James Horner | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | James Roy Horner |
Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | August 14, 1953
Died | June 22, 2015 Los Padres National Forest, California, U.S. | (aged 61)
Genres | Film score |
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Years active | 1978–2015 |
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American music director. He scored the music for the 1997 movie Titanic. He won two Academy Awards in 1998. Horner was born on August 14, 1953 in Los Angeles, California.[1]
Horner was killed in an airplane crash near Los Padres National Forest, California, aged 61.[2]
Horner stated composers like Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Buddy Baker, Bruce Broughton, Howard Shore, Leigh Harline, Max Steiner, Sergei Prokofiev, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frank Churchill, Carl Stalling, Richard Straus, Gustav Holst, Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, Benjamin Britten, John Williams, Thomas Tallis, Maurice Jarre, Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Giacomo Puccini, Aaron Copland, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bela Bartok, Richard Wagner, Jakob Gimpel, Hamilton Harty, Jan Kubelík, Carl Nielsen, Lalo Schifrin, Oliver Wallace, Frank Churchill, Alex North, Marty Paich, Leigh Harline, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alfred Newman and Nino Rota as influences.
Horner won two Academy Awards, both in 1998:[3]
Horner also won two Golden Globe Awards,[2] three Satellite Awards, and three Saturn Awards. He was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards.[4]
In October 2013, Horner received the Max Steiner Award at the Hollywood in Vienna Gala. That award is given for extraordinary achievements in the music for movies.[5]
Year | Title | Director | Role | Notes |
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1999 | The Story of Us | Rob Reiner | Prince Charming (singing) |
Year | Title | Director | Role | Notes |
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2002 | Cinderella II: Dreams Come True | John Kafka | King's Guards | Direct-to-video |
2003 | Piglet's Big Movie | Francis Glebas | Bees |