James Horner

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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...

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TitanicMovie • 1997AvatarMovie • 2009Hacksaw RidgeMovie • 2016Tales from the CryptSeries • 1989AliensMovie • 1986Amazing StoriesSeries • 1985The Amazing Spider-ManMovie • 2012TroyMovie • 200448 Hrs.Movie • 1982BraveheartMovie • 1995The Name of the RoseMovie • 1986The Perfect StormMovie • 2000The Pelican BriefMovie • 1993The Devil's OwnMovie • 1997FlightplanMovie • 2005A Beautiful MindMovie • 2001Honey, I Shrunk the KidsMovie • 1989The Karate KidMovie • 2010WillowSeries • 2022How the Grinch Stole ChristmasMovie • 2000The Boy in the Striped PyjamasMovie • 2008Deep ImpactMovie • 1998ApocalyptoMovie • 2006RansomMovie • 1996