on the The Pelican Brief by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham....
  • A Far Off Place
    A Far Off Place

    A Far Off Place is a Walt Disney Pictures and Amblin Entertainment film from 1993 in film, starring Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Embry and Jack Thompson ....


1992
  • Thunderheart
    Thunderheart

    Thunderheart is a 1992 in film United States mystery film directed by Michael Apted with Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene , and Fred Ward....
  • Sneakers
    Sneakers (film)

    Sneakers is a 1992 caper story film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and written by Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It was filmed in late 1991 and released in 1992....
  • Unlawful Entry
    Unlawful Entry (film)

    Unlawful Entry is a 1992 thriller film directed by Jonathan Kaplan starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta. Involving a couple who befriend a lonely policeman, only for him to develop a Fixation on the wife ....
  • Patriot Games
    Patriot Games (film)

    Patriot Games is a 1992 in film film based on the Patriot Games by Tom Clancy. It was released on June 5, 1992 and directed by Phillip Noyce....


1991
  • An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is an animation produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, presented by Universal Pictures and originally released to movie theatres in 1991....
  • Once Around
    Once Around

    Once Around is a 1991 in film romantic comedy/drama film about a young woman who falls for and eventually marries an overbearing older man who proceeds to rub her close-knit family the wrong way....
  • The Rocketeer
    The Rocketeer

    The Rocketeer is a superhero created by writer/illustrator Dave Stevens. The character is a homage to the pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s....
  • Class Action
    Class action

    In law, a class action or a representative action is a form of lawsuit where a large group of people collectively bring a claim to court. This form of collective lawsuit originated in the United States and is still predominately a US phenomenon, at least the US variant of it....


1990
  • I Love You to Death
    I Love You to Death

    I Love You to Death is a 1990 dark comedy film, film director by Lawrence Kasdan. It is loosely based on an attempted murder that happened in 1984, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Frances Toto repeatedly tried to kill her husband Anthony Toto, who was cheating on her....
  • Another 48 Hours


1989
  • Dad
    Dad (film)

    Dad is an 1989 comedy-drama based on William Wharton 's novel of the same name. The movie stars Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Spacey and Ethan Hawke, and was written and directed by Gary David Goldberg....
  • Field of Dreams
    Field of Dreams

    Field of Dreams is a 1989 in film Cinema of the United States Fantasy film/drama film, directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W....
  • Glory
    Glory (film)

    Glory is a 1989 in film drama film war film based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as told from the point of view of its commanding officer, Robert Gould Shaw during the American Civil War....
  • In Country
    In Country

    In Country is a 1989 in film United States drama produced and directed by Norman Jewison, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd, a British actress who underwent training to speak with a Kentucky accent in the film....
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film released through The Walt Disney Company. It stars Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, and Marcia Strassman....
 1988
  • The Land Before Time
    The Land Before Time

    The Land Before Time is a 1988 theatrical animated film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth. It was originally released by Universal Studios and Sullivan Bluth Studios....
  • Vibes
    Vibes

    Vibes is a comedy film released in 1988 in film starring pop icon and singing Cyndi Lauper, actor Jeff Goldblum, actor Julian Sands and legendary actor Peter Falk....
  • Cocoon: The Return
    Cocoon: The Return

    Cocoon: The Return is a 1988 in film science fiction film that is the sequel to the feature film, Cocoon . Most of the original actors from the first film reprised their roles in this film....
  • Red Heat
    Red Heat

    Red Heat is a 1988 in film buddy cop film directed by Walter Hill . The film stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Moscow Narc Ivan Danko; James Belushi, as Chicago detective Art Rid?ic....
  • Willow
    Willow (film)

    Willow is a 1988 fantasy film adventure film directed by Ron Howard and produced/co-written by George Lucas. Warwick Davis stars in the film, as well as Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh and Patricia Hayes....


1987
  • P.K. and the Kid
  • Project X
    Project X (film)

    for the projectX poverty,globalwarming and war plan visit www.dublin.ie/websites/projectxProject X is a 1987 film produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker and directed by Jonathan Kaplan....
  • *batteries not included
    *batteries not included

    *batteries not included is a 1987 in film family film-science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small Extraterrestrials in fiction living machines that save an apartment block under threat from property development....


