James Horner

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-08-14 (62 years old)

Deathday

2015-06-22

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

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 (198...

Production

1982

48 Hrs.

as Original Music Composer

1982

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

as Original Music Composer

1984

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

as Original Music Composer

1986

The Name of the Rose

as Original Music Composer

1995

Braveheart

as Original Music Composer

2001

A Beautiful Mind

as Original Music Composer

1995

Apollo 13

as Original Music Composer

1997

Titanic

as Original Music Composer

2006

Apocalypto

as Original Music Composer

2004

Troy

as Original Music Composer

2005

The Legend of Zorro

as Original Music Composer

1992

Sneakers

as Original Music Composer

1989

Field of Dreams

as Original Music Composer

1986

Aliens

as Original Music Composer

1985

Cocoon

as Original Music Composer

1991

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

as Original Music Composer

1981

Wolfen

as Original Music Composer

1988

Willow

as Original Music Composer

1983

Krull

as Original Music Composer

2001

Enemy at the Gates

as Original Music Composer

2012

The Amazing Spider-Man

as Original Music Composer

1993

Swing Kids

as Original Music Composer

1993

The Man Without a Face

as Original Music Composer

2004

The Forgotten

as Original Music Composer

2000

The Perfect Storm

as Original Music Composer

1994

Legends of the Fall

as Original Music Composer

1997

The Devil's Own

as Original Music Composer

1991

The Rocketeer

as Original Music Composer

1999

Bicentennial Man

as Original Music Composer

1985

Commando

as Original Music Composer

1996

Ransom

as Original Music Composer

1996

Courage Under Fire

as Original Music Composer

1988

Cocoon: The Return

as Original Music Composer

1986

An American Tail

as Original Music Composer

2003

House of Sand and Fog

as Original Music Composer

2005

The New World

as Original Music Composer

1987

*batteries not included

as Original Music Composer

1990

Another 48 Hrs.

as Original Music Composer

1995

Jade

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Spiderwick Chronicles

as Original Music Composer

2001

Iris

as Original Music Composer

1983

Gorky Park

as Original Music Composer

1983

Space Raiders

as Original Music Composer

2002

The Four Feathers

as Original Music Composer

1992

Thunderheart

as Original Music Composer

1998

Deep Impact

as Original Music Composer

2005

Flightplan

as Original Music Composer

1998

The Mask of Zorro

as Original Music Composer

1989

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

as Original Music Composer

1995

Casper

as Original Music Composer

1995

Jumanji

as Original Music Composer

2000

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

as Original Music Composer

1981

Deadly Blessing

as Original Music Composer

2003

Beyond Borders

as Original Music Composer

1992

Patriot Games

as Original Music Composer

1988

Red Heat

as Original Music Composer

1983

Uncommon Valor

as Original Music Composer

1985

Commando

as Music Producer

1980

Humanoids from the Deep

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

as Original Music Composer

1985

Barbarian Queen

as Original Music Composer

1985

The Journey of Natty Gann

as Original Music Composer

2012

Reflections on Titanic

as Original Music Composer

1989

Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble

as Original Music Composer

1981

Angel Dusted

as Original Music Composer

1988

The Land Before Time

as Original Music Composer

1981

The Hand

as Original Music Composer

1995

Balto

as Original Music Composer

1993

Once Upon a Forest

as Original Music Composer

1983

Testament

as Original Music Composer

1984

The Stone Boy

as Original Music Composer

1991

Once Around

as Original Music Composer

1993

Jack the Bear

as Original Music Composer

1993

A Far Off Place

as Original Music Composer

2006

All the King's Men

as Original Music Composer

2009

Avatar

as Original Music Composer

2015

Wolf Totem

as Original Music Composer

2005

The Chumscrubber

as Original Music Composer

1980

Battle Beyond the Stars

as Original Music Composer

1979

Up from the Depths

as Original Music Composer

2005

Flightplan

as Orchestrator

2000

Freedom Song

as Original Music Composer

1981

A Few Days at Weasel Creek

as Original Music Composer

2015

Southpaw

as Original Music Composer

1993

House of Cards

as Original Music Composer

1982

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

as Original Music Composer

1982

2010

The Karate Kid

as Original Music Composer

1979

The Lady in Red

as Original Music Composer

1981

Wolfen

as Conductor

2015

The 33

as Original Music Composer

2002

Windtalkers

as Original Music Composer

1993

The Pelican Brief

as Original Music Composer

2011

Black Gold

as Original Music Composer

2003

The Missing

as Original Music Composer

2003

Radio

as Original Music Composer

1998

Mighty Joe Young

as Original Music Composer

1993

Searching for Bobby Fischer

as Original Music Composer

1990

I Love You to Death

as Original Music Composer

1989

Glory

as Original Music Composer

1988

Vibes

as Original Music Composer

1985

Surviving

as Original Music Composer

1985

Heaven Help Us

as Original Music Composer

1994

Clear and Present Danger

as Original Music Composer

2016

The Magnificent Seven

as Original Music Composer

2004

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

as Original Music Composer

1983

Something Wicked This Way Comes

as Original Music Composer

1988

Young Guns

as Additional Music

2016

Hacksaw Ridge

as Thanks

1985

Commando

as Conductor

1987

Project X

as Original Music Composer

1994

The Pagemaster

as Original Music Composer

1991

Class Action

as Original Music Composer

1993

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

as Original Music Composer

1986

1996

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

as Original Music Composer

1992

Unlawful Entry

as Original Music Composer

1989

In Country

as Original Music Composer

1989

In Country

as Conductor

1985

Volunteers

as Original Music Composer

1983

Between Friends

as Original Music Composer

2007

The Life Before Her Eyes

as Original Music Composer

1993

Bopha!

as Original Music Composer

1981

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

as Original Music Composer

1989

Dad

as Original Music Composer

1995

Braveheart

as Orchestrator

1995

Braveheart

as Musician

1996

The Spitfire Grill

as Original Music Composer

1987

P.K. and the Kid

as Original Music Composer

1995

Apollo 13

as Orchestrator

2000

The Perfect Storm

as Orchestrator

2004

Troy

as Conductor

1998

Deep Impact

as Conductor

1994

1995

Jumanji

as Conductor

2005

Flightplan

as Conductor

2005

The New World

as Conductor

2001

Enemy at the Gates

as Conductor

2012

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

as Original Music Composer

1983

Brainstorm

as Original Music Composer

1982

Sorceress

as Music

1983

The Dresser

as Original Music Composer

2001

1986

Off Beat

as Original Music Composer

2001

A Beautiful Mind

as Orchestrator

1986

Captain EO

as Original Music Composer

2001

Raptor

as Original Music Composer

1991

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

as Original Music Composer

1990

Extreme Close-Up

as Original Music Composer

1988

1986

Where the River Runs Black

as Original Music Composer

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