1986
  • The Name of the Rose
    The Name of the Rose (film)

    The Name of the Rose is a German-French-Italian 1986 in film film, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco....
  • Off Beat
    Off Beat (film)

    Off Beat is a 1986 in film comedy film about a young librarian who impersonates a police officer. The film was directed by Michael Dinner, and stars Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, and Cleavant Derricks ....
  • Where the River Runs Black
  • An American Tail
    An American Tail

    An American Tail is a 1986 in film animation film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth, originally released in movie theatres on November 21, 1986....
  • Aliens


1985
  • The Journey of Natty Gann
    The Journey of Natty Gann

    The Journey of Natty Gann is an United States movie that was released in 1985 and directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan.Set in 1935, the movie tells the story of a young woman, Natty Gann ....
  • Volunteers
    Volunteers (film)

    The Volunteers is a 1985 in film comedy directed by Nicholas Meyer....
  • Commando
    Commando (film)

    Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
  • Cocoon
    Cocoon (film)

    Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Ron Howard, about a group of elderly people who are rejuvenated by aliens. The movie starred Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison....
  • Heaven Help Us
    Heaven Help Us (film)

    Heaven Help Us is a 1985 comedy-drama film starring Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon , Donald Sutherland, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Geoffreys, John Heard , and Patrick Dempsey....


1984
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 in film motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
  • The Stone Boy


1983
  • The Dresser
    The Dresser

    The Dresser is a 1983 in film film which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together....
  • Gorky Park
    Gorky Park

    Gorky Park may refer to:* Amusement parks in the USSR named after Maxim Gorky; in particular:** Gorky Park ** Gorky Park ** Gorky Park * Gorky Park , by Martin Cruz Smith, named after the Moscow park...
  • Testament
    Testament (film)

    Testament is a 1983 drama film directed by Lynne Littman and starring Jane Alexander. Originally produced for PBS television's American Playhouse series, it was given a theatrical release instead ....
  • Uncommon Valor
    Uncommon Valor

    Uncommon Valor is a 1983 in film war film written by Joe Gayton and directed by Ted Kotcheff, about a Marine officer who tries to put together a team to rescue his son, who he believes is a Prisoner of War being held in Laos after the Vietnam War....
  • Brainstorm
    Brainstorm (1983 film)

    Brainstorm is a 1983 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull and starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood ....
  • Krull
    Krull (film)

    Krull is a 1983 heroic fantasy film film director by Peter Yates and film producer by Ron Silverman. Released by Columbia Pictures, it stars Kenneth Marshall as Prince Colwyn and Lysette Anthony as Princess Lyssa....
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes
    Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983 film)

    Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1983 film based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the Something Wicked This Way Comes , starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce....


1982
  • 48 Hrs.
    48 Hrs.

    48 Hrs. is a 1982 in film Action film comedy film directed by Walter Hill , starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy as a cop and convict, respectively, who team up to catch a cop-killer....
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the second feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....


1981
  • Deadly Blessing
    Deadly Blessing

    Deadly Blessing is a horror movie directed by Wes Craven, released in the USA on August 14, 1981....
  • The Hand
    The Hand (film)

    The Hand is a 1981 in film horror film written and directed by Oliver Stone, based on the novel The Lizard's Tail by Marc Brandell and a remake of the 1946 in film The Beast with Five Fingers....
  • Wolfen
    Wolfen (film)

    Wolfen is the title of a 1981 in film horror film starring Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines and Edward James Olmos based on Whitley Strieber's 1978 novel The Wolfen....
  • The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper


1980
  • Humanoids from the Deep
    Humanoids from the Deep

    Humanoids from the Deep is a 1980 in film science fiction film monster movie, starring Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, and Vic Morrow. Roger Corman served as the film's Executive Producer, and the film was distributed by his New World Communications....
  • Battle Beyond the Stars
    Battle Beyond the Stars

    Battle Beyond the Stars is a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and released in 1980 in film. The film is notable in that the screenplay was partly written by John Sayles, the score was by James Horner and the special effects were directed by James Cameron....


1979
  • The Lady in Red
    The Lady in Red (1979 film)

    The Lady in Red is a 1979 in film film directed by Lewis Teague , which starred Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad. It tells the crime story of poor farmer's daughter who leaves to Chicago, where she is sent to prison, serves as prostitute, falls in love with a criminal and finally tries bank robbery....
  • Up from the Depths


1978 (for the AFI
American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B....
)
  • The Drought
  • Fantasies
  • Gist and Evans
  • Landscapes
  • Just for a Laugh
  • The Watcher


Television scores

2006
  • CBS News


2000
  • Freedom Song


1992
  • Crossroads (Theme)
  • Fish Police (Theme)


1990
  • Tales from the Crypt
    Tales from the Crypt (TV series)

    Tales from the Crypt is a Horror film anthology series United States TV series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable television Television channel Home Box Office....
     (Episode: "Cutting Cards")
  • Extreme Close-Up

1985
  • Amazing Stories
    Amazing Stories (TV series)

    Amazing Stories is a television anthology series created by Steven Spielberg. It ran on NBC from 1985 to 1987. Each episode featured an independent story, similar to programs as The Twilight Zone ....
     (Episode: "Alamo Jobe")
  • Faerie Tale Theatre
    Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre, fully Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, is a live action children's television series retelling popular fairy tales....
     (Episode: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin")
  • Surviving


1983
  • Between Friends


1982
  • A Piano for Mrs. Cimino


1981
  • A Few Days in Weasel Creek


Short films

1991
  • Norman and the Killer


1989
  • Tummy Trouble

1986
  • Captain EO
    Captain EO

    Captain EO is a 3-D film formerly shown at The Walt Disney Company theme parks.The film stars Michael Jackson. It was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Executive producer by George Lucas, choreographed by Jeffrey Hornaday, photographed by Peter Anderson, produced by Rusty Lemorande, and written by Lemorande, Lucas and Coppola....
     (Epcot Center)


1985
  • Let's Go


Concert works

  • "Conversations" (1976)
  • "Spectral Shimmers" (1977)
  • "A Forest Passage" (2000)


Miscellaneous works

  • Logo music for Universal Pictures
    Universal Pictures

    This is a partial listing of films produced and/or distributed by Universal Pictures, the main film production company/distribution company arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal.List of films...
     and Icon Productions
    Icon Productions

    Icon Productions LLC is an American independent production company founded in August 1989 by American-Australian actor/director Mel Gibson and Australian producing partner Bruce Davey....
  • THX
    THX

    THX is a trade name of a high-fidelity sound reproduction standard for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems....
     trailer "Cimarron"


Awards and Nominations



Academy Award
  • 2004: House Of Sand And Fog (best original score)
  • 2002: A Beautiful Mind (best original score)
  • 1998: Titanic (best original drama score, Winner)
  • 1998: "My Heart Will Go On" (from: Titanic, best original song, Winner)
  • 1996: Braveheart (best original drama score)
  • 1996: Apollo 13 (best original drama score)
  • 1990: Field of Dreams (best original drama score)
  • 1987: "Somewhere Out There" (from: An American Tail, best original song)
  • 1987: Aliens (best original score)

Golden Globe
  • 2002: A Beautiful Mind (best original score)
  • 1998: Titanic (best original score, Winner)
  • 1998: "My Heart Will Go On" (from: Titanic, best original song, Winner)
  • 1996: Braveheart (best original score)
  • 1995: Legends of the Fall (best original score)
  • 1992: "Dreams To Dream" (from: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, best original song)
  • 1990: Glory (best original score)
  • 1987: "Somewhere Out There" (from: An American Tail, best original song)




Grammy
  • 2003: A Beautiful Mind
  • 1999: "My Heart Will Go On" (from: Titanic, Winner)
  • 1996: "Whatever You Imagine" (from: The Pagemaster)
  • 1991: Glory (Winner)
  • 1990: Field of Dreams
  • 1988: "Somewhere Out There" (from: An American Tail, Winner)
  • 1988: An American Tail

Satellite Awards
Satellite Awards

The Satellite Awards are an annual award given by the International Press Academy. The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards....
  • 2004: The Missing
  • 2002: A Beautiful Mind
  • 2002: "All Love Can Be" (from: A Beautiful Mind, Winner)
  • 1998: Titanic (Winner)
  • 1998: "My Heart Will Go On" (from: Titanic, Winner)


Trivia

Horner can be seen briefly in a cameo appearance
Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television....
 as a crewman in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the second feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise....
.

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